Feb 23, 2022 3:49 PM PST

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Mackenzie Mace is promoting her VR Bangers debut this week as well as recent scene work for Team Skeet, Facials4K and others.

Her VR Bangers debut, titled “A Night to Remember,” places the viewer at a bar trying to pick up Mace with the help of a bartender as a wingman.

A trailer for the VR fantasy can be found here.

The latest installment of Team Skeet’s Exxxtra Small presents the 5’1 performer seeking out unorthodox treatments of a sexual nature to become taller from “doctor” Danny Steele. For more about the vignette, click here.

Mace’s work for Facials4K has her catching a ride with Brick Danger and Filthy Rich; to thank them for the help, she agrees to a threesome. A trailer and additional information can be found here.

She also appears in recent scenes for Karups, titled “Busy Day,” and MYLF.com, in “Concept: Swyngers 2.”

Follow Mackenzie Mace on Twitter and find her premium social media links here.

PITTSBURGH — Advisory firm Liberty Risk Consulting (LRC) has launched new consulting imprint Influenced Edge, providing social media marketing services to performers and influencers.

A rep described Influenced Edge as “a full-service paywalled social media marketing company that empowers entertainers and influencers to maximize and monetize their social media reach.”

Influenced Edge offers services such as “one-on-one social media account assistance with quality coaching, content management, industry networking, branding and marketing strategies by leveraging data analytics and market trends,” the rep added.

Initial clients include Alura Jenson, Amia Miley, Cali Carter, Isabelle Deltore, Lexi Sheinberg, Alexis Monroe and Lux.

“Paywalled social media has changed the landscape of the adult industry while also opening doors to content creators who have amassed followings on platforms like Twitter and Instagram,” the rep said, highlighting the company’s vision of “bringing a complete package together that creates the same infrastructure of content production, management, marketing and PR to clients in order for the individual content creator to have the same tools to promote themselves as the companies who promote their content do.”

The rep added Influenced Edge “assists our clients in not only building their brand, but also building strategies to significantly increase their social media presence and paywalled income.”

For more information, visit InfluencedEdge.com.

Feb 23, 2022 3:18 PM PST

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — SeeHimFuck has released the site debut of Logan Xander opposite his real-life girlfriend Valerica Steele.

“Xander starts by stripping off his sharp red suit. When his cock pokes out of his See HIM boxers Valerica helps herself to a taste,” a rep said. “She gets Logan lubed-up, sniffs, savors and licks his armpits and sucks his nipples. He sits and she smells his socks, licks his soles, and sucks his toes.”

Steele delivers a “show-stopping sloppy blowjob” and the pair moves into more explicit action.

Find a preview and additional details here.

Follow Logan Xander, Valerica Steele and SeeHimFuck on Twitter.

Feb 22, 2022 5:34 PM PST

SITGES, Spain — The European Summit (TES) will sponsor Pineapple Support’s attendance at this weekend’s affiliate conference in Sitges, Spain.

A rep noted the TES sponsorship package will help Pineapple Support better raise awareness for the organization by providing services and facilitating social interactions with attendees; the group will also be the official sponsor of the airport shuttle bus service to and from the venue, as well as two events during the conference, the pre-conference “Meet and Mingle” and dinner and drinks as the summit draws to a close.

Pineapple Support will additionally hold a panel discussion “about supporting industry workers in the year ahead,” a rep said. “Attendees of the panel can join a conversation [with] CEO and founder Leya Tanit about the need for companies to support adult workers.”

Tanit added, “I’m really grateful to TES organizers for the sponsorship package they donated for this month’s event. We’re excited to be at TES for another year, with the chance to connect with old and new friends. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the pandemic, it’s that we all need support. We’re excited to see everyone and learn how we all can better support each other.”

For the full TES schedule, click here.

Pineapple Support is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization in the United States; click here for sponsorship details.

Visit PineappleSupport.org and follow the group on Twitter.

Feb 22, 2022 5:12 PM PST

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Avery Jane will headline two Instagram Live interviews this week for Adult Time and HotMovies.

She will host an AMA for Adult Time and field questions about her career, as well as recent releases for Devil’s Film, tomorrow at 12 p.m. (PST); click here to join the discussion at the appointed time.

