Oct 4, 2024 6:00 PM PDT

LAS VEGAS — Vivienne Rose stars in the latest scene from BBWXXXAdventures, titled “Vivienne Rose Fucks a Machine.”

Directed by Nikki Sequoia, the scene marks Rose’s debut appearance with the studio.

“We are thrilled to welcome Vivienne Rose to the BBW XXX Adventures family,” said a rep. “Her talent, beauty, and commitment to body positivity perfectly align with our mission, and her fans have been asking to see her in some new sexual adventures like this one, and we have delivered just that.”

The scene is streaming on BBWXXXAdventures.

Follow Vivienne Rose on X.com.

LONDON — Conservative U.K. tabloid The Daily Mail revived the pseudo-medical concept of Pornography Induced Erectile Dysfunction (PIED) in a recently published porn panic piece which used as its source statements by a British orthopedic surgeon.

The article, sensationally titled “Doctor warns excessive masturbation is behind the rise of an embarrassing male health problem – but how much is too much?,” was authored by Barney Calman, the right-wing publication’s Head of Health, who based it on statements by Dr. Donald Grant.

Grant, presented as “GP and senior clinical advisor at The Independent Pharmacy,” is a media-friendly orthopedic surgeon who often offers quotes to journalists on sex issues.

Grant told The Daily Mail that PIED “is a type of erectile dysfunction that stems from an unhealthy consumption of pornography,” and he linked it to an Ofcom survey that “half of adults in the UK now access graphic material online.”

According to Grant, PIED is characterized by “unhealthy porn usage can lead to desensitization, making it more difficult for men to achieve and maintain an erection — as they’re used to more intense sexual activity seen on screen. It can lead to reduced interest in sex with actual partners as men prioritize porn and masturbation instead.”

PIED, however, is not a widely accepted or even long-established medical term. The pseudoscientific notion was a fringe notion in the early 2010s until it became popularized by a 2014 video and accompanying article by the late Gary Wilson, the U.S.-based anti-porn crusader behind the controversial “Your Brain on Porn” cottage industry which includes a website, a best-selling book, an animated series and a much criticized TEDx Talk.

The Long Shadow of Gary Wilson

As XBIZ reported, Wilson’s self-described “neuroscientific claims” was persuasively questioned by actual brain science experts leading the TED organizers to take the unusual step of attaching the following disclaimer to the YouTube video of his talk: “Note from TED: This talk contains several assertions that are not supported by academically respected studies in medicine and psychology. While some viewers might find advice provided in this talk to be helpful, please do not look to this talk for medical advice.”

Wilson’s controversial claims about PIED were immediately challenged as pseudoscientific by experts, which led the anti-porn crusader to publish a vitriolic rebuttal in 2016. 

This tirade is written in the peculiarly non-scientific style of several Your Brain on Porn articles, and uses a number of juvenile references to masturbation: “Since 2016, an audacious red herring has insinuated itself into the tweets and blogs of some AASECT sexologists: the notion that PIED (porn-induced erectile dysfunction) is caused by masturbation. Without offering any scientific support, this band of porn-apologists has determined to persuade us that porn is not behind the recent rise of coital ED in online porn enthusiasts (Gotta be anything but porn, right?). So far off the mark is the suggestion that waxing the one-eyed wonder weasel is the culprit, that if you see anyone proposing it as the cause of youthful ED you can be confident that you’re dealing with a propagandist pushing a pro-porn agenda (or someone who has been misinformed by such a person).”

From Your Brain on Porn, the notion of PIED spread around religious conservatives and other pro-censorship activists, lecturers and right-leaning publications in the U.S. and worldwide, including The Daily Mail and its expert orthopedist.

And though the right-leaning media ecosystems have perpetuated the notion of PIED, few to none of the experts backing it are mainstream sexual health academics and physicians. The top Google hit for an academic article on PIED, for example, leads to an article authored by a Bosnian-Swedish sociologist whose background is in Bosnian history and Muslim studies.

