MONTREAL — The world shook a little when it was announced that Pornhub and its parent company, MindGeek, were acquired by a newly formed private equity firm for an undisclosed sum. Ethical Capital Partners (ECP) is the brand new owner of the world’s most recognized adult...

Lately I’ve been reading a lot about recent advances in artificial intelligence (“AI”), some of which are starting to freak out even the sort of sci-fi addled academics and techie business-nerds who are supposed to love tinkering with things like creating machines vastly smarter...

Reading the recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Olson v. California, a constitutional challenge to a California law commonly referred to as “A.B. 5”  brought by Postmates and Uber, I find myself oddly reminded of a scene from Monty Python’s The...

For years, I’ve been hearing anti-porn types make all sorts of claims about the deleterious effects of watching porn. To hear them tell it, porn does everything from shrinking people’s brains to murdering love itself. I’ve never been persuaded by their arguments, but to be fair,...

LAS VEGAS? – In an event recently held at an undisclosed location very possibly located somewhere near the Las Vegas Strip, adult mega-super-duper-star Angelina Blanca took home 125 of the 127 available trophies at the inaugural Ben Suroeste Awards (“BS Awards”), veteran adult...

Adult entertainment is not a normal profession. Between the misinformed assumptions our industry is inherently exploitative to the claims that there is no ethical standard in place, it takes the whole village to communicate to the world what it is we’re all about. For...

Now and then, we come across producers motivated by a set of core values. This is the case with Irina Vega, the indie porn producer and owner of the popular alternative-pornography company AltPorn4U.com. A performer and creative herself, Vega sat down with YNOT to discuss her...

I’ve seen just about everything since joining the adult space over 20 years ago. The good, the bad and the ugly. The thing I see a lot with people submitting sites for sale as a website broker are common, sometimes fatal mistakes made by the site owners. Now, I don’t mean these...

It’s 2023. Already, the adult entertainment industry is experiencing a high degree of limitation and challenges as the new year enters full steam. From new laws entering force to shadow bans on social media networks, it’s safe to say 2023 is off to a very rough start....

WASHINGTON, D.C. – According to Mike Lee’s website, the Senator from Utah has “earned a reputation as an outstanding practitioner of the law based on his sound judgment, abilities in the courtroom, and thorough understanding of the Constitution.” I emphasize that last bit because...