HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Hime Marie is up for the 2024 XRCO Award for Unsung Siren.
“I’m so honored to be recognized this year by XRCO,” said Marie. “We all work so hard every year, and the industry has quadrupled in size since I first started. It’s easy to get lost in the crowd. It’s nice to have acknowledgment of my hard work and consistency throughout the years.”
For a complete list of the 2024 XRCO Awards nominees, click here.
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LOS ANGELES — Vixen Media Group has dropped seven new scenes on its streaming service, Vixen Plus.
First, Merida Sat, Jadilica, Alberto Blanco and Matthew Meier star in “Anal-loving Merida And Jadilica Have Passionate Foursome,” from Tushy.
Next, Raina Rae and Damion Dayski are featured in the latest scene from Blacked.
Coco Lovelock and Jax Slayher star in the latest Blacked Raw scene.
“Gorgeous Chanel Gets Her Tight Hole Stretched Out” is the latest scene from Tushy Raw. It stars Chanel Camryn and Kai Jaxon.
The new MILFY scene, “Loaded,” features Andi Avalon and Van Wylde.
Alex Grey and Dan Damage star in “The System,” for Deeper.
Finally, Sandra Lyd, Selva Lapiedra and Alberto Blanco star in the latest Vixen scene, “Beautiful Frenemies Sandra and Selva Learn To Share.”
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MONTREAL — Adult Time has nabbed 11 nominations at the 2024 XRCO Awards.
Major nominations include Favorite Adult Website (AdultTime.com), Best Director (Web) (Bree Mills), Best Girl/Girl Series (“All Girl Massage”) and multiple nominations for each of its titles “Feed Me,” “Sally Mae: The Revenge of the Twin Dragons” and “Office Ms. Conduct.”
“On behalf of the whole Adult Time team, including our community of talented actors and directors, we want to thank XRCO for recognizing our efforts this past year and for taking the time to so thoughtfully review our work,” said Adult Time chief creative officer Bree Mills. “Bonus shout out to Adult Time ambassador Lauren Phillips for co-hosting the event — we’re excited to see the show; congratulations to all those nominated.”
For a complete list of the 2024 XRCO Awards nominees, click here.
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WASHINGTON — Free Speech Coalition (FSC) filed a petition for certiorari on Friday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Fifth Circuit panel decision that partially upheld Texas’ controversial age verification law.
Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and the law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, the Free Speech Coalition and others today asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that, if left standing, would improperly burden free speech online. The petition for certiorari was filed in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, which challenges an unconstitutional age-verification provision in Texas’s H.B. 1181.
“Though it purportedly seeks to limit minors’ access to online sexual content, the law in fact imposes significant burdens on adults’ access to constitutionally-protected expression, requiring them to provide personal identifying information online to access sensitive, intimate content” said Vera Eidelman, staff attorney with the ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project. “This isn’t the first time that concerns about minors’ access have led legislators to pass unconstitutional laws. We’ve gone through this time and again, with everything from drive-in movies to video games to websites, and courts have repeatedly struck down laws imposing requirements that burden adults’ access to non-obscene sexual content in the name of protecting children.”
HB 1181 requires certain sites with sexual content to force their visitors to provide digital IDs or other proof of age before they can access the published material. Sites that do not comply could face up to $3 million in fines. This provision claims to protect minors from accessing sexual content deemed harmful to them, but it does not merely restrict minors’ access. It also restricts adults’ access to this content, effectively requiring them to identify themselves online. Requiring individuals to verify their ages before accessing this protected speech robs people of anonymity, and threatens to bar individuals—for example, those who lack government identification or whose age is mis-identified by the relevant technology—from accessing certain websites altogether. The ACLU and its partners argue that the law places an impermissible burden on the exercise of adults’ First Amendment rights online.
“Despite proponent’s claims, age-verification online is simply not the same as flashing an ID at a check-out counter. The process is invasive and burdensome, with significant privacy risks for adult consumers,” said Alison Boden, executive director of the Free Speech Coalition. “In states where these laws have passed, the vast majority of users have refused to comply, leading to a massive chilling effect on their legal right to access constitutionally protected speech. Adult sites are the canary in the coal mine of free speech, and we look forward to defending the rights of all Americans to access the internet free from surveillance.”
