By Erika Icom YNOT – Julie Simone is a rarity because she does so many things well. She’s a dominatrix, an award-winning director, an artist, a businesswoman, an editor…and the list goes on. Iconic and well-respected in the BDSM/fetish community, she’s starting to get quite a bit...

By Erika Icon YNOT – A few weeks ago, something I wrote got a huge amount of Twitter action. Many people tweeted a link to a post in which I outlined how not to behave on Twitter, and others re-tweeted. Quite a few were shocked that people don’t know a few common-sense rules for...

By Erika Icon YNOT – Photographer extraordinaire Diane Arbus once wrote, “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.”

By Dave Cummings YNOT – Well, the old guy (me!) finally gave in and now has a cell phone. I was the lone long-term holdout among a bunch of Hash House Harrier (Google it) running club friends trying not to be pushed into being tethered to living in the tech age. Those who were...

By Julia Dimambro YNOT – I was born in the 1970s, and like most young girls of that time, I assumed I would grow up and become a princess by marrying Britain’s Prince Andrew (that was a near miss, hey?) or failing that, become a veterinarian, saving puppies and kittens for a...

By Erika Icon YNOT – As a publicist and somewhat of a social media expert, I spend a lot of time on Twitter — not just tweeting, but also watching. I keep an eye on what my clients say, because image is everything, but based on some of the behavior I’ve seen on Twitter, I think...

By M.Christian YNOT – The cliché is true: Time is money. Perhaps nothing illustrates the concept better than the amount of time adult webmasters must invest in their businesses these days just to stand out from the crowd.

By M.Christian YNOT – Let’s face it: No business, adult or otherwise, can make a dime if no one knows it exists. This is why it’s important to listen to people who know what it takes to take an enterprise from obscurity to popularity, especially in these days when...

By M.Christian YNOT – Ah, the 1960s — or, to be more precise, the end of that decade: 1969. Richard Nixon was President of the U.S., the Beatles gave their last public performance, the Stonewall riots provided a rallying cry for gay-rights activists, Sean “P. Diddy” Combs was...

By Dave Cummings YNOT – For many years, my monthly column has been titled “From the Trenches.” Now, because of the devastation resulting from rampant piracy and the impact of the weak economy, I’m having difficulty finding the trenches so I can write about them. Where did the...