CHICAGO – Of the many myths and half-truths which surround the adult entertainment industry, one of the most persistent is the notion the adult industry is a major driver of technological development. Porn, you’ll hear people say quite authoritatively, is the reason VHS won out...

LOS ANGELES – The new Embrace Swirl Massager from Calexotics combines swirling pleasure beads in the shaft with a nubby, separately powered clitoral stimulator to provide pleasure “you have to see and feel to believe,” according to a company representative. The pleasure balls...

NEW YORK – An adult industry icon died last week, and few in today’s industry even know who he was. Richard Basciano, a one-time boxer who fought city hall to keep his inconvenient peep show open — and won — passed away May 1 in Manhattan. He was 91. Basciano’s Show World...

LOS ANGELES – In Chris Bosh’s defense, maybe he thought X-Art was making a scat porn film and would appreciate having a bit of rat shit included in the price of rental. If that’s the case, however, Bosh clearly miscalculated, as he and his wife are now facing a lawsuit filed by...

LOS ANGELES – A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but pleasure products manufacturer Topco is betting adventurous lovers prefer their scents on the subliminally feral side. The company’s new Lure Black Label pheromone-infused fragrances were scientifically formulated to...

Let this be a lesson: The bigger the target, the smaller the part that must be compromised to generate chaos. A staggering 1 million Gmail users — or less than 0.1 percent of the 1 billion people Google says employ the system — were affected by the Google Docs phishing scam that...

MIAMI – You’ve got a porn performer, an ocean, a small shark cage and a bunch of 10-foot lemon sharks. What’s the worst that can happen? Well… If what Camsoda was looking for when it set sail with Molly Cavalli the other day was publicity, the company is certainly getting it. The...

LOS ANGELES – In the pantheon of women’s magazines, Glamour long has held a prominent spot among the raciest. Sex toys hardly qualify as racy these days, and Glamour’s May feature — “15 Extremely Cute Sex Toys That Will Make You Say ‘Aww’” — certainly sits a far piece from...

Just when you thought Apple had browbeaten every app developer into submission, along comes a social network brazenly defying Apple’s “no porn” rule. Actually, maybe not so brazenly. According to Tumblr, the recent app update that installed a “porn switch” in the iOS settings was...

SALT LAKE CITY – Are the devoutly religious more apt to become compulsive porn viewers, or are they simply more likely to term themselves “porn addicts” due to feelings of guilt and shame they experience every time they spy an exposed naughty bit? In a study drawing on a sample...