Jane will then sit with Lotus Lain for a discussion to commemorate Black History Month on Friday at 12 p.m. (PST); click here for that interview.

Their Q&A will subsequently be uploaded to YouTube and a print version, with photos, will be made available on the HotMovies blog.

“I’m excited to be part of both events,” Jane said. “I really enjoy working for Adult Time and look forward to filming more with them. And I love Lotus and recently was on a panel with her as a moderator; I know this IG Live interview will be incredible, and I’m honored HotMovies is including me in their Black History Month celebration.”

Follow Avery Jane on Twitter and find her premium social media links here.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — The pretrial hearing in the Mercedes Carrera criminal case concerning multiple child sexual abuse charges against Carrera and her husband, which was scheduled for today at the Rancho Cucamonga courthouse in San Bernardino County, California, has been postponed once again, this time until March 25.

Carrera and her husband, Jason Whitney, were arrested after a police raid of their Rancho Cucamonga home on Feb. 1, 2019.

They have now been in county jail without trial for three years, 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, most recently yesterday.

The new date of March 25, like several previous postponements, appeared in a document filed online.

The earliest date for the actual trial to begin has been set for late May.

The document shows the hearing took place today with District Attorney Laura Fragoso and Carrera’s conflict panel attorney, Geoff Newman, standing for the accused. Carrera was in attendance.

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

NEW YORK — A New York Times article is spotlighting the growing trend of major retailers carrying sexual wellness products, highlighting beauty giant Sephora’s recent partnership with Dame and Maude to offer their pleasure product lines.

“With careful rebranding, word choice and packaging, products like vibrators and lubricants have become newly palatable to higher-end retailers that cater to women,” The New York Times reported today in a story examining this trend.

The Times called the addition of sex toys by the nationwide cosmetics retailer “a significant evolution in the public acceptance of such products, helped in part by celebrity endorsements [which] comes amid a broader focus on wellness and self-care spurred by the pandemic.”

“Dame’s partnership with Sephora enhances our message that pleasure is wellness,” Alexandra Fine, CEO and founder of Dame, told XBIZ earlier this month. “We’re thrilled to have a national, credible beauty retailer carrying pleasure products alongside face wash and lipstick, as it helps to normalize sexual wellness as part of our holistic beauty rituals. Being welcomed into the Sephora community is a reminder that our sexual well-being matters.”

According to Maude’s founder and CEO Éva Goicochea, “Sephora and these other big beauty retailers are saying, ‘It’s just like everything else, you can buy it together.’ It’s impactful in this subtle way.”

As XBIZ reported last year, major chains Bloomingdale’s and Nordstrom were pioneers in carrying sexual wellness products.

“People are spending more time, energy and disposable income on their own wellness, so it was natural that this expanded to sexual wellness,” Elizabeth Miller, a vice president who oversees cosmetics at Bloomingdale’s, told The New York Times’ Sapna Maheshwari. “It’s evolved so much from what it used to be, maybe 10 or 15 years ago, to be much more approachable.”

The Paradox of Progress and Stigma

However, speaking to TechCrunch about the progressive development, Andrea Barrica, CEO of sexual wellness education platform O.School, cited the “paradoxical issue” that raising money for companies in the sector, even in the new climate of acceptance, “is still no easy feat.”

“When you go into a space where very few people have gone, with a lot of barriers, arguably you need more money, but typically we have to do it with less money upfront,” Barrica told TechCrunch.

“The larger the fund, the more common it is” for it to have a vice clause, she added, referring to outdated venture capital funds policies that “contractually obligate them to pass on companies that offer products or services in categories like alcohol, tobacco, gambling, weapons, porn — and sexual wellness,” TechCrunch’s Anna Heim explained.

Barrica recommends being upfront and telling prospective fund managers or partners, “We’re really excited about sexual wellness as a part of health and wellness. Is this going to be a problem with one of your LPs [limited partners]?’”

As the Times pointed out, social media stigma still results in an absurd situation where Maude “may not be able to advertise its devices on these platforms, [but] can promote its ‘massage candle,’ which melts into massage oil, and its condoms.”

