Mar 8, 2021 1:44 PM PST

LOS ANGELES — Elixir Play has revealed its latest body-positive campaign, which is inspired by the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day — “Challenge for Change.”

According to the company, they wanted to challenge the notion of who and what is sexy.

Founder Lara Pack said, “The idea was born after talking with a range of women about what inspires them to feel sexy. And the rest just took care of itself.”

The women in the shoot were given a brief to dress in whatever made them feel sexy.

“It was amazing to take part in this and witness what happens when women are encouraged to love their bodies and celebrate together,” Pack said. “I was in absolute awe of these ladies and realized by doing this campaign, Elixir Play would be part of something bigger than just our toys.”

The campaign highlights an inclusive notion — that “All bodies are different, our toys are, too” — and shows Elixir Play’s toys as they bend and flex to suit different body shapes.

The campaign launched in conjunction with International Women’s Day. Elixir Play will be feature a range of blogs, images and stories that challenge the way women’s sexuality is portrayed.

Elixir Play is available from SOS Distribution at sos@sinkorswimsales.com or (833) 767-1767; as well as through Holiday Products at (800) 266-5969, or via sales@holidayproducts.com and at HolidayProducts.com.

Mar 8, 2021 1:05 PM PST

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — TheFlourishXXX.com released a new all-girl scene featuring Aria Khaide and Isabella Nice; the scene is also notable because both women are making their TheFlourishXXX debut.

“Can you say ‘hot?’ Even using that word to describe this scene is a huge understatement. Isabella, as we all know, is drool-worthy and I couldn’t help but drool all over her. From our first interactions to the final cut it was pure passion. I couldn’t keep my mouth or hands off of her perfect body and was super-excited to strap one on, too, and the steamy bubble bath,” Khaide recalled. “Working with TheFlourishXXX was tons of fun and hope to be able to do it again soon and many more times in the future.”

This scene shows Khaide and Nice as old friends who are meeting up after a long time. After reminiscing, they decide to play with each other. This scene was made by TheFlourishXXX using 2-3 multi-cam video-in-video in some parts of the scene for a unique perspective.

“I loved working with Aria and the chemistry was instant. Aria is the ultimate combination of sexy, sweet and sultry,” Nice said.

This scene can be found here.

The women are also featured together in the latest episode of TheFlourishXXX podcast, available on  Spotify and YouTube and most other major podcast outlets.

In addition, TheFlourishPOV.com is releasing its first bukakke gangbang scene and a blowjob/milking scene, while TheFlourishFetish.com has set Anastasia Rose for a foot fetish clip running over 30 minutes.

Follow TheFlourishXXX, Isabella Nice and Aria Khaide on Twitter for updates.

LOS ANGELES — Allie Eve Knox, the adult performer and cryptocurrency advocate who has been one of the industry’s leading “early-adopters” of blockchain-based technology, announced on Saturday the creation of her first NFT (Non-Fungible Token).

NFTs are one-of-a-kind collectible digital assets around which a thriving investment market has quickly developed.

Although NFTs have been a known concept in cryptocurrency circles for some time, the market has recently crossed over into the mainstream, resulting in a rushed flurry of explainer articles and news of high-price trades.

Recently, NFTs have been highlighted by billionaire entrepreneur and tech influencer Elon Musk, his partner the musician Grimes — who recently issued an enormously profitable series of art NFTs — and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, who spun his first tweet (and the first tweet ever) as a tradable NFT.

On Saturday, Allie Eve Knox tweeted “Hi, go bid on my first NFT!,” a piece of digital art titled “Giantess Allie in the City” which depicts her in the nude looming over a cityscape.

Knox’s NFT is now open for bids at NFT marketplace OpenSea.

NFTs seem like ideal assets for adult performers: although they could literally be anything non-fungible (one-of-a-kind), the art market has already started getting involved because the asset appears to be best marketed around digital images.

Pornography, a largely visual medium, could be the ideal counterpart to market the highly technical FinTech and blockchain-based concepts underlying NFTs.

XBIZ has learned of a number of would-be NFT creators trying to book photo shoots with models hoping to create X-rated and erotic tokens. Some of these creators are proposing paying the models in cryptocurrency or else offering “shares” of the resulting NFT itself.

According to Knox, fellow crypto-friendly model Brenna Sparks is also creating NFTs.

