MELBOURNE, Australia – Eight years after its launch, the female-owned and -operated GirlsOutWest.com has re-launched with an updated design and new features. The redesign includes a modernized tour, mobile compatibility, more user-friendly members area navigation and 1080p...

QUEBEC CITY – The CrakRevenue network will add two webcam sites to its pay-per-lead program May 1. According to co-founder and Chief Business Development Officer Nicolas Chretien, the program will pay affiliates $4 per lead from May 1-31. Chretien said CrakRevenue and MyFreeCams...

PHOENIX, Ariz. – Industry attorney Chad Belville has assumed the position of chief financial officer and general counsel for gay adult company KaiJack LLC. Founded in 2008, KaiJack is the parent company of affiliate program KJCash. Earlier this month, the company acquired...

By Peter Berton MONTREAL – Canada is not known as a hotbed of sexual naughtiness. So perhaps it makes sense that the country’s first homegrown porn channel, Vanessa TV, is based in Montreal, Quebec. There is something about the French-Canadian sensibility that makes Montreal’s...

By Peter Berton TOKYO – Asian media is buzzing with news about the prostitution trial of 53-year-old Risako Yokota. She was busted in February and charged with violating Japan’s anti-prostitution law.

CYBERSPACE – Award-winning producer-director Michael Ninn’s eponymous website has a new look and new functionality, courtesy of the MetArt Network. MichaelNinn.com moved under the MetArt umbrella in late December. Since then, Ninn and the folks at MetArt have worked to revamp the...

By Peter Berton AUSTIN, Texas – It’s difficult to imagine a man who hasn’t at least heard about the Fleshlight male masturbator, unless he’s living in a cave. The realistic vaginal, anal or oral openings — many molded from adult stars like Nina Hartley, Jesse Jane, Tera Patrick,...

TEMPE, Ariz. – Attendance at the Phoenix Forum jumped to a new record high, organizers reported Thursday: from 840 in 2012 to 1,100 in 2013. The increase represents a boost of 23.6 percent for the annual adult online industry conference, which took place April 4-7 at the Tempe...

VALENCIA, Calif. – Andy Kiefer has joined NETbilling as a sales executive and merchant relations representative in the company’s merchant acquisitions department. He brings more than 10 years of experience in payment-processing sales and leadership to the position. Previously,...

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Adult director-producer Axel Braun continued his winning streak Thursday night by corralling three of four awards for XXX-rated parodies during the X-Rated Critics Organization’s 29th annual awards ceremony at Supperclub LA. Other big winners included John...