“Flashpoint X”: Back(draft) to the Future
In 2007, Wicked released a tenth anniversary edition of its 1998 movie “Flashpoint.” Calling it “Flashpoint X,” the extra year was for smokiness.
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Cui Boner or: AVN is like a Rolling Stone
Ain’t it hard to discover that/He ain’t really where it’s at/After he took from you everything he could steal?/How does it feel? – Bob Dylan […]
AVN sends employees, lawsuit to XBiz
AVN yesterday filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court against rival XBiz, claiming the upstart adult trade publication misappropriated trade secrets and generated unfair competition […]
XBiz releases tell-all book
Sassy adult trade publication ingenue XBiz has released its titillating expose’ of the porn world, The State of the Industry: Researched And Revealed. I breathlessly […]
Apple to leave MacWorld for Adult Entertainment Expo
Tech watchers are up in arms about Apple’s announcement that this January’s MacWorld Expo will be its last and that founder Steve Jobs will not […]
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 […]
Black and grey Friday in the porn world, Gawker Media
The porn industry is contracting somewhat, and familiar faces at some companies are either leaving porn altogether or are moving to other companies to be […]
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 […]
Don’t go breaking my Covenant
As America’s foremost critic of pornographic and pornotextual material (it even says so on my parking space), I am often asked, upon writing an unfavorable […]
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 […]
When Black Friday comes to AVN
AVN laid off 16 employees today, including senior editor Mike Albo, long a fixture on the adult reportage scene, having previously edited Hustler’s Erotic Video […]
Mug shot revisited
Gram Ponante posts an update on a simple street assault that speaks volumes about Porn Valley’s impression of itself. “Porn is the place where, when you go there, they lack the sense of self-worth to kick you out.”
AVNAds breaks up with AdBrite
AVNAds, the completely transparent and bug-free ad-serving program that was the shadowy adult side of AdBrite, has broken from its mainstream partner, which is now […]
Industry shocker: AVN redesign doesn’t look like ass
AVN has relaunched its website and the result is impressive. Graphically, the site is less busy than it was before, and videos do not play […]
XBiz Summer Forum ’07 in review
Whenever I go to any kind of convention, the rhythmic motions of my neck, like the waters of Solaris, conspire to turn my ID necklace […]
New copy of XBiz World contains mousepad
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Adult industry trade journal XBizWorld this month included a mousepad with its 130-page magazine, confusing a number of subscribers. “I don’t know […]
XBiz relaunch: Something about Statue of Liberty, David Lee Roth
As you well know, I should be the last person consulted about adult website design (because a world in which someone would ask me about […]
Trade mags preparing site relaunches
Because no one likes the old and used, both of the adult business’ trade publications have spent the Spring rolling their new websites to the […]
Vivid remakes The Money Shot
Six years in the wake of the AVN-financed web series The Money Shot, about the inner workings of a Porn Valley trade magazine, AVN financier […]
XBiz launches ’07 Forum, drinks
I stood on the lobby balcony of the Roosevelt Hotel and asked the following question: “Who in this room will benefit from the creation of […]