Sex industry
Summary
The sex industry consists of commercial enterprises providing sex-related services, or in a more general sense also independent sex workers.These services are described as adult entertainment, as they provide forms of entertainment not considered suitable for children.The sex industry earns as much as $13 billion a year in the United States and has been popular in media such as home video and DVD, pay-per-view, live streaming video and video on demand.Examples of the types of modern business operating in the sex industry include Hustler (a monthly men's magazine); SexTV: The Channel (a digital cable television channel); YouPorn (a website that allows amateurs to upload porn); Artemis (a mega-brothel in Germany); and Ann Summers (a successful chain of British sex shops).There are various forms of prostitution.Also, adult films are produced, made available through internet (downloading and streaming video) and pay-tv, sold (e.g.
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Spain v Italy scores 9.1m
A massive day of sports coverage including the French Open and two Euro football matches saw ITV1 winning the majority of the audience, while Louis Theroux’s return visit to the porn industry failed to meet BBC2’s slot average.
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Malika Saada Saar: Rush Limbaugh Logic: Porn Good, Birth Control Bad
A few weeks ago, Congresswoman Maloney looked at the all male congressional panel on birth control and asked, "where are the women?" I want to ask Rush Limbaugh and those who applauded his tirade against Sandra Fluke: "where are the men?".
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Playboy Hopping to Los Angeles
In recent years it seems as if almost every industry is moving online. Perhaps no other industry has as large a presence online as the porn industry. Which puts Playboy, the magazine that was hip and edgy when Hugh Hefner founded it in Chicago in the early 1950s, in a.
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The World's Most Expensive XXX Domain Name
In preparation, lots of people, companies and universities snatched up domains to prevent the porn industry from tainting their brands.
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Michelle Chen: Making Sex Workers Visible in the Village Voice Ad Controversy
In a perfectly “free” labor market, everyone theoretically has the right to exchange work for commensurate compensation. But a free market is not necessarily a just one. And when the commodity is sex, how free is too free?.
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Bethany St. James: Sasha Grey -- A Porn Star Dares to Read
A porn star walks into a school. . . it sounds like the beginning to a bad off color joke. But, according to recent news it isn't a joke. It's a true story that has become a media firestorm. Most of us have read, watched or at least stood around the water cooler discussing the latest negativity hype about former porn star Sasha Grey reading to a group of school children.
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The .xxx Domains Are Here, And The Porn Industry Isn't Happy About It (FFN)
Today, a new top-level domain name,. xxx, comes online. That means you'll have websites ending with. xxx instead of just. com,. net or. org. Obviously this was intended for online porn which, like it or not, is a big part of the internet.
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Backpage.com Is Too Dangerous Says AG
ADOTAS – AG Mike Delaney is pissed. He and 46 other state attorneys general requested information this week about how site Backpage. com attempts to remove advertising for sex trafficking that could involve minors. The website is the largest for ‘adult service’ advertising and is owned by, who else, Village Voice Media, LLC.
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Protecting your brand from the new 'xxx' domain
An Internet domain called ". xxx" will be a new home for the adult entertainment industry, and it just might affect your brand.
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New Jersey court denies blogger shield protection
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A blogger sued for defamation over comments posted on an Internet message board is not entitled to the same protections as a journalist, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.
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