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Tax rebates stimulate economy, genitals

Know those $600 stimulus checks George Bush & Co. sent out to the poors, the underfunded and executive assistants earlier this year in order to rejuvenate the economy? Independent market-research firm AIMRCo says they really got the blood flowing in the Internet porn industry. A spokesperson for porn website LSGmodels said that 32 percent of the site's June signups and renewers did so due to the stimulus package. Says Kirk Mishkin, head research guy:
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9:20 AM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
421 views, Comment

private equity

AdultVest takes home trophy for banking on iPorn

AdultVest, an investment bank for adult entertainment businesses, is poised to snag a little trophy at tonight's "Oscar-style" 6th Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards. The firm, which claims to have $7 billion in available capital in its network, is nominated in the "Hedge Fund Launch of the Year" category. Their most notable acquisition is iPorn.com — in a move that's pure online speculation, they bought the domain name only, without a lick of content.

3:00 PM on Wed Jun 25 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
839 views, 5 comments

apple

The battle for the iPhone's soul: handshake deals or hairy palms?

How to grow the iPod market beyond the faddish, technofetishistic trendizen crowd? Analysts, and Apple, are looking to the corporate market, with better security, email support and GPS. The problem? The device is tethered to a single carrier, Apple hasn't played nice with corporate IT in the past and, frankly, the suits bore Steve Jobs. And you are never, ever, to bore Steve Jobs. The real problem is that customers might want to keep the iPhone a personal device to lug around with their Blackberry and company laptop — so that they can have a personal browser free from management's all-seeing eye. More »

9:20 AM on Fri Jun 20 2008
By Jackson West
849 views, 1 comment

Latest by matto: Are you kidding? This chick is a retard. The only reason I've blown off getting an iPhone is that I'm stuck with a crappy Blackberry for work. more »

politics

Obscenity trial judge a pervert like the rest of us

The Los Angeles Times revealed that 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski was hosting some porny images of girls done up like cows and other niceties on what he thought was a private server. Smut pundit Susannah Breslin suggests that now Judge Kozinski himself may be the one testing the limits of the "2 Girls, 1 Cup defense" that defendant Ira Isaacs was going for. Namely, that what was once "obscene" is now merely "shocking" and fine for the whole family to make YouTube response videos about. More »

3:20 PM on Fri Jun 13 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
916 views, 6 comments

Latest by nousername: @sample032: I've seen a cow give birth, and by the size of that vagina, a fist would probably feel like a toothpick. more »

sex trade

Republicans almost want you to have cheaper Internet porn

California's Republicans are deliberating whether or not to tax your porn downloads. State Assemblyman Charles Calderon (D.-City of Industry) first proposed a tax on all online porn, estimated to bring in $500 million to offset Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget cuts, and now wants to levy a 25 percent tax on any adult businesses operating in California, and on consumer's purchases of porn, too. It's fiendishly clever. More »

2:40 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
3,086 views, 4 comments

erik moeller

Wikipedia's porn-loving No. 2 and his abiding concern for the children

A firestorm is now brewing over pornography on Wikipedia and its accessibility to children. The FBI is investigating the matter, right-wing news site WorldNetDaily reports. Jay Walsh, the spokesman for Wikipedia's nonprofit parent, the Wikimedia Foundation, has disclaimed all official responsibility for the contents of the world's greatest compendium of fictional balls. But who oversees the contents of Wikipedia for the foundation? Why, Erik Möller, its deputy director. And Möller is deeply, deeply concerned about the children. More »

Feature

9:20 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Owen Thomas
10,440 views, 21 comments

Latest by n/a: @XedMac [www.fbi.gov] I'm certain the FBI will be very interested in the long precedent of providing internet safe-haven to sexual deviants by Wales on Wikipedia, and Wikia too for that matter. more »

porn

Playboy manages to lose money online

Playboy lost $3.1 million in the first quarter as revenues dropped 8 percent to $78.5 million. Playboy EVP Bob Meyers blamed digital revenues, which fell 3 percent to $15.2 million. Silicon Alley Insider gasps that the declining digital revenues are "Not A Typo." But with free porn sites like RedTube and YouPorn, why would anyone pay Playboy's $19 per month subscription fees? Truth is, if Playboy wants to charge, it's going to have to find a niche like SuicideGirls has — and, is there a better word? — exploit it.

