lonelyarmywife,

There are those who want to shut down Pixies and sites like it. The difficulty lies in doing so legally.

Any blanket “shut down the smut sites” approach will be, as has been in the past, ruled as unconstitutional in Federal courts as being at variance with the Constitution’s First Amendment protections of free speech.

The Constitution does, however, authorize Congress to regulate commerce. As Pixies is a commercial operation located here in the States, it is subject to the laws, and regulations derived from those laws, passed by the Congress.

Many people would agree that it is good to exclude children from being sexually preyed upon by adults. One way to do that is to require that producers of sexually explicit material to provide documentation that the actors are not minors. This documentation requirement imposes a financial burden that the producers recover through the profits from the sale of their material to their customers. So far, I, and I suspect many people, see that as being an acceptable price to pay for what is considered a common good.

Extending those regulations to include Pixies and sites like it (which is what I have been led to believe has happened), which derive their revenue from sources other than the pictures in question, still seems to me to be unreasonable and contrived.