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The Mistique is no Mystery
Most Americans get their news and information from a few shallow reservoirs of knowledge, primarily newspapers, tabloids, television and movies. About other countries and cultures — even ones as putatively close as America’s largest trading partner, Japan — the American public knows precious little.
U.K. Lawmakers Push for Online Age Verification
Internet retailers may soon face hefty fines or prison sentences if they fail to implement age verification procedures that will ensure their customers are of a legal age to purchase a wide variety of products and services.
Chef Jeff Makes Lemonade
If luck is when preparation meets opportunity, Geoff Mena of iBangPornstars is a lucky man.
New York Lawmakers Target Online Violence
New York lawmakers are now targeting what they erroneously refer to as online "violence porn" — which is material that graphically depicts criminal assaults, such as the popular high-school "cat fight" videos seen on YouTube.
Asian Invasion: 154 Years and Counting
On March 31, 1854, Commodore Perry negotiated the first treaty between Japan and the United States. Within 90 years, Japan had industrialized sufficiently to win the Russo-Japanese War, invade mainland China, march through the Far East and then, in 1941, bomb Pearl Harbor. Then World War II commenced.
Marketing Alt-Porn
As the adult Internet becomes increasingly competitive, some adult webmasters will inevitably broaden their focus in the hope of attracting new customers. For some, diversifying might mean getting into alternative porn.
The Sound and Fury
The debate pitting social responsibility against commercial viability vis-à-vis sexually explicit content seems never louder than when someone tosses a mention of so-called "extreme" content into the middle of it.
Tube Life
This time it was Twistys turn to publicize their position with regard to Tube sites. Shap did the dirty work and expressed his company's stance very articulately on GFY. Still, as expected, he was immediately set upon by the mob as if he'd just announced the opening of a child porn brokerage. Others leaped to his defense.
Is Bootleg Porn Threatening National Security?
Of all the headlines coming from the "war on terror," one that hasn't had much media play is the security threat posed by illegal file traders and bootleg-porn DVD collectors within the U.S. armed forces.
L.A. Times Covers Calif. Bid to Tax Porn
A May 8 Los Angeles Times article suggests that because of the state's expected $20 billion budget shortfall several normally far fetched California tax proposals introduced this year actually have a chance of being approved by the divided legislature.
Combating Piracy
Recently, XBIZ World Magazine asked several industry players "Which do you think will be most effective in combating content piracy — taking legal action against pirates, a technological solution, or some combination of both?"
The XBIZ Weekly Retail Round-Up
The weekly collection of articles reporting on local laws and battles that affect today's adult retailers.
ATM Virtual Offers MILF Sex Harem
ATM Virtual has announced its release of adult mature niche website MILFSexHarem.com.
The Picticon Offers a New Look
Edge Interactive Publishing has announced the release of a "new look" for its venerable website, the Picticon.
Branding a Star
Every girl in this business has a story of how she wound up here. Their journeys into the world of XXX film range from getting in through a friend, to looking for an easy way to make a quick buck, to spreading their legs to get back at a boyfriend or some other strange reason.
XBIZ to Conduct Adult Entertainment Market Research Program
XBIZ today announced the launch of XBIZ Research, a survey-driven study program that will ascertain and address through expert analysis market trends that are of inherent interest to the adult entertainment industry.
Does Size Matter?
Some seem to think the skin biz is now on the cusp of a new stage in its evolution from small independent websites to massive networks of megasites, much the same way that mom-and-pop-type brick-and-mortar video rental businesses gave way to publicly traded corporations 20 years ago.
Australian Bishops Urge Government to Ban Internet Porn
Australian Bishops have issued a new call to action titled "Internet Safety: A Pastoral Letter from the Catholic Bishops of Australia," a missive that takes special aim at Internet pornography, calling it "...one of the most evil uses of the Internet."
dotMobi Requests Proposals for find.mobi
Mobile solutions company dotMobi, the organization behind the .mobi Internet domain name for mobile phones and the dev.mobi developer forum, has announced that it is accepting proposals for find.mobi, a mobile search tool for consumers.
Rodney Moore
Rodney Moore has a lot of firsts on his résumé. He was among the early pioneers of both POV and gonzo. His eponymous website was part of the first wave of cybersexuality and has been serving it up nonstop since 1997. In Internet time, that's the Stone Age.