“Newbie Roadmap” is a series of articles that discuss the basic issues that most entrepreneurs will need to consider before getting into the online adult website game. If you are thinking about building an adult-oriented website and are presently gathering the information you...

When exactly did the Religious Right buy all rights to the word “values?” Perhaps more to the point, when did they buy the right to define exactly what is and isn’t a “value?”According to Dictionary.com, a “value” can be a number of...

We’re almost down to the wire. Will we continue to endure what I feel is a form of terrorism from certain whacko religious radicals and/or their legislative cronies or will America succeed in sending them the voter’s message on November 7th that they need to stop meddling in our...

At what point do the various industry conferences, trade shows and networking events cease to be something useful and instead turn into a free-spending spouse who won’t stop making it difficult for you to balance the monthly budget?To be clear, I think industry events in general...

Dear CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, the various network news agencies, et al:Enough with the Foley scandal, already. Let’s get something straight, once and for all; one man, and one man alone, is “responsible” for the actions of former Congressman Mark Foley, and that man’s name is Mark Foley.

Following the indictment on obscenity charges of Karen Fletcher, aka “Red Rose,” a series of debates has cropped up on various message boards, both adult industry and otherwise, centering on a loosely-defined but oft-referenced principle of “free speech.”What strikes...

In a number of my past columns, I warned about the glut of porn footage and new companies that have tardily entered the adult video/DVD business and further over-supplyed the already crowded market place. Of late, numerous others have likewise noted and begun to comment about it...

On Wednesday, I was in New York City attending another installment of the Internet Content Rating Association’s (ICRA) outstanding ongoing series of summits on child protection & freedom of expression in a our new information age. As with previous ICRA events in...

I do love my home state.Arizona is a mixed bag of cultures, climates, and competing political forces as diverse as any you’ll find in the country. From the pine forests of snowy, high-altitude Flagstaff to the hottest city in America, Bullhead City, from the depths of the Grand...

An article published by The Washington Post in June reported that the number of rapes per capita in the United States had declined precipitously – a drop of greater than 85-percent – between 1979 and 2004, according to “federal crime data.”The federal crime data supporting that...