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Porn Stars Decry Piracy in New Video (SFW) | Threat Level | Wired.com
 Piracy Is Naughty: Porn Stars 
Apr 30, 2010 12:55 PM CDT

Piracy Is Naughty: Porn Stars

Video of porn stars far less fun than you were hoping

(Newser) - The adult entertainment industry wants you to know you've been a very bad boy if you've downloaded its movies without paying. And for some inexplicable reason, the industry has chosen to deliver this message in a video shot entirely from the neck up, in which various porn stars offer gravely...

Porn Stars, It's Time to Wear Rubbers
 Porn Stars, It's 
 Time to Wear Rubbers 
in case you missed it
Apr 11, 2010 4:58 PM CDT

Porn Stars, It's Time to Wear Rubbers

Condom move would humanize stars, help public health

(Newser) - Put on the condom already, porn industry, writes Kent Sepkowitz. Sheathing up will be a positive public health move, and could even humanize actors we can’t seem to consider as the same species as us. California is considering a request to force the industry to rubber up in the...

Why It's Time to Take Online Dating Seriously

Infographic shows how far industry has come

(Newser) - It's time to take online dating seriously. Seriously. It's now a $1.049 billion a year industry used by 40 million Americans—236 of whom get married every day, according eHarmony. That would amount to 2% of all US marriages, notes this infographic from OnlineSchools.org. Other fun facts:

.xxx Porn Sites May Be Coming Soon

Icann to revisit proposal for adult domain name

(Newser) - If your plans to buy www.johndoe.xxx were hopelessly derailed when Icann reversed a decision to start selling .xxx domain names, never fear: The Internet’s governing body is set to revisit that ruling. “If the contract is signed, we could be selling names by the end of...

How to Save the Porn Industry



 How to Save the Porn Industry 
OPINION
Mar 2, 2010 9:30 PM CST

How to Save the Porn Industry

Going 3-D, diversifying, working in the Wii among ideas

(Newser) - This week’s 50th anniversary of the Playboy Bunny finds the porn industry in a bad way: It’s more popular than ever, yet fewer are actually paying to see skin. The Wrap has some suggestions:
  • Go 3-D: “I think that if they can get the 3-D mixed with
...

'Tube' Sites a Nightmare for Porn Industry

YouTube knockoffs stream pirated content for free

(Newser) - The supposedly recession-proof porn industry is hemorrhaging money, as pay websites and DVD producers lose business to free "tube" sites. Porn knock-offs of YouTube, the tubes provide free snippets of adult videos—much of which is pirated from the major studios—and run ads to make money. The number...

John Mayer's Next Gig: Porn Writer?

Vivid Entertainment extends offer after 'Playboy' interview

(Newser) - John Mayer’s public image may be in the toilet, but his controversial Playboy interview did score him one positive: The chance to live out his “dream” of writing pornography. Vivid Entertainment, the company that has made overtures to such class acts as Tiger Woods, Carrie Prejean, and Octomom,...

iPad Leaves Porn Connoisseurs Flat
 iPad Leaves Porn 
 Connoisseurs Flat 


OPINION
Jan 28, 2010 2:34 AM CST

iPad Leaves Porn Connoisseurs Flat

Size, content limits iPorn on iPad

(Newser) - The iPad looks unlikely to be changing the porn industry the way Internet-enabled computers and smartphones did—and not just because you need both hands to hold it. The device is designed to download from Apple's app store, the iTunes store, and the iBooks store, none of which are any...

Next Up in 3D: Porn
 Next Up in 3D: Porn 
Jan 11, 2010 10:35 AM CST

Next Up in 3D: Porn

New 3D porn company unveils service at Adult Entertainment Expo

(Newser) - 3D is coming to Hollywood blockbusters, to home theaters—and to porn. Pointing out that the adult entertainment industry has been a driving force behind the adoption of past technologies including VHS, satellite television, and the Internet, a producer from Bad Girls In 3D at this weekend’s Adult Entertainment...

New Travel Trend: Porn Vacations
 New Travel Trend: 
 Porn Vacations 
STRANGE trips
Dec 30, 2009 2:58 PM CST

New Travel Trend: Porn Vacations

Participants help out behind the scenes, and sometimes on camera

(Newser) - If Club Med is too boring for you, why not try a new vacation idea in 2010: Porn Week. The travel company offers tourists the chance to watch a porn movie being made, with the bonus opportunity of helping out behind the scenes—or, in the case of a few...

