LOS ANGELES — SexLikeReal has announced the release of “Hard Times,” a new VR title by director OnTheTelly starring Vanessa Vega.

Vega stars as “a girlfriend who notices her beau stressing over several past-due bills an in order to ease his tension, the big-hearted babe breaks out her animal roleplay gear and invites her anxious lover into the bedroom for an escapist sexual adventure rife with hardcore fetish fun.”

“Vanessa portrays the sweetheart of your dreams in this pleasantly perverse reprieve from reality,” said OnTheTelly. “She’s gorgeous, tight — and very much into kink. When she assumes her petplay persona and purrs provocatively into your ear, all of your troubles will begin to melt away.”

“We’re living in difficult and uncertain financial times and many of us can use a respite from the panic-inducing pressures of recent years,” OnTheTelly added. “I’m willing to bet that streaming ‘Hard Times’ on your VR headset, and watching Vanessa in 3D as she wiggles her anal tail toy in your face will help you slip away from your worries.”

To watch “Hard Times,” visit SexLikeReal.com.

For more from Vanessa Vega and SexLikeReal, follow them on Twitter.

NAPA, Calif. — Vibratex, the sole North American distributor of the Magic Wand brand, has announced the results of a recent social media survey titled, “Get to Know Your Customers Day.”

The event, held annually on July 16, offered colleagues and followers the chance to win a Magic Wand of their choice by completing the survey, which included lighthearted, revealing questions such as, “What words or phrases do you associate with Magic Wand?” and “If Magic Wand was a celebrity, who would it be?” and “When did you first watch ‘Friends’?”

“I was just glad to see I wasn’t the only one rocking sweats,” said Nicole Rosselli, Magic Wand controller and the “guiding force” behind the brand’s social media outreach. “Shout-out to the fourth trimester, Magic Wand-loving moms out there.”

CEO Ken Herskovitz initially supported the idea for the survey “simply because it was a fun way to engage our audience.”

“But then, when I saw the responses and realized they revealed people’s deeper connection with the Magic Wand brand, it all became so much cooler,” he added. “Respondents really put some thought into what they shared.”

Visit Magic Wand on Twitter and Instagram for the survey results.

LOS ANGELES — Hannah Grace is making her first appearance ever on the “Drinking Dirty in Jersey” podcast tonight.

“Tonight, there’s a reason to celebrate—it’s Hump Day, and Hannah Grace will be the guest on this week’s ‘Drinking Dirty in Jersey,’” said a rep. “Always smiling and laughing, Hannah will bring even more fun to this week’s episode. She’ll be discussing her upcoming trip to Los Angeles and Vegas to film with top adult studios, appearing at Exxxotica New Jersey in October and much more.”

“The DDJ crew definitely know how to have a good time,” said Grace, “so I’m looking forward to tonight’s show. There’s nothing like midweek fun. I hope my fans will tune in, and I’m sure to get new ones after doing the show.”

The show broadcasts tonight at 7 p.m (PDT) on Facebook Live.

For more from Hannah Grace and Drinking Dirty in Jersey, follow them on Twitter.

LOS ANGELES — Girlfriends Films has announced the exclusive VOD release of “Twisted Passions 30″ with three hours of footage.

Charlotte Stokely and Alyx Star are featured on the cover; additional castmates include Olive Glass partnered with Jackie Hoff, Ember Snow paired with Liv Revamped, and Harley Haze matched up with Lauren Phillips.

During filming, Glass and Hoff tweeted a video from the set, where Glass introduced her scene partner.

Snow tweeted about her co-star, Revamped, noting she “waited four years to have this girl,” to which Revamped replied, “four years too long!”

“Twisted Passions 30” is only available to members of GirlfriendsFilmsVOD.com.

Additional details about the cast and behind the scenes details can be found here; follow GFF on Twitter.

LOS ANGELES — Elegant Angel’s latest collection is “DP Addiction,” now shipping ahead of an August 31 street date.

“DP Addiction” features cover girl Abella Danger, Skyla Novea, Marica Hase, Natasha Nice, Jasmine Jae, Nina Elle and Candice Dare.

“We wanted to save our fans some time and money searching for their favorite DP scenes,” said Elegant Angel spokesperson. “‘DP Addiction’ is a collection of our top double-penetration scenes featuring your favorite performers. The perfect addition to any collection, fans will watch ‘DP Addiction’ over and over.”

More details can be found here; follow Elegant Angel on Twitter.

For sales inquiries, contact Jerry at sales@elegantangel.com or (818) 576-9464. Broadcast and foreign inquiries can be directed to juicyvideo@aol.com.

WASSERBILLIG, Luxembourg — pjur has been nominated in the category of “Sex Lubricant Company of the Year” by the 2021 XBIZ Europa Awards, its fourth in as many years.

“The fact that we have been nominated for this award for the fourth time in a row makes us very proud. Now we ask all pjur customers and partners to vote for pjur,” pjur group CEO and Founder Alexander Giebel said. “Many thanks to XBIZ Berlin and to everyone for their continuous support.”

The XBIZ Europa Awards, the industry’s biggest night in Europe, is the culmination of the fall edition of XBIZ Berlin, which runs September 13-16.

