Joe Biden says Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act "immediately should be revoked," but like many other critics of Section 230, Biden seems confused and unclear about what Section 230 says, what it protects and what it doesn't.

Lars Sullivan seems like a troubled pro wrestler with a lot of personal identity issues to iron out. The WWE contract star is still living under the shadow of homophobia, anxiety, and injury—and now a boatload of controversy. Last week, gay porn videos surfaced starring a “Mitch...

Social conservatives have been pushing for the Trump Administration to crack down on porn lately, including in a letter to Attorney General William Barr by four GOP lawmakers, who urged Barr to "declare the prosecution of obscene pornography a criminal justice priority."...

Let’s say you’re a socially conservative state legislator (or, more to the point, a legislator who represents a district packed with social conservatives) and you want to cook up some regulations designed to make it harder for people to sell, buy, or consume adult entertainment...

It’s pretty annoying that legislators in the United States are clutching their pearls about citizens’ access to pornography, but it’s weirdly nice to know that we’re not the only ones whose governments are being ridiculous. In New Zealand, government officials have called...

Late last week, four Republican members of Congress sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr, pleading that he spur the Department of Justice to take action against producers and distributors of what they call “obscene pornography.” Unsurprisingly, rather than distinguish...

MIAMI, Fla. – Back in September, I wrote about a federal jury in Miami awarding a little under $900,00 to 32 women who sued the swinger’s club Miami Velvet, presenting the case as a reminder that it’s never good business to use content to which you don’t own the rights. As it...

Scientists just can’t seem to agree on what porn does to people’s brains. You may recall that, a few weeks ago, neuroscientist Nicole Prause, PhD, informed the world that brain scientists have never found any true evidence that porn acts on human brains like a drug, despite the...

In all your reading about the intersection of porn and politics, have you ever come across a politician taking heat over NOT accepting campaign donations from sex workers? That's the situation currently playing out in Portland, Oregon, where incumbent Mayor Ted Wheeler issued an...

A week after Pornhub announced that PayPal was stopping payouts to performers who used the world’s largest porn-streaming site as a source of income, the fallout continues.  The move was not a huge shock to most in the sex industry. As YNOT’s own Mallory Hall wrote last week,...