Back in February, I undertook a series exploring why there’s always someone out to get the porn industry. Over the past three months, I’ve written eight of the most prominent anti-porn crusaders of the past six and a half decades, from Charles Keating, who Nixon appointed to the...

WASHINGTON — According to federal spending data, the Department of Justice (DOJ) under former President Donald Trump awarded nearly $240,000 in 2020 through a block grant to the controversial anti-porn group the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE). The grant, awarded...

It’s 2021 and gay/lesbian adult performers are finally being portrayed online as ‘natural and normal’ human beings, as straight performers have been for years. But transsexual performers? Even today, they are frequently cast in sex scenes that portray them as novelties at best...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal accusing big tech of being protected by Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act and using such protections to suppress ‘liberty’ and ‘free speech.’ In the...

Laila Mickelwaite has exploded onto the anti-smut scene in recent years as a powerful force in anti-sex-trafficking activism. Her #TraffickingHub petition to “shut down Pornhub” over its alleged offenses against non-consenting parties gained over 2 million signatures. And that...

WASHINGTON — The anti-porn group National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is openly calling for major search engines to block traffic to porn websites.  Dawn Hawkins, chief executive officer of NCOSE, alleged that Google has a “pivotal role in leading people to child...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – At some point in the weeks ahead – and possibly sooner than that phrase suggests – we will see the next major development in Woodhull Freedom Foundation v. U.S., the Woodhull Foundation’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of FOSTA/SESTA, the legislative...

MONTGOMERY — Lawmakers in the Alabama legislature are considering legislation that would require mobile devices sold in the state to come with preinstalled porn filtering software. The proposal, House Bill (HB) 142, was heard before the House Judiciary Committee and appears to be...

Back in 2018, there was a flurry of adult-related cryptocurrency projects, products and companies announced. Cryptocurrency wasn’t “new” to the industry at the time, of course; some adult platforms have offered their customers the ability to pay in crypto going back nearly a...

WASHINGTON — Republicans and telecommunication giants are exploiting veterans in a bid to repeal net neutrality in California and to block potential policy reinstatement at the federal level. Republican members of the House Energy & Commerce Committee publicly issued a letter...