NEW YORK CITY – Let’s be honest: Not everyone can afford the time or expense required to attend one of the adult entertainment industry’s celebrated awards shows. Unless you live in a major U.S. coastal city or a European hotspot, the travel alone is onerous. Then there’s the...

LOS ANGELES – If there’s one thing I’ve found consistently entertaining and amusing over my years working in and around the adult entertainment industry, it’s the lengths to which many pornographers will go in drawing significant qualitative distinctions between their own work...

As news of former New England Patriots tight end and murderer Aaron Hernandez’s apparent cellblock suicide spread last week, Twitter lit up with chatter. The hashtag #AaronHernandez rocketed to the top of Twitter’s trending list. As usual, overzealous and under-thinking marketers...

HARTFORD, Conn. – Every so often as I’m writing an article, I’ll paste something from my clipboard into the body of the story that has no place therein. Usually, it’s just a matter of having forgotten I’d copied something to the clipboard after the most recent thing I remember...

MONTREAL – After partnering last year with digital hentai distributor Kimochi to develop a Steam-like online network, adult game publisher Nutaku is well on its way to creating a bona-fide rival to the mainstream platform — except without Steam’s notorious censorship. Using the...

BEIJING – Whether the entity in question is a government or a corporation, every organization that operates internationally must make decisions about its “foreign policy.” Among the toughest of the decisions that must be made is how to manage operations within...

WASHINGTON – A bipartisan bill introduced in the House of Representatives earlier this month could gut the “safe harbor” provisions in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 and stifle free speech online. Introduced by Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.), H.R. 1865 — titled...

NEW YORK – It’s an observation I’ve heard many times over the years, typically in the context of a discussion about television or film: You can depict as much gruesome violence as you wish, but try to slip in some graphic sex and your work is on its way to the cutting room floor...

LAS VEGAS – When I saw the subject line of the email I received this morning, my heart nearly skipped a beat: “The Erotic Heritage Museum vs. The Westboro Baptist Church.” EHM vs. WBC, eh? This, I thought to myself, is either going to be one fascinating civil lawsuit, or the...

Forget baking a file inside a cake to help your buddy bust out of the big house. Today’s prison contraband smugglers have gone high-tech. Corrections officials across the U.S. have reported an upward trend in drones dropping illicit materials inside prison walls. In addition to...