WASHINGTON – In the middle of a confirmation hearing at which the headline-making questions and answers were mostly about immigration, race and abortion, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah raised the specter of pornography: Would Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions...

VALENCIA, Calif. – Brendan Mahar, a 12-year veteran of global merchant services management, has joined Online IPS as vice president of business development. As the global ecommerce market has grown more sophisticated, Mahar has worked closely with merchants in some of the most...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – International classified advertising site Backpage, whose owners are facing criminal charges in at least two states, shuttered its adult-services ads sections on Monday after a scathing congressional report accused the company of knowingly accepting advertising...

KEYPORT, N.J. – Payze.com has tapped Jeff Neis as global sales manager. In his new position, Neis will help manage “rapid growth, expanding partnerships and sales initiatives moving forward,” a Payze spokesman said. Over the past five years, Payze has developed unique...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Let’s say you woke up one morning and found your Twitter feed lit up with outrage over the airing of gay porn on a popular television show. What sort of sex acts would you assume the offending program had aired? Playing the odds, would you assume it was...

CYPRUS – A new adult entertainment portal its developers say offers “the best live shows and a totally re-imagined voyeur experience” has debuted on a URL no one should have trouble remembering: Sex.sex. Designed by John and Kira in cooperation with Barron Innovations Ltd. (which...

WASHINGTON – There’s an old quote you might have heard about how “nobody has ever gone broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” Of course, H. L. Mencken never actually wrote those words, but a great many people believe he did, because this is what...

NEW YORK – Four percent of U.S. internet users — roughly 10.4 million Americans — have been a victim of “revenge porn” through threats or actual posting of sensitive images. Members of the LGBTQ community are targeted proportionately more often than any other group, with 15...

TORONTO – The mainstream media, especially on the right-wing end of the scale, frequently mention drugs as a significant companion to — and sometimes facilitator of — LGBTI sex, as though members of marginalized communities only pursue intimate encounters when they’re high,...

SALT LAKE CITY – In April 2016, Utah passed a nonbinding resolution declaring pornography a “public health crisis.” Now, the sponsor of the resolution says he’s working on a new bill that would enable residents of the state to sue porn producers for damages resulting from...