Porn and NFTs, a Match Made in the Blockchain

“I minted a token, and people can bid on it,” Knox told XBIZ about this novel way to generate income for adult performers. “There will also be residuals and royalties. If I sell it to someone, they can turn around and flip it. If they were to sell it again, I can make a 30% residual, which is a number I chose and is there on the algorithm forever. Every time that sells — and it could be any price, because it’s tied to Ethereum (ETH) fluctuations — I can get a residual or royalty from it.”

“And this would be great for adult performers, because, as everyone knows, porn doesn’t generally have residuals: you get paid for the scene and that’s it,” she added.

“Those residuals are automatically built into the algorithm,” she stressed. “It’s all on the blockchain. You can see everything.”

Like all crypto advocates, Knox also emphasized the anti-censorship advantages of the blockchain environment.

“If [NFT marketplaces] Rarible or OpenSea were to go down, or they decide they’re not going to allow adult, the content doesn’t disappear,” she explained. “It’s minted on the blockchain. If someone were to take down your Instagram, on the other hand, your images would be gone.”

Another Way to Create Content

Knox says that due to her involvement with the crypto community, she has known about NFTs “for a long time.”

“I just did it recently because it just became mainstream,” she said. “If it sells or not, it was a fun project. But it’s another way to create content and the potential is big.”

Knox said the potential justifies the small initial cost attached to creating the artwork and putting it up for sale or auction.

“You have to pay to mint,” she said. “I’m $50 dollars [into] ETH fees, plus I paid for the artwork to be created.”

But the potential for residuals and also boffo profits success stories like the Grimes art sale, which allegedly netted the singer $6 million, make NFTs an attractive proposition for adult performers.

“Also, don’t forget the blockchain is censorless,” Knox said. “And we in adult should like that.”

Mar 8, 2021 11:06 AM PST

LOS ANGELES — Newcomer Nicole Sage has earned her first cover, Lethal Hardcore’s “Cheating Housewives Get Creampied 3.”

The installment is directed by Stoney Curtis and stars Sage along with Macey Jade, Indica Monroe and Quinn Waters.

“Lethal Hardcore was an absolutely incredible experience,” Sage recalled. “The cast and crew were so much fun; communicative and professional. I had an amazing time with my scene partner Jerry. It was a truly multi-orgasmic experience. Seeing myself on the cover was unreal and makes me want to see more. I am very grateful for such a wonderful experience at the start of my career, and can’t wait to work with them again.”

Click here for box art and additional details.

Nexxxt Level Talent represents Nicole Sage; follow her on Twitter.

NEW YORK — Today, Satisfyer announced the launch of an Instagram campaign celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD), to run from March 8-14.

As part of the promo, the company is using the hashtag #ChoosetoChallenge and calling upon users across the world to add their own words to the statement “Sexual freedom empowers me to…”

All statements tagged with @satisfyercom will be collected, anonymized and uploaded and, according to Satisfyer, will serve as a platform to showcase the diversity of individuals who “embrace their own sexuality as an important step towards a fulfilling lifestyle.”

The company also is tapping into a range of influencers and activists in the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, France, Poland, Portugal, and the U.S.

Supporting Satisfyer’s IWD campaign is content creator and sex positive influencer Ellie Tyrell who told Satisfyer, “Sexual freedom empowers me to be unapologetically myself. For too long women have been told what sexy should look like… and how sex should be. Sexual freedom means I can explore sex by myself, on my terms, and discover exactly what I like without fear of embarrassment and judgment. The result? A whole lot more self love and self-acceptance.“

According to the company, the campaign builds upon the Satisfyer’s goal to celebrate human sexuality and empower individuals.

“Women are often criticized for embracing their bold, dynamic sexuality — the standards set by society are not serving the individual,” said Megwyn White, director of education at Satisfyer and certified clinical sexologist. “Unrealistic beauty standards are embedded into the minds of women, until they rebel with self-love and radical expression of their own sensuality.”

Satisfyer has initiated a call to action with an illustration by U.K. artist Hazel Mead.

“The picture shows multicultural silhouettes in a self-pleasuring moment, underscoring the importance of saying a natural ‘Yes!’ to yourself, releasing tension and embracing the empowering potential of female sexuality,” the company said. “In turn, the illustration is aligned with one of the Satisfyer brand values — ‘sexual health is for everyone, regardless of their sexual identity, socioeconomic background, age or gender.’”

