The real mission impossible is teaching Tom Cruise that internet porn exists.

Four porn performers have filed a formal complaint against top industry agent Derek Hay alleging sexual abuse, fraud, and financial mismanagement. The complaint, filed with California’s Labor Commissioner and provided to Jezebel by the petitioners’ lawyer, also alleges that Hay, owner of LA Direct Models, is connected…

Porn star Ron Jeremy is being sued for sexual assault and battery in Washington State. He is accused of nonconsensually groping and digitally penetrating a woman hired as a model during a radio station’s promotional event in 2017. The woman, identified as K.B. in court filings, says she “agreed to let” 65-year-old…

When people talk about porn and objectification, it’s often to argue that the industry reduces women to their bodies. Stoya, a porn performer and writer, could certainly tell you stories about strangers at public appearances who, as she writes, “refer to my orifices as ‘that’ instead of ‘your’”—stories that fit the…

The president’s lawyer would like to clarify something he said about Stormy Daniels. On Wednesday, Rudy Giuliani said: “If you’re going to sell your body for money, you just don’t have a reputation. I may be old fashioned, I dunno.” He also said: “The business you were in entitles you to no degree of giving your…

First things first: Take some block letters—dig around in your child’s toy box, if necessary—and spell out your intentions: P-O-R-N-V-I-D-E-O-S. Place this special creation in front of your laptop like an incantation. Wait. Sip your coffee. Glance at your sticky note. Feel a wave of relief knowing that you’re about to…

Erika Lust thinks porn is a lot like the restaurant industry. “McDonald’s is doing food and this restaurant is doing food”—she gestures around her—“but they’re completely different concepts.”

You might expect a feminist social critique of bulimia, fat-shaming, and emotional abuse from academia or, say, this here blog, but not so much mainstream porn—and yet, here we are. The porn studio Pure Taboo has released a new feature, The Weight of Infidelity, with a “controversial plotline about society’s struggles…

Artist Emma Rose Laughlin is a lover of the traditionally feminine craft of embroidery. Ever since she discovered a box of discarded needlework in her grandma’s basement a few years ago, she has taken to stitching vintage doilies and handkerchiefs with painstaking designs—but she isn’t interested in the typical dainty…

On Wednesday, Just Dave, the director of a porn scene at the center of recent on-set abuse allegations made by performer Leigh Raven, sent Jezebel nearly three hours of footage in an attempt to publicly exonerate himself and his staff. The footage was taken on a mounted camera, which he says was filming nearly…

A federal judge in California last week ordered a man to pay nearly $6.5 million in damages to his ex-girlfriend for allegedly distributing naked photos and videos of her online. The woman’s attorney is calling it one of the largest non-celebrity revenge porn cases, according to the Los Angeles Times. Experts say it…

Adult performer Nikki Benz filed a lawsuit Monday against the porn production company Brazzers, its parent company MindGeek, and fellow actors Tony T. and Ramon Nomar for sexual battery. The suit, provided to Jezebel by Benz’s lawyer, alleges that she was non-consensually “struck on the face, head and breasts hard…

Just months after banning content that demonstrates how to make guns fire faster, YouTube is taking down more videos involving gun training and usage.

Several years ago, Angie Rowntree was on a porn set—a stark, unadorned dungeon—watching as an actor fingered his female co-star. The woman, kneeling on a bench with her wrists secured in front of her, suddenly shifted her body and inhaled sharply. Rowntree, who was taking still photographs as the director filmed the…

Pornhub, the world’s most-visited and savvily-marketed porn site, has announced a $25,000 grant for “a human sexuality research project.” That’s not a euphemism—the tube site wants to award the funds to university faculty members to oversee student research.

Porn actors Leigh Raven and Riley Nixon have released a more than hour-long YouTube video detailing two different incidents of alleged abuse on adult sets. They say both events took place during shoots with the male performer Rico Strong, and for a director known as Just Dave. Their accusations include misleading…

Free Internet porn is the great equalizer, providing even the shyest of horny browsers with easy access to classics like “SLURPING ALL THE NUT OUT.” Unfortunately, it appears the state of Rhode Island thinks your porn is too free, so legislators have introduced a bill that would require residents to pay $20 to access…

In December, the Federal Communications Commission voted to kill net neutrality, the policy that safeguards a free and equal internet and allows us all to tweet, like, email, surf, learn, bank, and fuck (or at least witness fucking) regardless of circumstance.

LAS VEGAS, NV—jessica drake, Wicked Pictures superstar and sex educator, is holding her interviews at this year’s Adult Entertainment Expo in an unmarked suite in one of the towers of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. With her in her room is a body guard and a manager; the latter says he is not able to leave the room…

As if female celebrities don’t have enough to worry about in regards to creepy strangers on the internet, now people are making fake porn using their faces.