WASHINGTON – I’m feeling inspired today. Not just inspired, but empowered to the point I believe with the stroke of a pen (if I still owned a pen) I could change the world … assuming the world weren’t filled with a bunch of dummies crying loudly about “freedom of...

TOKYO – Given the American media’s penchant for terming any wealthy person remotely connected to the adult entertainment industry a “porn king,” any time I see the term used in a headline, my immediate response is to grimace and shake my head. “Here we go again,” I think to...

LOS ANGELES – As you have probably heard, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approved new permit fees for adult video productions, with an initial charge of $1,672 and a renewal fee of $982 every two years thereafter. While I’m sure it wasn’t intentional, the...

LOS ANGELES – If you have followed the evolution of revenge porn as a legal issue, then you’ve probably heard attorneys, activists and victim’s advocates talk about the difficulty of getting justice for victims. Historically, just getting law enforcement to pay attention and...

JAKARTA – A little less than nine years ago, the Indonesian Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (“People’s Representative Council”) passed a controversial piece of legislation called the Bill on Pornography, a somewhat watered-down and re-branded version of a previous proposal called the...

LOS ANGELES – Eight or nine years ago, long before the names John Steele, Paul Hansmeier and Prenda Law had acquired internet infamy, I sat in the audience at a legal seminar during an adult industry trade show, listening to a panel of attorneys talk about the prospect of suing...

TILBURG, Netherlands – Despite sharing a suffix in common, I’m sure there are many differences between Tilburg, Netherlands and Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Among these many differences: I’m confident if I were to shoot a porn movie inside a church in Gatlinburg, I’d find myself in...

NEW YORK – “‘Porn’s New King’ sentenced to over 14 years in prison,” the New York Post headline screamed. Any reader could be excused for expecting the article to be about the likes of Larry Flynt or Steven Hirsch. The “king” in question isn’t Flynt, Hirsch or anyone else who has...

LONDON – With the implementation of Britain’s Digital Economy Act 2017 looming (at some still-uncertain point in the future), privacy advocates and IT experts once again are warning the public about the potential for hackers and blackmailers to obtain the same information used to...

WASHINGTON – In the latest headline-grabbing study revolving around porn, a research team from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, presented to the 125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA) a study that purports to show how the age of a boy’s first...