Porn Star Tera Patrick Not Into Sex: Ex
 Porn Star 
 Tera Patrick 
 Not Into Sex: Ex 
CAREER MISMATCHES
Dec 22, 2009 8:56 AM CST

Porn Star Tera Patrick Not Into Sex: Ex

She says they broke up because he picked porn over her

(Newser) - Sounds like someone's in the wrong business: Tera Patrick, half of the now-separated "first couple of porn," is "not a sexual person," ex Evan Seinfeld says, telling the New York Post , "We barely had sex in our own marriage." Seinfeld's comments came after Patrick...

Free Tomorrow in LA? Karaoke With Porn Stars

If you're in the industry, or want to be, hit Sardo's on Tuesday

(Newser) - Karaoke and porn are about as popular as pastimes get—and if you’re free tomorrow night you can combine ‘em at a Los Angeles-area bar. Industry types started hanging out at Sardo’s —which also hosts G-rated Family Fridays—a few years ago, and now on Tuesdays,...

Porn Co. to Prejean: We'll Make You a Star

Says Carrie could score millions off sex tapes

(Newser) - Carrie Prejean’s eight so-called “sex tapes” could earn her millions of dollars—in the porn industry. Vivid Entertainment re-extended a helping hand to Prejean—when the company first offered her $1 million to do a porno, all she had to her name was a topless photo. Now that...

Porn Doesn't Have to Ruin Sex
 Porn Doesn't Have to Ruin Sex 
OPINION
Nov 11, 2009 1:57 PM CST

Porn Doesn't Have to Ruin Sex

But only if guys remember it's entertainment, not an educational tool

(Newser) - Porn’s been getting a bad rap of late for turning men into bad lovers. But it’s really the guys’ fault, not the porn, writes Cord Jefferson . A Nielsen survey reports that a third of visitors to XXX websites are women, so clearly porn itself isn’t a definitive...

Boys 'Pornified' From Birth
 Boys 'Pornified' From Birth 
raunch culture
Nov 11, 2009 1:22 PM CST

Boys 'Pornified' From Birth

Males encouraged from birth to be sex maniacs

(Newser) - Lyn Brown and Sharon Lamb determined in their 2006 book Packaging Girlhood that our culture conditions girls early on to behave as sexual objects. But what about boys? In their new book, the researchers take a look at the other side of the playground and find that the “stark...

Parks Boss Had 3400 Porn Pics; Feds Avert Gaze

Report overlooks Gettysburg chief's thing for on-the-job sex shots

(Newser) - A federal investigative report has cleared a parks official even though he pored over thousands of porn pics on his computer while he was supposed to be working. The superintendent of the popular Gettysburg National Military Park was cleared of misconduct accusations linked to financial dealings with the Gettysburg Foundation,...

Crowds Flock to Church's 'Porn Talk'

Former sex film producer among the speakers at Christian anti-porn forum

(Newser) - Over a thousand people are descending on an Atlanta-area church this weekend for 3 days of talks on pornography, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The "Porn Talk" event, one of many put on by anti-porn Christian group XXXchurch.com, seeks to address the harm pornography is doing to children, families,...

Fired Teacher 'Leah Lust' Turns to Porn

After 2500 rejected resumes, Shepherd is 'My first sex teacher'

(Newser) - The biology teacher sacked by a Florida high school for posing in racy bikini pics has found a new line of work: porn. Unable to land a new teaching job after sending out 2,500 resumes, Tiffany Shepherd, 31, is now earning a living as "Leah Lust" in films...

Internet Freebies Whack Porn Biz

(Newser) - The American porn movie biz is not so hot anymore, and the recession isn't the only reason. Porn entrepreneurs say free content on the Internet is horning in on their business, reports the Los Angeles Times. "The opportunities in this industry really are disappearing," said a star of...

Ladies, It's Time to Enjoy Porn
 Ladies, It's Time to Enjoy Porn 
OPINION
Jul 24, 2009 1:59 PM CDT

Ladies, It's Time to Enjoy Porn

Female audience for adult films is growing

(Newser) - For years, women have “been told that we won’t—or shouldn’t—be turned on by porn,” but that can, and should, change, writes Violet Blue for Oprah.com. If you just can’t get into the “hokeyness—the ridiculous costumes, the awful cinematography, the ludicrous...

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