Jan 26, 2022 5:23 PM PST

NEW YORK — Petit Mort Magazine is offering a box set featuring its first four issues in celebration of the launch of its Winter issue and first year in print.

Valentina Fox, Selene Kitt, Lucy Sweetkill and Rosie Averett are featured on the four covers, with the complete box set clocking over 400 pages.

“This marks a momentous occasion for us, and we are thrilled to offer a new way to commemorate our first year,” Founder and Editor-in-Chief Penelope Dario said.

The publication is billed as having been created by adult performers and entertainers; in addition to the box set, Petit Mort will also launch exclusive merch with current cover model, Averett, including apparel and prints from the magazine.

“This magazine celebrates the creative and intellectual talent of the adult industry and holds space for this expression in all its multitudes,” Dario added.

Visit PetitMortMag.com for details and follow the publication on Twitter and Instagram.

Jan 26, 2022 5:04 PM PST

SACRAMENTO — Liv Revamped will headline Gold Club Centerfolds in Sacramento across four nights this week, starting tonight.

“This exotic, all-natural gonzo queen has become one of the most-wanted performers on the top studios and directors’ sets in the U.S. and Europe, a champion of inner beauty and a breaker of stereotypes,” a rep declared. “Club attendees are going to be enthralled across all fours days over Liv.”

The starlet will headline two sets Wednesday and Thursday nights at 10:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. (PST), four shows Friday at 12 noon, 10 p.m. 12 midnight and 2 a.m. and Saturday at 10 p.m., 12 a.m. and 2 a.m.

Revamped will also sign autographs at the adjacent Gold Club Centerfolds Boutique, from 6-8 p.m on Friday and Saturday.

“I’m super-excited to finally do my first feature in the U.S. and ready to put on a show the next four nights at Gold Club Centerfolds. If you’re in the area or plan to be, definitely stop by. It will be a night — or lunchtime, if you catch my show at noon on Friday — that you won’t forget,” she said.

“I’ve got new DVDs and other merch that are must-haves for my true fans. I can’t wait to see you guys,” she added.

Find Gold Club Centerfolds online and on Twitter for additional information.

Follow Liv Revamped on Twitter.

HOLLYWOOD — Hulu has unveiled the first three episodes of streaming series “Pam & Tommy,” a retelling of the saga of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s infamous sex tape and the origins of internet web porn in the 1990s.

Reviewers have already been able to screen the episodes, which will premiere Feb. 2, with subsequent episodes dropping weekly.

The show highlights the role of adult industry characters in the distribution of what critics are calling “the OG sex tape,” after a disgruntled handyman allegedly stole it from the couple in 1995.

The sex-tape-snatching electrician is played Seth Rogen, who also co-produced with longtime comedy partner Evan Goldberg. Nick Offerman plays an adult industry fixer who helps Rogen’s character commercialize the tape. The first few episodes were directed by Craig Gillespie (“I, Tonya”).

Current adult performers who appear in the series include Aiden Ashley, who is reported to have shared a scene and dialogue with Rogen.

“Pam & Tommy” is based on a 2014 Rolling Stone magazine piece by Amanda Chicago Lewis.

“The Pam and Tommy sex tape is the most infamous stolen celebrity artifact on the planet,” Lewis wrote, “with a wink usually accompanying the word ‘stolen.’ It wasn’t the first time a video of a famous person fornicating appeared in the public realm, and it certainly wouldn’t be the last. But it was a porno that appealed to people who didn’t usually watch pornos, a voyeuristic dive into the guileless intimacy between two tabloid darlings: Anderson, perennial Playboy cover model and star of ‘Baywatch,’ and Lee, the hard-partying drummer from Mötley Crüe.”

What their sex tape taught, Lewis explained, “is that an unassuming individual could acquire a piece of content, offer it up to the internet and watch it ricochet around the planet. How, exactly, this footage traveled from a locked safe to screens and store shelves worldwide warns of everything that was coming in the next two decades, everything that would shift in technology and culture and celebrity.”

“Before Kim Kardashian, before TMZ, before RedTube, before the ‘Fappening,’ there was Pam and Tommy,” Lewis wrote.

To watch “Pammy & Tom,” visit Hulu.com.

