In our never-ending quest to try new things, and then overuse them to death until we stumble upon the next new thing, right now, we all love the age gate. The age gate has become a kind of guilt reduction tool for the savvy marketer that doesn't want to deliberately offer racier content to the under-18 crowd. All the lascivious, naked, gory and otherwise cool stuff goes behind the gate, and you can't see it unless you fill out an age verification form that is corroborated with a DMV database. (This, apparently, works better and more efficiently than the CDC TB screen at the Canadian border.)