Tag: industry
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MEL Magazine: Mentorship in Porn
You know, these are kind of dark times we’re living in. But it’s not ALL bad, folks! The election may have set us back fifty years in some ways, but in others, it moved us forward! Take, for example, the sweeping wins for medical and recreational marijuana across the country. We may have a tough…
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A Day Without Porn: or, a very long article by Lynsey G.
That’s why I wrote this ridiculously long article. I want people to know what’s at stake here. It’s not just a laugh-inducing headline about goggle fetishes. It’s about safety, autonomy, and government overreach. It’s important.
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2016 Starts With a Busy Business Trip (& links)
Happy new year, dearest readers! I hope your 2016 is starting off well, in whichever way is best for each of you. Personally, mine is starting in a tizzy of busy as I plan a busy business trip. I am in the throes of planning–in minute detail, because I love making to-do lists–a two-week trip…
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It’s Scary to Write About Some Things…
…but I wrote about them anyway, scary as they are. **Trigger warnings all up in this biz.** In the wake of the many allegations of rape, assault, and misconduct leveled against James Deen in recent weeks (as of my last count, there are now eleven women who say he violated their consent on and off…
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2013/2014
Well, the year’s almost over. It’s been one of those wild years where so much happened that it feels like an eternity ago that I was celebrating the last day of 2012 (with Korean BBQ because that’s how you DO IT). And yet it’s all gone by so fast! I won a Feminist Porn Award,…
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What I’ve Gotten Out of the Adult Industry
Recently, I’ve been decompressing after the art show and taking stock of my situation in life. What the hell I’ve been doing with myself for the past few years, running around writing porn reviews and set copy and columns and interviewing people about porn… And… you know… all this porn! Is it the right thing?…
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“Consent” is Online!
The wonderful people at apexart have made a dream of mine come true! I’ve been wanting to post the finished videos from the art show online so that people who couldn’t make it to the show itself in NYC could see what was going on, but given their size (they range from around 15 –…
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Gimme Your Questions
I’ve been writing answers to people’s sex and relationship questions here and on WHACK! Magazine for a while now. And I’ve been pondering the questions people ask me in person when they find out that I write about porn–the role I play as the middle ground between the “inside” of the porn industry and the…
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The HIV Scare is Over, But Probably Not the Hysteria
Patient Alpha, who tested positive for HIV at the end of August, has re-tested negative! Yippie! The results of a second test were announced on Saturday, after the porn industry had been shut down for almost a week, and the unnamed, un-gender-identified, un-age-specific patient doesn’t have the virus after all! Let’s all dance around with…
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JENNA HAZE — “I was like, ‘If you’re gonna cum, just cum on her!’”
This is Part 2 of an insanely long 3-part interview with WHACK!’s favorite sexy stoner, Jenna Haze! Check out Part 1 from last week, and tune back in next week for even more of the filthiest female in the biz dishing on her company, her personal life, and her smoking habits! W! I was thinking…