LONDON – I’m beginning to understand why a lot of people don’t trust the media these days. Not only does the modern media routinely sensationalize stories and try to pass off opinion as fact, but it also appears to have trouble merely citing the same facts consistently within a...

Twitter and Reddit lit up on Thursday with reports that a mobile app provided by smart-toy manufacturer Lovense recorded and stored ambient sounds when connected vibrators were in use. Over the weekend, the manufacturer solved the problem, which it attributed to a bug in the code...

NEW YORK – Over the years, there have been countless porn jobs offered to mainstream celebrities by adult companies looking to drum up some quick, easy publicity. Typically, these offers come along when a celebrity has embarrassed himself/herself or wound up in the news for a...

SAN FRANCISCO – Twenty-five to 35 percent of the material on crowdfunding platform Patreon is adult content, according to figures released Friday by the Open Letter Working Group. The group is composed of adult content creators affected by Patreon’s recent decision to prohibit...

PAYSON, Utah – In the famous words of Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, “give me a fucking break.” Wait… No, not those words from Justice Stewart. These words: “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday unanimously advanced a bill that would limit the safe harbor provisions in the Communications Decency Act of 1996, allowing states to prosecute and victims to sue social media networks and others that fail to keep...

ADA, Okla. – In adult entertainment circles, it’s been fashionable for some time now to consider printed adult publications “dead,” or at best increasingly irrelevant, just another hard-product casualty of the digital age. This may be so from the prospective of producers and...

PAYSON, Utah – There may be “a bright, golden haze on the meadow,” but the stench of pornography fouled the air for seven whole seconds during a junior-high screening of the Rogers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma, at least according to some parents. Actually, only one parent of...

LONDON – I’ll be the first to admit I don’t much about the British military. I do know the Brits spell the word “defense” like their soldiers’ overarching mission is to eradicate fencing from the planet. And I know they recently appointed a new Defense Secretary named “Gavin,”...

SAN FRANCISCO – Everybody just settle down. Twitter has not banned porn. The microblogging network merely clarified its terms of service to address some safety issues that, frankly, should’ve been addressed long ago. To recap: In late October, Twitter began updating its rules to...