LOS ANGELES – CalExotics has streamlined the look of some of its most popular categories with fresh collections, couples enhancers, rings and anal toys. The collections feature new and traditional styles with upgraded packaging designed to make a statement in-store and online....

NORWAY – As the year winds to a close, businesses across the board begin evaluating their performance, with an eye to strengthening things that worked and jettisoning those that didn’t. With that in mind, intrepid YNOT.com staff went looking for information about trends in...

BROOMFIELD, Colo. – We-Vibe’s newest toy is a plush, powerful pebble vibrator designed to stimulate the vulva, but the company is quick to point out the adults-only toy has potential in many other areas. Wish by We-Vibe™ may be enjoyed all over the body, and its tapered tip can...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – As part of my ongoing quest to sniff out conspiratorial connections between the adult entertainment industry and other segments of society, I’ve traveled deep behind enemy lines into what the football cognoscenti call “Patriots Nation,” home of championship...

LONDON, Canada – What is and isn’t pornography? How can pornography be categorized in psychologically meaningful ways? How can we use a refined understanding of pornography to build a more nuanced understanding of its effects on consumers, both positive and negative? Those are...

SYDNEY, Australia – I’ve seen a lot of commercials for sea cruises over the years, usually featuring happy, smiling couples dancing to unheard music on the deck of some massive vessel with a name like the Caribbean Duchess, or the Carnival Barker or the Floating Cesspool of...

LOS ANGELES – Topco has enhanced a selection of its best-selling life-size realistic pleasure products with the addition of rechargeable warming wands, convenient tools that quickly and effectively make the company’s CyberSkin feel realer than ever. CyberSkin products have...

CYBERSPACE – Earlier this year, two enterprising adult entertainment companies added intriguing uses of facial-recognition technology to their websites. One app helps users find camgirls who match the user’s fantasy image. The other allows users to identify porn stars whose names...

By Skink Gankstench Special to YNOT COLUMBIA, S.C. – The liberal mainstream media is having an absolute tizzy this week over the latest attempt to stem the ever-surging tide of online pornography which continues to erode the moral fiber of our nation: a modest, quite reasonable...

CHATWORTH, Calif. – Sir Richard’s Soak N’ Stroke shower masturbation lubricants, introduced at the ANME show in July, now are available for widespread distribution. The company released two more anticipated products, as well: Safer Than Sin toy cleaner and Champion Oral Sex...