PHOENIX – Many years ago, an attorney friend of mine gave me some sound advice about running an adult business. I’ve carried it with me ever since: “Never piss people off unnecessarily.” What he meant was, while it’s inevitable an adult business will piss off some...

WASHNGTON – When it comes to loopholes, nobody knows more about how to create and use them than the U.S. Congress. It’s a skill set which comes with lots of practice — practice which includes the occasional need to close such loopholes once public awareness of them has created...

GUADALAJARA – Over the 20 years or so I’ve been working within and covering the adult entertainment industry, I’ve found myself defending the rights of people to do a whole lot of things I will never do myself, from high-risk sex acts to outrageous publicity stunts and sometimes...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – If I have one great disadvantage in the world of dating, it’s the fact I’m not a state legislator. I’m telling you, these “lawmaker” guys have it made when it comes to meeting women, because if they’re ever at a loss for a good pickup line, they can...

NEW YORK – In the wake of the announcement Congress intends to repeal a Federal Communications Commission rule (albeit one that hadn’t become effective yet) that would have required internet service providers to obtain a customer’s explicit consent before selling their...

LOS ANGELES – After watching the Rashida Jones-produced 2015 documentary Hot Girls Wanted, I thought I had a good read on Jones and her take on porn. Like a lot of others who have looked at porn from a liberal feminist perspective, Jones’s documentary concluded the porn...

DUBLIN – When anti-porn activists talk about the pervasiveness of online porn, one of the statistics they frequently cite (typically without attribution) is a claim about the average age at which people are first exposed to porn. Depending on who is making the claim, this number...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In its dogged pursuit of information concerning President Donald Trump’s tax returns, the national media may unwittingly have stumbled across an exciting new pornographic genre: “sneaky porn.” While examining Trump’s leaked 2005 tax returns, the panel of...

ATLANTA – Let’s say you were my child and I were to tell you there’s something on the internet so dangerous that merely to view it would be to risk turning yourself into a predatory monster hell-bent on sexually assaulting anyone and anything in your path in dogged pursuit of...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – If I were to tell you a lot of data suggests watching porn makes men less satisfied in their relationships, but the same data indicates porn-watching does not appear to have the same effect on women, what conclusion would you draw? From where I sit, without...