BERLIN – Candida Royalle, Maria Beatty, Petra Joy and Shine Louise Houston received the first Feminist Porn Film Awards Saturday during a gala celebration at the Hackeches Hof Theater in Berlin. Founded by Laura Meritt PhD, a sexologist and owner of the sex shop and sexual...

LOS ANGELES – Vivid Girl Savanna Samson will make her mainstream acting debut Thursday during an episode of NBC’s Emmy Award-winning comedy 30 Rock. Samson portrays “Porn Liz,” an alter-ego of series creator Tina Fey’s character Liz Lemon, as part of a revenge scheme perpetrated...

YNOT – FetishHits.com isn’t taking the new economy lying down. The company has completely redesigned FetishHits.com, improving the usability of the site for its affiliates, and achieving a much better integration with the promotional tools on FetishHitsGallery.com. In addition,...

NEW YORK – Earth-friendly sex gets a boost from a most unlikely source this month: The Oct. 26 issue of venerable Time magazine includes a brief feature about what the writer calls “enviro-sex.”Who knew sex could damage the planet? According to Time writer Kathleen Kingsbury,...

SAN FRANCISCO – For 12 years, Kink.com has pushed the pleasure-pain principle in ways that challenge the imaginations of all but the most extreme BDSM enthusiasts. After beginning in 1997 with male-dominant/female-submissive scenarios at Hogtied.com, the company expanded into...

YNOT – After blocking a Microsoft browser add-on and associated plug-in last Friday due to a documented security vulnerability, Mozilla today unblocked the add-ons for Firefox and said the plug-in will be restored in a matter of days.Microsoft reported last week that two of its...

CYBERSPACE – MaxCash.com is expanding, and the company has announced its first move through a press release it issued this week. The expansion of MaxCash.com will involve the release of new adult paysites that each target a specific niche previously unavailable to MaxCash.com...

TAMPA, Fla. – The most recent Business Confidence Index, released last week by the Mobile Entertainment Forum, predicts an average revenue growth rate of 33 percent for the coming year, an increase of 6 percent over what was predicted for 2009. Currently, revenues stand at about...

DEERBORN, Mich. – The results of a two-year study by Arbor Networks, the University of Michigan and Merit Network Inc. has determined 6 percent of all internet traffic originates with Google.Five years ago, internet traffic was distributed proportionally across tens of thousands...

SAN FRANCISCO — BDSM and fetish erotica studio Kink.com calls the idea behind its revamped gay adult website ButtMachineBoys.com “the classic formula of machine-versus-manhole.” Now that gay adult performer-director Van Darkholme has taken the helm, the content has become edgier,...