Adult entertainment news

2003-12-08T15:04:00.000+01:00

The Net Effect on Porn

If you're an adult magazine publisher, you may not be able to figure out which way is up these days.

As Playboy magazine celebrates its 50th anniversary this month, Penthouse magazine's publisher has filed for bankruptcy. Playboy has seen its magazine sales dip, but its online sales and subscriptions have risen.

Most would probably blame the Internet for porn magazines' declining success. But tonight on "Tech Live," see why not everyone's blaming the Web. In fact, the answer may lie in the surprising success of a lesbian porn magazine called On Our Backs.

The Audit Bureau of Circulations, the leading circulation-tracking organization, indicates Penthouse circulation has dropped from nearly 1 million to just less than 570,000 in the last few years. Playboy has dropped by nearly 50,000. No surprise there. The Internet is where free porn thrives, and a crop of competitors showing scantily clad women have cropped up in recent years.

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2003-12-06T14:56:00.000+01:00

Women needed to test orgasm machine

No, really. An American surgeon who has patented a device that triggers an orgasm has begun a clinical trial approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States and is looking for female volunteers.

"I thought people would be beating my door down to become part of the trial," pain specialist Dr Stuart Meloy told New Scientist magazine on Wednesday.

But so far only one woman has completed the first stage of the trial, with apparently breathtaking results, and a second has agreed to take part.

Meloy, of Piedmont Anesthesia and Pain Consultants in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is hoping to find eight more volunteers willing to have electrodes inserted in their spine and be connected to a pacemaker-size machine implanted under the skin to heighten their sexual pleasure.

The married woman who tested the machine, dubbed an orgasmatron, had not had an orgasm for four years. But during the nine days she used it, she had several.

"She even told me she had the first multiple orgasm of her life using the device," said Meloy.

He stumbled on the unexpected side-effect while using a spinal cord stimulator a few years ago to treat a patient suffering with severe back pain. The woman had already had back surgery for degenerative disk disease and fusion surgery.

When Meloy placed the electrodes into a specific spot on her spine to find nerve bundles carrying pain signals to the brain, she moaned with delight.

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2003-12-03T14:54:00.000+01:00

AVN Award Nominations Announced

The nominations for the 2004 AVN Awards were announced last week. They contain some fresh faces as well as some legends, works by established studios and by start ups, and even some new categories.

The winners will be announced at the 21st annual AVN Awards show to be held on January 10, 2004 in at the Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Multiple AVN Award-winner Jenna Jameson will host the event for her third time, joined by Jim Norton, an East Coast comic who draws large audiences all over the country.

"This is Jenna's third year hosting the show and she's her popularity is just amazing, so she'll be a great host," Gary Miller, the producer of the AVN Awards show said. "And Jim Norton will be great compliment for her, he really gets the idea of what we're doing and he's definitely into it."

"And he's hilarious," Miller added.

One of the show's musical guest will be hip-hop artist Lil' Jon, performing his hit song "Get Low," with special guests the Ying Yang twins. "Get Low" has been on the Billboard charts for 33 weeks, and at one time was the number one song in the country. More musical acts will be named before the show.

"This will be our best year ever. We have higher quality production equipment and staff than we've ever had before," Miller said.

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2003-12-01T14:55:00.000+01:00

Pro-Family Spokesman: Yahoo Still Portal For Porn Trade

A Family Research Council (www.frc.org) spokesman says contrary to some media reports one of the world's largest internet portal companies never got out of the porn business. In fact, the popular internet services company has actually expanded in that area.

At least one newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, recently reported that, under pressure from pro-family groups, Yahoo had taken steps to distance itself from pornography. But Pat Trueman, senior advisor at the Family Research Council, contends that this is simply not true. In reality, he says, Yahoo is continuing to enable pedophiles to carry on their sordid activities online.

"What they never got out of," Trueman says, "and what they continue to build are the clubs people can join for free that distribute hardcore pornography and child pornography." The center's spokesman says one of the ways these clubs work is by using provocative names that would entice someone to join, such as 'Young Girls for Older Men.'"

