SALEM, Ore. – A website claiming to feature only amateur talent is celebrating its fifth anniversary with the same slogan it has used from the beginning: “When you’re tired of phony porn.” A spokesperson for DesperateAmateurs.com said the website offers only 100-percent exclusive...

PHOENIX – A broad coalition of bookstores, newspapers, photographers, publishers and librarians have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new Arizona law the coalition says criminalizes speech protected by the First Amendment. Ostensibly designed to outlaw so-called “revenge...

MONTREAL – Canada’s Sex-Shop Television has partnered with Los Angeles-based Vivid Entertainment to re-launch Vanessa TV as Vivid TV Canada. The revamped adult entertainment channel will offer programming from both Vivid and Sex-Shop. Anne-Marie Losique is Sex-Shop’s chief...

LOS ANGELES – From the beginning, John Staliano’s groundbreaking erotic vampire series Voracious has embodied a unique combination of Gothic horror, psychosexual power exchange and mainstream-worthy performances. Stagliano released the exotic, hardcore serial’s second-season...

TOPEKA, Kan. – After its Republican-dominated legislature passed massive tax cuts in 2012, Kansas is so broke that state government has started auctioning vibrators and blow-up dolls as a means of reducing a budget deficit expected to reach $238 million by 2016. According to the...

NORTHRIDGE, Calif. – Thirty-five years ago, in a humble garage, the B Cumming Company was born. Named for the late Bill Cummings and co-founder Bill Mazer, who now serves as the company’s president, B Cumming set out to manufacture and market a lubricant for the gay community....

WASHINGTON – Although the next U.S. Presidential election is more than two years away, congresscritters already are banging the “eradicate pornography” drum. The latest is U.S. Congressman Mark Meadows [R-NC]. Following disclosure that an Environmental Protection Agency employee...

LOS ANGELES – It’s tough to make a living in the scandal business these days. Just ask Jasmine Tridevil, the now-notorious Florida woman who is either a freak or a fraud, depending upon whom one believes. According to Tridevil—who reportedly admits on one of her websites that she...

PORTLAND, Ore. – A new service builds pay sites for performers and content owners and then markets the results as part of a new affiliate program. New Market Media’s Jerk Network hosts the sites and provides payment processing. According to New Market Chief Executive Officer Sam...

OTTAWA, Canada – At the same time the Canadian government is poised to impose a new anti-prostitution law that will paint sex workers as victims and johns as criminals, a national survey conducted by the government-funded Canadian Institutes of Health Research has discovered 70...