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.”
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…
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…
On Wednesday, Reddit shut down a subreddit called Deepfake, which refers to the practice of using face-swap technology to create pornography featuring celebrities. They have banned “deepfake” porn from the site entirely.
The guests standing alongside Utah Governor Gary Herbert on April 19, 2016, were as puritanical as their topic of discussion was—in their minds, anyway—lascivious. Squeezed shoulder-to-shoulder behind a podium for a press conference, they had come to the Utah state capitol to talk about porn.
Lives like Cosey Fanni Tutti’s are practically crying out to be written down. Born Christine Newby in 1951 in Yorkshire, England, she’d eventually be dubbed “Cosmosis” (“Cosey,” for short) by the infamous Genesis P-Orridge, the boyfriend with whom she’d go on to found the art collective COUM Transmission in the late…
Though pornography may be the only thing some of us are still enjoying at the tale end of 2016, at least one Virginia lawmaker would like to have it declared a public health hazard.
In an op-ed today at the Wall Street Journal, Pamela Anderson and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach decry what they describe as pornography’s “corrosive effects” on a “man’s soul,” and, as a result, porn’s negative impact on fatherhood and the institution of the family. The two are friends, apparently.
On Monday, advocacy group Enough Is Enough announced via press release that Donald Trump, serial woman-cherisher, had signed an anti-porn pledge, vowing to “prevent the sexual exploitation of children online,” and to “make the internet safer for all.” That really is something.
Adult film actress Amber Rayne died in her sleep over the weekend, AVN reports. Rayne, 31, was one of several high profile adult actresses who accused James Deen of sexual assault over the winter. Rayne spent over a decade in the adult industry.
In November, adult actress Stoya ignited a firestorm in two tweets, when she accused ex-boyfriend James Deen of rape. Deen professed himself “baffled” by allegations from both Stoya and multiple other exes and porn performers, and after a brief hiatus, has seemingly returned to his regular filming and deep tweeting …
On November 28, 2015, porn actor and writer Stoya publicly accused ex-boyfriend and fellow porn actor James Deen of raping her. Since that afternoon, a host of women who have worked, or currently work in the sex industry have come forward with allegations of abuse at Deen’s hands. Today three more porn actors have…
After multiple allegations of sexual assault were made against him over the weekend, San Francisco-based bondage pornography studio Kink announced Monday that they will “cease all ties” with actor and producer James Deen.
Beasts of No Nation director Cary Joji Fukunaga boasts a diverse repertoire, from the inaugural season of crime drama True Detective, to the 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre, and now Beasts, which chronicles the experiences of child soldiers in West Africa. And don’t you think for one minute that he’s stopping there!
As a makeup artist in the adult film industry, Melissa Murphy’s paramount task is to transform flesh into fantasy. “Before and after” photos, often transfixing in any context, offered her a means of showcasing that metamorphosis — and, crucially, her talent in cosmetology. But when her Instagram account—replete with…
Hot Girls Wanted, the newish documentary produced by actress Rashida Jones, is making headlines and earning some rave reviews—as well as getting panned by people in the adult industry and advocates for sex workers—for its depiction of one tiny sliver of the wide world of porn, a fly-by-night talent agency called…
Jeb Bush’s decision to release *all* his emails is still biting him in the ass: messages from the mid-2000s indicate that the former Florida Governor invested over a million dollars of pension funds of his constituents in Movie Gallery, a national film rental company that yes, rents pornographic films. Yes, Jeb Bush…
Last month the porn film industry announced that two male performers in Nevada tested positive for HIV, and now state health officials are considering a law that would require all porn stars to wrap it up on set.
