U.K.
DVSX Starts Distro Deal With U.K.'s Dreamlight Studios
DVSX will be authoring and mastering the DVDs in the U.S. and plans a release every other week through March and April, ramping up to weekly releases starting in May.
U.K. Study Indicates Teens Surf for Soft Porn, Emotional Support
Teenagers in the U.K. are obsessed with body and image, as well as a lot of adult entertainment, according to a new study.
U.K. Shifts Toward Censorship
While U.S. citizens possess free speech by constitutional right, U.K. subjects must go cap in hand to representatives of our constitutional monarchy to check what we are — and are not — permitted to see, say, read or view.
U.K. Retailer Clone Zone Avoids Financial Meltdown
Clone Zone Ltd., a prominent U.K. gay adult retail and distribution chain, has averted a financial meltdown.
U.K. Retailer Clonezone Facing Financial Woes
The U.K.’s Clonezone, a prominent gay adult retail and distribution chain, has gone into court receivership, according to a newspaper report that cited the company’s “insurmountable financial difficulty.”
Don Wands Launches U.K. Sales Website
The site offers the entire line of Don Wands products, including the new KamaDiva line, to the European public.
U.K. Fetish Magazine Skin Two Goes Annual
"I've decided to upgrade it to a posh coffee table annual hardcover book costing around 25 pounds," Skin Two cofounder and editor Tim Woodward said. "This will be the definitive fetish yearbook."
U.K. Defines 'Extreme Pornography'
New rules defining "extreme pornographic images" — which will become illegal to possess in the U.K. when new rules go into effect Jan. 26 — have been issued by the U.K. Ministry of Justice.
U.K.’s Lucid Entertainment Launches Social-networking Site ConnexionWeb
Lucid Entertainment Ltd. has launched an adult social networking website called ConnexionWeb to connect the public, adult webmasters and related adult businesses.
U.K.’s Zelica Films Signs IPTV Distribution Deal With S&S Entertainment
S&S Entertainment, which specializes in distributing adult content over IPTV, has signed a three-year worldwide distribution deal with U.K.-based erotica studio Zelica Films Ltd.
Pacific Sun Rises on U.K.’s Tacklebox Productions
Pacific Sun Entertainment has signed an exclusive distribution deal with Tacklebox Productions that will bring the British company’s wares to the U.S. market for the first time.
Smash Pictures Signs Deal With U.K. DVD Distributor
Smash Pictures has signed a distribution deal with Scala UK and the Dutch mail order catalog Pabo, owned by the Beate Uhse chain.
U.K. Blogger Facing Obscenity Charge for Rape Story
A man is being prosecuted on charges of publishing a story on the Internet detailing the kidnap, torture, mutilation and murder of the U.K. pop group Girls Aloud.
U.K.’s Tacklebox Expanding Into U.S. Market
Pro-am studio Tacklebox Productions is expanding its operations into the United Kingdom’s gay adult market
Chocolate Willy Spread Sold in U.K. May be Toxic
British sex shop chain Ann Summers has suspended sales of Willy Spread, a chocolate body spread that contains small quantities of the industrial chemical melamine.
Citing Online Competition, U.K. Sex Shop Wants License Fee Cut
The Private Shop has to pay $22,921 annually for a “sex establishment license," and the store representatives have said that is too high.
Fantasy Sex Blog Author on Trial in U.K.
Darryn Walker, a 35 year old British civil servant is at the center of a historic obscenity case that could affect Internet censorship in the U.K.
U.K. Creates Child Internet Safety Council
The British government has created a council to protect children from web content that includes adult material, according to a Reuters report.
U.K. Novelty Manufacturer Rocks-Off Opens U.S. Office
Rocks-Off launched into the adult market with the introduction of the Rock-Chick vibrator five years ago.
1 on 1 Limited Offers Sportsheets Full Line in U.K.
U.K.-based Net 1 on 1 Limited, which operates online adult distribution websites 1on1Dropship.co.uk and 1on1Wholesale.co.uk, has partnered with U.S. novelty manufacturer Sportsheets, for sales in the U.K.