SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Another conservative, “family values” crusader has outed himself as a closet philanderer. California Assemblyman Michael Duvall [R-Yorba Linda] resigned from office Wednesday amid an ethics probe fellow assemblymen launched after Duvall unintentionally...

CYBERSPACE – In a sign that it intends to be aggressive even in a challenging year for business, WebBilling.com has brought on board one of the adult Internet industry’s more accomplished veterans. Jimmy, also know as “Wizzo” in industry circles, has signed on as VP of...

LONDON – In yet another sign of the pending apocalypse, Good Housekeeping magazine — the housewife’s bible since 1885 —recruited a panel of 100 volunteers to test and review a select group of housewives’ best friends: vibrators.Sorry, American women: The testing and reporting was...

CYBERSPACE – Visit-X is one of Europe’s largest Internet suppliers of live erotic entertainment, but the company has made an interesting move by arranging for a debut event of something other than naked performers on its flagship website, Vixit-X.net.German band Rammstein...

LONDON – Two men accused of masterminding Britain’s largest porn DVD distribution businesses were jailed Monday on charges including obscenity and money laundering. Tehsin Panju and Hitendra Patel, both of London, each admitted to one count of conspiracy to publish obscenity....

LOS ANGELES – Vivid Entertainment co-chairman and co-founder Steven Hirsch has called on consumer electronics giant Sony to release the shackles of conservative bondage from the company’s PlayStation3 game console. Specifically, Hirsch wants Sony to allow users worldwide to...

NEW YORK – What do you do when you can’t find the funds you need to finance your adult mail order business and real estate ventures? How about take money from elderly retirees, tell them it will be invested in safe options and securities earning as much as 21 percent each...

BEIJING – All services at Google China are up and running again after government officials gave the green light to the search giant’s “inappropriate content” filtering system. Some Google.cn features had been blocked since June as part of China’s effort to sanitize the...

OREM, Utah – A software development company based in Utah has created a tool it claims can find “hidden” pornographic videos on home computers without causing parents and spouses to suffer any psychological harm from viewing smutty images.SurfRecon Inc.’s newest offering is an...

STONINGTON, Conn. – A municipal representative has received a first-hand lesson in how ill-advised automatically “friending” people on social-networking sites can be.Because of his habit of accepting all friend requests on Tagged.com without first assessing their worth, First...