PIED and the Semen-Retention Manosphere

The Daily Mail’s Dr. Grant himself is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners, which was recently embroiled in controversy when a religious anti-porn group The Reward Foundation claimed RCGP accreditation to train general practitioners in the UK.

Nicole Prause — a U.S.-based neuroscientist and licensed psychologist who has long worked to debunk sensational, sex-stigmatizing claims by Your Brain on Porn and The Reward Foundation — told XBIZ that, based on her study of addictions and human sexuality, “there is no evidence that porn, itself, causes sexual dysfunctions in men or women, including erectile dysfunction.”

Several studies, Prause noted, “have found that those who experience shame and anxiety about sex, including using porn, struggle with erectile issues, making clear that the cause is not the pornography itself. Anxiety about sex has long been the best predictor of erectile dysfunction, and that remains the case in studies being published this year.”

Prause explained that many for-profit anti-porn coaching programs — like the ones routinely peddled by conservative publications and news reports in porn panic pieces — sell lucrative treatment programs claiming they can treat erectile dysfunction by helping clients — which are almost exclusively cis men — to stop their porn viewing.

“There is no evidence that these programs work, nor would they be expected to based on current science,” Prause stated. “Further, data show these anti-porn coaching programs are associated with worse erectile function, likely due to the fact that they use shame with their clients. If someone claims they can treat porn-induced erectile dysfunction, they are most likely an anti-porn coach from the manosphere,” and it may not be legal in the U.S. “for them to claim to cure medical disorders like erectile dysfunction.”

Scholars like Eleanor Janega have tracked down the roots of online manosphere notions like #NoFap, #NoNutNovember and similar anti-masturbation panic like that of this week’s The Daily Mail piece to ancient superstitions about semen retention.

“Like medieval people,” Janega writes, the #NoNutters believe that “the very essence of maleness is sperm. They think that it must be kept inside of them in order to keep themselves vital, attentive, and rational. Not ejaculating allows men to store up this energy and express it elsewhere in their lives.”

LONDON — The Commissioning Editor for The Spectator, the U.K.’s leading conservative magazine, published a sensationalizing editorial attempting to link adult content to the entirely unrelated current prosecution of a rapist in France.

Spectator’s Mary Wakefield seeks to frame the media-saturating prosecution of admitted rapist Dominique Pelicot — a Frenchman who drugged and raped his wife Gisèle for years, and also invited other men from their area to participate in the abuse — with a number of generalizations and debunked notions about the supposed effects of watching adult content online.

Wakefield’s piece, grandiosely titled “Pornography and the Truth About the Pelicot Case,” offers no new evidence or actual context about the case itself, instead devolving into a diatribe about porn, which includes implications that adult content online is like a cancer, the usual dubious anti-porn claims about brain science — including a bizarre reference to bonobo-human behavior correlation —  and the writer’s own musings about why people watch taboo content.

“Pelicot is a monster, a modern-day Bluebeard,” Wakefield declares. “But what has shocked France most is how very many normal Frenchmen he was able to find, in and around his Provencal village, who were up for having sex with an unconscious woman. If the feminists of France really want to stand with Gisèle, they’d educate their sons to abstain from porn.”

The conservative Wakefield lambasts French feminists for targeting France’s systemic patriarchy or the lack of proper sexual education at home and in schools. According to Wakefield, the real target should be found elsewhere.

Strangely comparing feminist marches in France condemning the incident and the culture which produced it to “hounds inexplicably swerving away from the scent and setting off in entirely the wrong direction,” Wakefield finally reaches her moral panic thesis. “What happened to Gisèle has zip all to do” with a lack of sex education,” she proclaims. “It’s not patriarchy that’s to blame, but pornography. It’s porn which leads a human down into the sludgy gutters of his own psyche – and if the feminists of France really wanted to stand with Gisèle, they’d educate their sons to abstain. Not just from the obviously illegal stuff, but from all of it.”

