Nearly seven in 10 Americans (69 percent) now use social media, according to new fact sheets from the Pew Research Center. Almost three-quarters (73 percent) have a broadband internet connection at home, and more than three-quarters (77 percent) own a smartphone through which...

A while back, I read an article about a new song “composed by artificial intelligence.” Journalists and critics who have written about the tune (“Daddy’s Car”) often label it a harbinger of doom for human musicians and composers. It’s an interesting point of view, considering the...

LOS ANGELES – Alicia Sinclair, formerly vice president of worldwide sales and business development for Jimmyjane, has started a second pleasure-products company. Le Wand debuted its first creation, also named Le Wand, in January. Sinclair also is the founder and owner of b-Vibe,...

By Richard Buss Perhaps one of the most consequential mistakes in email marketing is the failure to get proper permission from the people you plan to contact. That probably reads like a straightforward statement, but there are different levels to this crime. Here’s a look at some...

RICHMOND, Va. – While the Virginia General Assembly appears disinclined to proclaim pornography a “public health crisis,” a modified version of an earlier resolution soon to be voted on by the state’s House of Delegates still attributes to porn the same litany of societal ills...

LOS ANGELES – A brand-new product from a brand-new company promises to “warm sex toys and take sexual pleasure to heightened levels,” according to a statement announcing the product’s launch. Styled like a fashionable clutch bag, Warm is made of vegan leather. It measures 13...

Content piracy and the proliferation of adult tube sites have contributed to pornography becoming “uglier and nastier” over the past decade, according to a French documentary set to make its world debut in March during SXSW in Austin, Texas. Pornocracy has not been screened, so...

SALT LAKE CITY – As an apparent extension of the state’s resolution proclaiming porn to be a public health crisis, Utah State Sen. Todd Weiler has proposed a new measure to require public libraries to install porn-blocking content filters on their wireless networks. “As a parent...

MONTCLAIR, N.J. – Teddy Love Toys has debuted a new stuffed erotic pal just in time for Valentine’s Day: Teddy Love Kink-It BDSM Bear. He’s cute and cuddly in an edgy sort of way … and he has a vibrating nose and tongue. The original Teddy Love Signature Bear is a furry softy...

If the results of a recent study are any indication, Tumblr users are horny. Researchers from two Italian universities and Bell Labs set out to study how the “community” of porn consumers and producers related to the larger community of social media users. Do consumers and...