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2003-11-26T12:43:00.000+01:00

TV Report Might Hurt Child Porn Probe: ASACP

A television news report on child pornography may include information on howadult Internet affiliate programs are being used unwittingly by child porn Websites for billing purposes. This has Adult Sites Against Child Pornography and its founder concerned that such a report might potentially affect a current investigation in which the founder and his own Web company are cooperating with law enforcement.

The piece was believed likely to run on Los Angeles's Fox News affiliate's nighttime news report November 24.

"It appears they're doing a piece covering the topic of child porn, the Internet and search engines," said Alec Helmy of Helmy Enterprises to AVN.com "But we're not sure what will be reported. They may also cover affiliate programs and how established programs could be utilized by child porn operators to bill their customers."

Helmy said the child porn investigation in question began when he learned, by way of an ASACP report, that an affiliate to his own Web operation had been dealing in child porn. That prompted Helmy and his staff to check out the site and report it immediately to law enforcement, which continues to investigate.

"It's ironic that this situation would come about to the very company that founded ASACP," Helmy said. But Helmy also said his company has handled this situation more readily than a smaller program could have. "If this would have happened to another program with absolutely no history of actively supporting the fight against hild pornography," he said, "all of a sudden it turns into a much more dangerous situation."

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2003-11-26T12:40:00.000+01:00

Porn In The U.S.A.

Selling sex is one of the oldest businesses in the world, and right now, business has never been better. One of the biggest cultural changes in the United States over the past 25 years has been the widespread acceptance of sexuality explicit material - pornography. In the space of a generation, a product that once was available in the back alleys of big cities has gone corporate, delivered now directly into homes and hotel rooms by some of the biggest companies in the U.S. It is estimated that Americans now spend somewhere around $10 billion a year on adult entertainment, which is as much as they spend attending professional sporting events, buying music or going out to the movies.

Consumer demand is so strong that it has seduced some of America's biggest brand names, and companies like General Motors, Marriott and Time Warner are now making millions selling erotica to America. Correspondent Steve Kroft reports.
The best place to see it is at the industry's annual convention in Las Vegas, where more than 200 adult entertainment companies gather under one roof to network, schmooze and show off their latest wares.

Presiding over it all is Paul Fishbein, the founder and president of adult video news, the industry's trade publication, which sponsors the expo.

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2003-11-26T12:36:00.000+01:00

Erotica to disappear from Dutch TV

Following the lead of commercial television broadcaster SBS, competitor RTL 5 will also abandon its "erotica" programmes, signalling the end to the soft porn era on Dutch free-to-air TV.

Programme manager Jaap Hofman said RTL will finish its current series of Sex Court, Latin Lover and Van Lichte Zeden (Of Easy Morals), but will not purchase the rights to new sex material.

He said the station still has enough erotica on the bottom shelf to continue broadcasting for a short while next year, but when the current supply has been used, its soft porn broadcasts will officially come to an end.

"Sex on TV has had its best days. We just don't need it anymore," Hofman said.

The move represents an end to almost 20 years of soft porn on Dutch TV. Viewers in the Netherlands have for years en masse watched programmes such as Pin Up Club, Seks voor de Büch, Adult tv, De Wallen op Stap, 7 lives exposed, Vegas Nights, Webcam Girls, Erotic Dreams and Hollywood Sex.

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2003-11-25T14:17:00.000+01:00

Cross Town Traffic

When dealing with your traffic management, apart from a few straightforward rules or 'guidelines' about how to best reference your site, the rest depends on you! Sounds scary doesn't it? When it comes to traffic, you are the master of your universe. Ok, so it obviously helps if you've got a stack of dollar bills the height of Sears tower to work with, but as John Claude Van Damn would say, it's all about being "aware".

When you hear about some traffic for sale that interests you, make sure you do a test run with a sample. And I don't mean that the guy sends you 50 email addresses if you're about to buy 1 million. Any honest partner will give you at least a sample of 100 or 200k if you're about to buy 1 million addresses. Getting these samples for free will depend on whether you can convince the guy that you're interested in developing a "strategic partnership" with his company. In simpler terms this means that if the first batch converts well, and if he has more on sale later on, then you'd be more than happy to continue buying. Or reversibly, if ever you have traffic to sell, which you think may interest him, then you'd be happy to make him a nice deal. If he thinks the partnership with you is going to be a good investment for him, then there should be no problem in getting the sample for free.

