PRAGUE – All men may be created equal, but some adult industry members — men and women — stand out as beacons of industriousness, ethical business practices and commerce done right. The 2017 YNOT Awards will honor those people, selected by their peers. The polls opened Monday,...

WADENA, Minn. – As a former Boy Scout, I fully appreciate the need to be prepared — and I mean prepared at all times, and for all contingencies. This obsession with readiness has served me well over the years, with the notable exception of the years I spent building an...

CAMARILLO, Calif. – Of all the many reasons I’m glad I’m not a deeply religious or socially conservative person, the fact I’m largely free from concern over the world’s many corrupting influences ranks right at the top of my list. Since I don’t base my daily decisions and actions...

LOS ANGELES – The Free Speech Coalition has hired Ian Timothy O’Brien to fill the newly created position Director of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs. O’Brien will work directly with regulators of both the pleasure products and adult film industries to compile, analyze and...

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – Allegations of racism on adult video sets arose on Twitter over the July 4 weekend. The heated back-and-forth on the social network prompted stern warnings from both industry trade association Free Speech Coalition and performer health-and-safety organization...

Warning: Satire ahead. LOS ANGELES – While I enjoy taking cheap shots at them as much as the next guy, I’ll readily admit to knowing almost nothing about the Kardashian clan, other than the patriarch of the family was once a close friend of OJ Simpson’s, and later became a...

By Richard Buss Email marketing makes use of electronic email as a direct digital method of advertising to both consumers and business associates (such as affiliates). Many companies make the mistake of thinking email marketing is not important, not effective or costs too much....

SAN FRANCISCO – On his Psychology Today blog, journalist Michael Castleman is reevaluating the question “does more porn mean less rape?” The big thudding sound you just heard was my head hitting the desk, because if there’s one thing my brain can’t handle much more...

ModelCentro has launched a new store feature that is free for all clients to use. The feature is optional, like every other part of the platform, so performers are always in control of their marketing. According to head honcho Stan D’Aman, many performers already are using the...

LOS ANGELES – Every so often, along comes a headline that is so great, a collection of words whose proximity to each other is so entirely unexpected, the body of the article below it probably isn’t necessary, or may even prove a severe letdown. I ran across such a headline over...