…like the Iraq invasion hinging on the Bush Administration’s lie that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction, the AHF’s WMDs was home-grown AIDS in Porn Valley.

Part 3 of 3 For a person who was reluctant to be interviewed, PD is doing a lot of talking. “Steve Jobs understood that shades of gray are important,” he is saying in a dressing room at InSex, Oakland’s BDSM porn studio. “As a user experience, the 8-bit world was restrictive. I see people knocking [...]

Adult industry players and their Silicon Valley partners have relaunched iPorn.com to create a porn portal within the historically porn-avoidant iTunes interface.

Julie Simone, for all her cruelty on film, is one of the least angry people I know, and her new “Deconstructed Beauty” t-shirt line takes an often-whimsical look at celebrities from the world of the BDSM arts.

As much fun as it is talking with Vanessa Del Rio, it is bittersweet, too, because you really wish it were 1974 with the two of you buying loose joints in the seedy fleshpits of an unsanitized Times Square. We’re talking about an upcoming movie version of the legendary pornstress’s life, the “Latin from Manhattan” [...]

A sleek, informative, and convivial adult business conference with an accompanying awards ceremony, January’s XBiz360 conference was also a subtle battleground of ideas the adult industry is chewing on, from Content vs. Traffic to Free vs. Pay to Old vs. New. The conference underscored the lingering division between Content and Traffic in the porn business, [...]

“We want the site to be fun, first and foremost,” Lee Roy Myers says of the new WoodRocket.com. “And then the money will come, we hope.”

Gram Ponante talks with Nick Manning about the porn veteran’s new business venture, ElectronicBling.com

Porn boxcovers, according to the Journal of Fabricated Statistics, account for 87 percent of the reason people buy a particular DVD. Gram Ponante talks with the team behind Elegant Angel’s elegant boxcovers.

Though AHF knows that all Porn Valley’s HIV cases have come from elsewhere, Measure B proponents would have voters believe that the disease grows like In-n-Out Burgers all over the region.

…the inaugural CatalystCon in Long Beach was a refreshing, well-organized, and thought-provoking event filled with challenging ideas that didn’t shy away from difficult topics.

A recent trip to the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas revealed that porn still has its fingers way up the needs of American consumers.

“The difference with Porn Film Vacations is that the guests are in the inner sanctum,” he says, “not a lookee-loo with a camera phone on the other side of a velvet rope.”

“I think it’s really going to be interesting to strap on a strap-on and fuck myself,” says Hartley.

If you’re going to interview someone about his rum, the right thing to do is to have consumed a lot of it beforehand

B. Skow’s announcement that he is “cordially” leaving Vivid is the second such departure notice in a week. It’s probably nothing.

Will she even make Screech-level money?

CatalystCon is a weekend-long conference on sexuality, activism, and acceptance, coming to Long Beach September 14-16.

Porn is inconveniently a test kitchen of the freedoms every American enjoys, so it must be defended. Gram interviews Free Speech attorney J.D. Obenberger

MCMURPHY
She ain’t honest.

SPIVEY
Miss Ratched is one of the finest nurses we have in this institution.

MCMURPHY
She likes a rigged game.