NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan – The more I look around at trending topics, videos gone viral and assorted social media hashtaggery, the more convinced I become the internet is robbing people of all empathy and capacity for identifying with the plight of others. How else can we explain...

CANOGA PARK, Calif. – Adult industry trade group Free Speech Coalition has issued a call for the industry to take a stand against the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s apparent intention to dismantle net neutrality. “Net neutrality” is a term for Obama-era regulations...

CHICAGO – The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago must pay a former employee $700,000 for firing her after she complained about another employee’s on-the-clock porn-watching habits. U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer awarded Lynn Sanchez $200,000 in compensatory damages and...

SEATTLE – Kheper Games Inc. has launched a stealth product: a heart-shaped bath bomb with a sexy surprise inside. Sexy Surprise Bath Bombs are strawberry-champagne-scented, six-ounce, heart-shaped gems that slowly dissolve in warm water. As the bomb melts, a surprise is revealed:...

LOS ANGELES – Most cam models (87 percent) feel empowered by their broadcasts and work in the corporate world (52 percent) when they’re not entertaining on cam. Three-quarters of them have a college degree, according to a new survey by live-cam website Stripchat. The site polled...

PARIS – Say what you will about the internet age, it’s plusses and minuses, the ups and downs of social media and all that highfalutin crap. You can’t say it hasn’t changed the way we communicate or altered forever the ability of the common man to respond directly to the most...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. – Intimate lubricant manufacturer System JO will match, dollar for dollar up to $2,000, donations received by the Center for Sexual Pleasure & Health (CSPH) on Giving Tuesday, Nov. 28. Giving Tuesday, a day dedicated to charitable giving around the globe, was...

Sometimes fake news can be used for good. A group of six young Iraqi hackers this week sneaked porn and disinformation into online propaganda disseminated by the terrorist network Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as ISIS. The hacker group calls itself Daeshgram, a...

LOS ANGELES – While this post takes up the controversial question of whether adults ought to be allowed to watch porn at public libraries, I’m not going to approach the question as a legal one or as a matter of the free speech. The primary reason I’m not addressing this as a...

ATLANTA – Luvu Brands Inc. has signed a wholesale distribution agreement that will make its Liberator Bedroom Adventure Gear available in Southeast Asia. MSJL Co. Ltd., based in South Korea, will “open a wide network of wholesale distribution channels as well as retail...