PINEDALE, Wyo. – With much of the online adult industry heading to The Phoenix Forum this week, the man behind the industry’s second-favorite late March institution, the Pinedale Forum, is chomping at the bit to kick off his show. “Those Phoenix Forum folks won’t know what hit...

LOS ANGELES – When I was a teenager, my friends used to invade my parents’ house every time my folks went on vacation. They did so to hold raucous parties, during which my father’s liquor cabinet was raided with abandon. OK, so maybe “invade” isn’t the right word since I...

WASHINGTON – Even if the Kansas City Royals don’t think so, porn is American as mom MILFs, baseball, apple pie and ineffective federal regulations. Just ask some of the federal employees who are subject to a prohibition on porn in the workplace – a prohibition to which some of...

TALLAHASSEE – In the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the liberal media has been all over the good folks of the Florida legislature for declining to debate the possibility of restrictions on “assault rifles” and instead...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) released its “Dirty Dozen List” for 2018, an annual tradition which “names and shames a range of actors who contribute significantly to the normalization of pornography, prostitution, sex...

NEW YORK – I’m a simple guy, so it should come as no surprise to find that I like simple solutions. In fact, I’d go so far as to say I like simple solutions so much, it doesn’t matter to me whether they have any impact whatsoever on the problems they purport to address, or maybe...

Every marketer knows one cost-effective, easy, lazy, zeitgeisty promotional tool that has the potency to take their marketing A-Game to the next level while avoiding cliché practices like using the term “next level” is content marketing. Content is King, after all. Or maybe in...

NEW YORK – I’m not one to leap to outrageous conclusions based on just a couple similar stories appearing in the press, but some recent news items have me concerned about the state of the market for a class of product which is central to the ongoing health of the adult industry....

LOS ANGELES – About a month ago, I threatened promised I’d soon write an obligatory porn-predictions post for 2018, as a companion piece to my obligatory year-in-review of 2017, naturally. The time for that post has come, because the conditions are perfect – by which I mean it’s...

LOS ANGELES – One of two things happened to me recently: either I accidentally traveled back in time, or I experienced one of those infamous “acid flashbacks” people who have never taken acid occasionally talk about, typically when they’re listing reasons why I probably shouldn’t...