And when Dame’s Alexandra Dime tried posting, “Somebody pinch me — after five years of pitching, we are in Sephora!” on LinkedIn this month, “her post was automatically removed multiple times for violating the professional site’s guidelines against ‘sexually explicit material or language,’” the Times reported today.

For more on the new “Intimate Care” subcategory within the “Bath & Body” section, visit Sephora.com.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Lawyers acting on behalf of FanCentro’s parent company have filed a civil lawsuit in Broward County, Florida against OnlyFans’ U.S. billing company, Fenix Internet LLC and owner Leonid Radvinsky, alleging “tortious interference with contract and intentional interference with prospective business.”

FanCentro’s lawyers allege that Radvinsky “engaged in a scheme to cause competitors of OnlyFans — including [FanCentro] — to be ‘blacklisted’ by social media platforms, for the purpose of interfering with [FanCentro’s] business and reducing competition with OnlyFans.”

The complaint defines this “blacklisting” as being “typically accomplished by automated classifiers of filters that keep particular websites or pages from appearing on social media platforms or appearing in the results shown in search engines pursuant to user queries.”

The lawsuit alleges a conspiracy between Radvinsky and unnamed persons in an unnamed company to blacklist OnlyFans competitors. This blacklisting, the suit alleges, suddenly halted FanCentro’s growth in winter 2018, after which the company’s growth “stagnated and then started declining because [models] who promoted FanCentro began losing their pages on Instagram or had their page visibility reduced.”

FanCentro alleges that before Radvinsky acquired OnlyFans parent company Fenix International Limited in October 2018, OnlyFans was “a medium size competitor” in a “vibrant, competitive market with more than 100 [adult entertainment] platforms.”

But after October 2018, according to the complaint, adult entertainment providers that had previously only promoted OnlyFans’ competitors “suddenly began to experience a drop-off in traffic on social media platforms” and “experienced having many posts deleted by social media services, and the number of click-throughs from those posts that did appear on social media services dropped drastically.”

The complaint alleges that this alleged drop “was most noticeable on Instagram,” but “also occurred on Twitter, Facebook and other platforms.”

‘Substantial Reduced Visibility’

FanCentro alleges that “the combination of deleted posts and reduced click-throughs resulted in substantially reduced visibility for the [adult entertainment] providers on social media,” and that this “extended as far as reduced visibility on Google’s search engine.”

According to FanCentro, the reduction on social media traffic “was so substantial and dramatic that it could not have been the result of filtering by human reviewers” and the drop “suggested that social media services were using computer algorithms that automatically classify/filter content.”

FanCentro alleges that models “who had only promoted OnlyFans online” and not any of their competitors — other than MyFreeCams and AVNStars, which the lawsuit names as companies also owned by Radvinsky — “appeared to be unaffected by these automated takedowns and reduced traffic.”

FanCentro also alleges that OnlyFans “obfuscated” its supposed participation in this “scheme” by claiming that some of the models who promoted OnlyFans and also other companies were affected by the social media blackout, although “in fact those who promoted exclusively OnlyFans were immune.”

The lawsuit claims that OnlyFans’ current dominant position in the sector came as the result of this alleged drop in the traffic of models promoting other platforms.

The central claim of the FanCentro lawsuit concerns what the company calls “the disproportionate classification/filtering treatment” accorded OnlyFans’ competitors as compared with models who exclusively promoted OnlyFans.

Since, the complaint alleges, “there is no statistical or other benign explanation (such as better marketing)” for the alleged differential treatment, FanCentro has reached the conclusion that “it was caused by a manipulation of one or more of the individual databases (or sets of training data) that was then shared in part or in full among multiple companies,” a scheme designed “for the purpose of harming the competitors of OnlyFans and their [models], and to cause a net benefit to OnlyFans and its [adult entertainment] providers who never promoted any OnlyFans competitors.”

Allegations of a ‘Mysterious Immunity’ Against Blacklisting

Central to the lawsuit is what FanCentro’s lawyers called the “mysterious immunity of OnlyFans and two sites affiliated with Radvinsky […] to this new heightened classification/filtering activity” which FanCentro claims took place “soon after October 2018.”

