Porn performer Hugh Hunter recently declined his nominations for the 2018 GayVN Awards, citing racism and bigotry in the adult entertainment industry. Hunter posted a statement on Twitter on November 25, 2017. “The gay porn industry has always been a place of veiled racism and...

MELBOURNE – Sexpo, an adult trade show which has celebrated sexuality and erotic expression since its inception in 1996, had planned to make a triumphant return to the UK in 2018, but the show has run into a serious snag in the form of resistance from from ExCeL London, an...

Study after study has indicated the single largest share of internet users’ time is spent on social media. With the active population of social networks running into the hundreds of millions, it pays to think of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other hotspots as sales channels —...

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...

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...

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...