BATON ROUGE, La. – Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards yesterday signed into law the “Pornography Age Verification Enforcement” (“PAVE”) Act (also known as ACT 216-HB77), a piece of companion legislation authored by the same Louisiana Representative who wrote ACT440-HB 142, the...

There are many reasons people sell their websites. I’ve heard just about all of them. Some people are ready to retire and want to move on with their lives. Some are working on another project, often outside of adult and want to concentrate on the new project. And some who are...

AUSTIN — Texas is poised to become the next state to adopt an age verification bill that would require adult entertainment websites to verify users from the Lone Star state through a government ID, credit card, or other means. However, there is a huge catch to this new bill. In...

KATY, Texas – Once upon a time, a certain mustachioed American composer and satirist said of a musical genre he enjoyed experimenting with that “Jazz isn’t dead; it just smells funny.” That quote has been reverberating in my head this morning, the result of reading that Hustler...

“When I tell people that I am directing porn, they are always surprised… I understand ‘cause I look like I’m still preparing for the SATs.” This week I get to sit down to talk with the very funny Oliver Wong aka Bloomer Yang about his career in the industry. Oliver is a handsome...

Decades after he originally sang them, musical satirist Tom Lehrer’s words still might be the best underlining of the preposterousness of laws prohibiting “obscene” depictions and descriptions: All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder, for filth (I’m...

tOuch Kink, a new documentary produced and directed by Todd Max Carey which seeks to shed light on the Kink community and the “secret world of pleasure, pain, and power” has asked YNOT readers to sign a petition to show how large the Kink community is and to highlight how most...

This week YNOT takes you for a swim with the charming and charismatic hosts of the podcast, In The Tub. Swingers for over ten years, these “everyday neighbors with a secret wild side” are behind one of the most engaging and fun shows in the industry. Launched just over a year...

The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) has announced the launch of a new “reporting tool for adult workers and businesses to log incidents of social media censorship. “Social media censorship continues to be one of the most significant issues facing adult businesses,” said Alison Boden,...

The Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act was reintroduced for a second time last week, a move that wasn’t surprising for opponents of the bill. This time around, the bill was introduced in the House of Representatives with Reps....