PlayboyTV.com Showcases ‘Jenna-uary’

LOS ANGELES — Adult online network PlayboyTV.com will run a month-long broadcast event showcasing Jenna Jameson and titles from the Club Jenna catalog, in what the company calls “Jenna-uary.”The month will close with two world broadcast premieres; on Jan. 31 the network will air “Janine Loves Jenna,” and on Feb. 1, “I Dream of Jenna [...]

FTC Proposes Online Behavioral Privacy

WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission today released a set of proposed principles for “online behavioral advertising” — the term the FTC has adopted for the tracking of a consumer’s online activities in furtherance of delivering advertising tailored to that consumer’s interests.“The purpose of this proposal is to encourage more meaningful and enforceable self-regulation to [...]

New Porn-Finding Tool

LOS ANGELES — SurfRecon has released in beta its new SurfRecon Law Enforcement Edition rapid-image-analysis forensic tool.SurfRecon LE allows law-enforcement agents and others to rapidly analyze, detect, review and report on any pornographic content that may exist on a suspect computer. “We are very excited to finally offer the software to the law enforcement community,” [...]

Eros Fingers Australian Sect Over Legal Funding

CANBERRA, Australia — Adult industry trade group The Eros Association has accused a conservative fundamentalist Christian group of offering to pay for legal challenges to stop an adult store in Lithgow, a city in New South Wales about 85 miles northwest of Sydney.The Lithgow City Council refused permission for Jeff Oliver to open Flirt Adult [...]

Joe Francis Vows to “Crush” Female Wine Makers

MUSKOGEE, OK — Poor, imprisoned millionaire softcore porn mogul, Joe Francis. The guy just can’t catch a break. The way he sees it, everyone is out to get him because of his money. Everybody just wants a piece of him – or at least a piece of his fame. Because of this, he is prepared [...]

Filipino Legislator Proposes Anti-Cybersex Bill

PAMPANGA, Philippines — Representative Carmelo Lazatin has proposed a bill to the Philippine House of Representatives that would impose fines on individuals participating in online sexual activity.Called “An act prohibiting cyber sex, prostitution and pornography in the Philippines, providing penalties for its violation and for other purposes,” or House Bill (HB) 3190, the legislation would [...]

Young Adults Accept Porn More Than Parents Do

WORCESTER, Mass. – College students, including women, are far more accepting of pornography than their parents are, according to findings reported Thursday by Jeffrey Arnett, editor of the Journal of Adolescent Research. Though 31 percent of the young women studied said they viewed porn and only 3.2 percent said they did so daily or nearly [...]

AIM’s Sharon Mitchell Speaks on NPR

WASHINGTON — AIM director Dr. Sharon Mitchell was a featured guest on National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition” hosted by Scott Simon.Simon interviewed Mitchell on the topic of health care in the adult industry, prefacing the discussion by saying that when most people think of adult films they expect “a string of plotless, pointless couplings” and [...]

Texas Town to Swingers: “Not in our backyard!”

DUNCANVILLE, TX — The suburban Dallas town of Duncanville has followed Phoenix, AZ and other American cities in effectively outlawing swinger parties by banning “live sex shows” within residential neighborhoods — and it only took 10 years. Blame it on the Cherry Pit, an on-premises “lifestyle” club in an upscale neighborhood near I-20. For at [...]

Joanna Angel Signs Mainstream Distro Deal for ‘Horror Porn’ Titles

LOS ANGELES — Burning Angel founder Joanna Angel has struck a deal with indie production/distribution company Halo-8 Entertainment for exclusive worldwide rights to distribute R-rated/mainstream versions of adult titles “The XXXorchist” and “Re-Penetrator.”The titles will be packaged as “The Sick and Twisted Horror of Joanna Angel” and will be distributed through a partnership between Halo-8 [...]