The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), a controversial anti-pornography lobbying group, has filed lawsuits against four major pornography websites, alleging that they failed to comply with a recently enacted Kansas law requiring age verification to access adult content.

The lawsuits, filed on behalf of a Kansas parent, claim that the websites in question did not implement the necessary safeguards to prevent minors from accessing sexually explicit material. According to a statement released by NCOSE, the legal action was prompted after the parent discovered their 14-year-old child had accessed hardcore pornography online.

“Kansas law requires pornography companies to implement reasonable age verification methods, and the companies named in these lawsuits failed to do so,” said Dani Pinter, Senior Vice President and Director of NCOSE’s Law Center. She added, “It is unreasonably dangerous for these pornography websites to provide this product which they know is harmful to children, that children are drawn to access, and do access, without employing age verification as required by Kansas law.”

The specific websites named in the lawsuits appear to be Chaturbate.com, Jerkmate.com, Superporn.com, and a hentai tube site called HentaiCity.com.

The lawsuits are based on Senate Bill 394, passed by the Kansas Legislature in 2024. The law mandates that websites containing content “harmful to minors” must implement age verification methods for Kansas users, such as government-issued ID checks. Failure to do so is considered a violation of the state’s consumer protection laws.

Under the statute, violators may face fines of up to $10,000 per incident. Additionally, the law allows parents to pursue civil damages of no less than $50,000 if their child accessed such material due to a website’s noncompliance.

Kansas is one of several states that have passed age-verification legislation in recent years, joining Texas, Louisiana, Utah, Virginia, Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, and Montana in efforts to restrict minors’ access to online pornography.

NCOSE, which represents itself as an anti-trafficking organization, is largely an anti-porn lobbying group with roots in the religious conservative movement.

The Kansas Attorney General’s Office is also pursuing legal action under the same law. Earlier this year, Attorney General Kris Kobach filed a separate lawsuit against a different company that operates more than a dozen adult websites. That case remains pending.

The outcomes of these lawsuits could set important precedents, particularly as legal challenges to age-verification mandates continue to unfold in courts across the United States.

Critics of such laws argue they could infringe on privacy rights or be difficult to enforce, while supporters maintain they are necessary to protect minors from exposure to harmful material.