as i understand it, porn sites are legal in germany, but must use the german government-approved avs before any explicit material or any pics of models showing - for example - a huge bulge in their underwear. unlike other avs's, each german person who wants to access german porn via their avs goes in in person, i believe to the post office, to show that they're the person with the i.d. and the same person who wants the AVS membership.