CHRISTMAS VILLAGE, North Pole – I’ll admit, there have been times in my life when I’ve been downright greedy with my Christmas gift wish list. Shit, when I was nine, I had the audacity to ask Santa for a handful of Micronauts, a dozen different Star Wars action figures and a...

Well, it’s late November, and you know what that means: Discounts on electronics so deep, people will be murdering each other at Best Buy just to make sure they’re first in line to take advantage of bargain priced flat-screen TVs. In the U.S. this year, November also marked our...

WHY, Arizona — In a statement released Wednesday, adult industry quasi-journalist Ben Suroeste announced that he can “no longer remember” why he hasn’t left his house since March and that he’s “finally out of toilet paper, hard liquor, pasta, disposable razors, rice,...

PINEDALE, Wyo. – The Pinedale Forum, Wyoming’s premier adult industry gathering since 2015, has announced the opening and immediate, indefinite postponement of its 2020 event. “Registration opened this morning and things are already rocking!” tweeted Reggie Cheney, the Founder,...

U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris issued an order on Thursday granting plaintiff Leah Bassett summary judgment as to liability for copyright infringement and denying the defendants’ motion for summary judgment on the same count. Back in May, Saris issued an order granting in...

Many Senators, including Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal, seem to think interactive online platforms should be held liable for the speech and actions of third party users who use their sites. Would the Senators approve of applying the same reasoning in their direction?

If there’s one thing on which Republicans and Democrats can agree, it’s that free speech is a great and noble thing – as long as they like what someone has to say and it’s not something negative about them. When properly viewed within this context, many things which might...

Remember all those resolutions passed by state legislatures declaring porn to be a "public health hazard"? YNOT's Ben Suroeste thinks they look just a *little* inflated in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic...

When Rhode Island State Rep. Grace Diaz decided to briefly champion a bill called the "Stop Guilt by Association Act" she didn't know how ironic that choice would prove to be -- because she hadn't a clue who the bill's author was, or how many other failed bills originated with him.

At first, Ben Suroeste thought Utah's idea of having government-mandated warning labels on porn was a bad idea. Upon further reflection, he's realized we don't just need warnings on porn -- we need them on everything potentially harmful, just in case.