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Farrah Abraham Sells Her Body Parts

In case you've forgotten who Farrah Abaraham is -- and we wouldn't blame you, as her 15 minutes expired by early summer -- the MTV "Teen Mom" cast member turned porn star is back. See also: Farrah Abraham's Sex Tape Hits The Internet. She thinks you'll remember her enough to want to buy a lifelike ... More >>

Porn's HIV Shut-Down is Bad For L.A. Economy?

A 6 percent drop in the number of folks working in the entertainment industry (motion pictures and sound recording) had business journalists wondering if the porn industry's HIV-related shut-down in August caused the plunge. There were 22,000 fewer jobs in Hollywood and beyond last month, according ... More >>

Rod Daily: Second Porn Star Comes Up HIV Positive

This week the porn industry got the worst possible news when a performer who goes by the name Rod Daily tweeted that he has tested positive for HIV. His would be the second positive for the virus in the adult business since August, when Cameron Bay, identified by industry blogger Mike South as Dail ... More >>

Sydney Leathers Could Have Been Exposed to HIV in Porn Debut

The woman at the center of the latest Anthony Weiner sexting scandal might have been exposed to HIV on-set as part of her foray into porn. Sydney Leathers' debut adult video, "Weiner and Me," which was released online this week, features performer Xander Corvus as Weiner. He did a scene with Camero ... More >>

Sydney Leathers: "I Do Not Have HIV"

Sydney Leathers' today vehemently denied that she could have been exposed to HIV as part of her porn debut. See also: Sydney Leathers Could Have Been Exposed to HIV in Porn Debut. The website Gawker yesterday surmised it was possible because Leathers worked with Xander Corvus, who played New York ... More >>

Weiner Sexter Syndney Leathers Offered Porn Gig in L.A.

Sydney Leathers, the young woman who appears to be Anthony Weiner's most-recent sexting partner, has been offered a gig taking it to the next level: L.A.-based Vivid Entertainment, the king of adult video production companies, has offered Leathers a job doing porn, the Weekly has learned:

Batman & Superman Unite For 1st Time? Porn Was Already There

Comic-Con fans nearly jizzed their skinny jeans when Warner Bros. announced at the San Diego convention over the weekend that, for the first time ever, Batman and Superman would appear together in a motion picture. As with everything in modern media, however, from the phase-out of print to the free ... More >>

Farrah Abraham Rejected By Sugar-Daddy Dating Site

That slippery slope from C-list celebrity to straight-up XXX video vixen? We have identified how it appears to work, at least for one reality TV personality turned porn star. The sugar-daddy website SeekingArrangement.com said this week that MTV Teen Mom Farrah Abraham, whose sex tape was released ... More >>

Farrah Abraham Sex Tape Hits TV

The buzz about Farrah Abraham's sex tape is deafening. And now Vivid Entertainment, which scored the right to distribute the video, is bringing all the action to a television near you. Well, sort of. It depends on whether your particular LCD is equipped with premium channels of the adult variety:

Farrah Abraham's Sex Tape Hits The Internet May 6

The onetime star of MTV's Teen Mom is now the headliner of Backdoor Teen Mom, a sex tape coming to a laptop near you May 6. Farrah Abraham, set to turn 22 in May, is said to have been inspired to close out her 21st year "by making a personal tape that would forever capture her beauty and sensuality ... More >>

Porn's L.A. Condom Mandate To Be Defended In Court By AIDS Group

The battle over condoms in porn just got real. Well, actually, it's been real for a while. But the group behind the effort to make condoms mandatory in adult video, the L.A.-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, is claiming victory this week. A judge said the organization could defend L.A. county's con ... More >>

Porn Pulls Out Of L.A.

After you, the L.A. County voter, decided in November to mandate condom use in local porn production, the adult industry has nearly pulled out of town, so to speak. FilmLA, which processes permits for the city and county of Los Angeles, says it has received only two adult film applications this yea ... More >>

Porn Condom Law For All Of California One Step Closer To Reality

Even as the adult video industry is fighting L.A. county's mandatory condoms-in-porn rule, a similar law that would cover the business statewide is one step closer to becoming law. The bill by Compton state assemblyman Isadore Hall passed the lower house's Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, And ... More >>

Tax Day Becomes Porn Day; Studios Donate Earnings To Fight Mandatory Condoms

The patriotic denizens of the porn industry are dedicating their proceeds April 15 to the cause of freedom. That is, they're giving cash in support of a court challenge of Measure B, the L.A. county initiative approved by voters that requires adult performers to use condoms:

Porn's Allie Haze, Ron Jeremy To Speak At USC

Pasadena City College got mad headlines when porn star James Deen spoke to a "Navigating Pornography" class (as if we need instruction on that!) in February. USC, of course, will not be outdone by a community college:

Vivid Porn Building Catches Fire

Flames erupted on the rooftop of a building famous for housing the offices of one of the world's largest porn studios, Vivid Entertainment in the Cahuenga Pass. Hot stuff, indeed: Luckily, no one was hurt in the making of this blaze. The fire at 3599 Cahuenga Boulevard near Universal City was repo ... More >>

Porn Industry, Steven Hirsch, Kayden Kross, File Suit Against Mandatory Condoms In L.A.