OS ANGELES — Acclaimed adult director Cass Paley, who helmed a vast number of 1990s titles under the artistic name Wesley Emerson, passed away today, friends and associates confirm.

The 73-year-old Paley had been on life support for the past few days, as industry friends said their farewells.

Besides a remarkable career directing adult films in the Golden Age of video production, Paley gained mainstream attention as the producer and director of “Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes,” an acclaimed 1998 documentary about porn’s first male superstar.

Paley’s “Wesley Emerson” IAFD page shows almost 200 titles made during an era in which big productions and not individual scenes were the measure of an adult filmography.

Born in New York City in 1948, Paley amassed the bulk of his credits between 1992 and 2007, overseeing productions for top companies of the era like VCA, Video Team, Odyssey, Adam & Eve, Jill Kelly Productions, Wicked and Sinsation Pictures.

From 1982 until 2001, Paley also produced documentary and music video material for artists such as Elvis Costello, Dr. John, Fleetwood Mac, Madonna, Lou Reed, The Replacements, Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young. His archive is now part of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame collection.

In 2016, Paley co-produced the well-received “X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All Time!” documentary.

Industry Reactions

Kylie Ireland told XBIZ she had done over a dozen movies with Paley during her time as a contract performer with VCA, and later promoted his films as the company’s publicist.

“Cass was always very hands-on,” Ireland recalled. “Every movie was his pet project. He wanted to work with the dialogue so it would work the best for you. He’d get very excited about all his movies! He would put personal pieces of your own self in the characters and the dialogue.”

She especially noted Paley’s skill in working with performers. “He knew how to draw acting from you, even how to make you cry if the scene needed,” she recalled. “Cass had such a passion for making movies. And it’s rare now. We’re losing that in the business. But personally, I’m crushed. It’s hard to lose all these people. They’re family.”

Ireland said that she will always remember, with a smile, “how mischievous he could be and how his eyes sparkled when he teased you.”

Fellow VCA contract star Chloe Nicole described Paley as “one of the good ones,” saying that he “will be sorely missed.”

“My heart and prayers are with you all through this difficult time,” Nicole added. I hope he will finally find some peace, away from any pain or suffering now.”

Veteran director-producer and Paley collaborator Eli Cross told XBIZ that “Cass was one of the rare, great gentlemen of the home video era. He was kind, warm, funny and always ran a low-pressure set. Everyone loved working for Cass Paley. He’ll be missed.”

“We lost another legendary member of our industry this week,” wrote Alana Evans today on her Twitter account. “Cass was one of the sweetest men. He was so warm and kind, funny and talented. Rest in paradise, Cass.”

“My teddy bear, Cass Paley,” Alexandra Silk posted on Facebook during the director’s last convalescence. “Thank you for all your hugs and love and good times. I love you, Cass!”

LOS ANGELES — Blush Erotica’s latest release features Kyla Keys and Chris Cardio in a scenario developed by Megan Hussey and Stacy Lyle and shot by The Sinematographer with voiceover by Mary Cyn.

“The Divorce Party” features the newly separated Keys developing special plans for her friend (Cardio) that he is eager to enjoy.

“Kyla and Chris have such great onscreen chemistry,” The Sinematographer enthused. “This scene was amazing to produce and turned out so hot.”

A trailer can be found at BlushErotica.com; follow the studio on Twitter.

Follow Kyla Keys and Chris Cardio on Twitter.

LOS ANGELES — Retired performer Alicia Rio passed away on Jan. 17 at the age of 51, according to industry friends who spoke with family members.

Rio was a prominent performer throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, gracing several iconic box covers in the VHS and DVD eras with her signature buxom brunette looks.

Born in Mexico, Rio grew up in Pasadena and entered the adult industry in 1992. Her IAFD page shows over 300 titles for top studios of the era such as Heatwave, Moonlight, Gourmet, Caballero, Las Vegas Video and a plethora of others.

Describing her beginnings in the industry, Rio told an interviewer that after graduating from Cal State with a degree in finance, she worked in government in the San Gabriel Valley as deputy city treasurer. After being passed over for a promotion, Rio said, she answered an ad in the L.A. Express for nude modeling.

“I didn’t quit my job,” Rio told the interviewer. “I did adult movies for about three months, still working for the city. So, I was conservative, and wore glasses in the day, and then Alicia Rio wild and crazy at night, for about three months. Then I decided to really make the big jump and quit my job. But, it was normal. I’m literally made for this business.”

