By Sean Wood Special to YNOT

LOS ANGELES – Kristen Kaye, a veteran executive within the online segment of the adult entertainment industry and president of consulting firm KSquaredDynamics Inc., has been named director of Women In Adult, commonly known as WIA. Kaye will head the organization’s efforts in the...

WASHINGTON – Typically, when Congress cooks up a new bill designed to curb access to or otherwise regulate online pornography, you can count on the bill to be at least two things: verbose and unconstitutional. H.R. 5628, also known as “The Eliminating Pornography From Agencies...

LOS ANGELES – Controversial former financial industry intern Veronica Vain made her hardcore debut Monday online. Vain co-stars with Manuel Ferrara in Screwing Wall Street: The Arrangement Finders Play. Ferrara also produced and directed, along with his partner Kayden Kross. In...

MIAMI – What guy doesn’t like a nice round booty? Director and cameraman Josh Stone turned the question over in his mind until it sparked the theme for a brand-new website. “In the straight genre, big booty is a really popular niche,” said Stone, co-owner and creative director...

MIRAMAR, Fla. – As you may have heard, Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) caused a bit of a stir last week by referring to Texas as “a crazy state.” Tempering his comment somewhat by noting he loves Texans, Hastings also tried to limit the scope of his words by specifying what he...

QUEBEC CITY – A U.S. District Court in California declared invalid a 2004 patent describing a system that allows affiliate networks to establish “virtual affiliates.” Such systems are used by online adult industry networks to pool affiliates under a broad umbrella in order to...

LONDON – Brits who post sexually explicit images online without permission from the people depicted face a two-year prison term under the UK’s new “revenge porn” law. The law will take effect this spring, a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said. Queen Elizabeth II on...

NEW YORK – When the news broke that a Miley Cyrus video had been entered in the NYC Porn Film Festival, like about a billion other people I immediately checked the festival’s website. Upon arrival, the first thing I noticed was the enormous “Pornhub Presents” banner, which led me...

LOS ANGELES – In 1999, an all-girl collective began producing DVDs offering enticing fantasies about women in sexual control. In the years since, the award-winning Venus Girls has never lost sight of its mission. It has, however, recently upgraded its website, TheVenusGirls.com,...