By Lynda Arrison “What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.” The Marquis de Sade, an 18th century Larry Flynt-type libertine and crusader for sexual pleasure, hardly could have anticipated the escapisms peddled by 21st century vice merchants — drugs,...

PHOENIX – MojoHost founder and owner Brad Mitchell has been around a long time. After breaking into the adult industry in 1999, hosting “a few customers on some servers that I had in the datacenter,” he launched MojoHost in 2002. Since then, he’s watched the industry experience...

LOS ANGELES – If you have followed the evolution of revenge porn as a legal issue, then you’ve probably heard attorneys, activists and victim’s advocates talk about the difficulty of getting justice for victims. Historically, just getting law enforcement to pay attention and...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Justice has ended a five-year-old program aimed at reducing commerce in adult entertainment and other “high risk” businesses by choking off the flow of money. Operation Choke Point, launched in 2012 by the DOJ in cooperation with the Federal...

JAKARTA – A little less than nine years ago, the Indonesian Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (“People’s Representative Council”) passed a controversial piece of legislation called the Bill on Pornography, a somewhat watered-down and re-branded version of a previous proposal called the...

Supposedly anonymized “clickstream” data collected by ad-targeting firms easily can be tied to individuals, according to two German researchers who sussed out the porn-browsing habits of a judge, the drug preferences of a politician and evidence in an ongoing cybercrime...

By Richard Buss As a professional email marketer, your job is to use your platform to increase the return on investment of your marketing efforts. Email marketing outperforms other types, delivering an ROI of $38 for every $1 spent, so incorporating email as a major part of your...

LOS ANGELES – Eight or nine years ago, long before the names John Steele, Paul Hansmeier and Prenda Law had acquired internet infamy, I sat in the audience at a legal seminar during an adult industry trade show, listening to a panel of attorneys talk about the prospect of suing...

CHICAGO – A U.S. district judge on Tuesday finalized a negotiated settlement of $3.75 million Canadian sex-toy manufacturer Standard Innovation will pay to end a class-action lawsuit brought against its app-controlled We-Vibe products. According to court documents, an estimated...

TILBURG, Netherlands – Despite sharing a suffix in common, I’m sure there are many differences between Tilburg, Netherlands and Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Among these many differences: I’m confident if I were to shoot a porn movie inside a church in Gatlinburg, I’d find myself in...