has no current plans to block explicit content from children and adolescents, as many other countries have planned or proceeded to do.Īttempts made to suppress it include: outright bans, prohibitions of its sale, censorship or rating schemes that restrict audience numbers, and claims that it is prostitution and thereby subject to regulations governing prostitution. Advanced by technological development, it has gone from a hard-to-find 'back alley' item, beginning in 1969 with Blue Movie by Andy Warhol, the Golden Age of Porn (1969–1984) and home video, to being more available in the country and later, starting in the 1990s, readily accessible to nearly anyone with a computer or other device connected to the Internet.
Pornography in the United States has existed since the country's origins and has become more readily accessible in the 21st century.
