When you think about it, 2020 started off normally enough. By this I mean 2020 started off stupidly, cruelly and ridiculously, with me predictably suffering a liquor, amphetamine and psilocybin-derived hangover so severe that I openly yearned for death. Even so, January 1 gave us...

WHY, Arizona — In a statement released Wednesday, adult industry quasi-journalist Ben Suroeste announced that he can “no longer remember” why he hasn’t left his house since March and that he’s “finally out of toilet paper, hard liquor, pasta, disposable razors, rice,...

PINEDALE, Wyo. – The Pinedale Forum, Wyoming’s premier adult industry gathering since 2015, has announced the opening and immediate, indefinite postponement of its 2020 event. “Registration opened this morning and things are already rocking!” tweeted Reggie Cheney, the Founder,...

Many Senators, including Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal, seem to think interactive online platforms should be held liable for the speech and actions of third party users who use their sites. Would the Senators approve of applying the same reasoning in their direction?

If there’s one thing on which Republicans and Democrats can agree, it’s that free speech is a great and noble thing – as long as they like what someone has to say and it’s not something negative about them. When properly viewed within this context, many things which might...

At first, Ben Suroeste thought Utah's idea of having government-mandated warning labels on porn was a bad idea. Upon further reflection, he's realized we don't just need warnings on porn -- we need them on everything potentially harmful, just in case.

Ben Suroeste takes a look back at the best, meanest, least true and most unfair YNOT WTF! stories of the last decade -- a decade filled with secrets revealed, press releases mangled, awards granted, trade shows held in questionable locales and plenty of other "facts" bound to...

Last week, I read that the UK’s idea to make porn sites adopt age verification was dead. As it turns out though, it seems to be merely mostly dead, to borrow a line from The Princess Bride. So, what’s the deal, you ask? According to Matt Warman, who holds the job of...

As the term implies, social media "influencers" have a major impact on their followers and can persuade their fans into buying all sorts of products and services. Often times, those items are beauty products, fashion or lifestyle-enhancing goods. Other times, evidently, it's......

Arizona has become the latest state to pass a nonbinding resolution declaring porn to be responsible for virtually every societal ill that isn't caused by video games. YNOT's Ben Suroeste takes a deep dive into this shallow end of legislative intellect.