pornography

As police continue to investigate allegations of child pornography involving four photographs featured in a Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth exhibit, some Tarrant County artists raised concerns about the potential long-term effects on the city’s cultural institutions.

At issue is a Texas law that mandates pornography websites verify the ages of their users before they gain access to the material.

A state law passed last year requires pornographic websites to adopt age-verification measures, leading sites like Pornhub to block user access in Texas.

The Supreme Court has refused to block a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify the age of their users. The justices on Tuesday rejected an emergency appeal filed by the Free Speech Coalition, a trade association for the adult entertainment industry.

Legal experts say a 5th Circuit decision to uphold part of a Texas law regulating adult entertainment websites conflicts with U.S. Supreme Court precedent regarding minors’ access to obscene material online.

A convention billing itself as "the largest event in the U.S. devoted to love and sex” opened Friday at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in…