LOS ANGELES – About six weeks after announcing a “return to its roots” as a clearinghouse for honest-to-goodness homemade porn, amateur adult content pioneer Homegrown Video has launched an interactive website it claims will add an authentic amateur flavor to the live-chat arena....

By Diane Duke CHATSWORTH, Calif. – On Friday, one of the testing facilities that serve the adult industry alerted Performer Availability Screening Services to a positive HIV test by an adult film performer. While we don’t yet know if the performer acquired the virus in his or her...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – When the German porn pros at Cazzo decided to partner with an American affiliate program to re-launch the website for their Wurstfilm brand, they wanted no mistake about the meaning of “wurst.” Mission accomplished. The new incarnation of the site is a...

By Peter Berton THE ALGARVE, Portugal – When juxtaposed with “porn,” the word “quality” often begs definition. In the case of longtime adult film producer Viv Thomas, however, the two words seem naturally to belong together.

LONDON – Even during a filming shutdown, people need to earn a living. Although the offer seems just shy of mercenary, an online firm based in the UK is reminding U.S. performers and agents they don’t have to be sidelined by the health-related production moratorium called for on...

CANOGA PARK, Calif. – Adult industry trade association Free Speech Coalition called for an immediate halt to production of explicit adult scenes late Friday following a report that another performer has tested positive for HIV. “There was a positive test at one of [the] testing...

By Peter Berton IRVINE, Calif. – Right now, as you read this, females, males, couples and transgendered amateur webcam models are strutting their stuff online in a live-chat forum where end-users pay no up-front charges to participate for as long as they like.

CALGARY, Canada – The MILFs get younger every year. Canadian Shanda Fay, for example, classifies herself as a MILF. She’s 34 — practically a fossil.

LONDON – Direct carrier billing produces a conversion rate 10 to 14 times higher than credit card billing among consumers using mobile devices, a new study from Juniper Research and mobile messaging company DIMOCO asserts. In addition, content providers who move from solely...

LOS ANGELES – Now that she has crossed the invisible boundary between mainstream and adult celebrity — thanks, in part, to the publication of the popular memoir Sinner Takes All and roles in several mainstream music videos — Tera Patrick is not quite as ubiquitous as she used to...