As we predicted, freedom of speech is shaping up to be a key issue in the porn industry's fight against mandatory condom use on-set in Los Angeles County. Smut business titans including Steven Hirsch, chief of Vivid Entertainment, announced that they have filed a lawsuit in federal district court i ... More >>

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 DVDs Found Under Desk of L.A. Transportation Clerk

The L.A. Department of Transportation seems to have a thing with porn. Don't we all, you say. Yes, but on-the-job porn? First a parking enforcement officer was caught fondling an adult performer for an impromptu scene caught on tape. (Hate it when that happens). Now, city officials say, a transpor ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan as Porn Star? You Wish ...

The third-annual XCritic.com "Sex Tracker Survey" of porn pervs is out today, and it gives us a good indication of who you (one-handed) Monday morning quarterbacks want to see getting it on via the small screen. Your number one request to do a celebrity porn tape, by far, is Lindsay Lohan. Yep. Se ... More >>

Octomom Will Do Porn! (Maybe)

We told you she'd come around. Perhaps she was worn down. Octomom Nadya Suleman had a bad month. She filed for bankruptcy yesterday. Her home was also set to be auctioned off, but that was postponed for a week. And she was recently visited by child welfare authorities, who sniffed around her house ... More >>

Octomom Nadya Suleman's House Up For Auction Monday?

Octomom Nadya Suleman and her 14 kids could officially be without a roof over their heads Monday as the bank holding the loan on her La Habra home is scheduled to auction it off. For a celebrity with mass exposure, Suleman has to be closer to homelessness than anyone besides maybe Andy Dick. Well, ... More >>

Octomom Could Lose Crown to Mexican Nonomom Karla Vanessa Perez, Who's Expecting 9 Babies

Updated at the bottom: Octomom might be safe for now because at least one Mexican medical authority is calling fraud on Karla. First posted at 2:12 p.m. Poor Octomom. We got word last night that her house might be auctioned off because payments on it haven't been up-to-date (although her lawyer dis ... 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 >>

Naked Protesters to Mimic Pork Packages Outside Farmer John Planet Near Downtown L.A., PETA Warns

We love meat. We love naked people. Put them together and you have a PETA protest. (Only in L.A.) The animal rights group is targeting Farmer John and its pig slaughtering operation (mmm, pig) in Vernon near downtown tomorrow. And get this:

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Casey Anthony Nude Pics? Larry Flynt Offers Controversial Party Mom Half a Million to Appear in Hustler Magazine

Casey Anthony.​Ah, Casey Anthony. A woman whose story is so revolting that even porn Valley's biggest video producer, Vivid Entertainment, was inspired to rescind its offer of a high-paid sex gig after a backlash from folks who wouldn't even want to see her in flagrante. But you know there is ... More >>

Casey Anthony Case: Hollywood Woos Attorney Jose Baez

Jose Baez.​Hollywood appears to be circling around the Casey Anthony case -- cautiously -- this week following the not-guilty verdict in the alleged murder of her 2-year-old girl Caylee. Former Weekly columnist Nikki Finke reports that the Paradigm agency signed Anthony defense attorney Jose ... More >>

Casey Anthony Porn Video Offer Withdrawn by L.A.'s Vivid Entertainment

A photo said to be of Casey Anthony and OJ Simpson posted at Yfrog.​She might be (somewhat) innocent, at least according to a Florida jury. But at this point it looks like Casey Anthony couldn't get arrested, even in the porn capital of the world. Vivid Entertainment, the nation's biggest ad ... More >>

Anthony Weiner Told Porn Star Ginger Lee About His Legislative 'Package,' Clearly Sought Her Advice on Particular Policy Matters

Ginger.​We're glad U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner hasn't resigned yet. We need to keep hearing about his package. In a somewhat ironic turn of events, a porn star took the podium today to point the finger at a congressman for being prurient. Nashville adult performer Ginger Lee, who's clearly done ... More >>

Pippa Middleton: L.A. Adult Video Company Vivid Offers Kate Middleton's Sister $5 Million to do Porn

