Aug 1, 2022 3:26 PM PDT

MIAMI — Erotica author, sexpert and relationship coach Lexi Sylver adorns the August cover of ASN Lifestyle Magazine for the second time.

Sylver previously held the August 2019 cover spotlight; the new issue “reveals a provocative cover photo of Lexi wearing only a pair of red opera gloves and covering her bare breasts,” noted a rep.

The feature, introduced by kink educator and coach Julieta Chiara, is titled “Lexi Sylver Explores Her Lexuality.”

The slogan “Explore Your Lexuality” was developed by Sylver; she noted it is her “erotic version of self-actualization: attaining the highest level of being by living authentically, […] carving my own path of self-discovery and shamelessly pursuing what, and whom, I desire,” she said.

Sylver also discussed writing erotica and offers her own take on fulfilling sex and relationships; she is currently nominated for a pair of ASN Awards in the categories of Best Erotic Author and Best Educator.

“It’s an honor to have this trailblazer grace our cover again,” said Michael Ramos, founder and CEO of ASN Entertainment. “Lexi has done so much for our lifestyle and has helped elevate our ASN brand and the lifestyle community as a whole.”

Click here for a digital edition; follow ASN Lifestyle Magazine online and on Twitter.

Find Lexi Sylver on Twitter and her social media links here.

LOS ANGELES — Grooby’s Black-TGirls.com has crossed the 1,500-performer milestone with the recent introduction of Slimm Juicy.

The newcomer’s first scene was captured by producer-director Omar.

A rep described Black-TGirls.com as one of Grooby’s most popular offerings and “the internet’s original black trans website, debuting back in the ’90s.”

The site currently boasts over 653,000 photos and almost 5,400 videos and features performers from across the U.S., U.K., Canada and Brazil.

“It’s hard to believe from when we started this in the 1990s, it would grow into quite the powerhouse,” said Grooby founder and owner, Steven Grooby. “I’ve never understood why most of the trans companies show so few black trans girls, as so many of them are stunning and great performers, but I’m extremely proud that we’ve been able to showcase over 1,500 of them in the years we’ve been developing this website.”

Visit Black-TGirls.com and follow Grooby on Twitter.

LOS ANGELES — ASACP has named Southern Charms, Segpay, and GFY.com as its featured sponsors for August.

ASACP’s Executive Director Tim Henning noted that its sponsors are among the industry’s most respected companies and demonstrate how corporate responsibility, ethical business practices and simple technical measures can help protect minors and other users from accidental exposure to age-restricted materials online.

“ASACP’s diverse family of sponsors reflects the wide range of companies and business sectors that support the association’s efforts to provide a safe surfing experience for all,” Henning explained. “By working together to support the association’s vital work, industry leaders and other stakeholders can make a positive impact by protecting society’s most innocent and vulnerable members.”

These are the ASACP descriptions of its August featured sponsors:

Southern Charms

An ASACP Title Sponsor since 2003, amateur porn powerhouse Southern Charms is one of the world’s largest sites, with more than 25 years of experience in providing women over the age of 18 with an opportunity to have their own website. Accessible to adults only, Southern Charms takes pride in being a clean site that features age-verified models with releases on file for each performer.

“You will not find obscene material or underage models on Southern Charms. You will only find clean, adult, amateur fun,” said a company rep. “Please rest assured that if someone communicates to us that they are interested in underage pictures of models, we will report it to the appropriate authorities immediately.”

In addition to its support of ASACP, Southern Charms backs up its business philosophy by using RTA labeling and a clean warning page and securing explicit content within its premium members’ area.

Segpay

Since 2005, Segpay has helped high-risk businesses take payments quickly while implementing a compliance framework, and has supported ASACP since 2016 as a valued Corporate Sponsor.

“Segpay is pleased to support ASACP in the vital work it does to keep children safe,” said CEO Cathy Beardsley. “As the mother of three children myself, I believe nothing is more important than the safety of our youth. Last year, Mastercard rolled out sweeping changes validating the ages of anyone appearing in user-uploaded content. These important regulations reinforce the great work that ASACP has been doing for years.”

Beardsley noted that Segpay’s uncompromising commitment to compliance requires it to regularly review its merchants’ content to help identify, report and immediately shut down any child exploitation it discovers.

“ASACP plays a critical role in reporting any issues we uncover,” Beardsley concluded. “This oversite helps the adult industry become more accepted in mainstream society — and is good for business in general.”

GFY.com

An in-kind Media Sponsor since 2021, GFY.com is known for its lively community and uncensored discussions. GFY features a range of dedicated message boards devoted to topics ranging from casual commentary to in-depth adult and mainstream business discussions. In addition, educational forums, along with marketplaces for content, jobs, services, traffic, and more, round out the GFY experience.

Entering its 23rd year, GFY’s “Where the Industry Meets” tagline underscores its value as a veteran resource and touchpoint for the digital media business. 

“ASACP is grateful to Southern Charms, Segpay and GFY for their continued commitment, generosity and leadership in supporting the association and its mission to protect minors by keeping them out of and away from adult-oriented content,” Henning said.