Before the case reached the Supreme Court, a district court briefly blocked the law from being enforced, stating that, as written, the law’s age-verification provision would unconstitutionally chill the speech of adults. However, a divided Fifth Circuit panel recently vacated that injunction, reasoning that the age-verification provisions’ burden on adults’ First Amendment rights merely has to have some rational basis–not face strict scrutiny–because the aim is to protect children. Unless the Supreme Court intervenes, this decision will effectively reverse decades of precedent protecting the free speech rights of adults.
In prior cases brought by the ACLU, the Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized the crucial role anonymity can play online and held that requiring users to verify their age to access protected content is unconstitutional where there are less restrictive alternatives available, like filtering software. In Reno v. ACLU, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that anti-indecency provisions of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, also meant to protect children, violated the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech in part because of the burden it imposed on adults. In Ashcroft v. ACLU, the Court held that a law almost identical to the Texas law had to satisfy strict scrutiny because it restricted adults’ access to protected sexual speech. Where a less-restrictive alternative exists—for example, the installation of filtering software on minors’ devices, which states can encourage or legislate—the government cannot impose age verification on adults in the name of protecting children.
Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is one of several cases in which the ACLU has urged courts to reject age-verification schemes that would burden the free speech rights of Internet users as part of the organization’s long tradition of defending online free expression. This petition was filed jointly by the ACLU and the law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan on behalf of Free Speech Coalition, Inc., et al.
AXEL, The Netherlands — Tonga has added six more anal stimulation toys to its space-themed Dreamtoys Startroopers collection.
The new anal products include three-piece plug kit Milky Way, beaded vibrator Hubble, grooved plug Triton, vibrating plug Pluto, rotating and vibrating plug Titan, and flexible vibrator the Astronaut.
Milky Way is tailored for both beginners and advanced enthusiasts of anal play, and features four vibration rhythms and two speeds in the two largest plugs.
“With an easy single-button operation, the Milky Way plugs let users effortlessly cycle through the waves of pleasure,” a rep explained.
While Hubble’s beads increase in size and feature five rhythmic patterns and five speeds, Triton offers seven rotation rhythms and three speeds, controlled through the plug or the included remote control.
Pluto features a tapered tip for easy insertion, and a wide anchor-shaped base to allow the plug to stay securely in place.
Titan showcases a rounded, grooved head and rotating beads in the stem, with seven rotation rhythms and three speeds.
The Astronaut anal vibrator, the rep added, “promises to redefine pleasure and launch users into the realms of galactic bliss.”
For more information, visit TongaBV.com.
STOCKHOLM — LELO has released the results of its recent study ranking the 10 countries with the best sex education.
Poland tops the sample list of over 50 countries analyzed.
Only 27 of those countries have mandatory sex education programs. The study collected data on education levels, STDs, teenage pregnancy, and abortion rates for each of those countries, and produced a composite score.
Following Poland, the list also includes Austria, Cyprus, Malta, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Japan, Denmark and Iceland.
The quality of sex education in Poland, a rep explained, “contributes to having one of the lowest STD rates and second-lowest abortion rates on the list, highlighting the success of comprehensive sex education there.”
For more information, visit LELO.com.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Jewelz Blu performs her first anal scene alongside Scott Nails in “Obsessive Anal Thoughts,” from Brazzers.
“One look at her perfect ass drives him wild, so Dr. Nails prescribes her the only cure for her wet dreams – a heavy dose of hot anal sex,” said a rep.
Blu enthused about the career milestone.
“It was an absolute dream come true to have finally shot my first anal,” she said. “It was a surreal experience on set because this is something myself and my fans have been anticipating for a long time and after hitting my five-year mark in the industry, it felt appropriate. Everything went absolutely perfect and I’m so grateful to ZZ for being the ones to produce my first-ever anal.”
Added the rep, “We knew this would get steamy. But Jewelz took this to the next level. Her debut will leave everyone wanting more.”
“Obsessive Anal Thoughts” is streaming on Brazzers.
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SAN DIEGO — Further details have emerged in the past week about the capture and arrest of GirlsDoPorn owner Michael Pratt in Spain in December 2022, following his extradition to the U.S. last month.
As XBIZ reported, Pratt made his first appearance in federal court on March 19.
Pratt was captured in Madrid in 2022 after having been a fugitive since leaving the U.S. in 2019, and on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list since 2021.
