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A Man’s World: Male Sex Toy Sales Continue Upward Trajectory
For many years, the very idea of a “male sex toy” was regarded by most people as something of a joke. The term brought to mind images of cheap, rubberized blowup dolls and their ludicrous puckered mouths, or clumsy penis pumps that looked more like medieval torture devices than something into which you’d ever willingly insert your member. These were products you’d buy as a gag joke to give a man at his 50th birthday party, perhaps accompanied by sarcastic greeting cards filled with jokes about impotence and hair loss.
Q&A: pjur Group CEO Alexander Giebel Shares Global Plans
Despite a very healthy global pleasure products industry and a consumer heavy market constantly clamoring for new products, not many companies can legitimately boast a distribution network that encompasses nearly 50 countries. But the Luxembourg-based pjur Group can.
Risks: A Combative Stance
Taking a positive stance is a great coping mechanism that can keep you on track and moving forward. However, competition within the online adult entertainment industry is simmering past the boiling point and combining with forces beyond a website owner’s control.
Digital Sin Releases 'A Mother Daughter Thing'
Digital Sin has announced the release of what the company says is its most boundary-pushing "Tabu Tales" vignette to date, “A Mother Daughter Thing.”
IASHS: A Virtual ‘Harvard’ for a New Breed of Sex Educator?
Adult movie legend Annie Sprinkle was the first to receive one in 2002. More recently, classic stars Candida Royalle, Jane Hamilton (aka Veronica Hart) and Veronica Vera also joined the ranks of adult industry luminaries who’ve received advanced degrees in human sexuality. Even the late High Society magazine publisher and star Gloria Leonard was posthumously honored with a Ph.D from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality (IASHS) in San Francisco.
Cytherea Auctioning Off Chance to Become a Porn Star
“Squirt queen” Cytherea has announced that she will be auctioning off a chance to star in an adult scene with her through AdultVerifiedVideoChat.com.
Dev Depot: Create a 3D tilted scroll effect with this jQuery plugin
As the capabilities of today’s digital display devices, mobile and otherwise, continue to evolve, many web designers are seeking to keep pace by introducing new processes, as well as a healthy dose of eye-candy, in order to stay ahead of their many competitors, via offering web weary viewers something new.
New Sensations Releases '4 Men and a Lady: A Gang Bang'
New Sensations announced today the release of “4 Men and a Lady: A Gang Bang,” featuring Roxanne Rae and Zoey Monroe.
How Studying a Site’s Traffic Will Help It Grow
If you’ve been running a website for any length of time, you are no doubt familiar with the need to study your stats — either using a server log solution such as AWStats, a hosted third-party service such as Google Analytics, or a self-hosted, open source tool such as PiWik — or even all of the above...
Exec Seat: Q&A With Doug Wicks, CEO of Payze
Meet Doug Wicks, PhD, a familiar face among those who’ve worn their hats in the online adult industry for some time.
FameDollars Takes a Platinum Miss FreeOnes Sponsorship
FreeOnes announced FameDollars as a Platinum Sponsor of the 2014 Miss FreeOnes competition.
Q&A: How Amber Lynn's Radio Show Bridges Porn With Mainstream
Adult legend Amber Lynn admits it’s nothing new — Howard Stern featured porn stars and adult themes on the radio years ago in an effort to shock the airwaves.
Dev Depot: NanoGallery, Next-gen Galleries With a Touch-enabled Jquery Plugin
Offering image gallery creation simplified, NanoGallery is a responsive, lightweight and touch enabled jQuery gallery plugin that pulls its images from remote resources.
Q&A: Porsche Lynn Reveals Life Behind 'Million Dollar Legs' in New Memoir
If you thought Betty Grable was the only girl with “million dollar legs,” you were mistaken. In adult, that girl — now woman — is Golden Age porn star Porsche Lynn, who pinned the epithet to her freshly published memoir, “The Girl with the Million Dollar Legs: My Life in Burlesque, Porn and Kink.”
Using Content as a Customer Magnet
Adult site owners have faced a perennial debate over which is more important, content or traffic — but it is no longer about which commodity is most valuable, but about using content to generate traffic.
Q&A: Dr. Ava Cadell Discusses Sexpert.com Launch
Sexpert, author and love guru Dr. Ava Cadell is gearing up to launch Sexpert.com, a media platform featuring “erotically empowering” content.
Q&A With EroAdvertising's Jan Huibers
Jan Huibers, the CEO and founder of global adult advertising network EroAdvertising, knows how to reach his clients — with determined and constant innovation and development of new features, all in order to accommodate changing, fickle and hyper-competitive markets.
The Semenette: When a Sex Toy Is More Than a Sex Toy
Over the course of time, there have been thousands of sex toys that were created because of a need, a demand for something that hadn’t existed before or for something that just didn’t have the high quality standards an inventor would want. Inventors put in hours, days, months and years to have their inventions brought to life.
Q&A: Angie Rowntree on the 'Women in Porn' Debate Aftermath
One of the most highly anticipated online forums on the issue of women in the porn industry — Sssh.com’s “Women in Porn: Shattering the Myths," broadcast on Mindbrowse.com on July 22, came to a close with more than 600 people viewing the event.
Placing a Focus on User-Buying Triggers
This is the last of a series of three articles focusing on specific ways that paysite owners can optimize the user experience and present sites and content in ways that attract modern customers and keep them coming back.