According to their Twatter feed, they are introducing mandatory verification in October.
The WGs will love this...
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The whole text on their site says
In April 2018 new regulation will come into force requiring that no adult content can be accessed by anyone who has not verified that they are an adult.
The latest information regarding the regulations and regulator can be found here:
External Link/Members OnlyAdultWork.com has been age-verifying members automatically since 2015. If you have purchased credits via SMS, credit card or PaySafeCard then you are already age verified and your browsing experience will remain unchanged. Similarly, if you are offering services and have achieved Verified Member status then you too will see no change.
If you have not age verified yet, we would invite you to do so without delay to ensure an uninterrupted browsing experience. You can age-verify quite simply via this page.
The above is bollocks as
the April thing got delayedSeems AW have nut updated their site since.