MONTREAL – Popular gay adult performer Manuel Deboxer has signed a one-year exclusive contract with fetish website Maskurbate.com. The site is among the stable of gay niche sites in the Buddy Profits affiliate program. At Maskurbate.com, straight amateur guys wearing masks to...

THE DARK WEB – If I were to write a book called Seven Habits of the Highly Unsuccessful Criminal, right at the top of the list would be the tendency on the part of many criminals to tell other people about their exploits, and a related tendency to believe they understand things...

BOSTON – When BoodiGo co-founder Colin Rowntree looks out over the horizon of the online adult entertainment industry, he sees a fundamental contradiction in play. On the one hand, the public appears to be more accepting of pornography than ever before, but on the other, many...

LOS ANGELES – The addition of digital fingerprinting technology to a popular anti-piracy program “virtually assures pirated material will be found and reported,” according to a spokesman for the company behind the product. Takedown Piracy’s proprietary digital fingerprinting...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – According to a report from the BBC, several performers, studios and others from the adult entertainment industry are calling on Google to “help publicize legal ways to buy adult content in an effort to combat piracy.” With quotes from Angela White, Tasha...

NEW YORK – It’s only mid-November, but already holiday-themed gay adult content releases are showing up in stores. The first to bow is Lucas Entertainment’s A Very Merry Bareback Christmas. The DVD will street Nov. 21; online video-on-demand availability begins Dec. 5.

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – The so-called grandfathering program that promised .xxx domain registrants protection of corresponding names in the .porn, .adult and .sex spaces has been abandoned by registrar ICM Registry five months before two of the new generic Top Level Domains...

CANADA – Alex Lecomte, winner of the 2014 YNOT Award for Best Industry Rep, has joined the staff and adult advertising network JuicyAds. He will lead the company’s initiatives in the Latin American market. Formerly the marketing manager for mobile traffic monetization platform...

LOS ANGELES – The nomination period for the 2015 GFY People’s Choice Awards opened Friday. Awards will be presented in 24 categories representing the people, companies, services and products that compose the online sector of the adult entertainment industry. When the awards...

BROOKLYN, NY – Look, I get the whole Rule 34 thing, and its unnumbered corollary: If a device has a camera on it, said device inevitably will be used to shoot porn. But there’s another rule about porn I think people miss sometimes: By its nature, porn requires the viewer be able...