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2003-11-25T14:14:00.000+01:00

ADULT INDUSTRY UPDATE

Insiders recently revealed that President George W. Bush has tapped some of the adult industry's sworn enemies for potential appointment as the nation's "Porn Czar." The prime suspect is Bruce A. Taylor, an infamous censor and President of the National Law Center for Children and Families, ("NLC"). Others under consideration are Patrick Truman of the American Family Association and J. Robert Flores, also with the NLC.

These potential appointments should come as no surprise, as Bush took an aggressive stance against erotica during his campaign, saying, "Porn has no place in a decent society." One source predicts that thirty or more companies will be targeted by the Justice Department in the short term. There is also widespread speculation that the content depicted in modern adult films will change, in reaction to the potential appointments. On the list of endangered scenes are food used as sex objects, urination, coffins, blindfolds, interracial and, of course, "the money shot." Not all industry participants are ducking for cover, however. Rob Black of Extreme Associates was recently quoted as saying, "I'm not going to hide in the closed. I'm not going to stop anything."

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2003-11-24T11:08:00.000+01:00

Porn: Gen Y's New Black?

Porn is the New Black is an X-rated music video, and editor John d'Addario says it's the official theme song for Fleshbot, the sex-eccentric blog he launched last week. Part of the Gawker Media family of Weblogs, it got 10 times more traffic in its first week than any previous Gawker title, according to publisher Nick Denton.

For a certain young, urban segment (catnip to fashion and beverage marketers) porn is as chic, and as integral to the lifestyle, as iPods and camera phones. The Web's where they find it.

A recent comScore Media Metrix study found U.S. males in the juicy 18 to 35 age group spend 17 percent more time online than the general population. 'Younger adults are used to getting all their information online -- not just porn,' says d'Addario. "When they think of getting any kind of information, the first thing they think of is heading to the Web."

The Web is just a better medium for risque content, says Steve Outing, senior editor for the Poynter Institute. 'How can the print version of Penthouse or Screw compete against something where you can have on-demand video?' he asks.

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2003-11-22T00:43:00.000+01:00

Pornography is an addiction as powerful as alcohol or gambling.

There's an episode of Friends - 'The One With The Free Porn' - in which Chandler and Joey discover they have tuned into a porn channel. And it's free. They leave the TV on, afraid switching off will mean no more pornography.

By the end of the episode, Chandler is seeing the world through porn-tinted spectacles. 'I was just at the bank,' he complains, 'and the teller didn't ask me to go do it with her in the vault.' Joey, bewildered, reports a similar reaction from the pizza-delivery girl. 'You know what,' decides Chandler, 'we have to turn off the porn.'

As a society, however, we are further from turning off the porn than we have ever been. Pornography is everywhere - it masquerades as 'gentlemen's entertainment' in the form of clubs, it infiltrates advertising and there are even plans to send it to mobile phones. In the US, with the pornography industry bringing in up to $US15 billion ($A21 billion) annually, people spend more on porn every year than they do on movie tickets and all the performing arts combined. Each year, in Los Angeles alone, more than 10,000 hardcore pornographic films are made, against an annual Hollywood average of 400 movies.

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2003-11-21T11:24:00.000+01:00

Laystation.Com Brings New Visual Browsing System To VOD

Laystation and Game Link, Inc. today announced the establishment of Laystation.com, a new visual browsing system that provides viewers with a more effective and user-friendly experience to locate adult video-on-demand (VOD). Laystation.com enhances Game Link's massive collection of VOD products with image-based search results and an intuitive user interface.

