Porn Industry

Is Porn an Acceptable Career Option?

Steve Hirsch | Posted 05.30.2012

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Steve Hirsch

Is doing explicit films to pay the bills now seen as a viable and acceptable option? Love it or leave it, porn seems now to be a part of mainstream pop culture. Today, just about everything in the media has sexual overtones, and porn fits right in.

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Yoga Industry May Have Found a Few Good Men -- and Millions of Devilish Ones, Too

Stewart J. Lawrence | Posted 05.25.2012

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Stewart J. Lawrence

Women continue to be the most active and attractive names and faces around which the yoga industry is most visibly promoted, but the market clearly needs fresh blood -- and increasingly that blood is male.

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WATCH: Do Porn And Parenting Mix?

The Huffington Post | Ileana Llorens | Posted 05.03.2012

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Porn stars are good mothers. That's what Alana Evans, an adult porn star, expressed when she appeared on Dr. Drew's HLN program on May 1. The moth...

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Condoms in Porn Are Important

Michael Weinstein | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Safe Sex, Pornography, Porn Industry, Condom Use Porn, Porn, Condoms Porn, Safe Sex Porn, Stds, STD Prevention, Condoms in Porn, Los Angeles News
Michael Weinstein

Porn performers are real people. They are the sisters and brothers, sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, aunts, uncles and cousins of people who live in our community. They deserve better as does the public health at large.

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Porn Flicks Or Virtual Coliseum? Risking Actors' Lives For Sport

John-Manuel Andriote | Posted 04.25.2012

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John-Manuel Andriote

By the middle of the past decade, an increasing number of gay erotica producers were not only making "bareback" movies, but they felt no responsibility whatsoever to their actors -- or their audience.

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Is Porn Driving Men Crazy?

Naomi Wolf | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Pornography, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Anthony Weiner, Sex Scandal, Sex Scandals, Internet Porn, Porn Industry, Porn, Politics News
Naomi Wolf

What is driving men's weirdly disinhibited decision-making? Could the widespread availability and consumption of pornography in recent years actually be rewiring the male brain?

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CA To Consider Mandating Condom Use For Porn Films

AP | SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER | Posted 07.27.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Porn performers in California would be required to use condoms in sex scenes if draft rules from state workplace safety officials ...

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Porn Industry's New Weapon In Fight Against STIs

AP | SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER | Posted 07.27.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Porn performers will soon be given a list of recommended health care providers for their frequent sexually transmitted disease tes...

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Porn Industry Stonewalls Health Officials

AP | Posted 06.16.2011

Read More: Derrick Burts, Hiv Outbreak, Porn Industry, Los Angeles Porn, Dr. Francisco Meza, Home News

LOS ANGELES -- Health officials say porn producers are dodging questions and slowing down an investigation into a case of HIV that shuttered productio...

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Shadow Elite: Truthiness, Porn and the Real Problem With Reality TV

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Snooki, Jersey Shore, Reality TV, Truthiness, Shadow Elite, Neoconservatives, Porn Industry, Porn, Media News
Janine R. Wedel

What do the makers of reality TV and the makers of pornography have in common with some of America's top power brokers? It may be less of a stretch than it sounds.

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Why the Porn Industry's HIV Problem Is Our Problem, Too

Kellee Terrell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Stds, Porn Industry, Condoms, Health, Pornography, Condom Use, Controversy, Jenna Jameson, HIV Cure, Entertainment News
Kellee Terrell

It's obvious that not using condoms in porn is a safety hazard, but I have also often wondered: How much of a safety hazard is it for viewers to consume condomless porn?

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iPhone 4's Facetime Sparks Video Sex Chat Services

AP | JOEL SCHECTMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — It's a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in. So when Apple Inc. launched t...

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Why Are Porn and Junk Food So Tempting?

Marnia Robinson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Pornography, Dopamine, Junk Food, Natural Reinforcers, Porn Industry, Drug Addictions, Dopamine Receptors, Addictions, Healthy Living News
Marnia Robinson

The extreme stimulation of today's enticements can hijack our brains. We may not be safe from addiction when it comes to unrestricted access to super stimulating natural reinforcers.

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Bridalplasty Meets the Tea Party Meets Extreme Porn, With Unfortunate Results

Mark Morford | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Morford

Way over here on the distant end of the human continuum, where the devil and the apocalypse copulate in a bed of blood, pathos and perky TV ratings, we have a new reality show called, apparently, Bridalplasty.

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YouPorn Causing Obscene Losses To Adult Film Industry

Portfolio | Anonymous | Posted 05.25.2011

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DVD sales are in free fall. Audiences are flocking to pornographic knockoffs of YouTube, especially a secretive site called YouPorn. And the amateurs ...

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Why Would Montana Fishburne Become a Porn Star?

Jennifer Ketcham | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jennifer Ketcham

From the day I entered the adult business to the present moment, one question arises in every interview regarding pornography. "Why did you get in the business?"

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Porn Costars Allegedly Kill Tattoo Artist

Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (Associated Press) -- Jason Andrews was a bisexual Chicago DJ with a British accent, whose chiseled jaw and good looks landed h...

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Adventures in Pornland: Not So Adventurous

Emily Southwood | Posted 05.25.2011

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Emily Southwood

Months later your betrothed is swinging through the door with film equipment and showering off other people's bodily fluids before tucking into his steak.

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Why Isn't a Gay Porn Star Documentary Available on Amazon?

Lisa Derrick | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lisa Derrick

Amazon sells Deep Throat and Paris Hilton's sex tape. Users can pre-order thousands of titles -- why can't we pre-order John Roecker's bold new film on the gay sex business?

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Why Isn't Gay Porn Star Documentary Available on Amazon?

Lisa Derrick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tim Armstrong, Eart Like a Hand Grenade, Amazon.com, John Roecker, Live Freaky Die Freaky, Harlow Cuadra, LGBT Rights, Rancid, Porn Industry, Dakota Fanning, Censorship, Porn, Gren Day, Amazon, Media News
Lisa Derrick

John Roecker (director of the upcoming Green Day documentary Heart Like a Hand Grenade, and cult hits Live Freaky, Die Freaky a and Svengali) set out...

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The Porn Industry Has Gone Too Far

Ken Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ken Levine

Companies are beginning to produce XXX parodies of popular sitcoms. Here's my problem. It's one thing to ask these porn "stars" to do degrading acts like have sex with five guys. It's quite another to ask them to be funny.

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Has The Government Gone Soft On Porn?

Mother Jones | Stephanie Mencimer | Posted 05.25.2011

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We all know how the Internet has changed the porn business. The video clips available for free to any pimply faced teen with a modem make Deep Throat ...

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Prague's Gay Porn Industry

GlobalPost | Cameron Abadi | Posted 05.25.2011

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PRAGUE, Czech Republic �" Martin Justel is 20, as old as the Czech democracy and, arguably, just as mature. He is scrawny and too tall for his body ...

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Condoms In Porn: California Considers New Safety Requirement

AP | SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — California's worker safety board voted Thursday to further study a proposal that would require porn actors to wear condoms during ...

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Francisco Franco Monument Used As Set For Spanish Porno

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pornography, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Francisco Franco, Porn Industry, Spain, Spanish Civil War, The Valley of the Fallen, Porn, Franco, World News

Anita Brooks, The Independent The valley of the Fallen, an immense monument built by the dictator Francisco Franco as a mausoleum for himself and ten...

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