Pornography

Porn Knocks On Camarillo's Door After Condoms Required In L.A.

The porn industry has been none too happy about L.A. county's mandatory condom ordinance. It has threatened to leave the state, but it might have found a solution closer to home: By simply moving production into neighboring counties that don't require condoms for adult video shoots, porn can pretty ... More >>

Porn Film Measure X Flouts L.A.'s Adult Video Condom Law

There have been short video clips spoofing Los Angeles County's relatively new condom mandate (Measure B) for porn production. But one brave adult-video house, Zero Tolerance, went ahead an made a full-length XXX film about the most-hated law in Porn Valley. Measure X, the studio says, ...

Girl Talk: Readers Argue About Henry Rollins' GOP Takedown and Steven Leigh Morris' Deep Throat Skepticism

The Deep Throat Sex Scandal Celebrates a Famous First Amendment Victory But Ignores the Bigger Issue

Sorry, Porn Industry, But Americans Are Just Fine With Condom Sex, Study Says

One of the arguments heard in the porn industry's fight against mandatory condoms is that they're uncomfortable and can help create harmful friction during sex. Nina Hartley has been the most vociferous on this issue, once saying that "condom burn is a real issue. The friction from the latex, even ... More >>

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Octomom Nadya Suleman To Appear At AVN Porn Expo In Vegas

Nearly two years ago, Octomom Nadya Suleman was righteous in her rejection of offers to do porn. She was on the verge of losing her home, and Vivid Entertainment adult video chief Steve Hirsch was after her like a pimp chasing an 18-year-old who just got off a Greyhound bus. Here's what her lawyer ... More >>

Porn's Condom Mandate Okay With A Majority Of Adult Video Watchers, Says Online Poll

One of the porn industry's main arguments against mandatory condoms on-set is that you, the consumer, won't by videos where they're visible. It's just not a part of the bow-chicka-bow-wow fantasy where a pizza delivery guy shows up to get down but pauses just to be safe, they seem to be saying. Ex ... More >>

Porn's Mandatory Condom Rule Could Go Statewide As Group Lobbies Sacramento

Emboldened by victory at the polls in Los Angeles County this week, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation says it's taking its campaign for mandatory condoms in porn to the California legislature. Measure B, which mandates condoms for porn production in all but three of 88 cities in L.A. county, passed wi ... More >>

Sean Baker on His Film Starlet, an Insider's Look at the Porn Biz

Party With Porn Stars in West Hollywood

There's another campaign battle going on out there, and it definitely doesn't involve Big Bird. (Or maybe it does). The porn industry is fighting a county ballot initiative, Measure B, that would force performers to use condoms on sets in most of L.A. And the smut biz has one thing that the pro-co ... More >>

Porn Production Back This Weekend as New Syphilis Test Saves The Day

The porn industry has a new syphilis test that just might save the day. After a nearly two-week ban on production, adult video shoots are clear to restart this weekend, an industry official told the Weekly. Following a syphilis scare that L.A. county health officials say has infected as many as 9 p ... More >>

Porn's Mortal Enemy, Santorum, Has Bailed, But L.A. Industry Now Frets Over Romney

What do you do when you're an industry targeted for annihilation by a presidential candidate who is dropping out? If you're the porn industry, and that candidate is the anti-gay, anti-smut Rick Santorum, you head on over to Porn Star Karaoke at Sardo's in Burbank and celebrate. Right? Well, not so ... More >>

Porn Stars Allie Haze, Chastity Lane Call For Mass Wank-Off Against Santorum: VIDEO

Porn stars Allie Haze (of Star Wars XXX fame) and Chastity Lane are asking good Americans everywhere to, um, reach down and touch themselves to oppose the presidential hopes of one Rick Santorum. This week the L.A.-based Vivid Entertainment performers unleashed a cheeky video (after the jump) aski ... More >>

Porn King Steven Hirsch Says Santorum's Porn Crackdown Would Be Challenged And Ridiculed

This Santorum delictum against the fine purveyors of adult entertainment, largely based in Los Angeles, has put the porn industry in a tizzy. Adult video's titans have seen the devil, and he wears sweater vests. Hustler magnate Larry Flynt's offer of $1 million for dirt on a "prominent government o ... More >>

Porn Crackdown by Would-Be Presidential Candidate Santorum Opposed by Americans

We feel a little sorry for the L.A.-based porn industry these days. Free smut via file sharing and so-called "porn tube" sites are hitting its bottom line, and not in the good way. The city of L.A. has now made it a requirement that performers use condoms when they're on location. And presidential ... More >>

The End of L.A.'s Porn Industry?

Following the new law of the land that performers must wear condoms at "location" adult video shoots in L.A., some industry titans are threatening some serious coitus interruptus. Porn magnate Larry Hirsch, head of the nation's biggest porn-maker, L.A.-based Vivid, has been giving interviews saying ... More >>

Porn Condom Ballot Initiative Could be Blocked if City of L.A. Has its Way: Suit Filed to Stop it From Reaching Voters

​The city of L.A. is trying to keep condoms off porn stars, or at least off the ballot. An initiative by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation proposes to put the matter of mandatory condoms in the adult video industry to you, the voter. It collected enough signatures (70,901 of them) and turned the ... More >>

Porn Sex Made Safer: Mandatory Condom Act Coming to a Polling Place Near You (Really)

Among the important things you vote for -- governor, mayor and sometimes taxes -- will be this gem: Condoms. All for them, personally. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, however, wants to force the gear on the porn industry, which mainly calls the city of Los Angeles its home. With what amounts to fo ... More >>

Porn Convention AVN Lets You Attend Show Virtually, Via Laptop (Which is Probably Less Sticky, Hopefully)

