YNOT – Adult studio Pink Visual plans to offer oral sexual favors, free of charge, at its booth during the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in January. The blowjobs will be virtual in nature, thanks to Pink Visual’s latest augmented reality development. The project intermingles...

YNOT – MyGayCash, an affiliate program targeting fans of gay adult entertainment, has appointed Simon Soulières its marketing manager. Soulières is a four-year veteran of the gay adult industry, previously having worked for Gamma Entertainment’s affiliate program Buddy Profits....

YNOT – International payment solutions provider CommerceGate has implemented a new prescreening service to aid online merchants in reducing chargebacks and declines. The tool can help merchants streamline their accounts for optimal payment processing regardless which gateway they...

YNOT – A legal resident of Canada who returned to his native Iran to care for his ailing father has been sentenced to die for the crime of operating a porn site based in Canada. Saeed Malekpour, 35, moved to Canada in 2004 and returned to Iran in 2008. He was sentenced Dec. 4 and...

YNOT – A porn actor who tested positive for HIV in October has revealed his identity and taken to the media to level accusations that he acquired the disease on an adult film set — and the industry and its official health-testing organization subsequently did little to help him....

YNOT – Two California men have sued Netherlands-based tube site YouPorn.com of spying on web surfers in violation of U.S. law. David Pitner and Jared Reagan, of Newport Beach, Calif., accuse Midstream Media, the owner-operator of YouPorn, of engaging in deceptive and unfair...

YNOT – Neostrata Ltd. has launched a link-abbreviating service the company claims is ideal for gay traffic. “Gay.gl is the new GayWideWebmasters link shortening service,” said Neostrata owner Luke Hubert. “We are offering this as a free service to take long URLs...

YNOT – Playboy’s AdultCashPrograms and Playboy Webmasters affiliate programs are offering $75 payouts per sale or double the normal 60-percent revshare during December as a way to introduce webmasters to the bunny’s newest online destination: Playboy.TV. Playboy.TV is home to...

YNOT – Adult industry trade association Free Speech Coalition has announced the candidates for the organization’s 2011 board of directors. “It’s very important that all active FSC members vote in the Board election,” Membership Director Joanne Cachapero said. “This is your chance...

YNOT – Kyle Machulis, alias qDot, is a geek’s geek. A researcher who specializes in alternate input mechanisms and haptics, Machulis takes a great deal of pride in combining two of his great loves: sex and technology. He’s most famous for using teledildonics to teach concepts in...