SCHENECTADY, New York – I suppose the real question is whether taking a person’s job counts as “injuring” a human. If so, so long as sex robots are designed in accordance with the Three Laws of Robotics, Ela Darling and her peers needn’t worry about being replaced by them. “Sex...

LONGBOAT KEY, Fla. – My name is Ben, and I’m a selective Luddite. I love the internet, but I avoid approximately 99.999999 percent of it, for instance. I avoid so much of the web, in part, because the idea of watching people unwrap packages sounds like the dumbest possible way to...

A click-fraud malvertising attack that has hidden in the shadows for more than a year lost a major distribution vector when advertising network TrafficJunky and adult tube site Pornhub shut down a pathway that exposed millions of porn-site visitors in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – In a couple of her recent columns for Forbes, psychologist and sex-myth-debunker Dr. Zhana Vrangalova has zeroed in on the results of a study with the catchy title “Sexual diversity in the United States: Results from a nationally representative probability...

By Daniel DiLallo Special to YNOT Anytime technological advances seem poised to affect everyday life, people become nervous. For decades, popular culture has painted alarming images of machines displacing — and then enslaving or annihilating — mankind. Yes, some new technologies...

GUANGZHOU, China – In recent years, a lot of ink and countless column inches have been dedicated to the problem of porn showing up on various social media platforms, so it’s no surprise to see emerging technology designed to help alleviate the perceived problem. As noted in a...

One thing about the digital age: It has hurried up everything. Information and commerce move at the speed of thought. Consumers want whatever they want now, not next week, tomorrow or even 60 minutes from this instant. In order to stay top of mind with consumers, businesses that...

LONDON – While reading the story of erotic photographer Annabel Findlay’s dispute with a neighbor and a builder working on her neighbor’s house, it occurred to me what may stand out most to some people is the nature of Findlay’s work, rather than the nature of the offense with...

By Sean Gough Special to YNOT With plenty of adult SEO providers in the market, it is nearly impossible for customers today to separate pretenders from the real deal. There is no doubt about the might of adult SEO, and you know that very well if you are an adult webmaster. SEO is...

SOUTHAMPTON, England – The story of Ella Hughes, a former law student who now makes her living performing in porn, has spread far and wide since the BBC published an interview late last month. The question that seems constantly lurking behind the often breathless, pearl-clutching...