12:40 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
2,915 views, 1 comment

Latest by dingdongditch: these guys should just open porn datacenters, and become like Akamai... I need my porn near the edge, I'm tired of the long delays in streaming.. they could make hell of alot more money... more »

sex trade

Amazon.com can't tell who's getting off on the Kindle

For the makers of e-book readers, the raincoater audience — the straightish men who frequent adult bookstores for the promise of a little action in the back — are an unlikely market. They're not even there to read, for starters. But for literate smut fans, who have been choosing Amazon.com from the first day they made erotic books available in discreet, brown-wrapped boxes? If they're turning to the Kindle to deliver their porn, Amazon's not telling. Not entirely. We've got numbers on how well the same books sell in print, but not for their Kindle counterparts. Better figures might be possible if everyone's who's spindled their Kindle dropped Amazon a line.

12:00 PM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
540 views, 6 comments

Latest by raincoaster: @raincoaster: Besides, I think that avatar of the raincoaster consciousness was banned three years ago. I'm on life #6 now! more »

corrections

Andrew Conru denies church-lady romance, but not Adult FriendFinder exit

There goes a perfectly entertaining rumor: Adult FriendFinder founder Andrew Conru has written in to deny that he's involved with a woman named Lois, as commenter rumourone had claimed. Amusingly, rumourone had gone to some trouble in constructing the fantasy, picking up factual bits like Conru's interest in fish farming. The part that Conru didn't confirm or deny: That he's planning to leave Adult FriendFinder, now owned by Penthouse, very soon.

12:20 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Owen Thomas
496 views, 3 comments

security

For a woman's password, offer chocolate; for a man's, try porn

45 percent of women will give away passwords to strangers pretending to be market researchers when offered a chocolate bar in exchange, according to Infosecurity Europe's survey of 576 office workers. Men fell prey to the scheme 10 percent of the time. Surprised? Don't be. That's addiction. Chocolate contains anandamide and for women in particular, its a psychoactive and addictive food. Academics report that 40 percent of women crave chocolate more than any other food. 53 percent like it better than sex. Meanwhile, only 15 percent of men have a similar hankering. But that should lead to an obvious conclusion for anyone trying to snag their passwords: ComScore reports that more than 70 perent of men from 18 to 34 visit a porn site each month. (Photo by reportergimmiTM)

3:00 PM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
812 views, 5 comments

Latest by Tara Kelly: I'll refrain form commenting on the chocolate vs. pron aspect (though it BEGS to be commented on), and simply say this: People shouldn't even *know* their passwords. They should be safely tucked away into a password manager, where no amount of more »

great moments in hr

Fired employee plots discrimination lawsuit against Penthouse site

Despite such perks as "all the porn you can watch if you've a mind to," a former employee of Adult FriendFinder, the user-generated porn site now owned by Penthouse, plans to sue the company. He says the company fired him because of "his activism on behalf of gay, lesbian, and other alternative lifestyle folk." The ex-employee says he isn't gay himself, but that he "pissed off" FriendFinder president Rob Brackett by criticizing the company for not serving the needs of "the alternative lifestyle community." Also, he says FriendFinder's office isn't wheelchair accessible. So there. For more such rants, this ex-employee has set up a blog called 445shermanesque, titled for FriendFinder's street address in Palo Alto. Until Craigslist took it down, he'd also posted an ad soliciting stories from other ex-employees who had been "Rode Hard and Put Away Wet." A screenshot of the pulled ad is below, in case you'd like to participate in the fun. More »

10:00 AM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
1,824 views, 1 comment

Latest by FiveStarEggRoll: Come on a my house, myyyyy house... Harry "I see what you did there" Wang more »

breakdowns

Digg: We'll be back shortly -- in the meantime, here's some porn

Digg went down this morning and, while repairs were under way, a placeholder for Digg.com redirected users to some of the staff's favorite sites. Mostly the boring usuals. Kevin Rose recommended "Purple & Brown." PaidContent and TechCrunch were on the list. But then, some guy named Micah recommended SuicideGirls, the "alternative" porn site which features girls with piercings, colored hair and tattoos. The link might upset the sensitive users who made nice guy Jay Adelson yank our Gene Simmons sex tape post from Digg. For us, SuicideGirls beats screen-cleaning puppies any day. Only thing. What will advertisers think? We heard Digg hates porn because it likes money. The screenshot of Digg's porn-loving placeholder is below. More »

