YNOT's Ben Suroeste doesn't ask much of the U.S. Congress -- just that America's Representatives and Senators legalize more of his favorite recreational substances, someday name a post office after Hunter S. Thompson and please, please, PLEASE not mess with Section 230 of the...

An anti-porn group in Minnesota is encouraging citizens to shun a media outlet, telling advertisers they're blindly supporting sexual exploitation. What is the media outlet in question, you ask? Pornhub, perhaps? HUSTLER magazine, maybe? Nope! It's the Minneapolis-based...

As the term implies, social media "influencers" have a major impact on their followers and can persuade their fans into buying all sorts of products and services. Often times, those items are beauty products, fashion or lifestyle-enhancing goods. Other times, evidently, it's......

Arizona has become the latest state to pass a nonbinding resolution declaring porn to be responsible for virtually every societal ill that isn't caused by video games. YNOT's Ben Suroeste takes a deep dive into this shallow end of legislative intellect.

You think we've got a free speech problem on social media platforms here in the US? Check out what just went down in Belarus, where a guy is charged with producing and distributing pornography for posting a Rammstein video -- five years ago.

According to quasi-journalist Ben Suroeste, the entire adult industry has been nominated for at least one award and will be signing at "some booth" at an industry trade event in Las Vegas this week. The massive influx of related press releases has confused and disoriented the...

UCLA will soon host a conference on "comparative pornographies" centered on the differences between Asian and European porn. But when YNOT's Ben Suroeste looked more closely at the conference's description, he discovered there may be less to this "porn" than meets the genitals.

Who wouldn't want to live across the street from a topless bowling alley? Or possible even a topless bowling alley/sportsbook bar? NIMBYs, the buzzkills responsible for killing all the fun in the world. On the other hand, maybe it would make more sense if the bowling alley...

PLYMOUTH’S ROCK – It’s Thanksgiving again, a time when people are encouraged to recite things for which they are thankful, a tradition which works out nicely for lazy-ass writers who can’t be bothered with dreaming up original ideas for their holiday posts. It’s no good to simply...

Back in the summer of 2016, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump signed a pledge averring that he'd "aggressively enforce" federal obscenity laws. Two and a half years later, what has become of that campaign promise -- and have any of the groups which applauded it noticed?