Your comment gave me an idea:

Can you imagine if a government, instead of mandating the stupid age verification system, would not bar “minors” from accessing the sites. But rather they would force the sites to implement a “tutorial on sex, sexuality and consent”, similar to the shitty corpo-mandated tutorials on topics like harassment, racism, security and GDPR. Heck, doesn’t even have to be as lengthy every time. Just simply play back a 30 second segment when opening the website and then have the individual answer a set of multiple choice questions to verify they have paid attention.

The government could sell it as “Teach the Children!” instead of “Protect the Children”. But here’s the biggest benefit of the former compared to the latter:

• It teaches children
• It’d also teach adults indiscriminately, who then may or may not really learn something ("Wait what? No really means no? I have a clitoris? How is babby formed?"
• It’d also eschew implementation of e-id and state monitoring