NEWPORT BEACH, CA — Let’s play word association; I say “Acacia,” you say… “Respectable?” No, of course you wouldn’t say “respectable,” because you are part of the internet-based portion of the adult entertainment industry (probably), and the first words that come to...

NEW YORK, NY – Playboy Enterprises Inc. announced Tuesday that the company’s fourth quarter earnings fell 20-percent as the magazine division of Playboy continued to lose money, and earnings dropped for the TV division.According to reports from the Associated Press and Reuters...

UNITED KINGDOM — One of the unexpected nuggets of wisdom that the Family Planning Association (FPA) of Britain started its Contraception Awareness Week off with was the fact that one-third of all Britons think jumping up and down after intercourse can prevent...

AUSTIN, TX — Every worthy cause ultimately finds itself in need of funding in order to grow itself, spread its word, and effectively reach its targeted demographic. Some worthy causes are able to catch the sympathetic ear of lawmakers and fund themselves at least partly...

CYBERSPACE – A hacker who goes by the handle “arnezami” has reportedly cracked the keys used to unlock digital rights management (DRM) for both HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs, enabling the copying of content on next-gen discs to hard drives.A blog posting on the “DVD backup” forum...

LONDON — Beautiful women in the UK who dream of being a Playboy Playmate have another chance at making their fantasies a reality, thanks to an upcoming Model of the Year search.Although specializing in televised adult entertainment, Playboy TV UK plans to utilize the power...

CANADA – Two courthouse sheriffs briefly suspended due to their participation in a porn video that has appeared online knew the video was intended for Web distribution and signed a release form acknowledging such, according to the husband and wife production team that created the...

LOS ANGELES, CA — Did two well-known male porn veterans walk off of the set of Extreme Associates’ newest and perhaps most controversial video to date? Did their religious sensibilities render them unable to perform their blasphemously erotic duties — or is it a...

WASHINGTON, DC – Speaking at a recent conference in Aspen, CO, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Deborah Platt Majoras made a comment that has led to widespread speculation that the FTC is about to begin an investigation into broadband connection speed claims frequently made...

CYBERSPACE – Why, if a surfer knows he or she wants to go to Yahoo.com, would they first go to Google.com and search for “Yahoo,” or even “Yahoo.com?”Stan Schroeder of FranticIndustries.com notes that “lately many users have all but stopped typing domain names directly in the web...