CYBERSPACE — Conde Nast’s Portfolio.com ran an article by writer Claire Hoffman about how adult production companies are losing VOD cash to YouPorn and other similar amateur sites. The piece also mentions how DVD sales are “in a freefall.”Vivid Entertainment head Steven...

LAS VEGAS — Once upon a time such giants of pornography as Debbie Does Dallas and Devil in Miss Jones roamed the earth, appearing on big screens and setting the hearts, minds, and loins of a generation on fire with desire. VCX, the oldest XXX adult company in continuous...

ATLANTA, GA — EarthLink, one of the chief advocates of covering cities with wireless internet service, said Friday it is going to consider “strategic alternatives” for that business.EarthLink chief executive Rolla P. Huff explained in a statement that, after a...

LEWISTON, ME —JoAn Karkos, due in court next month to answer a theft charge over two copies of a sexual education book she refused to return to the Lewiston Public Library, now wants the library to answer her allegation of obscenity.Karkos gave police a one-page complaint...

ANCHORAGE, AK — Sometimes it seems like juice bars, like their below drinking age customers, just can’t get a break. Thanks to a recent federal court decision, the under-21 crowd just lost one more opportunity to get close to one of Alaska’s most precious recourses: sexy...

BRITAIN — Lovers of older women – and I do mean older women – need to check out Miss November on the Ancaster Athletic nude charity calendar from Ancaster, Lincolnshire, England. It’s been a long time since she’s literally been a babe, but that hasn’t stopped the lively...

LOS ANGELES, CA —Playboy founder Hugh Hefner will donate $2 million for an exhibition space in the school’s new headquarters complex, the USC School of Cinematic Arts announced last week.Hefner said in a statement released by USC that he wanted to do all he could to...

BURBANK, CA —YNOT Network, owner of the longest continually running adult Webmaster resource site YNOT.com, announced today that former company owner Bob Rice has sold his percentage of ownership in the company to longtime business partner Gary Grigoryan. The financial...

JAPAN — While the grabby, boundary-invading, Macho behavior of male Mexican commuters may be legendary, the inappropriate ways that seemingly manner-filled Japanese company men are lesser known. Apparently the women of Japan are familiar with them, however, because at least...

CYBERSPACE — College student/Hooters waitress Kyla Ebbert had to fight to keep her seat on a Southwest Airlines flight to Tucson, AZ after an airline “customer service supervisor” objected to her wardrobe choice. Now, she is appearing in much less than Southwest had a...