SILICON VALLEY – These days, I’m not sure a single day goes by without some aspect of the porn industry receiving at least a little mainstream media ink. Sometimes a porn star makes headlines due to her dalliance with a professional sports star. Other times, the headlines emerge...

LOS ANGELES – In explaining his company’s choice to purchase billboard advertising space in Times Square and on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, Pornhub Vice President Corey Price told the Los Angeles Times the billboards were part of an effort to push adult entertainment “into the...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – According to a report from the BBC, several performers, studios and others from the adult entertainment industry are calling on Google to “help publicize legal ways to buy adult content in an effort to combat piracy.” With quotes from Angela White, Tasha...

BROOKLYN, NY – Look, I get the whole Rule 34 thing, and its unnumbered corollary: If a device has a camera on it, said device inevitably will be used to shoot porn. But there’s another rule about porn I think people miss sometimes: By its nature, porn requires the viewer be able...

LONDON – Once upon a time, when a military officer in the field needed to securely communicate orders and intelligence to his compatriots at a distance, he would dispatch a runner with the message. These messages often would be encoded to stymie the enemy, should the runner fall...

TOPEKA, Kan. – Sometimes you run into a person whose story is so parallel to your own, it’s downright creepy. I had that experience when I read the story of Theresa Carey, who could be my mirror image. You see, I’m not proud to admit it, but it’s a fact: Before I saw the light...

PORN VALLEY, Calif. – Over on BuzzFeed this week, there’s an interesting piece called “This Is What It’s Actually Like To Work As A Female Porn Star.” From an adult industry perspective, there’s a lot to like about this multi-person Q&A. For starters, the author chose to...

FANTASYLAND, World of Hurt – A friend of mine forwarded me a link to the terms and conditions agreement for an affiliate program. She was considering signing up for the program, but a specific paragraph put her off. So, she asked a fairly simple question: “Does this sound kosher...

On a bright, clear day, I head out for a meeting over coffee with one of the true veterans of porn publicity stunts. A normally effusive man, today he looks weary and worn while nursing his double latte and lamenting the summer of porn publicity stunts that might have been. “We...

You can’t major in “porn economics” at Harvard or study “adult website marketing” at Oxford. Even local state colleges don’t offer anything that can directly prepare you for this unique industry. The people who try their hand at making money in this business arrive here by all...