According to White, Mead’s picture evokes the primal energy and freedom that people should enjoy in the middle of an orgasm. She says that this is precisely what Satisfyer would like to express in the picture: “Say ‘Yes’ to yourself and to your needs. Gain confidence by accepting yourself. Enjoy the energy of your voice and body and wave goodbye to taught systems that restricted you.”

For more information about Satisfyer’s IWD initiative, click here.

CULVER CITY, Calif. — A new cultural trend taking place on popular Gen-Z platform TikTok complicates the idea that support for sex worker rights and freedom of sexual expression will continue steadily gaining generational ground, according to a recent article by Rebecca Jennings for online news site Vox.

The insightful article, titled “TikTok: The Problem With the ‘Cancel Porn’ Movement” (subtitle: “On TikTok, It’s Impossible to Have a Nuanced Discussion About Sex Work”), highlights how a “Cancel Porn” campaign within the phone video platform has been quietly taking shape among “teenagers mostly, diverse in race, gender and aesthetic (some were girls with the dramatic winged liner of alt-TikTok, others looked like frat boys).”

Their message, according to Jennings, is that “porn is inherently evil; it normalizes rape, incest, pedophilia and misogyny; and it profits off of sex trafficking.”

As part of this supposedly “grassroots” War on Porn outreach campaign, Jennings wrote, “boys share stories of how their middle school porn addictions ruined their lives,” girls share Exodus Cry propaganda about non-consensual videos on adult platforms and “Christians discuss how to overcome the sin of lust.”

A TikTok-Based Facet of Conservatism

For Jennings, this “Cancel Porn” fad is “one facet of a conservatism, for lack of a better term, that’s proliferating on TikTok from rather unlikely sources: young, presumably progressive women (for the most part) who seem to believe that ‘choice feminism,’ or the idea that every choice a woman makes is inherently feminist because a woman made it, is propagating patriarchy and the male gaze. “

These young women even echo the standard SWERF propaganda points that “all sex work is coercion because it involves the transfer of money.”

This anti-porn campaign, the article argues, may be reaction to increase visibility on TikTok of sex workers attempting to normalize their lives.

“Escorts, sugar babies, cam girls, strippers, OnlyFans creators and folks who sell feet pics or panties online have used the platform to show both the highs and lows of their jobs,” Jennings explained.

“Yet even more than those videos,” she added, “I’m seeing the backlash to them,” and quotes an allegedly teenage conservative TikToker’s caption bemoaning that “liberal feminism telling young girls that hookup culture is liberating, conditioning them to think that if you don’t have extreme kinks at a young age then they’re boring and vanilla, and encouraging them to get into sex work the minute they turn 18.”

Jennings quotes sex industry studies academic Dr. Barb Brents, who sees TikTok’s “Cancel Porn” movement as a result of “misdirected anxieties.”

“It’s almost like the recognition that staring at a screen all the time is causing you problems, but if you can label those problems as, ‘Oh, it’s porn,’ then you can ‘other’ it and still be able to look at the screen,” Brents explained.

To read Rebecca Jennings’ article “TikTok: The Problem With the ‘Cancel Porn’ Movement,” visit Vox.com.

LOS ANGELES — To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Satisfyer launched a global campaign to bring couples closer together by gifting 700 couples with the Satisfyer Curvy 2+ that features Air-pulse technology, and the Satisfyer Royal One penis ring.

Through the gift campaign, Satisfyer said it has given away 1,400 products to couples in five countries: France, the U.K., Portugal, Spain and the U.S. In addition, the partner recipients are spread across other countries such as Germany, Belgium, Poland, the Netherlands and Canada — thanks to the Satisfyer Connect app, which makes it possible to “share pleasure despite distance.”

According to the company, the success of the campaign includes more than 2,000 people that were willing to share their stories on Satisfyer’s social media channels.

“Over 2,600 responses were received throughout the duration of the survey, which provided remarkable insights into the desires and needs of long-distance relationships,” the company said. “They say that distance makes the heart grow fonder — ‘My boyfriend and I find each other insanely attractive and are very passionate. Unfortunately, our jobs require us to live in separate houses during the week. But on weekends we let it rip,’ reads one of the submissions.”

