7 year itch
Today is the seventh anniversary of my first day at AVN, where I was hired straight out of grade school to be managing editor of […]
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Adventures on the Open Internet with Ava Rose
This morning America requires me to be in beautiful downtown Burbank. But how can I post my usual musings on rape, bestiality, gaping, milk enemas, […]
What we can learn from "The Barbary Coast"
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 […]
What the L.A. Times teaches us about porn
People who – for whatever reason – are constant readers of adult industry news should not blame the L.A. Times for publishing the umpteenth article […]
HIV2k9: How the dust will settle
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 […]
Making money at the 2009 XBiz Summer Forum
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 […]
Traffic Dude dead
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 […]
On the Internet, all business is personal
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 […]
Today in porn disgruntlement: Adam & Eve
I received an e-mail this morning from a person calling himself (I assume it was a he) “Barock Odrama.” The letter concerned his grievances with […]
Shocker: Some Pornorazzi hated
“They stand there. They get in the way. They gawk. You can hear them breathing.” As Santa Ana winds and a tightening ring of fire […]
Whether it’s a titpop or a jawbreaker, these milves are on the move!
It really is hard to explain, once you get right down to it, the things that lead to getting or giving a jawbreaker. These things just happen. I don’t know how many times I have had to convince juries of this.
Microsoft unveils "My First Porn Article" software
Redmond, WA (GP:PVO) — Software giant Microsoft today launched the Porn Article template for its Microsoft Word application. The template contains all the elements standard […]
Vicky Vette: When boobs are not enough
Erotic Scandinavian among erotic Scandinavians Vicky Vette, whose wholesome sauciness evokes the pornstars of the 90’s, is in a near dead heat with someone named […]
After the Kiss Attack, there is only silence
Kiss Attack is one of those porn movies that, characteristic of adult marketing, had a lot of pre-release hype and then was never heard from […]
Michael Ninn looks for a more congenial spot
The director Michael Ninn, known for his artful pornography, last year entered a partnership with the gentlemen’s club chain Spearmint Rhino to thematically link those […]
Striking while the iron is hot: Meet Rylie Cyris
While Gary Glitter did not forward this picture to me, and while I support creative expression as fundamental to maintaining our First Amendment Freedoms and […]
Columbia Journalism Review addresses porn megaconglomerates
With today’s announcement that Magna Publishing, parent company of furtive, raincoat-wearing gentlemen’s magazine Genesis, has purchased bestubbled, bathrobe-wearing gentlemen’s magazine Gallery, media watchers are concerned […]
Twilight of the Hustler studio
Not the Bradys XXX 2 might be the last adult movie filmed in Hustler’s warehouse and studio in Canoga Park, a building used for office […]
XRCO voting: One patriot’s story
The conversation went like this: “Grams,” said a director, “I see you’re on the voting committee for the XRCO.” “Do you mean the X-Rated Critics’ […]
Porn Screenwriting: Money Can Buy a Happy Ending
I wrote a porn screenwriting article for XBiz and it was published there a few months ago. Since then I got a complaint from a […]