A compressed history of the online adult industry, 1997 – 2015 The modern online adult market was never static. It evolved in clear waves. In the late 1990s, early paysites thrived on galleries and staged updates — small image sets or 1-minute “cut” videos designed to...

Let’s say you’ve decided it’s time to sell your adult website. You could be selling for many reasons. Maybe you want to move out of adult and into mainstream. Perhaps you’ve decided to retire. Another reason might be that you feel you’ve gotten as far as you can with this...

“Will AI replace the traditional porn star?” That’s the question that closes a recent press release for Pornstar.love, a new platform combining “cutting-edge AI technology with adult entertainment, giving users the ability to design, personalize, and connect with their own...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced this week that his office has filed lawsuits against several adult entertainment companies for alleged noncompliance with the state’s age verification law, which became effective on January 1 of this year. The...

LONDON, England – Ofcom, the regulatory agency responsible for enforcing the UK’s “Online Safety Act,” has announced investigations into the compliance of four companies that collectively operate 34 adult sites, according to the statement. “We have opened formal investigations...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – When the Supreme Court issued its decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton late last month, Justice Clarence Thomas framed it as no big deal, essentially. HB 1181, the Texas law at issue in the case, “simply requires adults to verify their age before they...

Back in January, I announced an exciting plan to launch “My 67.4% Not Free Porn Site,” a groundbreaking new quasi-adult platform which will avoid being subject to certain age-verification mandates like the one in Texas that was recently given the blessing of the U.S. Supreme...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – In a statement published today, the Free Speech Coalition criticized the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision published last Friday in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, the FSC’s challenge to Texas’s age-verification mandate, HB 1181. “In a radical departure from...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an opinion authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, the U.S. Supreme Court held today the Texas age-verification law commonly referred to as H.B. 1181 is properly evaluated under the standard of intermediate scrutiny – and survives that review, as it “has only...

CANOGA PARK, Calif. – In a blog post published yesterday, the Free Speech Coalition provided an update and primer on a handful of lawsuits filed in Kansas, alleging violations of the state’s age verification law. “In four lawsuits filed on May 12, 2025, a minor identified as...