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Playboy began with a photograph its subject never agreed to publish and did not profit from, and it ends — for now — as a licensing company that prints a magazine once a year. The seventy-year run between those two points is the story.
Read guideWhat the X3 Expo actually is, how the fan-facing adult conventions differ from the trade shows they get confused with, and what a day at one is really like on both sides of the booth.
Read guideA trend list written in early 2022, re-opened four years later to see which of its predictions survived contact with reality. Two became permanent industry fixtures, one died with the lockdowns, and one was never a trend at all.
Read guidePeople are wonderful; people are weird. Perhaps one of the best ways you can see that would be by looking at all of the various sexual fetishes and other crazy shit that people are into. Even after all of that research and writing I am still never surprised by the individual stories that crop up all of the time from around the world.
Read guidePride did not start at Stonewall, and the parts of the story that get skipped are the ones that explain why the month looks the way it does now — from picket lines with a dress code to a corporate float.
Read guideThe 38th AVN Awards were handed out over a stream instead of in a Las Vegas ballroom, honouring a year in which production stopped entirely and then restarted as something different. That context outlasts the results list, and it is what this page covers instead.
Read guideIt’s a strange world that we live in, and I’ve often found that trends in porn reflect this. Naturally, people’s taste in porn and sex, in general, fluctuates all of the time. Now I’ve covered trends in the adult industry before, but 2020 seems to be unusually strange. For a while, I have sensed this, but only recently have I put the work into looking up the sorts of sexual appetites that have emerged in the past few months. So, after poking around the net, I’ve found some fascinating trends.
Read guideThe 2021 version of this story treated a children's platform's moderation failure as a curiosity. What followed — an investigative report, a short-seller campaign, a wave of state lawsuits and mandatory facial age checks — turned it into the clearest test case yet of whether a platform built for kids can police adult contact.
Read guideLarry Flynt died on 10 February 2021, aged 78. The version of this article that ran at the time credited his obscenity conviction to a Supreme Court case he was not party to, and gave two paragraphs to a libel suit he actually won on a point that still protects political satire today. Here is the corrected account.
Read guideThe cap on token purchases is a payment-risk control rather than a policy decision, which changes what can be done about it — there is one route that raises it and several circulating shortcuts that cost you the balance instead.
Read guideNot everyone can travel to Las Vegas because of the viral outbreak, but ticket sales are now over for the 2020 AVN Awards Show, even if you can. But with all of the drama of ’20 for the first time, Adult Video News is going to digitally stream the whole experience. So now we can all enjoy seeing who has won what. Being the porn connoisseur that I am, I have a particular interest for two reasons. Of course, I have a personal interest but also to conveniently pull up more suggestions for pornos and performers to advertise to you guys.
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