You don’t pay for porn. That’s a problem for pornographers, but aces for porno copyright trolls like John Steele, attorney at law. Buzzfeed took a deep look into how they squeeze money out of porn torrenting cases, whether you downloaded anything or not. More »
Porn is porn is porn is porn. It’s packaged, produced, precisely staged. Even “amateur” porn isn’t really amateur. As Cindy Gallop, founder of the US ad firm Bartle Bogle Hegarty and driving force behind MakeLoveNotPorn.com, is quick to clarify: the submission guidelines for user-generated porn sites specify everything from strategic camera angles to scripted dialogue, like “Oooh, I’ve never done this before!” More »
Sex workers are suffering in the age of the Internet. Once upon a time, when the first tech boom hit in the 70s, in San Francisco, tech and sex work shared a mutually beneficial, blooming relationship. From Silicon Valley flowed cash in excess, into the pockets of sex workers of all stripes. More »
Any jerkoff with a smartphone and a scantily clad cast can shoot a porno, these days. Just ask every celebrity alive today. But there’s a clear difference between smartphone smut and a serious, money-backed project of the NSFW variety. More »
A man’s home is his castle; his porn collection, his concubine. You’re going to want to keep your secret lover locked away, far from prying, judgmental eyes. Here’s how to ensure your spank bank is as secure as the Tower of London. More »
As technology evolves to allow more of life to take place on the internet—online shopping, online dating, video chats, etc—the lines blur between what is true and what is a faux, web version of the real deal. Online shopping still takes money, your money, so that’s an easy answer. But what about cybersex? There’s a narrow divide between online porn and webcams—hello MyFreeCams!—so narrow, it might not even be a divide anymore at all. More »
Sometimes work can get tedious—even if your job is one that others may think of as exciting. Which is, apparently, the case at the Missile Defense Agency in the Pentagon, because its staff has been warned to stop watching so much online porn while at work. More »
The Armory, a 200,000 square-foot reproduction Moorish castle, lies at the corner of 14th and Mission Streets in San Francisco. A combination of revivalist architecture and early 20th century machine age construction, it is currently home to Kink.com’s adult film studio. More »
Over the weekend, I met two individuals— on two separate occasions—both of whom were proud owners of a Samsung Galaxy S3. A huge ass phone with a huge ass screen. Why would you ever want such a giant phone, I asked, incredulous. Both said the main selling point was the ability to watch porn on the go, on the john, on the subway—just about anywhere, whenever, discretely. More »
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