Recently I finished Herbert Asbury’s 1939 book “The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld,” and it gave me an idea about stimulating Porn Valley’s economy. The red-light district of San Francisco, known as the Barbary Coast for its lawlessness and vice, flourished from the time of the Gold Rush and for [...]

People who – for whatever reason – are constant readers of adult industry news should not blame the L.A. Times for publishing the umpteenth article about how the economic downturn has affected Porn Valley. Not everyone has the free time to lurk on adult messageboards all day, where this subject is old news. The article [...]

This month’s Porn Valley HIV diagnosis has been getting considerable airplay in local and national media, but the tempest seems to be settling to a less hysterical baseline as the news cycle winds down. In addition to the test results for the remaining secondary performers, the release – if ever – of the name of [...]

In the adult world, it is easy to equate “sedate” with “failure,” but the relative calm and low turnout to last week’s XBiz Summer Forum in Las Vegas was merely a reflection of doubtful times for the porn biz. In isolated doses, it might have been any adult convention in boom times; there was nudity, [...]

After nine years selling and serving ads for many adult sites (including this one), Pueblo Colorado-based Traffic Dude is to liquidate its assets to clients and creditors in bankruptcy court. Like Google Ads, smaller ad server companies provide those banner and text ads on sites that they hope will be of interest to readers. I [...]

Pink Visual’s Plant Your Wood is a five-scene DVD packaged in 50 percent recycled paper and printed with biodegradable soy inks. Not only that, one dollar from each DVD sale goes to Trees for the Future, an organization that plants ten trees for each dollar it gets. “Go Green” for a little pink and Plant [...]

Webmaster Access is a regular convention of adult webmasters which regularly convenes in Los Angeles. Like many conventions in any hotel or convention center in the country, the morning is filled with seminars, breakout sessions, and blazer-and-dockers networking events, and the evening is filed with drinking. At a morning roundtable on hosting (and I mean [...]

The AVN acquisition will be reflected in Dunkin’ Donuts’ branding by means of a new motto (“Good Fuckin’ Doughnuts”) and the renaming of the company’s Large Regular coffee to BBW.

Because I am the coolest person you know, I knew that my trip yesterday to the Orange County headquarters and warehouse of hardcore adult products purveyor Extreme Restraints would not yield medieval scenes of people zapping each other’s nipples while archiving QuickBooks files. Still, in the way certain people will make a show of wiping [...]

Who is monitoring our industry’s fonts? No one. Four out of five porn consumers surveyed said that the boxcover font was the determining factor in all their adult purchases, followed distantly by pictures of women with fingers in their mouths.* Both Ghetto Booty*licious and Silverlake Scenesters employ a stroked block font that threatens to occlude [...]

One could also have conversations at the XRCOs without having to deal with an awful house band and, because the venue was small and the event free, the lower-echelon but just-as-interesting people who couldn’t make it to Vegas showed up to the XRCOs instead. That was nice.

“Pirates” will be the biggest-selling porn movie of the decade. I guarantee it.

I don’t know if this thing is going to fly (after all, it’s a bus).

“Sometimes the most extreme thing is what is actually exciting,” he said, “because people get burned out on the rest.”