A Litany of Absurd Generalizations and Notions

Among Wakefield’s outlandish claims and generalizations are that Pelicot’s “atrocities themselves are bound up in and emblematic of the porn industry’s central operation: the monetization of taboo” (admittedly borrowed from another anti-porn theorist); and that all of pornography is a “whole great, growing, metastasizing, $100 billion mess” single-handedly devoted not to “selling sex so much as selling transgression.”

Wakefield’s rhetoric then swerves into pseudo-brain science overload. “The dopamine hit that drags human bonobos back to their laptops time after time is a result of busting through a taboo,” she writes, “and that’s why it’s progressive. Once a taboo is normalized, it loses its transgressive power, so you look for another. And some men (not all men, but enough men) keep chasing that feeling until they end up in a chat room with Dominique Pelicot.”

Wakefield endorses the debunked “slippery slope” theory stating that porn watchers — despite decades evidence by thousands of webmasters profitably running specific niche sites with loyal customers — are like junkies always searching for a more intense high. Her completely anecdotal evidence is a previous porn panic article published by The Spectator itself — then edited by none other than Boris Johnson — where a conservative writer claimed that he had “lost control” over his porn searches and concluded that “most male sexuality is designed by evolution to be an unscratchable itch; a desperate, unsatisfiable urge.”

Despite the non-stop War on Porn waged international by religious conservatives and their political and media allies like herself, Wakefield concludes by claiming that “instead of developing a clear understanding of how porn acts on a brain, we’ve all become slowly habituated to it, slowly boiled alive in porn culture like frogs,” wrapping up her tirade by preposterously condemning Pride events and kink communities as somehow connect to and complicit with Pelicot’s crimes.

Wakefield’s COVID-Era Hypocrisy

Wakefield herself is a controversial figure in her own right, following her involvement in one of the key scandals that undermined the Conservative government of Boris Johnson in 2020.

Wakefield and her Tory politician husband were pilloried by most of British society when it was revealed that they had used their influence to bypass the country’s extreme social isolation protocols during the COVID pandemic.

“The Spectator’s incestuous ties with the governing elite have thrust it into the murky heart of an uproar over a 260-mile drive that Mr. Johnson’s most influential adviser, Dominic Cummings, and his wife made to his parents’ house in northern England, violating Britain’s lockdown rules,” the New York Times reported at the time, noting that Wakefield even “wrote a vivid account of how she and her husband both fell ill with the coronavirus.

“The trouble is, she did not mention that they had actually gone to Durham, a journey that brought charges of hypocrisy and calls for Mr. Johnson to dismiss Mr. Cummings, at a time when the government was already under fire for Britain’s rising death toll, ravaged nursing homes and hapless test-and-trace program.”

LOS ANGELES — Brazzers has launched its new virtual reality imprint, Brazzers VR.

The site’s debut library features VR scenes starring Angela White, Kendra Sunderland and Romi Rain, among others.

“To see exclusive performers come alive in a fully immersive 3D environment is a game changer,” said a rep. “We can’t wait for fans to get up close and personal with Brazzers VR.”

For more information, visit BrazzersVR.

MONTREAL — Girlsway is celebrating its 10th anniversary by releasing a special “Warriors” parody scene, titled.

Directed by Adult Time CCO Bree Mills, “Come Out to Play: An All-Girl Warriors Parody” features Ana Foxxx, Casey Calvert, Jane Wilde, Leana Lovings, Serene Siren, Codi Vore, Lulu Chu, Penny Barber, Hailey Rose and Little Puck.

The scene “pays homage to the original film’s street gang rivalry, but with a unique Girlsway twist,” said a rep. “Instead of a battle, two all-girl gangs summoned by a local DJ are about to face off in a highly anticipated showdown when the DJ steps in and proposes a surprising resolution.”

Mills enthused about the studio.

