NEW YORK – More than ever before, I find myself wondering as I read the morning headlines whether I’m reading them correctly, or if a particularly strong tab of acid I took back in 1996 just hasn’t worn off yet. I’m not talking about headlines that simply suffer from confusing...

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (or maybe MONTREAL) – If I were to tell VICE one of my fellow adult industry-focused freelance writers and I soon will start writing Hunter S. Thompson-inspired children’s books, would they publish a feature calling this an industry-wide trend? I ask because,...

SAN FRANCISCO – No matter how “adult friendly” a mainstream platform may be (or at least start out to be), it’s never a surprise to me when one tightens its content policies or community guidelines to make it clear porn is an expressive form non grata thereon. The crowdfunding...

CANBERRA, Australia – Forget about Watergate; never mind the Iran-Contra affair; stand aside Russian election-meddling fake news. The real governmental scandal is taking place Down Under –- where women reportedly glow and men allegedly plunder. It was bad enough when the only...

NEW YORK – As porn has become a more acceptable subject for open, public discussion, all sorts of media outlets, advice columnists and random people with internet access have begun to offer porn-related advice. There’s so much porn advice now, from so many different sources, you...

CANBERRA, Australia – According to the National Health and Medical Research (NHMRC) Council in Australia, gay men are developing muscle dysmorphia in increasing numbers due to watching gay porn. “The more you are exposed to pornography, the more likely you are to have eating...

RAQQA, Syria – When reading or thinking about ISIS –- what motivates its foot soldiers, the extremity of its ideology and all the varied ugliness and violence of its methods –- one of the last things on anybody’s mind is in what ways ISIS members may be like the rest of us. It’s...

LOS ANGELES – As I’m sure you’ve read, over the weekend Hustler founder Larry Flynt published an ad in the Washington Post offering up to $10 million for “information leading to the impeachment and removal from office of Donald J. Trump.” Naturally, the first thing that came to...

LONDON – The “Internet Safety Strategy green paper” published this week by the U.K. government is unsurprisingly sprawling and ambitious. By their nature, green papers essentially are an invitation to consult, a statement of intent calling upon a wide variety of stakeholders to...

SCHENECTADY, New York – I suppose the real question is whether taking a person’s job counts as “injuring” a human. If so, so long as sex robots are designed in accordance with the Three Laws of Robotics, Ela Darling and her peers needn’t worry about being replaced by them. “Sex...