ADA, Okla. – In adult entertainment circles, it’s been fashionable for some time now to consider printed adult publications “dead,” or at best increasingly irrelevant, just another hard-product casualty of the digital age. This may be so from the prospective of producers and...

LONDON – I’ll be the first to admit I don’t much about the British military. I do know the Brits spell the word “defense” like their soldiers’ overarching mission is to eradicate fencing from the planet. And I know they recently appointed a new Defense Secretary named “Gavin,”...

PHOENIX – When Sen. Jeff Flake announced he will not seek reelection at the end of his current term, many saw the news as an opportunity for other Arizona Republicans to swoop in and snare Flake’s seat. Prior to Flake’s announcement, some GOP strategists had begun to fear the...

NEW YORK – When it comes to stretching and straining for reasons to insert the word “porn” into a headline, nobody can top the British tabloid press. When they’re not busy hanging on Mia Khalifa’s every word or updating tales of porn performers turned drug smugglers, they find...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – While I’m mostly persuaded (and intrigued) by the analysis of search data conducted by former Google engineer Seth Stephens-Davidowitz in his book Everybody Lies, some logical disconnects in his comments about porn-search data leave me scratching my head....

AUSTIN – Whatever one may think about Farrah Abraham reportedly being axed from her MTV gig over her various connections to the adult industry, it hardly should come as a surprise to anyone. Mainstream entities, even those that routinely trade on and profit from the public’s...

ROME, Italy – Some people are just too easily impressed and/or enraged. Take Argentinian play-by-play announcers working soccer matches, for example. It doesn’t matter how mundane a scoring play may be, those excitable motherfuckers are going to scream GOOOOAAAAALLLL!!! for all...

NEW YORK – More than ever before, I find myself wondering as I read the morning headlines whether I’m reading them correctly, or if a particularly strong tab of acid I took back in 1996 just hasn’t worn off yet. I’m not talking about headlines that simply suffer from confusing...

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (or maybe MONTREAL) – If I were to tell VICE one of my fellow adult industry-focused freelance writers and I soon will start writing Hunter S. Thompson-inspired children’s books, would they publish a feature calling this an industry-wide trend? I ask because,...

CANBERRA, Australia – Forget about Watergate; never mind the Iran-Contra affair; stand aside Russian election-meddling fake news. The real governmental scandal is taking place Down Under –- where women reportedly glow and men allegedly plunder. It was bad enough when the only...