It’s an oft-repeated fallacy that adult entertainment leads to more sex crimes. This misguided mindset has been proven wrong again and again by legitimate research, but it’s nevertheless a long-standing concept that refuses to die. That’s why new research is always...

In an unexpected and understated move, XTube has announced that it would be shutting down in just two months’ time. According to the site’s FAQ, the last day to upload new content to the platform was July 5. The site will close on September 5, but new content uploads have already...

When then–Senior Constable Zachary Samuel Maidment of Australia’s Queensland Police Service was celebrating his birthday last year at the Star Casino and Hotel in Broadbeach, he had no idea it would lead to a dramatic career change. But the party was “bugged,” and footage of him...

If idle hands are truly the devil’s playground, then it’s a good thing there was so much online porn to keep those hands busy in 2020—especially in the UK. According to Ofcom’s new Online Nation report, half of the adults in the United Kingdom viewed online porn last year as a...

Adult entertainment has never backed away from a fight, and one of its longest-running battles has been to gain the ear of influential lawmakers in order to have a say in legislation that affects the thousands of people who work in the industry. But it’s been a long, uphill...

It’s starting to feel like the news media has smelled blood in the water. After adult industry titan Pornhub became a target for anti-porn activists and credit card companies alike, a feeding frenzy seems to be fast approaching. The atmosphere is ripe for more allegations leveled...

Adult star and two-time AVN award winner Maitland Ward has announced that she’s signed a deal to write a “steamy, no-holds-barred” memoir of “tell-all stories of everything” that’s happened to her, from her days on the cast of The Bold and the...

Back in February, I undertook a series exploring why there’s always someone out to get the porn industry. Over the past three months, I’ve written eight of the most prominent anti-porn crusaders of the past six and a half decades, from Charles Keating, who Nixon appointed to the...

Laila Mickelwaite has exploded onto the anti-smut scene in recent years as a powerful force in anti-sex-trafficking activism. Her #TraffickingHub petition to “shut down Pornhub” over its alleged offenses against non-consenting parties gained over 2 million signatures. And that...

Most people who have kept up with adult entertainment industry news over the past fifteen years have found themselves asking, at least once: “Why would a wildly successful non-profit HIV/AIDS healthcare organization be so hell-bent on making porn actors use condoms?” If you...