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2003-11-19T10:33:00.000+01:00

2004 XBiz Awards nominations announced

XBiz is pleased to announce the nominees for the highly anticipated 2004 XBiz Awards. The XBiz Awards celebrate the most successful, innovative and accomplished companies in the adult industry. The nominees are:

Best Affiliate Program: ARS, CE Cash, Adult Lounge, Light Speed Cash; Best Content Provider: Video Secrets, Sexentertain, Hustler Content, 1st Content; Best Billing Service: CCBill, Epoch Systems, Goodthinxx, Netbilling; Best Web Host: Webair, Jupiter Hosting, ISprime, NationalNet; Best Design Service: Webinc, Dickmans Design, Blue Design Studios, Wyldesites; Most Innovative Product: AuctionPoints, BoardTracker, StatsRemote, MPA2; People's Choice: Go Fuck Yourself, Cybersocket, XNations, All Of 'Em; Industry Achievement Award: To Be Annouced at Award Show

All winners will be announced on January 6th, 2004 at the 2004 XBiz Awards Show being held at The Joint/Hard Rock Hotel & Casino during the InterNext convention in Las Vegas.

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2003-11-17T11:24:00.000+01:00

ARS signs new advertisers, new referral deal

Advertising Revenue Service (ARS) announces that the addition of the following advertisers: Anonymizer, Inc., a developer of privacy products and services for Web browsing; NextWeb Media, the Web's leading provider of health supplements; and Adult Stars Magazine's Video On-Demand product has joined its advertiser program. Additionally, ARS will pay publishers (webmaster affiliates in our lingo) $350 for each referred advertiser who joins the ARS program. Publishers will receive $38 and 20 ARS reward points for each purchase of Total Net Shield, Anonymizer's best-selling privacy package. NextWeb Media will be offering ARS publishers the opportunity to promote and profit from sales of Maxicor, the company's red-hot sexual-energy enhancer for men with publishers will receive $15 for each sale. Adult Stars VOD features streaming videos from more than 25 adult film powerhouses, revenue share for publishers is $1.60 for day rentals and $3 for a 14-day rental.

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2003-11-17T11:04:00.000+01:00

XBiz Award nominations close tomorrow

One day left for the XBiz Awards nominations which close tomorrow, Friday, November 15. The judging process will be Monday, November 18. The XBiz Awards presentation, held each January, honors the best of industry professionals in 8 categories: Best Affiliate Program, Best Content Provider, Best Billing Service, Best Hosting Service, Best Design Service, Most Innovative, People's Choice and Industry Achievement. Winners of the coveted XBiz Awards will be announced during Internext at the XBiz Awards Party on Tuesday, January 6, 2004 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

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2003-11-14T11:45:00.000+01:00

PSWBilling: Muzzled but not Dead

CRANSTON, R.I. - PSWBilling.com may be struggling, may have been struggling in the past several months with their acquiring banks, but the adult Internet billing company is fighting as hard as it can to stay alive and reconstitute, chief executive officer John Lombardi told AVN.com

Without a doubt, our struggle over the last few months has been exceptionally frustrating, putting immense strain on both our staff and our clients," Lombardi said in an e-mail interview. "However, at this time our will to endure in the face of unjustified and irrational conduct by the card associations and acquiring banks holds strong. This is not about PSW making or holding money, but rather that we stay alive and fight unfair business practices levied against merchants and processors worldwide.

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2003-11-13T17:12:00.000+01:00

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2003-11-12T12:02:00.000+01:00

UK Business Is Breeding Ground For Internet Porn And Grooming Perverts

70% of internet porn accessed during working hours and accountable directors could face ten year jail term

United Kingdom businesses large and small are creating a breeding ground for internet misuse by providing advanced computing capabilities for staff without the necessary controls in place to protect themselves.

As the UK government increase jail sentences for internet predators to 10 years, it is time for businesses to take action to reduce their liability in this matter.

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2003-11-12T12:01:00.000+01:00

New Adult Webzine Launches: Fleshbot

The new porn Web magazine Fleshbot launched November 10, presented in blog format, and the latest online entry from Gawker Media president Nick Denton.

"The challenge was, 'can you come up with something that is dirty and which is truly pornography rather than some sort of airbrushed erotica and make it interesting enough for people to talk about and write about and to link to," said Denton. "We are trying to make the writing sassy and intelligent, but it’s not pompous. "It gets off on the subject matter."

Fleshbot.com features all the type of pornography content that digital technology and Web distribution has made possible, which includes CGI and morphed images, amateur girls, Webcams, sex blogs, hentai and yaoi, accidental smut, vintage erotica, celebrity paparazzi, and streaming hardcore video.