His capture was requested by U.S. authorities through an Interpol Red Notice in a 19-count indictment for “sex trafficking, production of child pornography, sex trafficking of a minor, and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments in connection with the operation of the GirlsDoPorn adult website.”
At the time of his court appearance, FBI San Diego Special Agent in Charge Stacey Moy said that Pratt’s arrest and extradition reflected “a great collaboration among multiple agencies, both in the United States and Spain who were dedicated to seeking justice for the young women he allegedly victimized. This large, internationally coordinated effort could not have been successful without support from our law enforcement partners in Spain, the U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Department of Justice, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”
An article about the extradition, published last week by the Los Angeles Times, included an interview with Brian Holm, the attorney for Pratt’s alleged victims.
According to the Times, Holm said a team of “amateur sleuths” helped authorities trace Pratt to a Barcelona mailing address.
“We got tired of waiting for him to be found,” Holm told the paper.
But sources familiar with the case and Pratt’s capture contradicted the Times report, calling it unlikely that Holm referred to “amateur sleuths,” which would discredit the FBI’s version of events.
The same sources pointed XBIZ to the description of Pratt’s capture published by Spanish newspaper El Español in December 2022, in an article that has not been quoted in English-language coverage until now.
Teamwork by Private Investigators and U.S., Spain Law Enforcement
El Español reported that Pratt was tracked by the Group of Fugitive Location of the Spanish National Police, which found him registered at a hotel on Madrid’s central Gran Vía under one of several fake identities he used during his years on the lam.
“Agents detected Pratt was to arrive at the hotel in the morning, using one of three usual fake identities. The arrest happened early in the afternoon. Intelligence officers with the police worked for more than a year trying to track him, and he was one of the outfit’s top targets.”
El Español noted that Pratt’s arrest was the first ever for someone on the FBI’s notorious Ten Most Wanted list, which in the past has included extremely high-profile criminals such as Osama Bin Laden.
Once the Spanish authorities received the information from their U.S. counterparts, they initially tracked Pratt to a Barcelona address — but due to several complications, an arrest could not be made at the time, the newspaper reported.
At that point, several U.S. private investigators traveled to Spain and teamed up with American and Spanish law enforcement agents to follow Pratt’s trail from Barcelona to Madrid, resulting in the December 2022 arrest.
It is most likely that Holm was referring to these private investigators when speaking with the Times, which then incorrectly relabeled them as “amateur sleuths.”
As of Thursday afternoon, six days after publication, the Times had not issued a correction.
Pratt entered a “not guilty” plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel E. Butcher. A motion hearing/trial setting has been scheduled for April 19.
For XBIZ’s ongoing coverage of the GirlsDoPorn case, click here.
LOS ANGELES — Performer and creator Robby Echo has formally announced that he will be using the name “Robby Apples” going forward.
“I’ve been in the industry for 10 years now and so many people know me as the ‘Apple Man,’” Apples told XBIZ. “So I decided 2024 was the year to flip this turkey. There was a time I thought about saving ‘Apples’ for mainstream stuff and ‘Echo’ for porn, but it just seemed like too many names. I’m just one man!”
The XBIZ Award nominee credits colleagues Alison Rey and Kasey Warner for coming up with the pomme-rific moniker.
“Those rascals made a fake Twitter account years ago called ‘Robby Apples’ where they would post photos of me eating apples,” he explained.
The Robby Apples rebrand is also more in tune with his often zany public persona — he and fellow “Valley boy” Shawn Alff are notorious at industry events for skimpy coordinated outfits and psychedelic shenanigans — and with his personal commitment to a natural lifestyle.
“I’ve been a health-oriented person since my early 20s,” Apples said. “I had an ailment that forced me early on to make the connection between eating healthy and feeling better and happier. So when I started shooting porn, I knew immediately I was going to need some apples to get all this fucking done. Fucking requires a lot of energy and apples are a great complex carb, which means they will give you longer sustained energy than a simple carb. In my book, every carb should be complex just like the beautifully complex beings that we are.”
The quintessential fruits, Apples concluded, are “just like us.”
“Their mothers eat from the earth to create them and then we eat them, poop them back into the earth so that other apple mothers can continue eating from the earth to create more apples. We’re essentially the same. Remember, everyone: We are all in this together. The more healthy and happy you are, the more healthy-happy people we have to hang with.”
For more information, follow @RobbyApplesXXX on Twitter.