The year in adult entertainment was marked by significant legal decisions, emerging content delivery platforms, ambitious feature films and some high-profile passings.
While numerous business deals, personnel moves and events impacted the industry in 2005, the following is a list of the 25 stories that were among the most profound.
1. Appeals Court Reinstates Obscenity Charges Against Extreme Associates
2. Judge Rules in Favor of Industry in FSC 2257 Case
3. Goalie Entertainment Owner Eddie Wedelstedt Pleads Guilty to Obscenity Charge
4. ICANN Considers Dot-xxx
5. Playboy Entertainment Group Acquires Adult.com
6. Cell Phone Porn Becomes Trend; Apple iPod and Sony Playstation Portable Emerge as Modes of Delivery
7. Pirates Premieres at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre
8. FriendFinder, Streamray Merge
9. VHS Virtually Extinct
10. Vivid's New Devil in Miss Jones Receives Record Pre-Sales, Gets NYC Billboard
11. NowThatsFuckedUp Webmaster Charged with Obscenity, Held Without Bail, Released
12. LFP Signs Vivid for New Distribution Deal
13. Mary Carey Attends President Bush's Fundraising Dinner
14. Vivid Signs New Seven-Year Pacts with Jenna Jameson and Club Jenna and Tera Patrick and Tera Vision
15. Jill Kelly Productions Files for Bankruptcy
16. Sex.com Hijacker Arrested
17. Jenna Jameson Battles City of Scottsdale for Cabaret, Poses for Elton John's Photo Book
18. Pulse Distribution Launches, Signs Falcon Studios, Others
19. Vince Vouyer Leaves Red Light District, Joins Steve Orenstein to Form Vouyer Media
20. Bouncy Pictures Unveils First Adult UMD
21. The 22nd Annual AVN Awards Show
22. Erik Everhard Signs with Evil Angel
23. Seymore Butts' 'Family Business' Earns Fourth Season
24. Congress, Justice Department Step Up Persecution of Porn
25. Red Light District Launches Film Division, Lands Ninn Worx Line
Industry-related passings: Clive McLean, Chloe Jones, Terry Mahaffey, Alan Shustak, Bob Zak, Sam Stetson, Julie Robbins, Britney Madison, Andrea Dworkin, Greg Gregory, Bobby Gallagher.
