MANHATTAN, Kan. – For a subject hardly anyone spoke about publicly for decades, there’s certainly a lot of debate surrounding porn these days. Does watching it make a person more likely to commit sex crimes, or less likely? Is porn just harmless fun, or a public health crisis?...

Who would’ve expected a porn tube site to take an interest in helping spare people the embarrassment that accompanies sexted images gone astray? Considering the site is Pornhub, perhaps everyone should have expected the unexpected. In mid-April, the company quietly debuted a new...

TORONTO – A rebooted adult industry event launched with a bang April 20-23. The inaugural Toronto International Porn Festival, hosted by “sexuality store” Good For Her, sought to screen “the most creative, expressive, diverse and erotic pornography the industry has to offer.”...

NEW YORK CITY – Let’s be honest: Not everyone can afford the time or expense required to attend one of the adult entertainment industry’s celebrated awards shows. Unless you live in a major U.S. coastal city or a European hotspot, the travel alone is onerous. Then there’s the...

LOS ANGELES – If there’s one thing I’ve found consistently entertaining and amusing over my years working in and around the adult entertainment industry, it’s the lengths to which many pornographers will go in drawing significant qualitative distinctions between their own work...

As news of former New England Patriots tight end and murderer Aaron Hernandez’s apparent cellblock suicide spread last week, Twitter lit up with chatter. The hashtag #AaronHernandez rocketed to the top of Twitter’s trending list. As usual, overzealous and under-thinking marketers...

HARTFORD, Conn. – Every so often as I’m writing an article, I’ll paste something from my clipboard into the body of the story that has no place therein. Usually, it’s just a matter of having forgotten I’d copied something to the clipboard after the most recent thing I remember...

MONTREAL – After partnering last year with digital hentai distributor Kimochi to develop a Steam-like online network, adult game publisher Nutaku is well on its way to creating a bona-fide rival to the mainstream platform — except without Steam’s notorious censorship. Using the...

BEIJING – Whether the entity in question is a government or a corporation, every organization that operates internationally must make decisions about its “foreign policy.” Among the toughest of the decisions that must be made is how to manage operations within...

WASHINGTON – A bipartisan bill introduced in the House of Representatives earlier this month could gut the “safe harbor” provisions in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 and stifle free speech online. Introduced by Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.), H.R. 1865 — titled...