Pippa Middleton with Prince Philip.​We always wondered what (quasi-) royal porn would be like. Pardon me, Jeeves. Would you pass the liter-sized bottle of lube, please? There would surely be white gloves everywhere. Anyway, looks like our favorite porn king, Steve Hirsch of Vivid Entertainmen ... More >>

Capri Anderson, the Porn Star at Ground Zero of Charlie Sheen Saga, Signs Adult Film Deal

VividCapri Anderson.​Porn star Sasha Grey has used her fame to get into mainstream movies. Capri Anderson, whose famous run-in with Charlie Sheen at a New York hotel last year seemed to be Ground Zero for his unraveling of late, is using her notoriety to ... do more porn. But not just any po ... More >>

Anti-Porn Industry Protesters Hit the Xbiz Awards in Hollywood, Try to Shame Larry Flynt, Steve Hirsch

Andy San Dimas: You lick me, you really do.​We're not sure what's sadder, that sources tell us the Xbiz Awards are known in the industry as the Golden Globes of porn, or that anti-porn protesters found the Hollywood event Wednesday worthy of targeting. (If you must know, the Female Performer ... More >>

L.A. Officials Consider Mandatory Condom Use for City-Permitted Porn Shoots

joanna8555Porn-turned-indie star Sasha Grey.​L.A. leaders are pondering a law that would make mandatory condom use a condition of permitting porn shoots inside city boundaries. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation on Monday hailed the City Council's recent vote to have the L.A. City Attorney's offi ... 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 >>

Charlie Sheen Porn Girl Kacey Jordan Sees Videos Released Friday by Vivid Entertainment: Porn Maker Offers Sheen Lifetime Membership

VividKacey Jordan is only 22 but she's already rocking with the best.​Let's see, two porn stars, four other women, an alleged briefcase full of cocaine. And now Vivid Entertainment, arguably the world's largest porn-maker, is celebrating Charlie Sheen's own reported celebration this week by re ... 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 >>

Porn Protesters Target Biggest Adult Video Maker, Vivid Entertainment, Near Universal City

VividDid Kim Kardashian violate state law?​The AIDS Healthcare Foundation's war against condom-free porn struck at the heart of the adult industry Thursday when AHF organizers held a press conference in front of the Universal City-area headquarters of the globe's leading smut maker, Vivid Ente ... More >>

Top 10 Hollywood Couples You'd Like To See Do Sex Tapes

Mr. & Mrs. Smith​Now that the holidays are over and your warm-and-fuzzy feelings for family and friends have given way to a massive, week-long hangover, we've got just the tidbit to brighten your day. That's right, we've got porn news to kick off 2011 right. Steven Hirsch, honcho at the world ... More >>

L.A. Porn-Maker Releasing Brittney Jones Sex Tape Despite Threats From Aston Kutcher's Attorney

VividHomewrecker (allegedly).​Porn maker Vivid Entertainment is being more careful about marketing a video featuring a woman who claims to have been Aston Kutcher's f-buddy. But it's still releasing the tape. In a statement this week, Vivid alluded to Brittney Jones' claimed rendezvous with A ... 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 >>

L.A. Porn Director Axel Braun Sues 7,098 People For Allegedly File-Sharing His 'Batman XXX' Video

VividWe can pretty much guarantee she gets her man.​As it has gone from VHS to DVD to downloads and pay-per-view, the porn industry, god bless it, has generally been ahead of the curve when it comes to figuring out how this whole digital distribution thing will work. The music and mainstream ... More >>

'Octomom' Nadya Suleman Offered Cash For Sex -- For Second Time

​The folks at L.A.- and New York-based Vivid Entertainment, arguably the world's largest porn-video producer, have been on Nadya "Octomom" Suleman like a pimp after a hot chick who just started smoking crack. Vivid unashamedly smells blood in the water following reports, including one in our s ... More >>

Porn Maker Offers To Save Octomom's House If She Makes A Deal For A Video

​As we reported, "Octomom" Nadya Suleman is in danger of being kicked out of her home because her father is not current on a balloon mortgage payment that was due earlier this month. Don't fear, however, because porn-industry buzzards are circling like drug dealers at an Amy Winehouse concert. ... More >>

Rubbers Revolutionary: AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Michael Weinstein

Activist wants to save porn actors from STDs. It's been lonely

25 Years of Sexy - and Hilarious - Vivid Entertainment Cover Art (SFW)

Gary Busey's Angelo Pappas said it best in Point Break: "22 years. Man, L.A. has changed a lot during that time. The air got dirty and the sex got clean." When it comes to porn, the cineskin business has also changed a lot since the '80s. The plot lines got kinkier and the hair styles got a helluv ... More >>

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 >>

Paul Thomas

The auteur of sex

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