The lawsuit also implies that one of the manipulated databases was the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, a shared hash database created in 2017 by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube.

FanCentro and “certain [adult entertainment] providers,” the lawsuit alleges, “were blacklisted as terrorist organizations or individuals, sympathizers, or otherwise as dangerous organization or individuals, and content associated with them was hashed and shared with the GIFCT, along with certain URL data, with the goal of harming [FanCentro’s] business (and through the scheme, the other [adult entertainment] platforms that competed with OnlyFans), in order to improve the market position, revenue, power and otherwise benefit OnlyFans and its owner, Radvinsky.”

The lawsuit claims that the alleged scheme “required and involved” individuals within a company “with the ability to add and/or manipulate content” on these databases, and that Radvinsky and others involved with OnlyFans “provided the information” to these individuals “to add false classifier/filtering information” to them.

The lawsuit conjectures that the alleged participants in the scheme must have been driven by “an economic incentive,” and implies Radvinsky and/or OnlyFans used an offshore company in Hong Kong and other Asian countries for these alleged transactions.

A Florida Lawsuit Leaked to a BBC Journalist

The FanCentro lawsuit was filed in November by FanCentro’s lawyers: William R. Scherer of Fort Lauderdale, Florida firm Conrad & Scherer; Jeffrey C. Schneider of Miami firm Levine Kellog Lehman Schneider + Grossman; and David E. Azar of Beverly Hills firm Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman. 

The lawsuit was leaked this morning to BBC News journalist Noel Titheradge.

According to Titheradge, “OnlyFans has not yet issued a legal response” to the FanCentro lawsuit, “but a spokesperson said the company was aware of the claims — describing them as having ‘no merit.’”

Last August, Titheradge authored a sensationalized report criticizing OnlyFans, which the notoriously anti-sex-worker and anti-porn BBC promoted by implying that it had caused the company to “ban sex videos.” The BBC later had to revise the report’s headline to correct that implication.

LOS ANGELES — Free Speech Coalition (FSC) will host a town hall discussion this Thursday addressing the EARN IT Act, which recently passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and is potentially headed toward a full vote in the Senate.

The FSC statement announcing the Town Hall follows:

FSC invites all industry stakeholders who want to learn more about the bill itself, what’s being done by FSC and allies and what can be done on an individual level to fight back. 

“While supposedly targeting illegal content, the likely effect of the EARN IT Act will be widespread deplatforming of adult content online,” said Mike Stabile, director of public relations. “The bill as written would encourage social media sites, search engines, cloud storage and web-hosting companies to stop hosting sex-related content entirely.”

Stabile will moderate the discussion, which will also include First Amendment attorney and FSC Board member Reed Lee, and Clarity Consulting, the lobbying firm which represents FSC in Washington.

FSC’s analysis of the EARN IT Act can be found here.

The town hall will be held online Thursday, 11 a.m. (PST). Industry members who wish to attend should register in advance through this link. Once approved, they will receive an invitation via email.

COLOGNE, Germany — FanCentro has announced the addition of Sunny Tiger to its roster of brand ambassadors.

The German “social media personality, blogger, model and entrepreneur joins a growing base of influencers who use FanCentro’s best-in-class tools to turn their fans into followers and revenue,” a rep said.

“FanCentro has been instrumental in helping me grow my business and my following, so it was an easy decision to join them as an ambassador,” explained Tiger. “I need a platform I can trust that will advocate for me and provide me with the tools and services to help me succeed. FanCentro has really worked for me, and I want to help get out the word to more creators about the incredible resources here.”

Tiger joins an ambassador team that includes Rachel Starr, Eliza Rose Watson, JustLucy, Rosanna Voorwald and Niels van de Zanden.

“We’re attracting internationally known influencers because we’re the best at what we do, which is helping them build successful long-term businesses,” FanCentro Chief Sales Officer Nicholas Hörger said. “We’ve created a platform that serves all influencers and where they can grow without fear of de-platforming. Sunny Tiger’s been enthusiastic from the start, and it’s helped make her a huge success. We’re so glad she’s sharing her story to the larger creator community.”

Follow Sunny Tiger on FanCentro and find the platform on Twitter.