After a hiatus in the late ’90s, Rio returned in 2002, shooting for Elegant Angel, Vivid, Wicked and many other studios until the mid-2000s. In 2005, Rio received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Free Speech Coalition.

Rio was also a prominent, in-demand feature dancer billed as “the Latin Queen of Erotica.” Last November, when a fan praised her adult work on Twitter, she replied, “Thank you so much! I enjoyed all of my performances!”

In 2020, friend and rep James Bartholet reported that although Rio “no longer does traditional studio shoots in adult, she produces her own indie content and has also been in talks with mainstream companies for their projects.”

“I will always be thankful to the adult industry,” Rio said at the time. “I have so many good memories of working with all of these companies and performers, but mainstream is something that I’ve been wanting to do for a long time.”

“My ultimate dream is to be in a feature film with Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek,” she added, “where they meet their girl crush — me.”

SINGAPORE — Lovense has partnered with VR studio SexLikeReal for the release of the fully integrated Calor, a new masturbator for penis-owners with a heating feature and depth sensors.

The integration also supports the Lovense toys Gush, Max 2 and Nora and “promises to bring incredible sensations and a sense of full presence in the hottest scenes from SexLikeReal,” explained a rep.

The integration works through the Haptics Connect app, available on Google Play and the App Store. SexLikeReal premium members will now be able to connect Calor and Max 2 masturbators, Gush glans massager, and Nora, touted as the first female sex toy integrated with VR porn.

“These interactive videos have a built-in script that makes toys react in sync with the action on the screen. The library of interactive videos on SexLikeReal includes over 650 titles suited to every fancy,” the rep said.

Calor is compact with a squeezable grip that accommodates most sizes and “stimulates while you stroke,” said the rep. “Depth-control sensors provide another unique experience; the deeper you’re inserted, the more intense the vibrations are.”

The heating feature provides “an even more realistic feeling through warmth.”

SexLikeReal CEO Alex Novak added, “Interest in interactive VR porn has been growing at a lightning speed in recent years, and our team is working tirelessly to make this experience as smooth and exciting as possible for our fans. We are incredibly excited to partner with Lovense to offer sensual and immersive VR experiences to an even greater audience.”

Calor joins the Lovense LDR line that also features Max 2, Mission and Nora.

“This is our first gift of the new year for our fans,” said Lovense CEO Dan Liu. “Partnering with the amazing SexLikeReal team to give an incredible new interactive experience to Lovense toy owners, including those who grab our new and shiny Calor, is our next step towards greater interactivity and expanding the variety of services Lovense offers.”

Calor is IPX7 waterproof and programmable with three vibration levels and up to 10 patterns and is fully integrated into the Lovense ecosystem. It can be remote controlled from any distance and syncs with multimedia content through the Lovense Remote App.

The toy supports the Lovense music feature and it is compatible with 3DXChat and Wildlife Demo games and allows users to download patterns from the free Lovense pattern library.

Click here for additional details about Calor and find details about the SexLikeReal integration here.

Follow Lovense and SexLikeReal on Twitter.

SEATTLE — Ball & Chain has announced the company is fully stocked for the Valentine’s shopping season.

“I know many companies are having a hard time getting the stock levels they need to supply their distributors; we have dealt with the same issues here in Seattle over the past several months,” noted company principal Dawn Phillips.

“However, Ball & Chain is now fully stocked with all the Valentines games you’ll need to make your customers happy,” she added.

Top-selling games available to ship include “Bedroom Blackjack,” “Bedroom Dice,” “The Bedroom Game,” “Bound By Love,” “Bring Sexy Back,” “Bedroom Truth or Dare,” “Foreplay in a Row,” “Full Disclosure,” “Get Nasty,” “Strip Bedroom Blocks,” “Naked & Naughty Dice” and “Sex Around the House Dice.”

For additional details, and to place an order, visit BallAndChainFun.com, email ballandchaindawn@gmail.com or call (253) 735-6217.

SAN FRANCISCO — A California appeals court sided with Salesforce last week and dismissed a lawsuit by 50 “Jane Does” claiming that the cloud-based software company was liable for their alleged sex trafficking because it had provided services to the now-defunct classifieds site Backpage.com.

