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,...

Months-old ad campaigns run by mainstream brands on Pornhub are getting mainstream media attention this week, with companies like Kraft Heinz and Unilever taking heat over advertising on the popular adult site. In Britain, politicians are calling for an urgent investigation --...

In the past, Kanye West has never been shy about his affection for porn - including once serving as the art director for the Pornhub Awards. More recently however, Kanye has talked about his love of porn as an addiction, blaming early exposure to a copy of Playboy for his later...

As he watches the civil lawsuit filed against GirlsDoPorn.com and its operators play out -- and waits for the criminal prosecution of those same people to begin -- Ben Suroeste keeps having a question pop into his head: How stupid are these guys? Before you answer that question,...