Online voting is underway; click here for a full list of nominees.

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TAMPA, Fla. — Clips4Sale has announced its SOS Content Creator Program with an aim to “help the adult industry and sex workers, showing clearly that sex work is real work,” noted a rep.

“The message from adult content creators is clear — ‘Save Our Salary’ (SOS). With the recent changes to other platforms, Clips4Sale has responded with its SOS Content Creator Program. It is giving new content creators to the site immediate parallel income, exceptional support and a 100% payout for sales generated by referral traffic,” the rep explained. “Clips4Sale understands that sex work is real work and has always supported the adult community because it is their community.”

“Clips4Sale is not a fan site but can offer this parallel income and the benefit of cross promotion on fan-site partner, FanCentro,” they added. “October 1 will be here before you know it. Don’t wait until then to have your explicit content banned on other platforms.”

The rep cited “an easy upload tool” for migrating archival content between platforms and “seamless integration to make the switch fast and easy” as well as the services of an onboarding support team.

“Clips4Sale is offering a viable solution to other platform creators to generate parallel income, and we welcome them with open arms. They have a little more than 30 days to find a new home, and we want to support them however we can,” Head of Studio Relations Dariusz said.

Content creators are invited to visit Clips4Sale online for additional details, call 887-557-4006 or email SOS@clips4sale.com.

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LOS ANGELES — Tonight’s installment of the Clubhouse chat series “Sex Profiteers,” hosted by Magalie Rheault, COO of Evil Angel, and Cyndi Pham, CEO of Dirty Hen, will feature a panel of reps from premium content platforms in the wake of the decision by OnlyFans to ban sexually explicit content beginning Oct. 1. 

The discussion gets underway at 6 p.m. (PDT) with reps from Blisss.company, FanCentro, FanSoda, 4My.fans, Loyalfans, Skinfluential Media and SmuttyFy.

“We’re aiming to provide an unbiased space for OnlyFans alternative platforms to speak directly to creators about their products and answer questions,” said Pham. “I feel that giving creators more information can only help empower them to make the best choices for themselves.”

Audience members will have the opportunity to participate during Q&A segments.

“I have been preaching since 2018 that content creators need to own their own destiny. I am looking forward to the opportunity to talk on this panel to lend my knowledge and expertise along with many other well-respected industry members,” Skinfluential’s Director of Business Development Austin Fiascone said.

Rheault noted Clubhouse has hosted “many rooms where creators talk about the OnlyFans ban and how it’s affecting them, but no one has had a conversation about real alternatives from the people who actually built these platforms themselves.”

“It’s a great opportunity for business owners and content creators alike to come together and discuss openly,” she added.

Find “Sex Profiteers” online and on Twitter and Instagram for the latest updates.

The program is among the recipients of the inaugural Clubhouse “Creator First” accelerator program; direct inquiries to pr@agencybardo.com.

LOS ANGELES — PASS has called for an extension of one additional day, through Wednesday, of the precautionary production hold announced Saturday after learning a performer within the system had tested positive for HIV.

The complete statement from PASS follows:

PASS is extending the current production hold for an additional day. While no additional tests have returned a positive result, we are still awaiting some results. We expect to have necessary information by the end of day tomorrow, Wednesday, at which point we can make a further determination as to the length of the hold.

We ask that all production, whether studio shoots or independent productions or content trades, hold while we work to eliminate risk.

We know that production holds are difficult financially and emotionally, but it is essential that we always prioritize performer health and safety.

We thank the performer for helping to assist in contact tracing and partner identification, and ask that the community respect their privacy and dignity, during an extremely difficult time.

Michelle LeBlanc
Board President
Performer Availability Screening Services (PASS)

Click here for additional details; follow PASS on Twitter.

LOS ANGELES — OnlyFans’ founder and CEO Tim Stokely claimed the company “had no choice” but to implement their “sexually explicit conduct” ban because investment banks “cite reputational risk and refuse our business.”

XBIZ contacted OnlyFans last Thursday for further comments on the porn ban, effective October 1, and today their representative replied with a link to Stokely’s paywalled interview with the Financial Times as the official reply to “clear up questions around our recent announcement.”

The company rep told XBIZ that Stokely specifically said “he would ‘absolutely’ welcome porn back were the banking environment to change.” 

Stokely also went out of his way to deflect blame from Mastercard and from OnlyFans’ current attempts at securing outside investors as direct motivations for the policy change. 

“The change in policy, we had no choice — the short answer is banks,” Stokely told the Financial Times.

According to OnlyFans, “the change came in response to an increased level of obstacles from banks, which would ‘cite reputational risk and refuse our business.’”

“We pay over one million creators over $300m every month, and making sure that these funds get to creators involves using the banking sector,” Stokely continued, mentioning that the Bank of New York Mellon had “flagged and rejected” every wire connected to the company, “making it difficult to pay our creators.”

“This decision was made to safeguard their funds and subscriptions from increasingly unfair actions by banks and media companies — we obviously do not want to lose our most loyal creators,” Stokely said.

Stokely added that “we’re already fully compliant with the new Mastercard rules, so that had no bearing on the decision” and “we didn’t make this policy change to make it easier to find investors.”