The ruling dismissed the plaintiffs’ appeal on the basis of Section 230 protections.

The lawsuit, the Mercury News reports, had been “first dismissed in March 2020 in San Francisco County Superior Court, [also] on the basis that Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act protects websites from liability for third-party conduct.”

Backpage.com was shuttered and seized by the FBI in 2018, shortly before FOSTA-SESTA was signed into law by President Trump. The prosecution of its former owners, Mike Lacey and Jim Larkin, is ongoing and resulted in a mistrial late last year.

The Jane Does allege that “pimps and human traffickers” had placed ads on Backpage.com advertising sexual encounters with them.

Using Lawfare to Create Chokepoints Against Adult Content

The Salesforce lawsuit’s dismissal is a step back for War on Porn and anti-sex workers’ rights crusaders, who have been determined to use different forms of lawfare to create chokepoints against anyone operating a sexually-oriented website.

By targeting purely technical contractors like Salesforce, the lawyers and lobbies fomenting the constant litigation against platforms for user-generated content were hoping to find more deep-pocketed, supposedly liable parties who would then think twice about providing solutions to adult websites.

Eric Goldman, a Santa Clara University law professor who studies Section 230 issues, spoke to the Mercury News about the case.

“It’s the right conclusion,” he said. “The plaintiffs in this case are alleging that pimps engage in sex trafficking, and that they were helped in doing so by running ads on Backpage, and that Backpage was helped in its operations by Salesforce.”

“The victims are three steps away from Salesforce,” Goldman added.

Goldman also explained that Section 230 protections are currently “a really murky area,” and that a another lawsuit in Texas against Salesforce resulted in a ruling “saying that Section 230 may not fully shield the company from legal liability.”

“No single ruling is going to clean it up unless it’s from the Supreme Court,” he concluded.

LOS ANGELES — A late-2021 U.K. survey of top parental control apps on Google Play found that practically all of them were blocking LGBTQ and sex-education sites as “adult content.”

Ninety-two percent of the 12 leading parental control apps surveyed by the U.K.-based Top10VPN review site effectively “blocked sites of leading LGBTQ organizations, including Stonewall, The Trevor Project and LGBT+ Switchboard,” Forbes magazine’s Jamie Wareham reported.

The apps that blocked the most LGBTQ content, according to the survey, were ESET Parental Control and MMGuardian, which blocked “trusted U.K. charities LGBT Foundation, Mermaids, Stonewall and Switchboard LGBT+.”

“Strikingly, despite blocking many LGBTQ sites, the apps had a 90% failure rate for specifically filtering out websites centered around conspiracy theories or misinformation, such as InfoWars,” Wareham wrote. “They also had a 73% failure rate for blocking extreme ideological content, such as the ‘r/TheRedPill’ subreddit and the racist far-right British National Party’s website.”

“Twenty percent of the apps also wrongly blocked educational content on subjects from government-recommended websites such as Planned Parenthood and NHS Sexual Health,” the article revealed.

The Lucrative Business of ‘Filtering’

Siyang Wei, policy coordinator at LGBT Foundation, told Forbes that “the over-censorship of LGBTQ+ content is a well-documented feature of private tech companies’ attempts to filter ‘safe’ content, whether this is done by parental control apps or by platforms themselves. This not only discriminates against LGBTQ+ content, but prevents young people from accessing information, services and communities that could be vital to their wellbeing.”

“As it stands, the [U.K. government’s proposed] Online Safety Bill would further incentivize this kind of discriminatory over-censorship, and codify it into law,” Wei added. “These findings add to the mountain of evidence suggesting that without a clear definition of ‘harm’ and written safeguards developed in consultation with representative organizations and communities, the Bill risks promoting rather than preventing harm to marginalized people.”

In the U.S., War on Porn crusaders have been campaigning for the default activation of parental control apps — known as “porn filters” — on every device that can access the internet. A Utah law instituting such a requirement passed last year, with an unusual amendment specifying that it would go into effect if a number of other states passed similar laws. A Mormon legislator in Arizona recently introduced a copycat bill.

“Porn Filters” are sometimes developed by overtly faith-based businesses, with the result that mandatory filtering laws pushed by religiously-inspired politicians end up generating lucrative government and private contracts for fellow anti-porn crusaders.