The U.K.’s communications regulator, Ofcom, is investigating OnlyFans for not effectively preventing minors from accessing its adult content. The probe focuses on whether OnlyFans’ parent company, Fenix International Limited, adequately implemented age checks and whether it submitted complete and accurate information to the regulatory body.
The U.K. regulator, Ofcom, is currently examining OnlyFans, a subscription-based platform known for its adult content, due to failures in preventing underage access to pornography. The concern is that OnlyFans’ parent company, Fenix International Limited, might not have sufficiently enforced age-verification measures.
Further, the investigation by Ofcom includes whether Fenix provided incomplete or inaccurate details in response to two official requests for information—one in June 2022 and another in June 2023. These requests were part of Ofcom’s efforts to assess how video-sharing platforms like OnlyFans are protecting minors from inappropriate content.
OnlyFans claims it requires all users to provide identification, such as a name and payment card details. Additionally, it employs age-verification technology through Yoti, a government-approved provider that uses facial scans to estimate age. However, OnlyFans admitted to a mistake in their report, which incorrectly stated a minimum age threshold of 23, instead of the actual 20, although both are above the legal requirement of 18. After discovering this error, OnlyFans said it corrected the information in its report to Ofcom.
As part of its commitment to safety, OnlyFans highlighted its ongoing collaboration with Ofcom to develop and refine online safety best practices, including implementing sophisticated age-verification technologies.
The backdrop to this scrutiny is the U.K.’s recent rollout of the Online Safety Act, which will soon govern online speech and media standards. However, Ofcom’s current investigation is based on existing regulations under the Communications Act 2003, updated in 2020, which mandates that U.K.-based video-sharing platforms take appropriate steps to prevent children under 18 from accessing pornographic material. Notably, Ofcom’s probe focuses solely on the viewers of the OnlyFans platform in the U.K., not the content creators, who must already verify their identities during the onboarding process.
Pornhub, OnlyFans and Major Cams Platforms Confront Italy’s New Age-Check Rules
Italy has formally named 45 porn and porn-adjacent websites that must introduce stricter age verification from November 12, 2025, as the country becomes the latest to tighten access to adult content.
The Italian communications regulator AGCOM has published a list of services it classifies as providing pornographic material in Italy. The roster includes Aylo-owned platforms Pornhub, Redtube, and YouPorn, along with xHamster, camming site Chaturbate, and subscription giant OnlyFans, among others.
Under the new framework, all sites on the list will be required to verify that users connecting from Italy are 18 or older through certified third-party providers. These verification partners may include dedicated age-check services, banks, or mobile operators that already hold verified customer data. Crucially, the process is expected to be repeated each time a user visits one of the listed platforms, rather than operating as a one-time verification per site, as is the case in some other markets, such as the UK.
Italy’s legal basis for porn age verification came into force in May, but platforms were granted a grace period until November 12. Only now has the full list of affected services been disclosed, and it features many of the industry’s largest brands. The move comes as critics of age verification argue that strict regimes tend to push traffic away from the biggest, more heavily scrutinized platforms and toward smaller sites that may be less compliant or less transparent.
In the UK, where tougher age checks for porn access were introduced in July, Pornhub has claimed that traffic from the country fell by 77 percent after the new rules took effect. According to parent company Aylo, users are not abandoning adult content altogether but are instead gravitating toward platforms that have not yet implemented – or are not yet being forced to implement – comparable verification systems.
Subsequent traffic data has indicated that, as visits to major porn brands decreased, some smaller adult sites experienced a corresponding rise in UK user numbers. At the same time, the UK regulator Ofcom has opened investigations into a range of pornography services, including lesser-known sites it alleges are not complying with the updated rules.
In Italy, platforms that appear on AGCOM’s list and fail to adopt compliant age verification procedures by November 12 risk facing penalties of up to 250,000 euros (around 290,000 US dollars). Observers expect that the regulator will add more services to the list over time as enforcement develops and new sites are identified.
Italy is also one of five EU member states that have piloted an age verification application developed by the European Commission. The tool is intended to provide a privacy-preserving way to prove that a user is over 18, with potential future use in porn age verification systems across the bloc.
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