SAN FRANCISCO – It was early 1998, and I’d had my online porn-job for about eight months. The company was quite small, and as fate would have it, when the office phone’s main line rang that afternoon, I was the only one available to answer. When I did, I was met with a very...

WASHINGTON – “If I told the real stories of my experiences with women, often seemingly very happily married and important women, this book would be a guaranteed best-seller.” – Donald Trump, The Art of the Comeback, 1997. Prior to becoming a politician (something Trump wrote in...

LOS ANGELES – Remember when Milli Vanilli got busted for not being the real singers behind hits like “Girl You Know It’s True” and “Blame It on the Rain”? Even after they released their confessional follow-up hit “OK, Girl, So Maybe You Know It’s Not Entirely True,” the world...

MELBOURNE – In October of last year, the Eros Association, Australia’s leading and longest-running adult industry trade group, released a report examining alleged financial discrimination against the Australian adult businesses which comprise Eros’ membership. For many American...

WASHINGTON – While I’m sure there are those who are saddened to hear Orrin Hatch will not be seeking reelection when his current term ends, I’m equally certain somewhere between very few and none of those people work in the adult entertainment or video gaming industries. In his...

WASHINGTON – Trump has pledged one, but took no action in the first year of his presidency; one wasn’t expected, promised or enacted under Obama; one which was anticipated and half-started under George W. Bush never fully materialized. Given the above, it seems reasonable...

MONTREAL – For modern porn fans, User-Generated Content (“UGC”) has been a godsend. UGC is the lifeblood not just of adult tube sites, but YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and countless other sites and platforms to which creative individuals have uploaded their homemade videos, memes,...

ARDEN-ARCADE, Calif. – I’m often struck by how much public perception of adult entertainment has changed over the last 30 years, a shift I think it’s reasonable to largely attribute to the arrival and expansion of internet porn. The internet offered people a means of exploring...

CULVER CITY, Calif. – Like a lot of men, I’m not good at gift-giving. It’s a problem which mixes together many of my less-than-enviable personality traits, like abject laziness, chronic insensitivity, fundamental unoriginality and a tendency to procrastinate in all things. Being...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Maybe it’s presumptuous of me, but I’m guessing just about the last thing on your mind as you’re watching porn is the carbon footprint left behind by your viewing session. I’ll further surmise this is the case whether you’re watching porn on your phone, PC or...