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...

CALGARY, Canada – Regardless of your preconceived notions about the impact porn has on its viewers, you can likely find a study, or multiple studies, to support your position. Do you believe watching porn makes men more sexist? You’re just a Google search away from finding...

WASHINGTON – Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Perfect 10 v. Giganews, putting to an end litigation which began in 2011, in which Perfect 10 accused the Usenet newsgroup access-provider of direct and contributory copyright infringement in allowing users...

WASHINGTON – For several years now, activists and victims’ advocates have been calling for a federal law addressing the scourge of “revenge porn,” the nonconsensual distribution of intimate images to embarrass, harass, defame or otherwise damage the person(s) depicted in...

NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan – The more I look around at trending topics, videos gone viral and assorted social media hashtaggery, the more convinced I become the internet is robbing people of all empathy and capacity for identifying with the plight of others. How else can we explain...

PARIS – Say what you will about the internet age, it’s plusses and minuses, the ups and downs of social media and all that highfalutin crap. You can’t say it hasn’t changed the way we communicate or altered forever the ability of the common man to respond directly to the most...

LOS ANGELES – While this post takes up the controversial question of whether adults ought to be allowed to watch porn at public libraries, I’m not going to approach the question as a legal one or as a matter of the free speech. The primary reason I’m not addressing this as a...

NEW YORK – Over the years, I’ve written literally millions of words about porn. Some of those words have appeared on box covers, others have been published on websites. Some have described, in occasionally cringeworthy detail, sex acts that made me throw up in my mouth just a...