WASHINGTON – Among many critics of “big government,” it’s a common practice to assert as established fact private entities operate more efficiently than their state-run counterparts. The government, we’re told, is a monument of inefficiency, waste and graft. There’s plenty of...

EDMONTON, Canada – When your stated mission is to “to create, deliver, and evolve the most emotionally engaging games in the world,” I guess you can’t afford to make offhand comments about one of your games becoming “totally softcore space porn.” (Because, you know, porn simply...

AUSTIN, Texas – When I launched my first free porn site during those carefree days of the late 1990s, despite what Justice Potter Stewart said about the definition of porn some 30 years earlier, I think most people agreed what did and did not constitute a “porn site.” Even in the...

WASHINGTON – Amid the sound and fury attending the signing of his various executive orders, many of which appear designed to deliver immediately on specific campaign promises, one of President Donald Trump’s election season pledges has gone largely unremarked. Trump signed the...

LOS ANGELES – Changing careers in midstream is always a difficult endeavor. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve spent 20 years practicing medicine, law or picking lint out of your navel in the middle of the night while sleepily ‘keeping watch’ over a warehouse full of cheap, useless...

COSTA MESA, Calif. – When it comes to the basics of website and online brand maintenance, it appears some California politicians could use a remedial course. Specifically, someone needs to let these guys know if they want to continue to use any given domain names, it might not be...

LONDON – Whatever the merits of requiring adult websites to verify the age of visitors, the question about how to meet the condition is more difficult and fraught with pitfalls than its proponents realize — or are willing to acknowledge publicly, at least. Looking at the...

BARCELONA – As a generally cynical person, I’m prone to look for ulterior motives behind things like public service campaigns initiated by individuals and companies, particularly when the goal or rhetoric of the campaign is something that might appear contrary to the financial...

CYPRUS – In 2008, I had a remarkable conversation with a marketing director from a major adult entertainment studio about a porn parody planned by his creative team but derailed by the company’s owner over what seemed to me a very unusual and unlikely concern. John McCain, then a...

MONTREAL – Deep within a recent article about Pornhub’s new sexual education efforts — a possibly Quixotic effort that is a rich subject for an article all its own — lies an eyebrow-raising claim that says it all when it comes to the deep, fundamental cluelessness writers working...