BROOMFIELD, Colo. — Eldorado Trading Company has scheduled the latest episode in their sexual health and wellness education series “Eldorado Presents” for tomorrow at 10 a.m. (PST) in partnership with Blush Novelties.

A rep noted the one-hour product training will be hosted by Blush’s Sales Manager Nancy Cosimini, Account Manager Benny Neff and educator Tawney Seren.

“The Blush trio will be talking about arousal and sharing how their products can help your customers turn up the desire,” the rep explained. “Audience members are encouraged to engage throughout the Facebook Live event for a chance to win Blush swag.”

Cosimini said, “As always, Blush is grateful for our growing partnership with Eldorado. Team Blush is looking forward to our Facebook Live event, as we educate and [present] some fantastic products. We know that we are aligned with the Eldorado team in our efforts to offer great products to help people enjoy a healthier lifestyle through healthy sexuality.”

During the Facebook Live event Cosimini and Neff will announce a two-part — public and retail-only — social media contest centered on Blush products. The contests begin Dec. 1 on the Eldorado Facebook page and contestants are instructed to reply to the public contest post for their chance to win one of 10 prizes. Each prize includes one Blush Wellness G Ball and one Blush Noje C3 Ring. The public contest winners will be announced Friday, December 3.

The retail contest will also begin Dec. 1 and run through Dec. 14. Every $500 of Blush products ordered through Eldorado within that two-week period will earn one entry to win one of three prizes. The grand prize includes $750 in Blush products; winners will be announced by Dec. 17.

Visit Eldorado’s Facebook Live page to watch Tuesday’s event.

For more information, call (800) 525-0848 and visit Eldorado.net; follow both Blush Novelties and Eldorado on Twitter.

LONDON — The conservative U.K. government led by Boris Johnson signaled to establishment newspaper The Times that it is ready to revive the age verification scheme for adult content that had been shelved as impractical in October 2019.

Yesterday, The Times was told that the plan was now “being looked on with approval by Nadine Dorries, the culture secretary, and Nadhim Zahawi, the education secretary.”

“Their support follows work by Dame Rachel de Souza, the Children’s Commissioner, who has sent a report to ministers recommending that age verification become compulsory on all porn sites,” The Times added.

De Souza, a Johnson appointee, claims she has met with “porn providers” and that she has “found them willing to introduce age verification measures as long as they were imposed industry-wide.”

“I met with some of the biggest porn companies and challenged them on age verification,” de Souza claimed. “As long as all adult sites have to have age verification put on them, they would be comfortable to go forward with that. They basically said, ‘Make us do it.’ I was pleased with that.”

According to The Times, de Souza is also pushing for the “big tech firms such as Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram to do much more to prevent children from seeing porn and other damaging material on their sites by accident, although ministers are not expected to back full age verification for these platforms.”

Anecdotal Evidence About Choking and ‘Unwanted’ Porn

“Kids are seeing things that warp what they think real sexual relationships are like,” de Souza told The Times. “I’ve had girls say to me that during their first kiss with their boyfriend he’s tried to strangle her because he’s seen it on a porn video. Girls are filming themselves in their bedroom and sending it to boys who are sharing it. These girls are being pestered 10 or more times a night to send naked images of themselves. I’ve had boys traumatized because they are in big WhatsApp groups, seeing things they don’t want to see.”

The forthcoming U.K. “online harms bill,” has been put on hold until 2022 because Prime Minister Johnson told the House of Commons liaison committee that he “wanted to see it strengthened.”

The new bill is also said to include facial identification requirements and massive collection of biometric data and “age assurance” measures.

According to The Times’ thoroughly positive coverage of this privacy-busting proposal, sites will be mandated to “use artificial intelligence to identify children by the way they they behave online or interact with a device.”

Blaming Online Porn for Sexual Abuse Culture in English Schools

Back in June, de Souza blamed what she called an “epidemic of sexual harassment” in public and private schools on online porn.

Instead of addressing the centuries-old British culture of sexualized hazing in schools, or parental responsibilities, or the need for a program of non-shame-based sex education, de Souza claimed that “one area [she is] clear on is that online hardcore pornography warps boys’ expectations of normal relationships and normalizes behaviors that girls are then expected to accept, and it’s just too easy for children to access.”

De Souza received a Catholic education at Jesus College, Oxford and served as a principal of the Ormiston Victory Academy, where the curriculum is based on “British values.” She was appointed by the Tory government of Boris Johnson and immediately caused controversy by refusing to join her peers in Scotland and Wales in pledging a commitment to banning corporal punishment in schools.

