Have you ever known someone who’s trapped in a relationship that’s largely a one-way street? It sometimes feels like that when trying to work with Google, a company that appears determined to police the entire internet. Odds are you rely on Google services.  You might use an...

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion are not the first female recording artists to get explicit about straight female sexuality. They’re following in the footsteps of such greats as Missy Elliot, Lil Kim, and many others. But with their new single, “WAP,” they are doing it big, loud,...

In an all-too-rare bit of positive news for the porn industry, the results of a new study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health challenge most commonly held beliefs about porn use’s effects on sexual functioning. In short, wrote Eric...

Content Warning: Descriptions of sexual assault. In a recent tidal wave of assault allegations against well-established men in the adult entertainment industry, Ryan Madison’s name came up quite a lot. Madison, husband of Kelly Madison, who founded Kelly Madison Production,...

Many Senators, including Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal, seem to think interactive online platforms should be held liable for the speech and actions of third party users who use their sites. Would the Senators approve of applying the same reasoning in their direction?

Note of correction: A Previous version of this post incorrectly stated that MindGeek owns BangBros. YNOT regrets the error and has revised the post accordingly. Former adult performer Mia Khalifa, whose BangBros “hijab” scene rocketed her to international stardom and infamy back...

So, get this. Apparently, Barack Obama has been following long-time adult performer Sara Jay’s Twitter since, she says, around 2008. When she found out, Jay told The Daily Beast’s Aurora Snow in a recent interview, “I tried to sweep it under the rug. I like to give people their...

If there’s one thing on which Republicans and Democrats can agree, it’s that free speech is a great and noble thing – as long as they like what someone has to say and it’s not something negative about them. When properly viewed within this context, many things which might...

Social media companies often discriminate against (or even fully disallow) explicit adult content. Collecting email addresses gives adult businesses another means of directly reaching their customers. Here are some thoughts on why email might be vital to securing your revenue...

So far, 2020 has brought the unexpected. But not every media circus of the year will be shocking. Case in point: Ron Jeremy is in jail because he’s formally—finally—been charged with sexual assault. On Tuesday, the AP released video footage of Jeremy, 67, handcuffed and masked as...