- Aroused (release: Spring 2012) features a look at the lives of some of adult film’s most recognizable stars such as Jesse Jane, Belladonna, Katsuni, Allie Haze, Kayden Kross, April O’Neil, Francesca Lé, Lisa Ann, Brooklyn Lee, Alexis Texas, Asphyxia Noir, Teagan Presley, Ash Hollywood, Tanya Tate, Lexi Belle and Misty Stone. Witness the Classiest Trailer for a Documentary About Porn Stars That You’ll Ever See (Film School Rejects)
- Sex educator Dr. Charlie Glickman faces off against Newt Gingrich’s “open relationship” and the popular conflation of consensual non-monogamy and nonconsensual infidelity. Open Relationships, Infidelity, and Cheating (Dr. Charlie Glickman)
- Iran to execute alleged porn programmer, Reddit’s SOPA porn apathy, Microsoft wants gay marriage, erotic book plagiarism at Amazon. Sex Tech: Iran Execution, Reddit Apathy, Microsoft Gay Marriage, Amazon Plagiarism (Pulp Tech)
- ICM Registry filed its response to the .XXX lawsuit filed by Manwin (YouPorn, etc.) and Digital Playground, which was recently acquired by Manwin, asking the Court to throw out the case. ICM Responds To Manwin’s .XXX Suit With Motions To Dismiss (Thedomains.com)
- Hazel Jones, the British woman who recently revealed that she has two fully formed vaginas, turned down a $1 million offer from Vivid Entertainment CEO Steve Hirsch to do porn. Hazel Jones: Woman with Two Vaginas Turns Down $1 Mil Porn Offer (International Business Times)
- In which the commercial porn industry appears to be anti-safer sex… As the adult-film industry held its annual gathering in Las Vegas this week, back in Los Angeles, where a large percentage of commercial porn originates, the city council had voted 9-1 earlier this month to require condoms on male actors in film shoots within city limits. One option seemingly not being considered by anyone The Daily Beast interviewed: starting to use condoms. The Porn World Says No to Condoms (The Daily Beast)
- Forever ensuring you’ll never think of Harry Potter the same way again, Ralph Fiennes indulged Andy Cohen, Watch What Happens Live viewers, and Voldemort fetishists with a reading from a piece of erotic fan fiction during his visit to the Bravo talk show on Thursday night. Ralph Fiennes reads Voldemort erotic fiction (PopWatch)
- This is an interesting article about Indian culture and pro-porn Indian women that not only like porn, but enjoy the rough stuff. Porn and women: Some like it hardcore (DNA India)
Porn convention 2012 coverage:
- Here is a well-shot slideshow of the industry magazine’s 2012 porn awards, and a skin-tastic gallery of photos from the porn convention trade show floor. Hey – Belladonna is bald again – and she did an aerial performance for the awards event. Photos from the 2012 AVN Awards and Expo + 2012 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo (Examiner.com; Las Vegas Vegas, image at right via)
- Sarah Estrella looks at the award winners: “The biggest winner among this year’s crop of adult films, hands down, is Elegant Angel’s Portrait of a Call Girl.” 2012 AVN Awards: A look at this year’s award-winning adult films (Examiner.com)
- Joan Rivers‘ daughter Melissa Rivers dates Vivid’s Steven Hirsch, and they appear to have hung out with Joe Francis (of Girls Gone Wild repute). Melissa Rivers — From the Oscars to the AVNs (TMZ)
- Classy. The 2012 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo kicked off at the Hard Rock Hotel, bringing with it a slew of parties and events. One of them was the IsAnyoneUp.com AVN Launch party at Mandalay Bay’s Foundation Room, hosted by site founder Hunter Moore. Despicable me: Q&A with Is Anyone Up?’s Hunter Moore (Las Vegas Weekly)
- Looks like anti-porn profiteers XXX Church had a nice, big presence at the convention. Jesus, lawyers and 3 other unexpected sights at the porn convention (Las Vegas Sun)
