This year’s Sundance Film Festival looked a little different this year. Rather than gathering the film industry’s elite in Utah, the festival has gone online, allowing more people than ever to get in on the hottest new cinema of the year. That gave Pleasure, a film about a young...

Mainstream media doesn’t exactly have a strong track record when it comes to responsibly handling the lives and careers of sex workers. That’s one reason why, when Sarah Jones, a Tony Award–winning creator of the 2016 off-Broadway one-woman show Sell/Buy/Date announced that she...

The 117th Congress of the United States of America was sworn in on Sunday, January 3, 2021, pending a few disputed results and the winners of Georgia’s runoff Senate  elections. Along with unprecedented gender and racial diversity, the 117th congress also brings a sigh of relief...

Pro tip for Congress-watchers: If you spend your time trying to make sense of every fool thing Congress proposes, considers, debates or collectively pontificates about, you will eventually lose your goddamn mind. I know this because, believe it or not, there was a time when I...

There is a great deal of concern among members of the adult industry right now about a War on Porn. The “good news,” such as it is, is the above sentence is something I could have written at any point in my 23 years in the adult industry and it would have been just as true as it...

About five years ago adult models were a scattered group. Many stuck to just one monetization platform, and there was very little social interaction between performers outside of their own close groups of friends. Isolated models were missing the obvious benefits that come from...

Well, it’s late November, and you know what that means: Discounts on electronics so deep, people will be murdering each other at Best Buy just to make sure they’re first in line to take advantage of bargain priced flat-screen TVs. In the U.S. this year, November also marked our...

Coronavirus cases in the U.S. are shattering records all over the map as we head into colder weather, and the new normal—millions of Americans working from home—doesn’t look like it will change anytime soon. And that means that the other new normal—workers masturbating at their...

This year, it’s important to savor every bit of good news that comes our way. So today, I’m happy to announce that a porn-blocking proposal has been blocked in the Utah state legislature. Utah was the first state in a conservative-led rush to declare porn “an epidemic” back in...

Sex workers, including porn stars, are worried about the Supreme Court confirmation hearings currently underway for Amy Coney Barrett—and with good reason. The right-wing, devout Catholic judge is well-known to be an enemy of Roe. v. Wade. Her appointment to the nation’s highest...