TALLAHASSEE – In the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the liberal media has been all over the good folks of the Florida legislature for declining to debate the possibility of restrictions on “assault rifles” and instead...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) released its “Dirty Dozen List” for 2018, an annual tradition which “names and shames a range of actors who contribute significantly to the normalization of pornography, prostitution, sex...

NEW YORK – I’m a simple guy, so it should come as no surprise to find that I like simple solutions. In fact, I’d go so far as to say I like simple solutions so much, it doesn’t matter to me whether they have any impact whatsoever on the problems they purport to address, or maybe...

Every marketer knows one cost-effective, easy, lazy, zeitgeisty promotional tool that has the potency to take their marketing A-Game to the next level while avoiding cliché practices like using the term “next level” is content marketing. Content is King, after all. Or maybe in...

NEW YORK – I’m not one to leap to outrageous conclusions based on just a couple similar stories appearing in the press, but some recent news items have me concerned about the state of the market for a class of product which is central to the ongoing health of the adult industry....

LOS ANGELES – About a month ago, I threatened promised I’d soon write an obligatory porn-predictions post for 2018, as a companion piece to my obligatory year-in-review of 2017, naturally. The time for that post has come, because the conditions are perfect – by which I mean it’s...

LOS ANGELES – One of two things happened to me recently: either I accidentally traveled back in time, or I experienced one of those infamous “acid flashbacks” people who have never taken acid occasionally talk about, typically when they’re listing reasons why I probably shouldn’t...

LAS VEGAS – Depending on whose recently-published perspective on VR porn you read, you will be told VR porn is either a highly addictive existential threat to humanity which is rapidly gaining steam, or kind of an overhyped dud. Since I’m inherently more interested in (and,...

SAN FRANCISCO – It was early 1998, and I’d had my online porn-job for about eight months. The company was quite small, and as fate would have it, when the office phone’s main line rang that afternoon, I was the only one available to answer. When I did, I was met with a very...

LOS ANGELES – Remember when Milli Vanilli got busted for not being the real singers behind hits like “Girl You Know It’s True” and “Blame It on the Rain”? Even after they released their confessional follow-up hit “OK, Girl, So Maybe You Know It’s Not Entirely True,” the world...