“Moreover, the survey reveals that lack of closeness due to the pandemic, can gnaw at the psyche: ‘Between lockdown and mental impairment, sex has been a challenge. In a world where touch is currently unattainable, shared pleasure can still bring us together,’” the company said, noting a survey response. “Though the pandemic has made this an even greater issue, couples have always been looking for better virtual sex options — according to an online survey of nearly 2,040 U.S. adults, commissioned by Satisfyer last year, one in three adults (34%) wanted a better way to connect with partners for virtual sex.”

Both the Satisfyer Curvy 2+ and the Satisfyer Royal One are compatible with the free Connect app, which can be used to control up to five devices at once using Bluetooth to connect anyone across the globe. With the swipe of a finger, the Satisfyer devices of the users’ partners can be controlled live, including messaging as well as video or audio chat.

For more information about Satisfyer and its line of products, visit Satisfyer.com.

Mar 5, 2021 3:48 PM PST

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Blake Blossom stars in a slew of new releases for multiple studios, including Hard X and Bang Bros.

The December 2020 Penthouse Pet sizzles is the cover model for Hard X’s newly released “Big Naturals.”

“The busty babe looks perky splashed on the front cover, her perfect breasts on display for all to admire,” enthused a rep. “Paired with legendary performer Michael Stefano, Blossom wastes no time pleasing the seasoned stud in this must-see scene from director Mason.”

Blossom also stars in Hard X’s “Stacked 11: All Natural,” out now in all formats.

The blonde performer is also highlighted in two newly released scenes from Bang Bros, “Blake Blossom Fucks the PA” and “Perfection.”

Finally, the Hussie-repped Blossom also stars in Naughty America’s new Valentine’s Day-themed scene and in “Coping” for Blacked.com.

For more from Blake Blossom, follow her on Twitter.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — The pretrial hearing in the Mercedes Carrera criminal case concerning multiple child sexual abuse charges against her and her husband — which was supposed to happen today at the Rancho Cucamonga courthouse in San Bernardino County, California — has been postponed once again, until May 5.

Carrera and her husband Jason Whitney were arrested after a police raid of their Rancho Cucamonga home on February 1, 2019. They have been in county jail without trial since then, first without bail and later, after they had liquidated their assets and had no source of income due to their incarceration, with bail set at $2 million for each.

A pretrial hearing to determine the jury selection process, and the date of the beginning of the actual trial, has already been postponed numerous times.

The new date of May 5 — like several previous postponements — appeared online in a document filed today.

The document shows the hearing took place today with District Attorney Laura Fragoso and a Conflict Panel attorney, Geoff Newman, standing for the accused.

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

LOS ANGELES — OnlyFans content creator Reno Gold is the subject of a profile newly published by Interview Magazine that examines the 25-year-old stripper-turned-entrepreneur’s meteoric rise as a clip artist.

Gold revealed he now owns five condominiums and employs his own mother as a property manager.

“[OnlyFans] has completely changed my life,” he told Interview. “I’ve been able to give back to my community, which is the biggest thing for me. It makes me feel the best. I pledged to donate a week’s worth of my earnings from OnlyFans to the Elton John AIDS Foundation. And in that week I raised $27,000 and donated all of it to the foundation, which was such a blessing.”

He notes his properties were “all paid off in cash.”

“I started a college fund for my niece and nephew. And then also it just gives me security, because when I was dancing, I wasn’t able to have normal relationships because I was just moving around so much to work. I would go to a different city every single week,” he said. “So it’s given me some stability and also just a creative outlet. I put out a new video every single week in a different location with a different scenario and different outfit. So I’m doing so many different things. I’m directing. I’m doing wardrobe. I just get to be very creative and it challenges me every day. I love it so much.”

The performer recalled not putting too much effort into OnlyFans at first, as he was “making a killing” as a stripper. His profile — and his income — exploded once Gold increased his output to daily uploads and began cross-promoting on other social media platforms.

“My YouTube videos were getting millions of views and going viral on Twitter, so my YouTube is what blew up my OnlyFans,” he noted.

Gold also discusses his diet and future plans and offers his advice about dealing with negative feedback and trolling.

Visit InterviewMagazine.com for the complete interview.

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Image source: Interview