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Pleasure Chest Has Pride Next Month
Pleasure Chest Has Pride Next Month

Adult toy retailer The Pleasure Chest, which has been a fixture in the gay community in West Hollywood for 40 years, will honor...

Pleasure
Hustler Toys Makes Heartbreak Feel Good
Hustler Toys Makes Heartbreak Feel Good

Hustler Toys has released its latest massager, the Hustler Heartbreaker.

Tech
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Anti-Porn, Web Rally a Marketing Event?
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Anti-Porn, Web Rally a Ma...

Brilliantly, the event also mimicked internet filtering by not allowing women into the stadium, though they were allowed to wat...

Entertainment
Wicked Pictures Contest Winner Scopes Out Eclipse With Stars
Wicked Pictures Contest Winner Scopes Out Eclip...

As anyone who tried to get to the Griffith Observatory within two hours of last evening's solar eclipse can tell you, the choic...

Entertainment
XO Ball & Expo SF Names AVN Official 2012 Media Partner
XO Ball & Expo SF Names AVN Official 2012 Media...

Coming to San Francisco September 21-22, 2012, XO Ball & Expo is the largest lifestyle event in the country, targeting all sexu...

Entertainment
Japan's 'Alibi' Services Give Sex Workers Legit Identities
Japan's 'Alibi' Services Give Sex Workers Legit...

One might assume that because Japan's culture allows for one to rent a life, adding a layer or two to a real identity would not...

Legal
Florida Killer Amanda Logue to Serve 40 Years in Plea Deal
Florida Killer Amanda Logue to Serve 40 Years i...

Former adult performer Amanda Logue appeared in a Florida courtroom Monday morning, where she pleaded guilty to second-degree m...

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Fresh Balls From Holiday Products Featured in ‘Mansome’
Fresh Balls From Holiday Products Featured in ‘...

Fresh Balls, the incredibly successful product for men’s personal grooming, is featured in Mansome, a new documentary film from...

Entertainment
Tristan Taormino To Host Show on VoiceAmerica Radio Network
Tristan Taormino To Host Show on VoiceAmerica R...

VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network—internet broadcasting pioneer, producing and syndicating online audio and video—today announced...

Entertainment
Sunny Leone's Condom Ad Hits the Tube—YouTube, That Is
Sunny Leone's Condom Ad Hits the Tube—YouTube, ...

As AVN reported earlier this month, Vivid Girl Sunny Leone had inked a deal to promote Manforce Condoms... and now, according t...

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GOP POTUS Candidates’ Popularity Immortalized As Butt Plugs
GOP POTUS Candidates’ Popularity Immortalized A...

Forget pie charts, bar graphs and even Venn diagrams. A New York University grad student has taken dry statistics—the voter app...

Entertainment
B. Skow Splits With Vivid, Forms Skow Digital
B. Skow Splits With Vivid, Forms Skow Digital

Longtime Vivid Entertainment contract director B. Skow has cordially exited the company and announced the creation of his own s...

Tech
Swiss Philosopher Plans to Make 'Socially Acceptable' Porn
Swiss Philosopher Plans to Make 'Socially Accep...

Writer/philosopher Alain de Botton thinks that current porn needs to step aside and let a kinder, gentler, family-friendly porn...

Entertainment
Chyna Collapses at Exxxotica Miami
Chyna Collapses at Exxxotica Miami

Wrestler-turned-porn star Chyna inexplicably collapsed just moments ago in front of the main stage at Exxxotica Miami, which op...

Legal
LA Wants YOU to Design the City's Official Condom Package
LA Wants YOU to Design the City's Official Cond...

LACDPH has decided it needs to brand the hundreds of thousands of condoms it gives away each year... so they're having a contes...

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Houston Wants to Bury Treasures
Houston Wants to Bury Treasures

The city of Houston says that the amount of trafficking, prostitution and drug use occurring at the club has made it such a nui...

Legal
City Administrative Officer Asks For More Time on Condom Regs
City Administrative Officer Asks For More Time ...

In a letter issued Wednesday, LA City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana has asked the City Council to give his "Working Gro...

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Icon Brands Takes Different ‘Point of View’ on Strokers
Icon Brands Takes Different ‘Point of View’ on ...

Icon Brands is releasing a brand new line of stroker kits called The Ultimate POV Experience, featuring a proprietary new strok...

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CalExotics, Romatix Host Launch of Phil Varone Sex Toy Line
CalExotics, Romatix Host Launch of Phil Varone ...

Rocker Phil Varone, the former drummer for Skid Row and Saigon Kick, hosted the public launch of his Sex, Toys and Rock ’n Roll...

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Another East Texas Patent Troll Targets Adult, Mainstream
Another East Texas Patent Troll Targets Adult, ...

Like desert varmints, patent trolls take to the verdant (if sometimes parched) lands of East Texas, where the environment is ad...