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2003-11-11T14:05:00.000+01:00

Accessing porn tops firms’ Internet forbidden list.

Following a list of high profile problems over employee Internet and email access, employers appear to be starting to clamp down with the vast majority seeing accessing pornography and sending insulting emails as the key areas for concern. The latest IRS Employment Review survey, suggests that 90% of firms make accessing porn forbidden, while 96% ban the sending of obscene emails following a string of high profile legal cases in these areas. Other Internet and email-based activities banned by firms include emails that denigrate colleagues (63%), internet gambling (63%), the use of web-based email (45%), internet shopping (31%) and for 14% even sending non-work related emails.

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2003-11-09T13:25:00.000+01:00

Men and porn

Pornography is not only bigger business than ever before, it is also more acceptable, more fashionable, more of a statement of cool. From pieces "in praise of porn" in the normally sober Prospect magazine, to such programmes as Pornography: The Musical on Channel 4 last month, to Victoria Coren and Charlie Skelton's book, published last year, about making a porn film, to the news that Val Kilmer is to play the part of pornography actor John Holmes in a new mainstream movie, there is a widespread sense that anyone who suggests pornography might have any kind of adverse effect is laughably out of touch. Coren and Skelton, former Erotic Review film critics, focus on their flip comic narrative, scarcely troubling themselves with any deeper issues. "In all our years of watching porn," they write, in a rare moment of analysis that doesn't get developed any further, "we have never properly resolved what we think about how, why and whether it is degrading to women. We suspect that it might be. We suspect that pornography might be degrading to everybody.

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2003-11-09T12:01:00.000+01:00

A Presidential boost to porn prosecutions.

Seeking to halt a burgeoning pornography industry particularly on the Internet, a coalition of family groups is calling on lawmakers to support US House Concurrent Resolution 298 which they hope will spur a more vigorous crackdown on distributors of illegal pornography. Patrick Trueman, a legal advisor to Morality in Media [MIM] stated in a CNSNews.com article, "What we want is to have Congress go on record to say: ‘The laws on obscenity are still on the books. The Supreme Court has upheld those laws, and if [Attorney General] John Ashcroft will begin to prosecute vigorously those who are violating federal obscenity laws, Congress is backing them up. MIM had drafted this non-binding resolution which was introduced by Rep. John Sullivan (R-OK) and already has 40 sponsors in the U.S. House. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is preparing to introduce a Senate version.

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2003-11-08T03:12:00.000+01:00

Sex.com and ARS team up to offer joint promotion

Webmasters Redeem Reward Points For Sex.Com Traffic
Sex.Com (www.sex.com), the premium adult Internet search engine, and ARS announce a partnership deal that enables ARS webmasters to use their reward points for Sex.Com traffic.

To take advantage of this special offer, ARS webmasters need to provide Karen Hammock (khammock@i2intl.com) with a Sex.Com account name and make a request to retrieve Sex.Com funds. If webmasters do not have a Sex.Com account name, click here to open one. Once the funds are in place, ARS webmasters will receive a confirmation email and can start bidding on keywords and phrases.

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2003-11-08T02:57:00.000+01:00

Sorry, Your Card Is No Good Here

A system in development that allows holders of "smart" credit cards to install their own personal spending restrictions may mean Junior will no longer be able to throw those keg parties at mom and dad's expense.

The system will allow Junior's credit card to be programmed with any restriction the parents choose to impose -- mom can, for example, restrict the card to weekday use at designated stores, limit purchases to books and cap spending at $20 per purchase.

While that's bad news for Junior, the technology could help companies deal with suspicious employee spending sprees. The company card can be programmed with different sets of restrictions for different employees.

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2003-11-07T01:26:00.000+01:00

Peep shows

It's not just for cable anymore. Pornography as plot device has pushed the sex industry onto mainstream networks as TV execs follow the money. Ask 'gentleman pornographer Clive McLean for the biggest sign that mainstream TV outlets are tapping the porn industry more than ever, and he won't talk about the time E! Entertainment Television's The Anna Nicole Show visited one of his photo shoots for Hustler magazine's Barely Legal imprint.

