pornography

Children used to learn about sex on the street – either from friends, those weird older kids who'd smoke behind the dumpster, or a friend's older and ostensibly wiser sibling. Web 2.0, of course, has changed all this. Instead of getting the goods from an unreliable source in person, a recent...

Times are tough. but when Savannah Stern, the star of Naughty Office 12, Nylons 4 and at least 350 more adult movies, has to trade in her Mercedes for her parents' old Trailblazer you know the porn industry has experienced a little shrinkage.The Los Angeles Times followed Savannah around to her...

When it comes to telling lurid sex stories, CNBC is no virgin. Tonight, the business channel airs Porn: Business of Pleasure, following on the stiletto heels of The Business of High-End Prostitution from last year. CNBC this year aired a documentary on Nevada's notorious Mustang Ranch and last year...

For more than three years now, the adult entertainment business has been looking for something to help it survive. The industry is in crisis, with major brands collapsing, and legendary companies making desperate attempts to compensate for crashing revenues. While some are looking to mobile...

The dirty little secret behind many new technologies is porn. From cinematography to video cassettes and the Internet, pornography has been a key driver of growth. Now, porn is showing up on mobile phones and it's relentlessly wearing down the wireless carrier's bandwidth. In Japan, where...

Make love, not porn, because if you live in the Ukraine, you'll get fined and sent to jail. Tuesday, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed a bill into law, making the possession of pornography a criminal offense in the country. I first heard of the report while watching the Russian news...

Users of Google (GOOG) in China have found themselves unable to access its main site, or its China-based site and services. The apparent reason: the Chinese government is angry with the company for spreading pornography. "We have found that the English version of Google.com has spread lots of...

A Web site that sells "virtual currency" for multi-player online games such as World of Warcraft and Warhammer will pay a female porn star $500,000 to tattoo its company logo and URL on her chest. Anna Morgan, who's 19 and from Zeya, Russia, is contractually required to keep the ad on her skin for...

Porn king Larry Flynt is now an economic pundit. The founder of Hustler magazine appeared on MSNBC to discuss the efforts of some cash-strapped states to tax pornography. Flynt, who as far as I know is not a member of the libertarian Cato Institute, got straight to the point: "What do they want you...

Always thought of as an industry that can withstand a recession, the pornography business has seen a drop in sales in the past year as more people share their porn online as songs were once shared on Napster. The piracy on "tube sites," which emulate YouTube, offer snippets of free porn from longer...