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Articles by Colin Rowntree

Candida Royalle Memorial Celebrates Industry Pioneer, Icon

A gathering of more than 300 people on Sunday attended a memorial service titled “A Life of Passion And Purpose” at Judson Memorial Church to celebrate the life of Candice Vadala, better known to the adult entertainment industry as pioneer feminist adult performer and director Candida Royalle.

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UPDATED: Porn Industry - Come To New Hampshire!

[An Update at the bottom of this page from

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Baby It’s Cold Outside! Time To Surf For Porn.

As most of us in North America have noticed, "Climate Change" has come down like a hammer on most of the US and Canada this winter with snowstorms, ice storms and temperatures dipping below ZERO in most parts of our realm the past couple of months

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Are B2B Holiday Gifts A Thing Of The Past?

Having been around Adult for about 20 years now, one thing I have noticed sort of bugs me

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When a Pic Is No Longer Worth a Thousand Words

Just when I suspected that Twitter had finally destroyed the art of writing with a maximum length of 140 abbreviated characters (117 if you include a link), in comes Google!

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Forbes Reports Google's Illegal Revenue Over $1 Billion. Porn at Risk Again.

Last month, another distasteful use of your personal information by Google 

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Facebook Censorship Hits The ACLU – The Epitome Of Irony

Between Google, Wikipedia, Bing, RedBook and the Ladies Home Journal, there aren't many mainstream media or tech outlets that haven't stuck an angry finger up the butt of Porn lately to supress it, take away its traffic and simply be annoying in a destructive way

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Censorship News: Adult eBooks took the hit this week in an awful way.

Yes

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Government Shutdown Gives Porn Industry A Boost?

I could have seen this development coming a mile away when it became apparent that over 820,000 U

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Fembot Genre Comes Alive

Over the past 19 years in producing adult entertainment, I’ve had the pleasure to collaborate with and develop quite a number of genres and delivery platforms that “thought outside the box” and brought new and innovative products and styles to viewers.

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Penetrating Into Mainstream

When XBIZ World requested that I write an article about the remarkable results adult marketers have when achieving mainstream attention in connection with their websites, services and hard good products, I thought it would be a great idea to co-write this piece with Wasteland’s longtime publicist, Brian Gross, who has been one of the keys to our success in “crossing over” into mainstream media over the years. Our greatest success in the last year in these efforts has been getting positive mainstream media attention on our now 11-year-old erotica and entertainment for women, Sssh.com.

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When Worlds Collide: ABC TV Covers Sssh.Com and Mommy Porn On Nightline

I've been in this biz since 1994 and thought I had seen it all

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Trade Show Survival Hints!

And, once again, we all head to XBizLA and whatever other shows that we need to attend in the New Year!  We all love going to see our B2B partners and affiliates

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Unsung Heros: Liam at PinkVisual

It's been a while since I posted to this "Unsung Heros" column at XBiz

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Unsung Heros: Joanna Angel's Crew

Okay, so this one is not really "unsung" as Joanna is possibly one of the best exposed adult entertainers in the biz right now

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Unsung Heroes Of Adult Part 1: Theresa "Darklady" Reed

Unsung Hero (noun): a person who makes a substantive yet often unrecognized contribution; a person whose bravery is unknown or unacknowledged

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Dot-XXX Fear and Loathing at the Phoenix Forum

Hunter Thompson was not there, but the Dot-XXX session was every bit as macabre as anything he could have penned! Like a pinball machine that alternated between vitriolic, dark humor, politicians caught in a lie, and outright "just plain strange", this seminar was without a doubt the most surreal and difficult one I have moderated in the past 15 years of doing such at adult conferences and trade shows

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XBiz Awards.... A Night To Remember

Just a few musings about this upcoming event

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Adult Trade Shows: Where's The Cheese?

Okay, that was a strange headline, but here you are! Colin here, doing a little historic tour of adult industry trade shows from beginning to end, and why we keep going to these events

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opinion

Dot XXX -- The Movie!

I had the pleasure to participate in a satire film project written by adult entertainment industry writer and pundit, Darklady recently which has culminated in a short film about the Dot-XXX story from an adult industry perspective

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