Or his appearance last year at the beginning of PBS' Frontline documentary on the trade, American Porn. Instead, he'll talk about the latest TV outlet to document his curiously domesticated work life.'

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2003-11-06T13:41:00.000+01:00

Another way of prepaid access is launched in the UK

www.eroticuncut.com offers you prepaid access to several niches. In this case you don't need a prepaid card like the redcard, but Erotic Uncut gives you the oppertunity to call a premium rate number to get your pinnumber. This pinnumber holds a 'time-credit' like you have with the prepaid redcard. The big advantage with this form of prepaid access in comparison with regular dialers is that it is much cheaper for the consumer. Prepaid payments will also give you more control how much you want to spend online.

Obviously they understand that consumer don't like to get ripped of anymore like with normal dialers. The people behind Erotic Uncut believes that there is a need of a better price-quantity balance. Prepaid cards or every other form of prepaid access will be the new payment solution of the future

The prepaid pinnumbers are only available in the UK at the moment, but other countries will follow soon.

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2003-11-06T01:46:00.000+01:00

Research Shows 85% of Conversions Can Occur in the Two Weeks following The Most Recent Ad Impression

Advertising.com, Inc. released new findings from its Optigence research platform demonstrating the impact of online advertising in driving conversions in the hours/days following the ad impression. The study indicates that, in addition to the immediate impact typically measured via conversion tracking, the online ad impression has a long-term impact on consumers' purchasing decisions.

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2003-11-06T01:37:00.000+01:00

Attack Of The Killer Porn.

Are you terrified of hot dirty sexy icky images? You need BushCo's Protection from Pornography Week. Pornography is bad. Way, way bad. Porn is, in fact, icky bad gross blasphemous sacrilegious and totally comedogenic, and looks awful with the couch and never ever calls, and leaves the seat up, and never does the dishes, and Makes Mommy resentful and Timmy cry and Daddy spend 14 hours a day glued to assbuffet.com as he maxes out the family MasterCard on rubber-fetish DVDs and nipple clips.

This much everyone knows. Thank goodness for BushCo. I mean, whew. That is to say, thank goodness for BushCo's latest agitated cultural salvo, Protection from Pornography Week, which occurred just last week, in case you missed it, coming hot on the heels of last month's gleefully homophobic and hateful Marriage Protection Week, which safeguarded the timorous beleaguered hetero American populace from the vile marauding hordes of, you know, gay people in love.

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2003-11-06T01:34:00.000+01:00

Cybersex: Is it really cheating?

THERE IS GREAT debate whether this is infidelity or not, said Dr. Beatriz Mileham, who conducted an in-depth study of married people who go online in search of a romantic connection. It gives people a license to be sexual with strangers while still maintaining their vows at least they think they’re maintaining their marital vows, Mileham said. You can find all kinds of people at any time of the day logged into 'married and flirting' chat rooms.

In a joint investigation, NBC11 and MSNBC.com examined online infidelity and found it to be a quietly booming Internet niche. On one recent morning, for instance, 1,006 people were logged into a 'married and flirting' chat room. Most people use screen names in order to remain anonymous, but many also post pictures, including photos taken with their kids. Mileham said some think that it is not cheating because there is no physical contact with that person. 'The number one justification is: ‘I’m not touching anybody,' she said.

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2003-11-05T14:22:00.000+01:00

Promoting Adult Malls: Qualify, Qualify, and Qualify!

As the Marketing Manager for an adult mall program, much of my time is spent on how my affiliates are sending their traffic to their adult mall. More often than not, affiliates don’t realize throwing up a link and calling it 'Sex Toys' isn’t the best way to market a store. From the surfer’s standpoint, they have been trained to believe it is a gallery of girls using sex toys and become disappointed when they see that link goes to a store. From a Webmaster’s point of view, they wonder why they have received so many uniques without a purchase. In this article, I will discuss the finer points of qualifying a customer to your adult mall in three easy steps!

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2003-11-05T14:17:00.000+01:00

It’s All In a Domain Name

My purpose in writing this article is to explain that picking the 'right' domain name can help bring you great success and satisfaction.