Johnson, her political boss, is an alum of Eton, a private school with numerous documented incidents of sexual abuse of students dating back to the Middle Ages, long before the advent of “internet pornography.” Most recently, around the time Johnson appointed de Souza as “Children’s Commissioner,” an Eton teacher was jailed for sexual offenses against his pupils.

De Souza called for enforced age verification to access adult content by claiming that “most children who have seen pornography say the first time it was accidental. In the real world, adults wouldn’t leave something dangerous or inappropriate lying around for children to stumble upon. Why should the internet be different?”

Main Image: Boris Johnson appointee Dame Rachel de Souza

MOSCOW — A powerful Russian MP — known for homophobic statements and projects — unveiled last week a bill proposal that would classify all scenes depicting LGBTQ+ relationships in the same banned or restricted categories as pornography.

The news was unveiled at the same time as another Russian official disclosed he had prepared a catalog of “toxic content” according to a new system that labels content from “completely banned” to “simply undesirable.”

Both announcements were publicized by the Russian government-aligned news service RT (formerly Russia Today).

Last Monday the Deputy Chairman of the Assembly’s Committee on Family Affairs, Women and Children Vitaly Milonov (of Putin’s governing United Russia party) told RIA Novosti that “people should have the right to ask the state’s regulator to not allow the broadcast of films with LGBTQ+ content.

“Whoever wants can have special access to such videos, as well as with pornography,” Milonov stated, citing a government survey that claimed that 80% of respondents believe “it is unacceptable to show homosexual relations in films and TV shows with age 18+ restrictions.”

The same survey claimed that 57% of Russians surveyed wanted all scenes of “sexual deviance” banned.

Concern About ‘Feminist Child-free Furries’

Also last week, Igor Ashmanov, a member of Russia’s Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, revealed to a Moscow newspaper that he “had developed a catalog to mark so-called ‘toxic content’ on the internet.”

The resource, Ashmanov warned, “would flag topics such as radical feminism [and] ‘child-free’ lifestyles, as well as the promotion of homosexuality and bestiality.”

“Creating a registry of toxic content,” Ashmanov continued “is a way to do something about this grey area” of content he considers objectionable.

Last month, an official from the country’s top media regulator told the press that “we need to expand the rights of law enforcers. We have repeatedly suggested this. All kinds of these ideologies — LGBT, radical feminism, furries, child-free — should be recognized as extremism to untie the hands of our law enforcers.”

Main Image: Russian MP Vitaly Milonov (United Russia)

STOCKTON, Calif. — DatingGold’s Allan Henning passed away on Thursday, family and associates have confirmed through a statement.

“On behalf of his family and myself, it is with deep sadness that I write this announcement of the passing of Allan Richard Henning, industry pioneer and owner of Deniro Marketing,” wrote NETbilling’s Mitch Farber. “Allan passed on the morning of Nov. 25, having suffered a cardiac arrest.”

“Allan was an incredible family man, friend and business man,” the statement continued. “He had an enormous tender heart, a great sense of humor and style and was very generous to all. Allan had a kind soul and will be missed by so many of us.”

“Allan is survived by his wonderful parents, sister, brother-in-law, nieces, nephew, girlfriend and his loyal dog Benny.”

“While they greatly appreciate all of the thoughts and prayers, the family is asking for privacy at this time.”

XBIZ will update this report as more information becomes available.

BUDAPEST — Gyorgy Gattyan, the Hungarian multimedia tycoon who built his empire on the success of LiveJasmin, is reportedly seeking to challenge Prime Minister Viktor Orban in next year’s parliamentary elections.

According to a Bloomberg report, “in a string of Facebook campaign videos published this week, Gattyan says he wants to use his IT expertise to ‘hire’ candidates for each of Hungary’s 106 constituencies ahead of elections due around April. They would join him in what he offers as a digital transformation of health care, education and government.”

Gattyan — a 51-year-old entrepreneur who has cultivated a high profile in Hungary as a dapper tastemaker at the level of other mainstream media barons — is the owner of Docler Holding, with locations in Luxembourg, Budapest and Los Angeles.

According to Bloomberg, Gattyan “has been transforming his company into a diversified group with interests ranging from venture capital and real estate to IT over the past several years, making him one of Hungary’s richest people.”

A Ballot Drain for the Opposition

Bloomberg analysts opined that if Gattyan “were to deploy his ample funds for an independent parliamentary campaign, that could potentially complicate the opposition’s bid to end Orban’s rule after more than a decade. A fragmented group of parties has managed only this year to band together against Orban’s administration, which has been a constant source of conflict for the European Union.”

