WASHINGTON – In the middle of a confirmation hearing at which the headline-making questions and answers were mostly about immigration, race and abortion, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah raised the specter of pornography: Would Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions...

VALENCIA, Calif. – Brendan Mahar, a 12-year veteran of global merchant services management, has joined Online IPS as vice president of business development. As the global ecommerce market has grown more sophisticated, Mahar has worked closely with merchants in some of the most...

AUSTIN, Texas – Award-winning gay adult performer Topher DiMaggio has become the newest model for FleshJack’s line of molded-from-life sex toys. “We are beyond excited to have Topher DiMaggio join the FleshJack family,” said Daniel Harvell, director of the FleshJack line and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – International classified advertising site Backpage, whose owners are facing criminal charges in at least two states, shuttered its adult-services ads sections on Monday after a scathing congressional report accused the company of knowingly accepting advertising...

KEYPORT, N.J. – Payze.com has tapped Jeff Neis as global sales manager. In his new position, Neis will help manage “rapid growth, expanding partnerships and sales initiatives moving forward,” a Payze spokesman said. Over the past five years, Payze has developed unique...

PENNSAUKEN, N.J. – Williams Trading Co. is supporting the U.S. launch of Satisfyer products with special retail collateral materials. Components include a retail tester model and a display program. A free personal tester may be available to those who complete the Satifyer product...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Let’s say you woke up one morning and found your Twitter feed lit up with outrage over the airing of gay porn on a popular television show. What sort of sex acts would you assume the offending program had aired? Playing the odds, would you assume it was...

CYPRUS – A new adult entertainment portal its developers say offers “the best live shows and a totally re-imagined voyeur experience” has debuted on a URL no one should have trouble remembering: Sex.sex. Designed by John and Kira in cooperation with Barron Innovations Ltd. (which...

TORONTO – Winter nights can be bitterly cold in Canada. What better way to warm up than with a little bedroom heat? The folks at sex toy e-tailer NaughtyNorth stand ready to help with that mission. The company’s new Naughty Box subscription service was designed especially for...

WASHINGTON – There’s an old quote you might have heard about how “nobody has ever gone broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” Of course, H. L. Mencken never actually wrote those words, but a great many people believe he did, because this is what...