The justice asked if Pornhub was "like the old Playboy magazine" with "essays by the modern-day equivalent of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.?”

The high court held a hearing about a Texas law that requires age verification to access sexual content online, in a legal challenge from the adult industry.

Justices Gorsuch and Alito asked the lawyers representing the pornography industry, during a First Amendment case Wednesday about state laws requiring obscene websites to verify their users' ages, whether they also host non-pornographic content,