“ASACP’s family of sponsors are united in pursuing this goal and represent the industry’s best and brightest,” he added. “We encourage other publishers, media platforms and service providers to join us in building a better future for the industry and society’s most vulnerable members.” 

Visit ASACP online and on Twitter; contact Henning at tim@asacp.org.

Jul 29, 2022 5:45 PM PDT

NEW YORK — Marcela Alonso welcomes comedian Von Decarlo to her IG Live chat show this Sunday.

“Since I started ‘Sunday Funday,’ my goal has been to discuss comedy with an eclectic group of amazing, versatile performers, and Von Decarlo fits the bill,” said Alonso. “Not only is she hilarious, she wrote a book called ‘Speak Fluent Man’ and has been on a bunch of TV commercials. She has a great backstory, too.”

“Sunday Funday” will stream live Sunday at 3 p.m. (PDT) on Alonso’s Instagram.

Follow Marcela Alonso and Von Decarlo on Twitter.

Jul 29, 2022 5:42 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES — A range of Bathmate products are now available as an affiliate on TheMall.sexy.

“The Bathmate penis pumps are manufactured to the highest possible standards while also being fully inspected and compliant,” a rep said. “Bathmate pumps are built with durability and quality in mind.”

“We are very excited and happy to have Bathmate on our site, and hope you will check them out and order yours today,” added the rep.

In related news, TheMall.sexy has signed on as a sponsor of the 2022 Urban X Awards.

Visit TheMall.sexy and BathmateDirect.com for additional information.

PARIS — Dorcel has released director Franck Vicomte’s “Mégane & Shona, Escorts Deluxe” starring Mégane Lopez and Shona River.

“The newest entry in the award-winning ‘Escorts Deluxe’ franchise follows Mégane and Shona, two young roommates who don’t toil in day jobs like most of their friends,” a rep said. “Instead, they lease their affections to affluent clients and spend their days in pleasure, surrounded by the sumptuous decor of enchanting European villas and upscale apartments.”

The young women are regularly received by “handsome businessmen whose appetites run to seductive threesomes, voyeuristic girl/girl intrigue, high-heeled foot play and more; they waste no time in making the best impressions,” continued the rep. “With elegant physiques and an abundance of sinful charm, Mégane and Shona quickly become the darlings of their high-rolling clientele.”

Their “partners in pleasure” include Charlie Dean, Catherine Knight, Lika Star, Totti and reigning XBIZ Europa Female Performer of the Year Cherry Kiss.

“Replete with sun-drenched European locales, palatial sets and gorgeous women, the Dorcel brand’s commitment to erotic elegance is evident in every frame of the film’s 116-minute running time,” the rep said.

Daniel Metcalf, U.S.-based publicist for the studio, noted, “Movies are a portrait of the people who make them, and one of the best things about Dorcel is that the studio gives voices to people of all different backgrounds. This film is a perfect case in point. The cast is a diverse mix of Serbian, French, Ukrainian, Chilean and Hungarian talent. And like the best Dorcel films, ‘Mégane & Shona, Escorts Deluxe’ is about the intricate lives of women.”

Find box art and additional details here. Follow Dorcel on Twitter.

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LOS ANGELES — Wicked Pictures is celebrating multiple nominations from the 2022 NightMoves Awards.

“Wicked is pleased to announce it has emerged as the year’s most celebrated studio with 14 major nominations,” a rep enthused.

The studio’s recognition includes a trio of mentions in its top production category, Best Feature Film, for “Black Widow XXX: An Axel Braun Parody,” Seth Gamble’s “Deranged” and James Avalon’s “Duplicity.”

“It’s always a tremendous honor to be nominated,” said Braun, who has been producing every Wicked movie since the company was acquired by Gamma in 2020. “This year is very special for me, as head of production my goal was to raise the quality level of our output with great directors and more high-profile projects, and I couldn’t be happier with the results.”

Braun’s “Black Widow XXX” emerged as Wicked’s most celebrated feature, receiving a quintet of nominations for Best Feature Film, Best Feature Director, Best Actor (Seth Gamble) and two for Best Actress (Lacy Lennon, Elena Koshka). 

“Having ‘Black Widow XXX’ get more accolades. with Lacy and Elena both nommed for Best Actress, along with Kenzie Taylor for her outstanding lead role in ‘Deranged,’ and James Avalon proving once again what a phenomenal director he is with his first Wicked Noir feature ‘Duplicity’ was fantastic, but seeing Seth up for Best Director was definitely the most exciting moment for me,” Braun added.

“Deranged was Seth’s feature directing debut, and right off the bat he showed everybody how incredibly talented he is,” he said. “I’d be the first to congratulate him if he won, even if he’d be beating me.”

Gamble declared himself “beyond honored and humbled” to nab the nom.

“Everybody in my cast and crew gave 110% on this project,” he noted. “Kenzie delivered a mind-blowing performance and she really brought this movie to life, as did the rest of my amazing cast.”

Avalon’s “Duplicity” received a quartet of top nominations for Best Feature Production, Best Feature Director and two Best Actor nods (Charles Dera, Steve Holmes).

