So if porn’e legality isn’t in question—only its parameters—why is there still a stigma to performing, consuming, or creating porn?

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, [...]

You want to fuck a stranger? Go to the In-n-Out parking lot like everyone else. But if you want a porn movie in which performers pretend to be fucking strangers, well, “Midnight Prowl” is almost as seedy.

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

The only thing obscene in the Stagliano indictment is the time and money the government is wasting harassing innocent people.

Nina Hartley, Carol Queen, and Lamalani, International Ms. Leather 2009, will grace a fundraiser Saturday night for the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes sexual freedom as a fundamental human right. This is the first L.A. event for the Washington D.C.-based advocacy group, said spokesman Jim Rea, and he encourages members of the [...]

Anyone who has ever attended an adult awards show knows that there is no possible way for them to be improved. When one looks up “perfection” in the dictionary, one is greeted with an image of Max Hardcore’s dates to the AVN Awards. But that’s not a Japanese dictionary. Because the Land of the Rising [...]

Notable events this week: Now that Vivid has become vulgar, I wonder if Max Hardcore is going to start directing tender jailhouse features with character development and feelings? You know a movie is classy when they even hire extras to pick up Riley Steele’s towels Ryder Skye can lift her own weight Sadie West picks [...]

Notable events this week: XBiz commissioned a firm to create the glossy State of the Industry: Researched And Revealed! pamphlet which also makes projections of the shape of things to come. Chapters deal with the problems posed by free content online, the dwindling DVD market, and the schism in the industry about what defines a [...]

Max Hardcore will report to California’s Lompoc Penitentiary in eight days, finally convicted of obscenity. You don’t have to like what Hardcore does to find this ridiculous. That Hardcore has detractors in the Department of Justice is clear, but he also has a number of them in the adult industry, who draw a line between [...]

Porn star Anastasia Blue, 28, who stopped performing several years ago to settle down in Bremerton, Washington, has died. Blue, to whom a tribute was printed by her husband in Washington’s Kitsap Sun here (under her real name), died on July 19. In April of last year I was sent a re-released copy of Max [...]

The AVN Awards show gets bigger every year, and this January the event was covered by Showtime, which is getting chummier and chummier with the adult industry and which recently broadcast the event. Here are some images from the show. “You’re one of those people I want to rescue,” Dave Navarro said to Joanna Angel. [...]

If one were to download the PDF version of this year’s AVN nominations in 120 categories it would result in a document 58 pages long. By contrast, the 1984 awards contained only 18 categories. The big winner that year was Scoundrels, about the consequences of adultery. Today we commit adultery over coffee. This reflects both [...]

Max Hardcore is releasing his back catalog through JM Productions, so the other day I watched a scene between Max and Inari Vachs that was shot in November, 1997. I like Max Hardcore because he’s up front about being evil. He doesn’t talk about making porn for “the kids” and doesn’t adopt a paternal attitude; [...]