Maitland Ward—a mainstream actress best known for her stint on Disney’s Boy Meets World—shocked the world when she announced she was switching from mainstream to porn. Then she shocked everyone outside the industry by sticking with it—and those inside by becoming an...

It’s been four months since the Free Speech Coalition called for a hold on shooting, and some people in the adult industry are feeling the pinch. It’s a tenuous situation—even as cases of COVID-19 continue to climb around the country, performers and producers are weighing their...

It’s not exactly news that Mia Khalifa has buyer’s remorse about her 2014 stint in porn. We’ve reported in the past about her claims about having made only $12,000 during her several months in the industry—which, to be fair, earned her death threats from ISIS, so we guess she has...

Content Warning: Descriptions of sexual assault. In a recent tidal wave of assault allegations against well-established men in the adult entertainment industry, Ryan Madison’s name came up quite a lot. Madison, husband of Kelly Madison, who founded Kelly Madison Production,...

Note of correction: A Previous version of this post incorrectly stated that MindGeek owns BangBros. YNOT regrets the error and has revised the post accordingly. Former adult performer Mia Khalifa, whose BangBros “hijab” scene rocketed her to international stardom and infamy back...

So, get this. Apparently, Barack Obama has been following long-time adult performer Sara Jay’s Twitter since, she says, around 2008. When she found out, Jay told The Daily Beast’s Aurora Snow in a recent interview, “I tried to sweep it under the rug. I like to give people their...

So far, 2020 has brought the unexpected. But not every media circus of the year will be shocking. Case in point: Ron Jeremy is in jail because he’s formally—finally—been charged with sexual assault. On Tuesday, the AP released video footage of Jeremy, 67, handcuffed and masked as...

As #BlackLivesMatter protests around America and the world continue, multiple industries are taking a hard look at their treatment of race—and adult entertainment is no exception. Over the past few weeks, many production studios, performers, and even agencies have begun...

A wave of accusations of consent violations has rocked the porn industry over the past week as allegation after allegation of grossly inappropriate, often violent, and universally noxious behavior on and off set has leveled several prominent men. Among them: performer-director...

The news cycle has been by turns electrifying and depressing for months, and things aren’t exactly looking up. With so much turbulence happening in the world, though, it’s good to take some time away from news and social media feeds. To just relax. And YNOT has found the...