LOS ANGELES – Wicked Pictures contract performer and sex education advocate jessica drake is asking sex toy manufacturers and distributors to submit their best pleasure products for feature consideration in the upcoming jessica drake’s Guide to Wicked Sex: Toys. The new title in...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – Michael Guilfoyle has taken his 20-plus years of marketing and development experience to fetish pleasure products manufacturer XR Brands, where he will serve as international sales and marketing manager. He will manage client relationships, with a...

PRAGUE – All men may be created equal, but some adult industry members — men and women — stand out as beacons of industriousness, ethical business practices and commerce done right. The 2017 YNOT Awards will honor those people, selected by their peers. The polls opened Monday,...

WADENA, Minn. – As a former Boy Scout, I fully appreciate the need to be prepared — and I mean prepared at all times, and for all contingencies. This obsession with readiness has served me well over the years, with the notable exception of the years I spent building an...

BATH, England – The most recent winner of Lovehoney’s Design a Sex Toy contest “blew away” the judges with her design. BlowYo, the brainchild of an Australian, is a male stroker that creates the sensations of intense oral sex. Designed with two solid rings at each end of a...

CAMARILLO, Calif. – Of all the many reasons I’m glad I’m not a deeply religious or socially conservative person, the fact I’m largely free from concern over the world’s many corrupting influences ranks right at the top of my list. Since I don’t base my daily decisions and actions...

LOS ANGELES – The Free Speech Coalition has hired Ian Timothy O’Brien to fill the newly created position Director of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs. O’Brien will work directly with regulators of both the pleasure products and adult film industries to compile, analyze and...

LOS ANGELES – Luxury pleasure products brand Jopen will debut its newest collection July 16-18 during the ANME Founders trade show at the Burbank Marriott Airport in Burbank, Calif. The line, Amour, comprises an assortment of four products. “When trying to name this beautiful...

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – Allegations of racism on adult video sets arose on Twitter over the July 4 weekend. The heated back-and-forth on the social network prompted stern warnings from both industry trade association Free Speech Coalition and performer health-and-safety organization...

Warning: Satire ahead. LOS ANGELES – While I enjoy taking cheap shots at them as much as the next guy, I’ll readily admit to knowing almost nothing about the Kardashian clan, other than the patriarch of the family was once a close friend of OJ Simpson’s, and later became a...