YNOT – Miami-based FlavaMen Magazine has opened the nomination period for its third-annual Blatio Awards. The awards recognize gay ethnic clubs, adult performers and websites in a variety of categories and are presented by FlavaMen’s parent company, gay adult studio Flava Works...

YNOT – A Tempe, Ariz., man is in Maricopa County (Ariz.) Jail after his arrest Thursday on multiple charges related to the production and distribution of child pornography, possibly in connection with the adult website BackroomCastingCouch.com. Antonio Adrian Gonzalez, 28, told...

YNOT – New survey results released June 14 as part of the Trojan U.S. Sex Census indicate Americans’ sexual habits are just as diverse as the country’s population. Conducted by StrategyOne for Trojan condoms, the results were gathered March 15-21 from online surveys completed by...

YNOT – Two of StraightCollegeMen.com’s most popular models have left the softcore gay website’s fold to found their own home on the web. Max and Tucker, now known by the noms de porn Austin Andrews and Zane Michaels, have a new hardcore virtual home at AustinZane.com. Inspired by...

YNOT – One of the foundations of a successful e-commerce profit model centers on the impulse purchase. For many years, the ability to join a site or purchase on a whim has required a credit card. While this model has worked quite well in North America and elsewhere around the...

DALLAS (YNOT Wire) – On July 8, the entire adult industry will be all ears to find out who wins awards during the third annual AVN “O” Awards for adult novelties. The ceremony, to be hosted by sex and relationship expert Reid Mihalko, will take place at the Pasadena Convention...

YNOT – Despite the upheaval of the past few years, major changes in the adult entertainment industry don’t occur all that often. The most recent truly seismic shift was the emergence of the World Wide Web as a dominant distribution channel. As the adult industry continues to...

YNOT – Chatsworth, Calif.-based AVN Media Network is combining three of its January events and moving the whole shebang across Las Vegas from the traditional venue at The Venetian to the Palms Casino Resort. In addition, the combined AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, AVN Novelty Expo...

YNOT – Unavailable for two decades, Cecil Howard’s classic adult film Foxtrot (Command Video, 1982) will emerge from the vault and join the video-on-demand collection at HotMovies.com June 20. Lensed during porn’s Golden Age, much of producer-director Howard’s acclaimed work...

YNOT – A U.S. federal court has awarded gay adult production company Corbin Fisher a $63,000 default judgment against a Canadian resident the company accused of illegally sharing Corbin Fisher content on BitTorrent networks. The court ordered Quynn Alan Phillips to pay $30,000...