The following testimony was authored by the Free Speech Coalition and submitted to the Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights of the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate on February 15, 2005 in response to a planned hearing on obscenity law...

Over the past four or five years I have seen a number of things affect the bottom line of the adult industry. Different sectors of the industry felt these developments at different points in time. When I entered the industry as a content provider, licensing content was still a...

If you’re looking for a solid bet, place money on Alberto Gonzales being confirmed by the Senate as Attorney General of the United States of America – despite the inevitable protest votes of a number of Democrats, and possibly even a few Republicans.If you’re looking for a solid...

Porn is King in Las Vegas, especially during the week of the AVN-sponsored adult internet show (Internext), Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE), and the AVN Awards Show. Las Vegas residents, visitors, and businesses welcomed us, as did the fans and consumers of porn, with opened...

It’s the time of year for predictions, right? And I have a whopper of a prediction. It may come true, or I may be overextending here just a bit. But what the hell, it’s all for fun, right? But fun or no fun, I do truly believe my prediction will largely play out in 2005.It’s the...

Perhaps it’s an understatement, but the online adult entertainment business is often turbulent. Although the rate of change has steadied somewhat in recent years, 2004 was nonetheless a year of significant developments..Perhaps it’s an understatement, but the online adult...

I define “heaven” as Dennis Hof’s Bunny Ranch (see www.bunnyranch.com); going to a brothel is one thing, but going to THE world-famous Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel is my idea of heaven. I was recently a guest there for three days and nights, surrounded by beautiful “angels” and...

It is often said that you cannot have a circus without the clowns. Indeed; but when you wake up to discover that the clowns are now running the circus, then quite clearly things have gotten out of hand.It is often said that you cannot have a circus without the clowns. Indeed; but...

I have always been curious about the phone sex industry. In the movies a guy calling on a phone sex ad that contains a picture of a beautiful girl always connects to a hairy, ugly, beer drinking guy pretending to be a woman, right? Well I recently had a chance to learn a little...

Having retired from the U.S. Army sixteen years ago while stationed in San Francisco, I stayed in the area for a couple of years while working as a broker for a company trading options and futures in the volatile but exciting foreign currencies, crude oil, metals, grains and bond...