American social liberals have prided themselves on possessing superior intelligence for at least as many years as their more conservative brethren have insisted that the world is 6,000 years old and evolution is a fiction. For decades, universities with political science and/or...

When people consider the primary strengths of PHP in internet-enabled applications, the first item on the list is usually how easy and flexible PHP is, by default. While this is very true, PHP, if used improperly, can open up numerous security issues that should always be...

Ah, the poor mainstream media… it seems that whenever a mainstream media outlet hears the words “child” and “porn” in the same paragraph, reporters and their editors have a hard time focusing on any of the surrounding verbiage, and immediately conclude that there’s another...

Life in America has never been better. There is no crime, there is no hunger, there is no disease, there is no governmental or corporate corruption, city infrastructures are sound, the weather is beautiful, the world is at peace, and its children, like their parents, are all...

On a lazy Thursday afternoon I found myself watching C-SPAN with a mixture of frustration and disappointment as respected adult industry attorney Paul Cambria got up before a United States Senate committee and made a number of extremely unfortunate mistakes in response to...

In an industry where perception is (nearly) everything, and where, often, quantity and style can overrule quality and substance, respectively, it’s important to not forget why the vast majority of us got into this industry in the first place. These reasons include, but are...

I recently read an engaging article penned by the able scribes over at Christian Science Monitor. The point of the article was simply that young adults are increasingly finding it difficult to achieve financial independence in modern America. The article was not focused on high...

Like always, this year’s recently completed and AVN-sponsored Adult Entertainment Expo, Internext Expo (the adult internet show), and the AVN Awards Show were well organized and a lot of fun. I love making “the rounds” at the shows and running into porn friends and fans. It’s...

I opted out of attending my high school prom in part because my date got hopelessly lost on the way and in part because the whole thing just seemed stupid. There I was wearing a sheer black antique lace dress over an ink black taffeta sheath with a plunging neckline, knowing...

President George W. Bush is a proud gun owner and defender of the Second Amendment. As a fan of pretty much all of the Amendments, except the eventually repealed 18th, I don’t have a problem with the fact my president knows how to handle and, presumably, fire a gun. But one of...