WASHINGTON – At first, when I saw an email inviting me to an event in DC hosted in conjunction with the “Edmund Burke Foundation”, I was psyched. I remember Ed from college and that dude was just barrels of fun to hang out with. Typically, those barrels were filled with...

Artificial intelligence apps – and things created by AI apps – are everywhere you look these days, it seems. From being used not-so-successfully in court, to helping people write novels in record time, humans are starting to turn to AI for assistance with everything. As such, I...

LONDON – This might come as a bit of a shock to a lot of folks in the sprawling, ideologically diverse, modern anti-porn movement, but the truth is, even those of us who make porn for a living don’t think it should be used as a form of sex education. Among other things, this is...

Decades after he originally sang them, musical satirist Tom Lehrer’s words still might be the best underlining of the preposterousness of laws prohibiting “obscene” depictions and descriptions: All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder, for filth (I’m...

PATTAYA, Thailand — Bruce, the host of Adult Site Broker Talk, recently hit the 150 episode mark for the show, a significant milestone for a man who works daily to contribute to the ongoing survival of the adult entertainment industry and the challenges facing the entire segment....

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Senate is currently in the midst of its annual budget debate. Although the state legislature is controlled by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (the state’s Democratic party affiliate), the Minnesota Republicans are proving to be just as...

MONTREAL — The world shook a little when it was announced that Pornhub and its parent company, MindGeek, were acquired by a newly formed private equity firm for an undisclosed sum. Ethical Capital Partners (ECP) is the brand new owner of the world’s most recognized adult...

Lately I’ve been reading a lot about recent advances in artificial intelligence (“AI”), some of which are starting to freak out even the sort of sci-fi addled academics and techie business-nerds who are supposed to love tinkering with things like creating machines vastly smarter...

Reading the recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Olson v. California, a constitutional challenge to a California law commonly referred to as “A.B. 5”  brought by Postmates and Uber, I find myself oddly reminded of a scene from Monty Python’s The...

For years, I’ve been hearing anti-porn types make all sorts of claims about the deleterious effects of watching porn. To hear them tell it, porn does everything from shrinking people’s brains to murdering love itself. I’ve never been persuaded by their arguments, but to be fair,...