PHOENIX – In June 2013, Phoenix police raided what they called a “self-serve porn studio” near Sky Harbor Airport, charging William James Hartwell and six women with various prostitution-related crimes. Now, three and one-half years later, Hartwell’s trial is finally is poised to...

CYBERSPACE – A new report on TorrentFreak suggests the biggest platform for content piracy is not any of the usual tube site or torrent suspects. Instead, the elephant in the thievery room may be the original tube site itself: YouTube. According to the report, “Google’s servers...

SAN FRANCISCO – When I first heard about Kink.com acquiring the Mission District Armory in San Francisco some years ago, I thought of the moment as a potential watershed for the progress of the American adult entertainment industry. A porn studio poised to operate (openly!) in a...

BISMARCK, N.D. – For many years, I believed former attorney Jack Thompson, the man who once prosecuted 2 Live Crew for obscenity, spent years concocting and promoting flawed legislation that sought to regulate video games like pornography and was later disbarred for a variety of...

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. – GayHub.com, a gay-first tube site built by gay studios for gay studios and powered by live-cam giant Flirt4Free, has launched. “GayHub is part of a larger objective that we have to service the online gay community a little bit better,” said Director of...

NEW YORK – Age-verification amendments to the U.K.’s Digital Economy Bill would violate international human-rights accords by exposing internet users to breaches of privacy and curtailing free speech online, a United Nations official has warned. Furthermore, the bill’s...

LOS ANGELES – More than 100 winners of 2017 XBIZ Awards were crowned Jan. 12. Categories covered every corner of the industry, from performance and production to manufacturing and retail, plus all sectors of the online industry. Winners in the Web & Technology division were:...

BISMARK, N.D. – A nationwide trend to regulate what adults may access on the internet by requiring manufacturers to install filters on all new electronic devices reached a new low this week when legislators in North Dakota labeled all devices capable of connecting to the internet...

LONDON, Ontario – One of the reasons the scientific method has been so successful over the centuries is its reliance upon the ability of researchers to reproduce outcomes as a way to confirm prior experimental results. Repeatability and confirmability are crucial elements of any...

LOS ANGELES – On the Twitter account for pornstar-turned-politician Ela Darling, just above where her official @ElaDarling handle is displayed, are the words “Stoned Adulterer.” It’s a cute handle, sure, and certainly won’t shock Darling’s legion of devoted fans or voters who...