LONDON – Multinational adult entertainment conglomerate MindGeek has become the boogeyman in the contentious U.K. debate about age-verification and internet porn. Beginning in April 2018, adult websites must verify all U.K. citizens requesting access are age 18 or older. Websites...

By Jay Kopita BURBANK, Calif. – The ANME Founders Expo is a trade show I return to and support year after year. I have yet to find a pleasure products expo better than this one, where industry insiders casually meet and do business with so many decision-makers and creative types...

A 2014 survey by Social Media Examiner revealed 92 percent of participating marketing professionals believed social media marketing increases their reach and traffic. Only the foolish ignore that kind of statistic. For many marketers, particularly in the adult industry, the...

Warning: Satire ahead. LOS ANGELES – While I enjoy taking cheap shots at them as much as the next guy, I’ll readily admit to knowing almost nothing about the Kardashian clan, other than the patriarch of the family was once a close friend of OJ Simpson’s, and later became a...

SAN FRANCISCO – On his Psychology Today blog, journalist Michael Castleman is reevaluating the question “does more porn mean less rape?” The big thudding sound you just heard was my head hitting the desk, because if there’s one thing my brain can’t handle much more...

LOS ANGELES – Every so often, along comes a headline that is so great, a collection of words whose proximity to each other is so entirely unexpected, the body of the article below it probably isn’t necessary, or may even prove a severe letdown. I ran across such a headline over...

LOS ANGELES – Wicked Sensual Care has added two new summertime flavors to its Aqua collection: sweet peach and pink lemonade. Both will be available in July. Water-based and paraben-free, the Aqua collection is created with natural extracts and PETA-certified ingredients....

WASHINGTON – By now, you’ve likely heard plenty about the subject of “net neutrality,” and I’d wager most of what you’ve listened to and read was staunchly against the Federal Communications Commission dumping its current rules, and in favor of continuing to classify ISPs as...

WANG SAPHUNG, Thailand – There are many reasons I’m not a Buddhist monk, chief among them being I like to do a lot of the things Buddhist monks are not supposed to do, like have sex, eat something other than other people’s leftover rice and partake of mind-altering chemicals....

BREMEN, Germany – Award-winning German pleasure product manufacturer has launched a new line of vibrators driven by what it calls “the most powerful battery-operated motor on the market.” Thanks to patented technology, items in the Battery+ line run on motors that operate at full...