WASHINGTON, DC — If all goes according to rumored plans, outgoing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin will attempt a lame-duck coup on pornography during December’s meetings of the regulatory body.Martin, a Bush appointee and long an advocate of...

BATH, ENGLAND — LoveHoney has long been an innovator in the world of online and storefront sex toy retailing. Among its cutting edge, socially responsible inventions is the development of a sex toy recycling policy. Although the London-based company took into consideration...

LONDON — A new U.K. law that criminalizes possession of “extreme” pornography will take effect January 26th, 2009. Under Sections 62-67 of the Criminal Justice Act 2008, anyone caught with sexually explicit material that depicts violence, activity likely to result in bodily...

ROME — Every fall, as the Italian parliament struggles to find new revenue sources that will help the country support itself, talk inevitably turns to taxing something near and dear to the lusty Italian heart: porn.A proposal to add a 25-percent excise tax to the purchase...

TOKYO — Summer time often begins the poolside buzz about man boobs and their possible need for coverage and support, yet a truly good bra for men has not appeared on the shelves. Leave it to Japan to innovate. Rakuten.com is the largest online Japanese retailer and offers...

Steve Gallon has done it again! The owner of Grooby Productions, whose groundbreaking ShemaleYum.com is now in its 11th year of operation, has gone Japanese by opening SheMaleJapan.com. Focused solely on homegrown ‘”newhalf” models – the Japanese word for she-male –...

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA — Every other economic sector may fail during the looming worldwide recession, but according to Australia’s newest political party, porn will thrive.The economic downturn already has stimulated sales of sex toys and adult movies in Australia, Australian...

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK — Make all the silly sports double entendres you like. The members of FC Copenhagen won’t mind. They’re having too much fun — yes, I’m going to say it — scoring.The management of Denmark’s Superliga soccer team upped the players’ winning percentage when...

The Marketing Equation Component 3: EducateNow that the prospect has been successfully interrupted and engaged, your job as marketer is to become the facilitator of information–-the fountain from whence all knowledge flows when it comes to figuring out how to buy what you sell....

YORKTON, SASKATCHEWAN — The residents of Yorkton weren’t quite sure what to make of a local floral delivery service’s claim that their burg was famous for “wieners, amateur porn and asbestos.”Neither was Saskatchewan Flower Delivery, which did some hasty backpedalling from...