WASHINGTON – Trump has pledged one, but took no action in the first year of his presidency; one wasn’t expected, promised or enacted under Obama; one which was anticipated and half-started under George W. Bush never fully materialized. Given the above, it seems reasonable...

MONTREAL – For modern porn fans, User-Generated Content (“UGC”) has been a godsend. UGC is the lifeblood not just of adult tube sites, but YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and countless other sites and platforms to which creative individuals have uploaded their homemade videos, memes,...

ARDEN-ARCADE, Calif. – I’m often struck by how much public perception of adult entertainment has changed over the last 30 years, a shift I think it’s reasonable to largely attribute to the arrival and expansion of internet porn. The internet offered people a means of exploring...

CULVER CITY, Calif. – Like a lot of men, I’m not good at gift-giving. It’s a problem which mixes together many of my less-than-enviable personality traits, like abject laziness, chronic insensitivity, fundamental unoriginality and a tendency to procrastinate in all things. Being...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Maybe it’s presumptuous of me, but I’m guessing just about the last thing on your mind as you’re watching porn is the carbon footprint left behind by your viewing session. I’ll further surmise this is the case whether you’re watching porn on your phone, PC or...

CALGARY, Canada – Regardless of your preconceived notions about the impact porn has on its viewers, you can likely find a study, or multiple studies, to support your position. Do you believe watching porn makes men more sexist? You’re just a Google search away from finding...

WASHINGTON – Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Perfect 10 v. Giganews, putting to an end litigation which began in 2011, in which Perfect 10 accused the Usenet newsgroup access-provider of direct and contributory copyright infringement in allowing users...

WASHINGTON – For several years now, activists and victims’ advocates have been calling for a federal law addressing the scourge of “revenge porn,” the nonconsensual distribution of intimate images to embarrass, harass, defame or otherwise damage the person(s) depicted in...

NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan – The more I look around at trending topics, videos gone viral and assorted social media hashtaggery, the more convinced I become the internet is robbing people of all empathy and capacity for identifying with the plight of others. How else can we explain...

PARIS – Say what you will about the internet age, it’s plusses and minuses, the ups and downs of social media and all that highfalutin crap. You can’t say it hasn’t changed the way we communicate or altered forever the ability of the common man to respond directly to the most...