“I’m very grateful to NightMoves for these nominations, as ‘Duplicity’ is a movie I have wanted to make for over a decade,” he said. “I’ve been writing film noir outlines since 2008, but the feature studios I submitted them to, without exception, all passed. At one point, I decided to run them by Axel, as I’m a great admirer of his film ‘The Possession of Mrs. Hyde.’ He resonated with the material immediately and helped me put together a great-looking film with the perfect cast.”

Online voting to determine the winners in 20 national and 18 local categories is underway and will continue through Sept. 15. For additional details about nominees and to cast a ballot, click here and follow the NightMoves Awards online and on Twitter.

Visit Wicked.com and follow the studio on Twitter.

PHILADELPHIA — Fangear.vip will officially kick off “2023 calendar season” this Wednesday, with the promise of “bigger sales, high profits and more exposure than ever before.”

“We have made arrangements to guarantee every Fangear model a calendar spot, plus an additional 25 spots for non-Fangear models,” a rep said.

For 2023, the company is offering two premium-quality calendars. The first option is a 12-by-12-inch premium square calendar featuring a 100-pound matte cover stock and an 80-pound gloss interior stock. Photos will be cropped square, and there is a full-size centerfold between the months of June and July.

Fangear is additionally offering a 12-by-18-inch “VIP Playboy-style calendar with full vertical images,” noted the rep. “This super-high-end spiral-bound calendar also features 100-pound matte cover stock throughout.”

Nudity is not permitted on calendar covers, but is allowed on interior pages.

Click here for additional details and to place an order to guarantee a production spot; photos will be due no later than Sept. 20.

“In the unlikely event that you cannot follow through with your calendar order, you will be fully refunded, minus a minimal processing fee,” the rep said. “Need financial assistance? We might be able to help finance your calendar.”

For additional questions or concerns, contact sales@gfemodelservices.com.

Follow Fangear.vip on Twitter.

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple’s iOS 16 update for iPhones, expected this fall, will expand a controversial “communications security” tool worldwide, which will use proprietary AI to “detect nudity” in text messages.

The worldwide expansion of this “message analysis” feature, currently available only in the U.S. and New Zealand, will begin in September, when iOS 16 is rolled out to the general public.

Models prior to the iPhone 8 will not be affected; for desktop models, the Ventura update will offer this option.

The “nudity detection” feature has been touted by Apple as part of their “Expanded Protections for Children” initiative, although privacy advocates have raised questions about the company’s overall approach to private content surveillance.

According to Apple, the feature is described as a Messages app tool to “warn children when receiving or sending photos that contain nudity.”

These features, Apple notes, are not enabled by default: “If parents opt in, these warnings will be turned on for the child accounts in their Family Sharing plan.”

When receiving “this type of content [nudity], the photo will be blurred and the child will be warned, presented with helpful resources, and reassured it is okay if they do not want to view this photo. Similar protections are available if a child attempts to send photos that contain nudity. In both cases, children are given the option to message someone they trust for help if they choose.”

The AI tool bundled with the default Messages apps, the company explained “analyzes image attachments and determines if a photo contains nudity, while maintaining the end-to-end encryption of the messages. The feature is designed so that no indication of the detection of nudity ever leaves the device.”

Apple alleges the company “does not get access to the messages, and no notifications are sent to the parent or anyone else.”

In the U.S. and New Zealand, this feature is included starting in iOS 15.2, iPadOS 15.2 and macOS 12.1 and it requires accounts set up as families in iCloud.

As French news outlet RTL noted today, when reporting the upcoming expansion of the feature, “a similar initiative, consisting of analyzing the images hosted on the photo libraries of users’ iCloud accounts in search of possible child pornography images, had been strongly criticized before being dismissed last year.”

As XBIZ reported, in September 2021 Apple announced that it would “pause” testing that new tool. The announced feature would have scanned images on users’ devices in search of supposed CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) and sent reports directly to law enforcement.

ROME — Eden Ivy will take on the role of an instructor during the second edition of Rocco Siffredi’s “Siffredi Hard Academy” reality show being shot in Rome in September.

The Canadian performer, who recently appeared in Siffredi’s “Introspection” feature, revealed her role in an article for Italian lifestyle magazine MOW.

Siffredi invited MOW’s journalist Niccolò Fantini and photographer Francesca Ricciardi to the first “Siffredi Hard Academy” organized in Italy. Episodes were filmed in several cities, including a Bologna installment featuring Italian adult star Malena.

Tattooed French-Canadian beauty Ivy has been championed by Siffredi since their first encounter.

“I met Eden in November during the latest season of the ‘Academy,’” Siffredi revealed in the July XBIZ World feature on “Introspection.”

“I noticed her first because of her astonishing beauty and said to myself, ‘Oh my God — she’s so beautiful,” he said. “I watched her having sex, and the natural way she was doing it — without pretending, without overacting, without pushing herself — was incredible. And she is a real-life, huge anal fetishist. Eden was always touching her ass, always stuffing her ass with things. I said, ‘This is the girl.’”

To read the MOW magazine article on “Siffredi Hard Academy,” click here.