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Hospice Hollie, You’re My Hero

Writer/Model/Clown/Bon Vivant Hollie Stevens married comedian Eric Cash last week in a hospital conference room overlooking San Francisco. She and her medical team expect her to be discharged to the...

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MontagFoto 6.23.12—Banks on a Bike

Both Jon Dough and director Jane Waters are now dead, but the remake of "Car Wash Angels" had nothing to do with that. If anything, Gabriella Banks probably prolonged their lives.

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So Long, Hollie Stevens

The wonderful Hollie Stevens succumbed to breast cancer July 2. She was 30.

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How Fleshlight protects your feelings, and my journey as America’s Greatest...

Unless the toy is for a part of your person you just can't get at, like the prostate, or in the case that one has tiny Tyrannosaurus hands, most male-oriented sex toys just add complexity. What type of...

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CatalystCon: In the room with sex workers and elephants

...the inaugural CatalystCon in Long Beach was a refreshing, well-organized, and thought-provoking event filled with challenging ideas that didn't shy away from difficult topics.

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I wanted “Batgirl XXX” to be more Extreme Associates and less Extreme Comixxx

In an attempt to please her inappropriately sexualized father, a woman is initiated into a dangerous business while in a questionable state of mind by two masked men who have sex with her. Perhaps...

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Survey: Porn stars no more “damaged goods” than you

A recently-released study published in the Journal of Sex Research might help to deflate some persistent beliefs about the women who appear in porn films: it turns out that—for the most part—they're...

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The 2012 Ropey Volley Awards: Books of the Year

Gram Ponante profiles three books worth reading, two that tell us about how we got here and one that wonders why we stay.

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The 2012 Ropey Volley Awards: Most Ridiculous Movie of the Year

...there is no accounting for taste, even if there is accounting for height.

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Heavy Traffic at XBiz360

A sleek, informative, and convivial adult business conference with an accompanying awards ceremony, January’s XBiz360 conference was also a subtle battleground of ideas the adult industry is chewing...

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Adult Industry Moves to Maine Instead

"Some of these apple-picking girls fuck like the Wendigo is after them," says Allie Haze. "They're not scared of death."

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AB332 and the State of the State of Condoms

...like the Iraq invasion hinging on the Bush Administration's lie that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction, the AHF's WMDs was home-grown AIDS in Porn Valley.

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Stoya: Fonder with or without the absence

It was like a J. Geils' "Centerfold" moment for me, except I already knew Stoya when she was a centerfold.

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29th XRCO Awards Shows Its Dirtypillows

I've always felt that naming a Mainstream Favorite is like those movies where the protagonist forsakes his true friends—the misfits!—for the cool kids who have always been mean to him, and will be again.

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Porn Star Birthdays: Out And Out with Steve Driver and Traci Lords

"You can't flunk out of porn" is a rule with exceptions

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[PR] Melina Mason will be the hottest fishwife you know

I never had the opportunity to meet the lovely Melina Mason during her short adult career, but if I'm lucky there are some cockles and mussels in my future.

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James Deen reveals himself to Canadians on podcast

"I'm (still) going to go (back) to a world where I have sex with beautiful women every day," Deen says.

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Condom debate offers another chance to explain porn personnel to us

In not describing the physical attributes or motivations of the players on the other side, Weis—and I'll throw a lasso around the rest of the mainstream media here, too—implicitly sets up an Us v. Them...

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Justin Timberlake’s “Tunnel Vision” does a disservice to nudity

Nudity can't fix everything, Justin Timberlake

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Holy Shit! Male Gaze Captured on Film

I would like just once to see a scene in which the women say GET THE FUCK OUT or RAPE! or YOU'RE NOT MY FATHER.

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