SAN FRANCISCO – Patreon, a crowdfunding site where fans pay artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers and other creative individuals for exclusive access to work not available elsewhere, updated its terms of service last week, banning the sale of content vaguely classified as...

SAN FRANCISCO – No matter how “adult friendly” a mainstream platform may be (or at least start out to be), it’s never a surprise to me when one tightens its content policies or community guidelines to make it clear porn is an expressive form non grata thereon. The crowdfunding...

LOS ANGELES – A sales data study by online adult retailer Healthy and Active indicates suburbia may not be as white-bread as its reputation. Healthy and Active ships more than a million dildos, Ben Wa balls, lube, wands, handcuffs, sex dolls and other toys each year — and just...

CANBERRA, Australia – Forget about Watergate; never mind the Iran-Contra affair; stand aside Russian election-meddling fake news. The real governmental scandal is taking place Down Under –- where women reportedly glow and men allegedly plunder. It was bad enough when the only...

NEW YORK – Women of Sex Tech has named Lauren MacEwen, chief executive officer for 7Veils.com, to its Female Founders list. Women of Sex Tech represents artists, creators, entrepreneurs, journalists, educators, innovators and engineers in more than six cities globally. The...

LOS ANGELES – Pleasure product manufacturer Screaming O has released the Charged CombO Kit #1, a complete better-sex kit that brings versatility and value to sexual enhancement. Each kit includes a rechargeable Vooom® bullet vibrator, a stretchy, two-sided cock ring and a...

SAN FRANCISCO – Days after Twitter Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey launched a mea culpa tweetstorm admitting the social media platform doesn’t do enough to protect users, the company’s head of safety policy distributed an email outlining proposed changes to policies and the...

LONDON – Admittedly, you could pour everything I know about Josie Cunningham into a shot glass and there’d still be room for the tequila. Aside from vaguely remembering reading something about an English model who became famous in large part by getting breast augmentation surgery...

PHOENIX – The pleasure products marketplace is warming up to a purse-like bedroom accessory designed to warm adult toys prior to use. The product, called Warm, is elegant in its simplicity: a discreet pouch shaped like a clutch handbag but equipped with interior heating coils....

BERLIN – Thieves relieved a British pleasure products manufacturer of sex toys valued at U.S. $60,000 as the company was preparing to leave the Venus trade show in Berlin. The victims are calling the crime “the largest sex-toy heist in history.” “We had just celebrated the...