SALT LAKE CITY – Last month, a district court in Utah dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Free Speech Coalition (FSC) and other plaintiffs challenging the state’s age verification mandate, because none of the state officials named as defendants in the lawsuit “has a particular duty...

AUSTIN, Texas – In a response opposing the Free Speech Coalition’s expedited request for a preliminary injunction in the organization’s lawsuit challenging Texas’ new law requiring age-verification by and the publication of mandatory public health warning labels on adult...

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WASHINGTON – Last year, when U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon dismissed the Woodhull Freedom Foundation’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (“FOSTA”), I argued there was a small “bright side” to...

Artificial intelligence apps – and things created by AI apps – are everywhere you look these days, it seems. From being used not-so-successfully in court, to helping people write novels in record time, humans are starting to turn to AI for assistance with everything. As such, I...

Decades after he originally sang them, musical satirist Tom Lehrer’s words still might be the best underlining of the preposterousness of laws prohibiting “obscene” depictions and descriptions: All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder, for filth (I’m...

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Senate is currently in the midst of its annual budget debate. Although the state legislature is controlled by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (the state’s Democratic party affiliate), the Minnesota Republicans are proving to be just as...

MONTREAL — The world shook a little when it was announced that Pornhub and its parent company, MindGeek, were acquired by a newly formed private equity firm for an undisclosed sum. Ethical Capital Partners (ECP) is the brand new owner of the world’s most recognized adult...

Reading the recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Olson v. California, a constitutional challenge to a California law commonly referred to as “A.B. 5”  brought by Postmates and Uber, I find myself oddly reminded of a scene from Monty Python’s The...

Adult entertainment is not a normal profession. Between the misinformed assumptions our industry is inherently exploitative to the claims that there is no ethical standard in place, it takes the whole village to communicate to the world what it is we’re all about. For...