DENVER – It’s amazing how often a pundit hailing from outside the adult entertainment industry invokes something about the porn industry to make a point. Most of the time they haven’t done enough homework to assure their industry-related observation holds water. The latest...

LOS ANGELES – While Cherie DeVille’s announcement of her campaign for the White House in 2020 is garnering media attention for its perceived novelty, in truth there’s nothing particularly new about a porn star throwing her (possibly cum-stained) hat into the campaign ring. We all...

CANBERRA, Australia – Facebook is partnering with the Australian government on a pilot project designed to prevent the spread of revenge porn on the massive social media platform. The effort relies on users proactively supplying their intimate images to Facebook before someone...

BRISTOL, England – In the newsroom section of the Avon and Somerset Constabulary’s website, you can read about all sorts of interesting news involving the A&S police, including the recent seizure of “Samurai swords and a quantity of class A drugs” in Taunton, or advice about...

SAN FRANCISCO – No matter how “adult friendly” a mainstream platform may be (or at least start out to be), it’s never a surprise to me when one tightens its content policies or community guidelines to make it clear porn is an expressive form non grata thereon. The crowdfunding...

RAQQA, Syria – When reading or thinking about ISIS –- what motivates its foot soldiers, the extremity of its ideology and all the varied ugliness and violence of its methods –- one of the last things on anybody’s mind is in what ways ISIS members may be like the rest of us. It’s...

LOS ANGELES – As I’m sure you’ve read, over the weekend Hustler founder Larry Flynt published an ad in the Washington Post offering up to $10 million for “information leading to the impeachment and removal from office of Donald J. Trump.” Naturally, the first thing that came to...

LONDON – The “Internet Safety Strategy green paper” published this week by the U.K. government is unsurprisingly sprawling and ambitious. By their nature, green papers essentially are an invitation to consult, a statement of intent calling upon a wide variety of stakeholders to...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – In a couple of her recent columns for Forbes, psychologist and sex-myth-debunker Dr. Zhana Vrangalova has zeroed in on the results of a study with the catchy title “Sexual diversity in the United States: Results from a nationally representative probability...

GUANGZHOU, China – In recent years, a lot of ink and countless column inches have been dedicated to the problem of porn showing up on various social media platforms, so it’s no surprise to see emerging technology designed to help alleviate the perceived problem. As noted in a...