BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – “That battle has been fought and won. You’re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free and so it’s just passé at this juncture.” This is how Playboy Chief Executive Officer Scott Flanders explained the decision to drop nudity to The New...

OTTAWA – There are certain subjects that stymie scientific examination not due to their complexity or because they have an innately opaque nature, but because the realities of non-scientific fields (like the law, for example) greatly complicate the process of setting up...

COSTA MESA, Calif. – When it comes to the basics of website and online brand maintenance, it appears some California politicians could use a remedial course. Specifically, someone needs to let these guys know if they want to continue to use any given domain names, it might not be...

LONDON – Whatever the merits of requiring adult websites to verify the age of visitors, the question about how to meet the condition is more difficult and fraught with pitfalls than its proponents realize — or are willing to acknowledge publicly, at least. Looking at the...

BARCELONA – As a generally cynical person, I’m prone to look for ulterior motives behind things like public service campaigns initiated by individuals and companies, particularly when the goal or rhetoric of the campaign is something that might appear contrary to the financial...

CYPRUS – In 2008, I had a remarkable conversation with a marketing director from a major adult entertainment studio about a porn parody planned by his creative team but derailed by the company’s owner over what seemed to me a very unusual and unlikely concern. John McCain, then a...

MONTREAL – Deep within a recent article about Pornhub’s new sexual education efforts — a possibly Quixotic effort that is a rich subject for an article all its own — lies an eyebrow-raising claim that says it all when it comes to the deep, fundamental cluelessness writers working...

DALLAS – One of the unfortunate facts of life for anyone who has performed in porn is the choice tends to follow the person through the rest of his or her life. It’s neither fair nor reasonable, in my view, but it is what it is: Having “porn performer” on one’s resume...

A while back, I read an article about a new song “composed by artificial intelligence.” Journalists and critics who have written about the tune (“Daddy’s Car”) often label it a harbinger of doom for human musicians and composers. It’s an interesting point of view, considering the...

RICHMOND, Va. – While the Virginia General Assembly appears disinclined to proclaim pornography a “public health crisis,” a modified version of an earlier resolution soon to be voted on by the state’s House of Delegates still attributes to porn the same litany of societal ills...