In not describing the physical attributes or motivations of the players on the other side, Weis—and I’ll throw a lasso around the rest of the mainstream media here, too—implicitly sets up an Us v. Them scenario.

“I’m (still) going to go (back) to a world where I have sex with beautiful women every day,” Deen says.

I never had the opportunity to meet the lovely Melina Mason during her short adult career, but if I’m lucky there are some cockles and mussels in my future.

“You can’t flunk out of porn” is a rule with exceptions

I’ve always felt that naming a Mainstream Favorite is like those movies where the protagonist forsakes his true friends—the misfits!—for the cool kids who have always been mean to him, and will be again.

It was like a J. Geils’ “Centerfold” moment for me, except I already knew Stoya when she was a centerfold.

…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.

“Some of these apple-picking girls fuck like the Wendigo is after them,” says Allie Haze. “They’re not scared of death.”

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, [...]

…there is no accounting for taste, even if there is accounting for height.

Gram Ponante profiles three books worth reading, two that tell us about how we got here and one that wonders why we stay.

A recently-released study published in the Journal of Sex Research might help to deflate some persistent beliefs about the women who appear in porn films: it turns out that—for the most part—they’re just like you.

In an attempt to please her inappropriately sexualized father, a woman is initiated into a dangerous business while in a questionable state of mind by two masked men who have sex with her. Perhaps “Batgirl XXX” is a metaphor for porn in general.

…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.

Unless the toy is for a part of your person you just can’t get at, like the prostate, or in the case that one has tiny Tyrannosaurus hands, most male-oriented sex toys just add complexity. What type of person wants to add complexity?

The wonderful Hollie Stevens succumbed to breast cancer July 2. She was 30.

Both Jon Dough and director Jane Waters are now dead, but the remake of “Car Wash Angels” had nothing to do with that. If anything, Gabriella Banks probably prolonged their lives.

Writer/Model/Clown/Bon Vivant Hollie Stevens married comedian Eric Cash last week in a hospital conference room overlooking San Francisco. She and her medical team expect her to be discharged to the couple’s new apartment shortly, where Hollie will begin hospice care.

If you agree that porn, bless its heart, is about dressing up the solitary act of masturbation, then the couples’ movie is itself kind of a fetish; It is a paraphilia in which viewers use the performers as props for their own sordid offscreen strivings.

Will she even make Screech-level money?