diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1d66dac6..45dc683d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -46,14 +46,10 @@ PySocks = "^1.7.0"
 requests = "^2.22.0"
 requests-futures = "^1.0.0"
 stem = "^1.8.0"
-torrequest = "^0.1.0"
 pandas = "^2.2.1"
 openpyxl = "^3.0.10"
 tomli = "^2.2.1"
 
-[tool.poetry.extras]
-tor = ["torrequest"]
-
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
 jsonschema = "^4.0.0"
 rstr = "^3.2.2"
diff --git a/sherlock_project/sherlock.py b/sherlock_project/sherlock.py
index 07b19af7..75b3e3d7 100644
--- a/sherlock_project/sherlock.py
+++ b/sherlock_project/sherlock.py
@@ -171,8 +171,6 @@ def sherlock(
     username: str,
     site_data: dict[str, dict[str, str]],
     query_notify: QueryNotify,
-    tor: bool = False,
-    unique_tor: bool = False,
     dump_response: bool = False,
     proxy: Optional[str] = None,
     timeout: int = 60,
@@ -188,8 +186,6 @@ def sherlock(
     query_notify           -- Object with base type of QueryNotify().
                               This will be used to notify the caller about
                               query results.
-    tor                    -- Boolean indicating whether to use a tor circuit for the requests.
-    unique_tor             -- Boolean indicating whether to use a new tor circuit for each request.
     proxy                  -- String indicating the proxy URL
     timeout                -- Time in seconds to wait before timing out request.
                               Default is 60 seconds.
@@ -210,32 +206,9 @@ def sherlock(
 
     # Notify caller that we are starting the query.
     query_notify.start(username)
-    # Create session based on request methodology
-    if tor or unique_tor:
-        try:
-            from torrequest import TorRequest  # noqa: E402
-        except ImportError:
-            print("Important!")
-            print("> --tor and --unique-tor are now DEPRECATED, and may be removed in a future release of Sherlock.")
-            print("> If you've installed Sherlock via pip, you can include the optional dependency via `pip install 'sherlock-project[tor]'`.")
-            print("> Other packages should refer to their documentation, or install it separately with `pip install torrequest`.\n")
-            sys.exit(query_notify.finish())
 
-        print("Important!")
-        print("> --tor and --unique-tor are now DEPRECATED, and may be removed in a future release of Sherlock.")
-
-        # Requests using Tor obfuscation
-        try:
-            underlying_request = TorRequest()
-        except OSError:
-            print("Tor not found in system path. Unable to continue.\n")
-            sys.exit(query_notify.finish())
-
-        underlying_session = underlying_request.session
-    else:
-        # Normal requests
-        underlying_session = requests.session()
-        underlying_request = requests.Request()
+    # Normal requests
+    underlying_session = requests.session()
 
     # Limit number of workers to 20.
     # This is probably vastly overkill.
@@ -359,15 +332,10 @@ def sherlock(
             # Store future in data for access later
             net_info["request_future"] = future
 
-            # Reset identify for tor (if needed)
-            if unique_tor:
-                underlying_request.reset_identity()
-
         # Add this site's results into final dictionary with all the other results.
         results_total[social_network] = results_site
 
     # Open the file containing account links
-    # Core logic: If tor requests, make them here. If multi-threaded requests, wait for responses
     for social_network, net_info in site_data.items():
         # Retrieve results again
         results_site = results_total.get(social_network)
@@ -600,22 +568,6 @@ def main():
         dest="output",
         help="If using single username, the output of the result will be saved to this file.",
     )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--tor",
-        "-t",
-        action="store_true",
-        dest="tor",
-        default=False,
-        help="Make requests over Tor; increases runtime; requires Tor to be installed and in system path.",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--unique-tor",
-        "-u",
-        action="store_true",
-        dest="unique_tor",
-        default=False,
-        help="Make requests over Tor with new Tor circuit after each request; increases runtime; requires Tor to be installed and in system path.",
-    )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--csv",
         action="store_true",
@@ -769,22 +721,10 @@ def main():
     except Exception as error:
         print(f"A problem occurred while checking for an update: {error}")
 
-    # Argument check
-    # TODO regex check on args.proxy
-    if args.tor and (args.proxy is not None):
-        raise Exception("Tor and Proxy cannot be set at the same time.")
-
     # Make prompts
     if args.proxy is not None:
         print("Using the proxy: " + args.proxy)
 
-    if args.tor or args.unique_tor:
-        print("Using Tor to make requests")
-
-        print(
-            "Warning: some websites might refuse connecting over Tor, so note that using this option might increase connection errors."
-        )
-
     if args.no_color:
         # Disable color output.
         init(strip=True, convert=False)
@@ -885,8 +825,6 @@ def main():
             username,
             site_data,
             query_notify,
-            tor=args.tor,
-            unique_tor=args.unique_tor,
             dump_response=args.dump_response,
             proxy=args.proxy,
             timeout=args.timeout,