The key in picking a domain name for your business is to focus on your niche. Will it be a bikini site? If so I’d suggest a domain name like 'Bikini Nights'. Will it be a regular sex site? If so I’d suggest a domain name like 'Hot Sex City.' The key is to find a domain name that matches your niche and is easy to remember. Do this by relating to the keywords that you use.

For example if your adult business is selling sex toys, then look for a domain such as sextoys.com or xxxtoys.com. Try to keep the domain name as relevant to your business as possible. Doing this will bring in more website traffic and visitors will remember your site easier.

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2003-11-05T14:09:00.000+01:00

Tips on Maximizing Your Winter Income

For those Webmasters reading this, it's safe to assume you made it through the summer slowdown and now are ready to reap the rewards that the fall and winter months bring. If you ask ten Webmasters if there is such a thing as a summer slowdown, I guarantee you would get a split decision. Those who see a slowdown might be falling prey to the temptations of summer months and slacking off, taking it easy and possibly venturing out of the house for a barbeque or two.

So the answer to the question, Is there a summer slowdown? is not an answer at all, but an opinion.

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2003-11-05T13:17:00.000+01:00

Prepaid payment solution called Redcard

www.red-card.com offers you prepaid access to the hottest of the top rated titles of sites and categories. There is no subscription, no membership and no account to set up, all your payments can be done with your own prepaid redcard. The prepaid redcard has a a pinnumber on the back. The pinnumber on the prepaid redcard holds 'time-credit'. You are only charged for the minutes you used up. It is as simple as that. With the prepaid redcard you are just one pinnumber away from pure XXX-rated pleasure. Get what you want, when you want it and for as long as you want it!

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Redcard is now widely available in UK. Other European countries will follow soon!

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2003-11-05T13:09:00.000+01:00

Army of A.I. Sex Workers

Imagine a world where all the sex workers are super-human artificially intelligent beings. Super human A.I. sex workers never get tired, grumpy, angry or forgetful. They are always friendly, horny, hot, beautiful, and they always know what you like and want. Your own super human A.I. sex toy is always available to you from any computer, cell phone, mobile device, and even in your favorite android bodies.

Artificially Intelligent (A.I.) Beings are more reliable, faster, more consistent, more stable, more secure, and can talk with UNLIMITED NUMBERS of your clients and prospects ALL AT THE SAME TIME, using natural language and text chat. If you are a website owner or programmer, you know how competitive the business world is today. Can you imagine the possibilities of providing your clients and prospects access to a super human A.I. sex worker?

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2003-11-05T12:54:00.000+01:00

Women Really DO Like Porn, So Let's Embrace THEM

For a very long time now, pornography has been about naked women. Indeed, most adult Webmasters take it as given that their surfers and customers are men, and that these men are secretly indulging in porn away from the disapproving frowns of women wives, girlfriends and mothers. Women don’t like porn is a maxim taken as absolute truth by many in this industry.

The trouble is, they’re wrong. Increasingly larger numbers of women are enjoying pornography, or are looking to indulge in some kind of sexually explicit entertainment. And these women represent a largely ignored market.

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2003-11-05T12:52:00.000+01:00

Taking Risks is All Part of the Game

As a newbie who has only run a website for three months, I’ve started to realize that you need an instinct for risk, determination, and hunger to succeed in the adult Internet business. You have to truly care about your customers and the site that you design. If you’re a newbie and you’re in it just to make money, then the adult business isn’t for you.

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2003-11-04T23:01:00.000+01:00

Building Decent Free Sites: AKA 5 Pages of Hell

Why on earth would anyone want to build a free site? TGP is where the action is, surely? Well, yes. The people who like to watch their counters going round and their bandwidth bills going up build TGP pages. The people who are in it for the long haul and who like to count cash tend to build free sites.

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2003-11-04T22:19:00.000+01:00

Reality Show Looking For Aspiring Porn Star.

'Can You Be A Porn Star?' Promises Adult Film Contract. The reality show concept has hit a new low -- or high -- depending on how you feel about smut. Its called "Can You Be a Porn Star?" -- which is getting ready to hit the airwaves via pay-per-view cable in January. According to the show's Web site, 28 women will compete for a $100,000 and an "exclusive contract" to become the "adult industry's hottest new porn star." Viewers of the seven one-hour shows will determine the fate of the contestants by voting on the show's Web site, and see the footage deemed "too hot for TV."

