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Articles by Serena West

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Toxic Novelties

As consumers are becoming better informed and more discriminating about the health implications of what they eat, aficionados of sex-enhancing toys are discovering that there are products they may not want to insert into their or their partners' nether regions.

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opinion

Blog Squad Hits Stride

The number of blogs on the Internet, which doubles every few months, is well into eight digits by now. How many, exactly, is anyone's guess, but at least a handful of this newfound "Adult Blog Squad" — some of whom seem to have lives, some who probably don't — regularly take on the business of pornography. Here's a roundup of a few popular sites.

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profile

Babeland Offers Workshops

If universities awarded Ph.D. degrees in the care and feeding of erogenous zones, you'd have to refer to every staffer at Babeland as Doc.

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opinion

Beyond the DVD

If the grimy storefront in the red-light district carrying nothing but movies and stroke books is the stereotype of adult emporia from the past, the well-lighted, carpeted shop with an open floor plan is rapidly becoming the template for adult entertainment stores of the 21st century.

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opinion

Get Your Movies in Stores

If you build it, they will come," said the voice in "Field of Dreams," but that doesn't necessarily apply to producers of adult films unless they've landed effective distribution.

Serena West ·
opinion

Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD

There's a storm brewing over the next generation of high-definition video, and the entire entertainment industry is waiting to find out whether it will hit U.S. shores as a Category 5 or fizzle out at sea.

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