So you've always wanted to attend the L.A.-based porn industry's grand convention in Las Vegas, but were too afraid to ask? Perhaps you don't like hand sanitizer, sticky people, and tattoos (at least in-person)? Well, AVN, the annual industry confab put together by the Chatsworth-based Adult Video ... More >>

iPhone Porn? There's a Controversial New App For That

Hottest Girls​While your iPhone's browser can take you just about anywhere your pervy heart desires, Apple has been touchy about approving actual apps with sexual content. The App Store might as well be an Hamish town, because, according to company policy: Apps containing pornographic materia ... More >>

Porn vs. Condoms: AIDS Healthcare Foundation Takes Case For Mandatory Condoms in L.A. Porn All The Way to State Supreme Court

eladarling.comPorn star Ela Darling.​Porn stars must wear condoms! Or not. Well, if you ask L.A.'s AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Mr. Jim Hats is a must. And even though the group lost a 2nd District Court of Appeal case last month in which it argued that L.A. County health officials must make p ... More >>

Porn Addiction: The Global Industry Based in Los Angeles is a Growing Problem For ... Women?

Merrick Monroe.Women account for one out of three porn site visitors.​When you think about the audience for the multi-billion-dollar, LA.-based porn industry, you usually think men. That would be a good instinct, but not entirely correct. In fact there's some evidence that women are a big sli ... More >>

'Real' Tila Tequila All-Girl Sex Tape to Be Released Next Month

Vivid EntertainmentTila Tequila proves that there's no wall between reality and porn.​L.A. porn-maker Vivid announced Monday that it has "acquired" a Tila Tequila all-girl sex tape and will release it on Valentine's Day. The big question here, of course, is do you care? It's been more than a ... More >>

Porn Industry Clinic Shut Down, But Anti-Porn Group Says It's Still Operating: L.A. County Leaders Pressed for Action Against Condom-Free Adult Films

AIDS Healthcare Foundation protests against condom-free porn.​The porn industry's main STD testing clinic was shut down Dec. 9 by state and county authorities because it didn't have a California medical clinic license. So who's testing the adult stars? Because at least some of them are working ... More >>

Anti-Porn-Industry Crusader Michael Weinstein Contributed Cash To L.A. Councilman Bill Rosendahl (Who Then Took A Step Toward Mandating Condom-Only Porn In The City)

Bill Rosendahl.​Updated after the jump with city Councilman Bill Rosendahl's response. First posted at 12:12 p.m. It looks like the porn industry is fighting back against L.A. city Councilman Bill Rosendahl after he made a proposal that could lead to mandatory condom use at city-permitted adu ... More >>

Sherman Oaks-Based Porn Industry Health Clinic Shut Down By State And L.A. County Officials

The porn industry's main health clinic was shut down Thursday.​Updated after the jump with information about another porn industry STD testing operation. First posted at 11:51 a.m. The porn industry's health-care clinic was shut down Thursday morning by state and county officials, a spokesman ... More >>

Porn Industry Group Finally Reports HIV Case To L.A. County Health Officials

The porn industry took its time reporting an HIV-positive actor.​The porn industry's main health-care organization caved and sent the results from a positive HIV test to the county, as mandated by state law. The Adult Industry Medical (AIM) Healthcare Foundation turned the results in Tuesday ... More >>

Protesters Blast Larry Flynt's Hustler For Unsafe Sex in Porn Films

Steve La​Given the subject matter, we're playing it safe: NSFW. Around two dozen protesters showed up at Larry Flynt Publications headquarters Thursday slamming Larry Flynt and his company Hustler Video for allegedly enforcing an unsafe work environment by not having their performers wear con ... More >>

Porn-Star Murder Suspect Was Chris Tucker To Victim's Jackie Chan

MySpaceThe suspect, Steven Hill, with porn star Sasha Grey.​Steven Hill, the man police allege killed fellow porn actor Herbert Wong, was close to the victim, according to Adult Video News (NSFW). Once source called the two "the Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker of porn." Wong reportedly helped Hil ... More >>

Coroner: Porn Star Marilyn Chambers Died of Natural Causes

Porn star Marilyn Chambers, whose body was found in her mobile home in Canyon Country last month, died of natural causes, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner. Porn Actress/Ivory Snow Girl: Marilyn Chambers Chambers, whose real name was Marilyn Ann Taylor, was discovered by her daughter ... More >>

Pretty in Pinksy

Vivid Entertainment Celebrates 25th Anniversary: Co-Founder Steven Hirsch Talks All-American Porn

View a full gallery of teaser photos from the exhibit in the Vivid Entertainment cover art slideshow. Vivid EntertainmentBack East I'd had more than a few glimpses of what was considered pornography by the time I was nine. There were the nudist rags I found in ditches on the way to school and rolle ... More >>

Stiff Competition

A Cold Equation

HIV and porn’s deadly bottom line

Too Old To Rock, Too Young To Die

The shady life and uncertain future of a legendary roadie

Crashing Comdex

Boogie Afternoons

A seminal moment in Malibu

The Researchers

Eric Schlosser and the new old journalism

The Good Woodsman

The boogie days and nights of Ron Jeremy

Load Warriors

The A-Team meets Boogie Nights on the Colorado River

Experiencing Martin Amis

At the Chateau Marmont, in Beverly Hills, on television and in his new memoir

Letters

Book Shops

Scenes From My Life in Porn

X-Rated eBay

Bareback Riding

The porn industry deals with another HIV-positive performer

The Grateful Web

Our county wants to curtail your Net access

The Last Ride?

Paul Little, a.k.a. Max Hardcore (above), remains ambivalent about mandatory condom use.

The Economics Lesson

Or, an evening of topless bowling