CHATSWORTH, CALIFORNIA—Bree Mills is crouched in the darkened hallway of an adobe ranch house, her face illuminated by a high-resolution monitor. She’s clutching a pair of bulky headphones to her ears and watching as a family falls apart.
The Toronto-based company KinkySdollS has announced plans to open an “Adult Love Dolls Brothel” in Houston, Texas—and, holy shit, are people losing their goddamn minds over it.
Porn star Ron Jeremy is accused of sexual assault by several women—but that didn’t stop him from proudly strutting down a New York Fashion Week runway wearing a purple velvet suit and hairy chest. Jeremy, famously nicknamed The Hedgehog, took his runway spin during Nina Athanasiou’s show over the weekend, according to …
Last week, Kanye West announced that his Yeezy clothing line will be selling $75 sweatshirts featuring artistic renderings of several porn performers. The sweatshirts are part of West’s surprise turn as creative director of Thursday’s Pornhub Awards—an Oscars-like event for the adult industry, thrown by one of the…
When I think back on my most formative moments there is the shower threesome on The Real World: Miami; the wet t-shirt contests of MTV spring break programming; and there’s typing “a/s/l” into mid- to late-’90s AOL chatrooms and making bumbling attempts at cybersex. But none of these moments even begin to approach the…
If you have a HBO subscription and haven’t dug into the network’s archive to watch their dusty ole adult programming like Taxicab Confessions and Real Sex, you might never get to, because all of it is gone.
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.
