Two Maybes Does Not an Industry Pivot Make
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (or maybe MONTREAL) – If I were to tell VICE one of my fellow adult industry-focused freelance writers and I soon will start writing Hunter S. Thompson-inspired children’s ...
Tag: porn in the news
Patreon’s Policy Change Rankles, but it’s No Surprise
SAN FRANCISCO – No matter how “adult friendly” a mainstream platform may be (or at least start out to be), it’s never a surprise to me when one tightens its ...
What, No Special Prosecutors Exist in Australia?
CANBERRA, Australia – Forget about Watergate; never mind the Iran-Contra affair; stand aside Russian election-meddling fake news. The real governmental scandal is taking place Down Under –- where women reportedly ...
Porn-watching and Hypocrisy: Universal Human Behaviors
RAQQA, Syria – When reading or thinking about ISIS –- what motivates its foot soldiers, the extremity of its ideology and all the varied ugliness and violence of its methods ...
My Guess? Those with the Dirt Don’t Need the Cash
LOS ANGELES – As I’m sure you’ve read, over the weekend Hustler founder Larry Flynt published an ad in the Washington Post offering up to $10 million for “information leading ...
Green Paper, Blue Sky: U.K.’s Effort to Tame the Wild Web
LONDON – The “Internet Safety Strategy green paper” published this week by the U.K. government is unsurprisingly sprawling and ambitious. By their nature, green papers essentially are an invitation to ...
Robot Porn Stars: At Least They Might Shut Up the AHF
SCHENECTADY, New York – I suppose the real question is whether taking a person’s job counts as “injuring” a human. If so, so long as sex robots are designed in ...
And Some People Wonder Why I Won’t Use Airbnb
LONGBOAT KEY, Fla. – My name is Ben, and I’m a selective Luddite. I love the internet, but I avoid approximately 99.999999 percent of it, for instance. I avoid so ...
The Logical Fallacy of Asserting Life Imitates Porn
JERSEY CITY, N.J. – In a couple of her recent columns for Forbes, psychologist and sex-myth-debunker Dr. Zhana Vrangalova has zeroed in on the results of a study with the ...
Next-Gen Filtering Coming Soon to a Browser Near You?
GUANGZHOU, China – In recent years, a lot of ink and countless column inches have been dedicated to the problem of porn showing up on various social media platforms, so ...