1:20 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
3,637 views, 3 comments

Latest by Figaro: Micah is a woman's name... which makes it even more fun! more »

health and beauty

Yahoo is less prudish than Google

The customer service team in Sunnyvale knows all about the porn on Yahoo Video, but vice president Laura Narducci, who is responsible for managing the video site, could care less. "She hemmed and hawed over how awful it was, but no measures to prevent it were put in place," Valleywag's tipster tells us. Yahoo's been around a lot longer than Google, and knows what kind of traffic and revenue prurient interest can generate online. Given Steve Chen's latest comments, YouTube may finally be wising up to the money Google is leaving on the table by not offering a blue room.

12:00 AM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By Jackson West
1,646 views, 6 comments

Latest by ripopgome: Ah, the good ol' days when Yahoo was actively working on adult-content portals... sniff, sniff. Some of the useful people were actually still there, then. more »

nsfw

Yahoo Video classifies porn as "Health and Beauty"

Yahoo's recently launched video site is having a difficult time catching up to Google's YouTube. It did find one way to get pageviews though: porn. As of this writing, Yahoo has a pair of hardcore porn movies hosted in the Yahoo Video Health & Beauty section. Click on to see some mostly-safe-for-work screenshots and links to the not-safe-for-work videos in question. More »

12:00 AM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Jordan Golson
6,041 views, 11 comments

Latest by n/a: Yahoo technology doesn't work. The blessing is that no one uses it. Good luck to them though. more »

online video

Ashley Dupre's "Girls Gone Wild" video hits the Web, ruins everything

It was once such a heartwarming story. New Jersey local girl Ashley Alexandra Dupré goes to the big city, meets a few friends, records a hit song, and makes good. Now, posting the above video to the Web, an alleged rapist will profit off all her hard work, one $29.95 subscription at a time. Must the Internet turn everything tawdry?

6:29 AM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
162,598 views, 12 comments

porn

How alt-porn turned into a big business

Used to be all it took to get into alternative porn — "alt," in the industry parlance — was a dream, a camera, a few piercings and an Internet connect. Now that dream is done, alt-porn veteran Lux Nightmare explains on Fleshbot. Why? In 2002, Visa- and MasterCard-affiliated banks began to require adult sites to pay $750 upfront to register and a $375 annual fee to process payments for site memberships. Then the government started requiring porn peddlers to keep more paperwork on their performers. Finally, alt-porn grew less "alt" as larger operations like SuicideGirls took over the market and began to play hardball with startups. "Most of the time," Nightmare writes, "their intimidation tactics work." Sounds just like Silicon Valley.

1:20 PM on Thu Mar 13 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
1,405 views, 1 comment

Latest by FiveStarEggRoll: Makes EggRoll sad. more »

Zivity gets more cash, but who pays for porn? Community porn site Zivity just landed another $8 million in private financing; a prior round netted $1 million. Good for them. Only question: When so much "artistic" softcore porn is available for free, who'll pay for the classy smut on Zivity? [Fleshbot]

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virtual worlds

Teens, engage in a virtual circle jerk at Gaia Online

Anime-flavored virtual world Gaia Online started up "Gaia VJ," a service which lets you watch video on the Internet with friends, late last year. Fed by video repositories like YouTube, iFilm and MetaCafe, Gaia VJ allows teens to create video playlists and share them with friends in exchange for in-game currency. (You're paid to watch!) There's no surprise that when offered an all-access pass to the glories of the Web, Gaia's young users choose videos include "Cute Lesbians" and "NOOBS CAUGHT CYBERING." To be fair, clips from Mulan and The Lion King are lovingly sandwiched between "anybody can have sex" and "Yaoi gay 18 and Over ONLY please." At least this virtual world has found an effective way to retain its users.

10:20 AM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Mary Jane Irwin
2,417 views, Comment

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