The main opposition leaders see Gattyan’s candidacy as a pointless anti-Orban ballot drain, which would ultimately benefit the ruling Fidesz party.

Gattyan, however, is presenting himself as a third option and told Bloomberg that his aim was to “break with the past” and that the odds “show we could even win.”

A Diversified Tycoon

According to his website, Gattyan presents himself as “the founder and owner of Docler Holding” and “a producer and the benefactor of several charities.”

Docler, the site explains, offers “information technology developments, streaming technology, website design and operation, domain registration, online payment services, game software development, film and TV program production, as well as the distribution of exclusive high-end fashion labels.”

“Mr. Gattyan is dedicated to high-quality recreation and entertainment,” the site states. “His aim is to revolutionize the television, music and film industry with the help of the latest and most sophisticated technological solutions. Besides his professional career, the businessman is also known for his eager charity work. In the past few years Mr. Gattyan and his company has offered notable donations to several foundations and associations to support cultural, science, sports and environmental protection.”

TOKYO — Indie fetish content creator and self-styled “poet of pornography” Axel Abysse has released “Rencontre Culturelle,” describde as a documentary about a 2019 “high-culture and lowdown kink stage performance” in collaboration with Seoul-based multimedia artist and designer Woo Yeah.

A rep explained the project started with what the artists facetiously termed “a stupid idea.”

“Woo Yeah missed the hedonism and freedom of Berlin on his return to Korea, and the self-described sex addict planned a performance mixing an in-your-face blend of culture and desire,” the rep said. “Two statuesque nude women flank the stage as a lone player performs classical piano music. Axel perches atop a platform with his ass open as Woo Yeah proceeds to lube a gloved hand and fist him,” the rep noted. “It was a daring move in culturally staid Seoul, but one the artist needed to express.”

The 30-minute doc is in French with English subtitles; a basic translation of the title into English is “cultural meeting.”

“Throughout the doc, Axel and Woo ponder the feeling of being outside one’s culture, of statelessness. Add in the balance between accepted artistic norms and expressing pure desire and what emerges is a fascinating artifact of an audacious, if ‘stupid’ idea,” the rep said.

Abysse recalled that he’d previously met the artist in Toyko and agreed to fly to Seoul in 2019 to take part in the project, due in part to “a shared interest in fetishism.”

“He and his collaborators created this show, mixing piano classical concert, fisting and BDSM performance — leather, Shibari rope bondage, wax play — for a live audience. Woo explains in our interview that it was a difficult moment for him. He was feeling stuck in South Korea where fetish and gay life are very limited, and sexuality very taboo in general,” Abysse said. “He missed living in Europe, more specifically Berlin, where he used to lead a very hedonistic life.”

“This pornographic documentary was first thought up by team member and filmmaker Wook, who captured the live performance, the rehearsal and the audio conversation between Woo Yeah and me,” Abysse added. “I put it all together and I’m quite humbled but excited to finally share it with a large audience. It was also captured through Taiwanese art photographer Manbo Key’s lens. I believe the photos and the movie might be part of a gallery exhibition in the near future.”

Abysse teased that he has “another very special project” with Manbo coming up shortly.

Woo Yeah enthused about the “transgressive performance.”

“When I organized this performance, it was my own sort of farewell party for all my precious friends in South Korea and in the world as well, the ones who made my life less painful and more durable,” they said. “It was a bit like, ‘Fuck you, South Korea! You oppress and suppress but we, the perverts, the curious and the daring have existed and will exist.’ And my friends stripped, played the piano and most importantly, got fisted for me.”

“I’m not actually 100% sure but I’ve heard that performing immoral or sexual activities openly in South Korea can lead you to the legal actions, so we had to plan this a bit discreetly,” they continued. “We did not even promote this event on any open internet space but only from mouth-to-mouth and only among acquaintances of acquaintances.”

“So guess how surprised I was when about 65 people showed up at my flat,” the artist added.

“Rencontre Culturelle” premieres today on AxelAbysse.com; follow Axel Abysse on Twitter.

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Earlier this summer, Abysse released “The Experiment” featuring Syusaku Nohara, described as an homage to classic science-fiction and horror.

SAN DIEGO — The prosecutors in the GirlsDoPorn (GDP) criminal case have dropped charges against a woman who admitted to having acted as a “reference woman” for the site’s owners, falsely assuring prospective models that the scenes would only be sold overseas.

“The U.S. Attorney’s Office said in its notice to the judge that it was dismissing Amberlyn Dee Nored from the prosecution ‘to satisfy the ends of justice,’” the San Diego Union-Tribune reported Tuesday.