“Girlsway was a true creative renaissance and really helped establish our place in the industry,” she said. “A fan once described that era as the ‘Marvel Comics of Lesbian Porn,’ a compliment that has always resonated with me. I love being able to give each lesbian series we produce its own unique brand identity. The overall catalog on Girlsway.com is eclectic, an all-girl streaming universe.”

Added Foxxx, “Working with Adult Time is always awesome but this time was an extra special treat to be featured in their 10th anniversary special for Girlsway.”

Calvert also discussed the milestone.

“Time flies — I remember Girlsway’s fifth anniversary like it was yesterday,” she said. “Celebrating the 10th was so much better! It was such an honor to be invited to be a part of such a monumental orgy.”

“Come Out to Play: An All-Girl Warriors Parody” is streaming on Girlsway.

Follow the studio on X.com.

LOS ANGELES — Brazzers has announced the inductees for its 2024 Hall of Fame.

The inductees are Monique Alexander, Xander Corvus, Danny D, Cherie Deville, Alexis Fawx, Manuel Ferrara, Toni Ribas, Kissa Sins, and Misty Stone.

“These performers are being recognized for building Brazzers into the brand it is today,” said a rep. “We are honored to have the opportunity to highlight their achievements.”

For more information on the company, visit Brazzers.

SAN FRANCISCO — Director Simone Marino’s short film “The Oddity in the Blue Crayfish” has made its NakedSword debut as part of the studio’s Short Cuts Summer Film Festival.

The short features Alessandro Cantalini, Rosanna Gentili, Alessio Farinella, Nicolò Folin and Patty Olgiati.

“The Oddity in the Blue Crayfish” centers around “Edo, an 18-year-old with fast-progressing alopecia, which he wants to cure before his boyfriend returns from his year abroad,” the synopsis reveals. “The liquid drops he takes begin to transform something in his body. His boyfriend, in addition, seems to have gone through a change of his own.”

“The Oddity in the Blue Crayfish” was an official selection in six film festivals and the winner of Best Italian Short Film at La Dolce Vita Sur Seine Festival, in Ristretto Paris 2024. 

“The Oddity in the Blue Crayfish” is streaming on NakedSword.

Oct 3, 2024 2:07 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES — Tiffani Madison will appear at the LA Comic Con this weekend, alongside Naty Snow.

Madison and Snow will appear at the Hentai Sisters booth on Saturday and Sunday.

“I’m so excited to meet all my fellow pop-culture geeks and cosplay fans at Los Angeles Comic Con,” said Madison. “I’ll have souvenir T-shirts, prints and selfies available for purchase as well. Come say hi.”

For more information about LA Comic Con, click here.

Follow Tiffani Madison and Naty Snow on X.com.

Oct 3, 2024 2:07 PM PDT

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Cubbi Thompson has launched her Cubtober OnlyFans event.

For the month of October, Thompson will livestream Halloween-themed content on her OnlyFans three times per day. Each day, Thompson will wear a different costume, feature a different background set and drop new Halloween-themed YouTube videos as well as photosets.

“It’s all about embracing the spooky fun of the season, and each show is a one-of-a-kind experience,” she said. “I can’t wait to share it all with you. Try to catch as many shows as you can so you don’t get FOMO.”

For more information, visit Cubbi Thompson’s OnlyFans; follow her on X.com.

Oct 3, 2024 2:06 PM PDT

SAINT-LAURENT, Quebec — Nobü has announced a rebrand of its Xplore-U line.

“With this rebrand we really wanted to focus on the uniqueness of our toys, encouraging users to explore their bodies while enticing them to maybe try something new,” said Nobü creative director Karalyne Fosty. “While customers can expect the same quality and dependability they’ve come to know and love about our brand, the new, galactic-themed packaging not only emphasizes our commitment to innovation, but is a promise to always deliver unparalleled satisfaction that is truly out of this world.”

For more information, visit NobuToys.