The feds have indicted John Stagliano on obscenity charges, which is an act that takes a lot of chutzpah. The movies they chose to indict him on are pretty vanilla in my book, but I don't think the material is the point anymore. I think the material they choose to prosecute became beside the point...... More »

In recent years, adult entertainment and video gaming have exploded into multi-billion dollar business sectors, largely driven by the rapid technological developments that enable both industries. Because of that success and the attention being paid to these two industries as a result, opponents of...... More »

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. While it's not exactly a hot-button issue in the adult-entertainment industry, the...... More »

In 2006 Congress passed HR 4472, a bill that came to be known as the Adam Walsh Act, which is the short title of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006. The law was named after the son of John Walsh, the creator and producer of the "America's Most Wanted" television series, who was...... More »

A German court recently threw out a petition filed by Huch Medien GmbH, the company that owns and operates Google.com in order to prevent the display of adult images without age verification. In another recent adult website-related ruling, the court ruled that Arcor is not obligated to block...... More »