“This is Devon. Please call me.” I received semiregular texts like this that sent chills through my body. It either meant my agent had booked me for a photo or video shoot… or that he needed to discuss something he was upset with or confused about. Devon has lived here …
Read More »Republicans Are Coming to Take Your Porn (Again)
Utah residents attempting to visit Pornhub this month were greeted with a video message from adult performer Cherie DeVille, who explained why they could no longer access the site: their state had just adopted a law requiring age verification every time an internet user wants to view “material harmful to …
Read More »When You Try to Watch Pornhub in Utah, You See Me Instead. Here's Why
It’s a bad week to be an adult porn consumer in Utah, but it’s a great time to be a teenager. The state launched a new law requiring users to verify their ages via uploading their licenses or other invasive procedures. Without proof of age, they can’t watch porn. In …
Read More »They're Selling Nudes of Imaginary Women on Reddit — and It's Working
“F/19 feeling pretty today,” Claudia’s post reads. She’s got straight black bangs and giant blue-green eyes, with just the socially appropriate amount of cleavage sticking out of her grey tank top. With her alabaster skin, delicate features, and vaguely indie hairstyle, she looks exactly like someone the average Redditor would …
Read More »The Other Woman in the Trump-Stormy Daniels Saga Tells All
Twitter went wild after former President Donald Trump posted to Truth Social that he expected to be arrested on Tuesday. (Surprise: It turned out to be false.) The potential indictment against Trump stemmed from a hush-money payoff to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. From the moment news of the alleged …
Read More »A Frank Talk With the Ex-Pornhub Employee in Netflix's 'Money Shot'
As one of the most well-known tube sites in the industry, to the degree that its opening music is a meme on TikTok, Pornhub has become a prime target for the religious right’s war on smut. Most recently, the website was subject to litigation filed by NCOSE (the National Center …
Read More »A College Girl Found Deepfake Porn of Herself Online. Who Did It Shocked Her
Taylor Klein will remind you of someone you know. A math-whiz engineer from an engineering family, her Facebook feed is littered with photos of her eating ice cream, studying, and enjoying the great outdoors — the most innocent of pastimes. We are introduced to her via video diary, where she …
Read More »Why I Chose to Appear in Netflix's Controversial Pornhub Documentary
“Another day, another request to talk about Pornhub.” That’s what I thought when director Suzanne Hillinger and Oscar winner Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions asked me to appear in their new Netflix documentary Money Shot: The Pornhub Story. The film recounts how Pornhub exploded in popularity until The New York Times’s …
Read More »An Alleged Boogaloo Boi — and Confirmed Porn Star — Is on the Run From the FBI
An alleged adherent of the Boogaloo militia movement — who is also an aspiring porn star — is on the run from federal authorities following a mid-January raid on his home. The FBI was tipped off that the fugitive was sitting on an illegal cache of weapons, originally stockpiled “in …
Read More »Family Remembers OnlyFans Model Coconut Kitty as 'Badass Artist,' 'Rockstar Mom'
In recent years, Coconut Kitty had begun to contemplate the benefits of a quiet life. She had long been a popular presence on Instagram, with over 5 million followers flocking to her NSFW posts and OnlyFans account, but lately, her sisters say, she’d been working toward a change. She was …
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