This year’s Sundance Film Festival looked a little different this year. Rather than gathering the film industry’s elite in Utah, the festival has gone online, allowing more people than ever to get in on the hottest new cinema of the year. That gave Pleasure, a film about a young...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – “In 2021, we’ll be fighting harder than ever to ensure the online pornography industry is taken down once and for all!” So says the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) in a post published on its website earlier this month. The title of the post...

The Netflix period drama Bridgerton has caused waves as one of the more popular series to debut on the streaming site in recent months. But it’s also lifted many an eyebrow because of what the Daily Beast called its “exceedingly sexy sex scenes”—which are now being pirated and...

Pro tip for Congress-watchers: If you spend your time trying to make sense of every fool thing Congress proposes, considers, debates or collectively pontificates about, you will eventually lose your goddamn mind. I know this because, believe it or not, there was a time when I...

Looking over the list of the 10 most-read YNOT posts of 2020, it’s impossible to escape the conclusion that the draw of popular adult performers – a combination of their well-earned name recognition, engaging personalities and intriguing career arcs – defined this year’s list....

By any measure, 2020 was a hell of a year. A global pandemic, exacerbated by widespread political and social turmoil, kept us all on our toes, to say the least. Along the way, those of us in the adult entertainment industry were reminded of many truths about the world around us....

In what seems like a lifetime ago with the way 2020 and COVID-19 have crawled along, on December 3 at the virtual YNOT Summit, Free Speech Coalition Deputy Director and PASS manager Ian O’Brien and CareOnSite occupational health physician Dr. Chris Tang provided the latest...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Late last week, U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Ben Sasse (R-NE) unveiled a new bill they’ve dubbed the “Stop Internet Sexual Exploitation Act” (“SISEA”), legislation the Senators said will “require platforms hosting pornography to verify the identity of...

The past week has brought a rapid-fire series of unprecedented events in the history of adult streaming platform Pornhub. On Tuesday, the adult-content behemoth—one of the most-trafficked websites in the world—announced sweeping policy changes to uploads, downloads, verification...

About five years ago adult models were a scattered group. Many stuck to just one monetization platform, and there was very little social interaction between performers outside of their own close groups of friends. Isolated models were missing the obvious benefits that come from...