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2003-11-04T22:18:00.000+01:00

Schwarzenegger election to become porn film.

Wasn't it just bound to happen? The story of the race to become the governor of California is being turned into a porn movie, Ananova.com reports. One of the candidates in the race, adult actress Mary Carey, will soon begin shooting a sexy behind-the-scenes view of the campaign. The two-hour picture will co-star porn veteran Ron Jeremy as California's current deputy governor, Cruz Bustamante, and muscle-bound X-rated actor Lee Stone as Arnold Schwarzenegger. Carey, 23, will play herself.

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2003-11-04T22:16:00.000+01:00

FTC Pushing Back On Pop-Up Porn.

It may have happened to you. It begins with one of those annoying pop up ads for a porn site and ends with unexplained charges on thousands of phone bills. WBAL-TV reported that pop up ads are as unavoidable as they are annoying. Click the 'X' in the corner and they disappear. But out of sight doesn't always mean gone. "There are tens of thousands of consumers who have been billed without their authorization," said Federal Trade Commission attorney Jim Cohm. The Federal Trade Commission has received thousands of complaints from Internet users who have discovered that a pop-up ad from a company called Alyon Technologies in Lakewood, N.J., has secretly dialed them into porn sites -- porn sites they had no intention of visiting and porn sites charging $4.99 a minute.

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2003-11-04T22:15:00.000+01:00

Woman sues Playboy, others for filming her at Daytona wet T-shirt contest.

A woman who was 16 when she participated in a wet T-shirt contest featured in a Spring Break video is suing Playboy and others for about $1 billion in damages for the video's filming and sale.

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2003-11-04T22:14:00.000+01:00

Anti-Porn Activist Convicted Sex Offender.

The president of War-Line, the anti-porn group that harasses and photographs customers of adult establishments in Louisville, is a registered sex offender. He’s also a convicted felon, currently on probation for armed robbery, sodomy and murder. Much like Phil Burress, the president of the Ohio chapter of Citizens for Community values, John E. Reneer, the president of War-Line, is a redeemed porn enthusiast who blames his past problems on pornography.

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2003-11-04T17:02:00.000+01:00

Anti-porn week forces Bush's moral opinions on Americans.

While soldiers continued to die in Iraq last week, President Bush exercised his power and took bold steps to ensure that people of this great nation, the United States of America, are protected from the evils of the world. He didn't end American involvement in Iraq; instead, Bush declared it "Protection from Pornography Week," via presidential proclamation. Bravo. In continuing attempts to use his office as a pedestal for preaching the high ground of his personal moral definitions, Bush committed in his proclamation for the anti-porn week " ... to take steps to confront the dangers of pornography," which he said "can have debilitating effects on communities, marriages, families and children."

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2003-11-04T17:01:00.000+01:00

Coalition of Family Groups Introduces Anti-Porn Resolution.

Seeking to halt a burgeoning pornography industry, particularly on the Internet, a coalition of family groups is calling on lawmakers to support a resolution it hopes would spur a more vigorous crackdown on distributors of illegal pornography. Patrick Trueman, a legal advisor to Morality in Media (MIM), said a resolution by Congress would give the Justice Department a much-needed boost in its efforts against smut peddlers. "What we want is to have Congress go on record to say: 'the laws on obscenity are still on the books. The Supreme Court has upheld those laws, and if [Attorney General] John Ashcroft will begin to prosecute vigorously those who are violating federal obscenity laws, Congress is backing him up,'" Trueman said.

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2003-11-02T16:53:00.000+01:00

'Matrix' spammers had porn dialler on site.

Spammers, who tried to lure people to a website by promising them a download of the latest film in the Matrix series, aimed to get people to download a porn dialler, according to Canberra-based sysadmin Daniel McNamara who brought it to the attention of this newspaper. McNamara sent the file to the anti-virus firm Sophos for analysis last week and was told: "The file that you sent to us for analysis is a premium rate dialler used by pornographic websites."

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