Nored, also known as Amberlyn Clark, had testified in the 2019 civil trial of owner Michael Pratt and other GirlsDoPorn staffers.

As XBIZ reported, she was later identified as one of the defendants in the criminal case.

Nored, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported, was “accused of being paid to falsely assure women that she had participated in videos herself and that her videos had not been posted online in an effort to make recruits feel more comfortable, according to testimony in the [civil] lawsuit filed by 22 women.”

The January 2019 federal indictment named Pratt, male talent and scout Ruben Andre “Dre” Garcia, Matthew Wolfe, Theodore “Teddy” Gyi, Valorie Moser and Amberlyn Nored/Clark as co-conspirators in the GDP operation.

Garcia was sentenced to 20 years in June after pleading guilty in December 2020 to the charges of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion; and sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion.

Pratt has been a fugitive from U.S. federal authorities since late 2019 and was last presumed to be in his native New Zealand two years ago.

In October 2021, the FBI raised the reward offered for information leading to Pratt’s arrest to $50,000.

For more of XBIZ’s coverage of the GDP case, click here.

Nov 26, 2021 1:38 PM PST

MONTREAL — Newly launched all-male paysite TopFanVids is tub-thumping the addition of Johnny Rapid to its lineup of cocksmen.

“Johnny may be known as one of the most prolific bottoms in gay porn history, but today it’s his versatility that shines through in his content,” a rep enthused. “Along with his scorching-hot performances, he brings his wealth of experience to each video he’s put up and he exudes that charisma we know and love.”

“Not only does he confidently deliver just what the doctor ordered, but he consistently brings it to a new level,” added the rep.

Rapid expressed excitement about his debut with the site.

“It’s a fresh new way for people to discover my work and get to know what I produce when I’m in charge. I put so much passion into my videos and I love how the site has been resonating with fans.”

“TopFanVids takes the best of paysites and fan platforms and puts it all together,” he added. “And it’s great to know there’s a team with tons of paysite experience behind it all.”

The performer will present “a personally curated list” of five clips today; a lifetime monthly membership of $9.95 is currently on offer for Black Friday.

Visit TopFanVids online and on Twitter; follow Johnny Rapid on Twitter here.

Contact support@pinstripemediagroup.com for additional inquiries.

LOS ANGELES — BelAmi and Sean Cody have released the first episode of their series collab featuring BelAmi beauty Tom Houston with Sean Cody top jock Justin under the direction of Alter Sin.

Shot on location in a Spanish villa, the cast features BelAmi exclusives Bart Cuban, Jim Durden, Ashton Montana, Ethan O’Pry and Yannis Paluan alongside Sean Cody’s Asher, Deacon and Manny.

“After the BelAmi boys meet the Sean Cody studs over a feast at dinner, and pose for photos, the next morning Justin decides to take an early swim as Tom admires Justin’s body in his tight bathing suit,” teased a rep.

“Tom and Justin waste no time kissing and sucking each other before Justin gets topped by sun-kissed Tom in multiple positions in the middle of courtyard. Justin rides Tom relentlessly and then gets a big facial to start his first morning in Spain off right. “This standout start to ‘BelAmi x Sean Cody’ is just the beginning of the spectacular scenes shot in Spain between these two iconic studios.”

Future pairings include Asher with Montana, a threeway anchored by Cuban and O’Pry with Justin, Paluan with Deacon, Durden with Manny and a closing orgy featuring all 10 studs.

Click here for a NSFW series trailer.

Visit BelAmiOnline.com and SeanCody.com and follow BelAmi and Sean Cody on Twitter.

Nov 26, 2021 12:26 PM PST

LOS ANGELES — Sarah Vandella has earned a 2022 XBIZ Award nomination in the category of “MILF Performer of the Year.”

“The sexy blonde veteran performer has earned a nomination in this category every year since 2016,” a rep said. “She is hoping to win the prestigious golden trophy in honor of the many ‘naughty stepmom’ roles she’s toplined for studios such as Girlsway, Girlfriends Films, Mile High, Wicked and AllHerLuv this past year.”

Vandella enthused about the industry recognition.

“When they say it’s an honor to be nominated, it really is true,” she said. “I am so appreciative and grateful to XBIZ for taking the time to watch my movies every year and consider me for one of their esteemed awards.”
 
The 2022 XBIZ Awards will crown the best-of-the-best in adult Sunday, Jan. 9 at the historic Hollywood Palladium. Voting is now underway; click here for a full list of nominees.

Follow Sarah Vandella on Twitter.