YNOT – Due somewhat to the duress the porn world is under because of widespread piracy and the resulting slowdown of porn productions and other adult entertainment happenings, my monthly columns are getting bland and lacking in sex stuff. Gosh, before I know it, I might have to...

YNOT – It’s with no small amount of pride that I have the pleasure of welcoming you to the brand new YNOT.com website. The website you see before you now has been under development ever since our company changed ownership several months ago, and we are sure you will...

Two months from today I will be in Houston for www.questparty.com and Lone Star Pornutopia III. What a way to end 2009! Check out the link to the “stars” and you’ll see why I’m looking forward to it; note that the ratio of porn starlets versus porn guys is quite favorable. I...

It’s strange to think that just a little less than ten years ago, I was sitting in a little townhouse in Delaware, opening presents on Christmas morning and staring confusedly at this little gadget that my mother had sent me, wondering why.At the time, my husband was in the...

The Free Speech Coalition recently announced the winners of its 2009 “FSC Awards,” and most of the names on the list are familiar to adult industry professionals. When you start listing tireless industry proponents like Larry Flynt, John Stagliano and Stormy Daniels, you realize...

Where did the summer go? Heck, before we know it Halloween and Thanksgiving will be here, not to mention all the Xmas pre-sales/sales/after-sales advertising and music. Have you noticed how the older we get the faster the time goes by? I’ll be 70 years old next March, and indeed...

Recently here on YNOT my colleague and friend LAJ expressed dismay at the amount of “drama” that occurs on some of the adult industry’s message boards. Not a new observation, but still a valid one. By drama, he’s referring of course to a number of different kinds of commonplace...

The adult Internet business tends to attract a lot of independent-minded entrepreneurs. It attracts the kind of people who generally don’t like rigid rules, and like the fact that an online business knows very few limitations in terms of potential. These same things attracted...

While I was attending Cybernet Expo, presented by the great folks here at YNOT, a common complaint I heard repeatedly was how the paying audience for adult sites has been dropping, dropping, dropping to a dangerously low level.Yes, we all know that the economy has been seriously...

It’s safe to say that when I got started in the adult Internet, I wasn’t a “big baller” and neither were most of the individuals and companies that made adult websites. The money was excellent, but most of us simply had some kind of technical background and had stumbled onto the...