LOS ANGELES — Domestic Femdom has released Master Xena’s debut clips, along with content creator eyemblacksheep.
“Master Xena is definitely going to be an established name in fetish in the future,” said eyemblacksheep, who also produced.
The first clip is available on Domestic Femdom’s Clips4Sale page.
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Shay Sights makes her Bang Bros debut in a scene with Johnny Love.
The scene begins with Sights by a pool as she oils herself up and uses a sex toy. During this, Love comes by and catches Sights. Sights tells Love to physically satisfy her because his father can’t. From there, Love moves Sights through various positions until finishing.
“Anal scenes are great, but I haven’t done many of them since my return. I love anal, but MILF scenes don’t feature a lot of anal,” Sights said. “This scene and my upcoming Filthy Kings scene are both anal. I hope my diehard fans and the members enjoy my scene.”
View the trailer here.
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LAS VEGAS — Orion Wholesale will exhibit at Altitude Intimates in Las Vegas March 20-22.
Orion will be displaying new products, such as the Vibepad, and offer sex toys from Cuties, Your new favourite, Anos and Rebel. Orion’s booth will also be partnered with fashion brand Noir Handmade.
For more information about the Altitude Intimates trade show, click here.
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MIAMI — Mia Dior debuts for KingBBC in a new scene with King Louie Smalls.
The release is set at Exxxotica New Jersey and has the two encountering each other to become physically intimate.
“It was great to be on KingBBC and amazing to finally get to work with Louie Smalls, even better than I imagined,” Dior said.
Smalls also praised Dior.
“Mia is a great talent and I can’t wait to work with her again,” he shared.
The scene can be found here.
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WASSERBILLIG, Luxembourg — Pjur has named the winners of a contest it held at the 2023 ANME Show.
At ANME, Pjur spotlighted its new logo and one of its new products, the lubricant Infinity. According to a company rep, the new lube is “a great example of the brand’s new direction.”
“Only the purest, most essential ingredients make it into the high-quality glass bottle, bringing together the best of 27 years’ experience,” the rep added.”
Additionally, Pjur allowed booth visitors to enter their name into a contest. The three winners were awarded a Nespresso coffee machine and a Pleasure Box that included Pjur’s Infinity.
For more information, visit pjur online.
ROME — A judge ordered an Italian university to pay 4,000 euros ($4,290) to a prestigious academic and professor after dismissing him, an action he alleged was prompted by his former career as a an adult performer.
Professor Ruggero Freddi — who performed in gay porn in the U.S. as Carlo Masi between 2004 and 2013 for Colt Studios and later went on to receive two advanced degrees in Engineering and Mathematics — was awarded 2,500 euros for unpaid hours and 1,500 euros for “unjustified dismissal” by a Civil Court in Rome on January 24.
The outcome was publicized last week by Italian outlets Vanity Fair and La Repubblica.
In 2019, after two years teaching in the Faculty of Engineering of Sapienza University in Rome, Freddi was dismissed without a reason. The university also withheld the pay he was due at the time.
“I was forced to sue,” he told the Italian edition of Vanity Fair. “And I won. I hope my case will give courage to all doctoral students who are exploited, after years of studies and specializations.”
Freddi, who is currently working as a data analyst, told the publication that “even if he doesn’t have concrete elements to prove that he has been penalized for his past as a porn actor, he has a very clear and increasingly strong feeling” that his gay porn past played a crucial role in the dismissal.
“It’s just my opinion,” he noted. “But I felt like there was prejudice around me, which was beyond my ability as a teacher.”
The extra fine attached to the judgement appears to confirm that the judge agreed with Freddi that an act of unjustified discrimination had taken place.
Freddi has been outspoken about his porn past. As Pink News reported, he told Times Higher Education in 2018 that he left a successful career in adult because he “wanted to grow, and since I couldn’t grow any more in the porn industry I decided that it was time to do something completely new. The truth is that I became too rich and famous to stay interested in that job .”
“From the porn industry, I have learned the importance of self-promotion — this is something that everybody should learn,” Freddi — who also made the news in 2018 when he married a fellow adult performer whom he met on set — added. “You have to let the world know what an amazing person you are because nobody will come looking to find out for themselves.”
Award-winning Italian performer Valentina Nappi told XBIZ that “the case of Ruggero Freddi highlights the inherent limits of the ‘liberal’ idea that constructive, fruitful coexistence is possible between rational viewpoints and those which instead leave room for irrationality. This is but an illusion. If we want a world in which expressions of rationality — such as being able to teach calculus after a career in porn — are free, every position of power must be vacated by those who, even if only out of social pressure and/or opportunism, are followers of the Catholic faith or other religious creeds.”
Nappi called instead for a fully secular academia, stating that “only by dismissing Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, animist, etc. professors will there be true freedom for porn actor rationalist professors.”
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Six months after suspending two religious “porn surveillance” apps following a Wired magazine report exposing them as spyware, Google Play has quietly reinstated Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You.
Covenant Eyes celebrated the reinstatement of a redesigned version of the app on March 1st through a press release issued today.
“For 162 days, we’ve been working toward and praying for a favorable outcome to our appeal,” Covenant Eyes spokesperson Dan Armstrong said. “We’re grateful that people who want to quit porn are able to get our app through the Google Play Store again.”
As XBIZ reported, in September 2022, Wired’s Security section reporter Dhruv Mehrotra exposed how the two religious surveillance apps, which were being marketed as “porn filters” to churchgoers across America by faith-based corporations, actually had features desinged to spy on churchgoers searches and then sent the information to religious leaders.”
The two apps, Mehrotra wrote, are “part of a multimillion-dollar ecosystem of so-called accountability apps that are marketed to both churches and parents as tools to police online activity. For a monthly fee, some of these apps monitor everything their users see and do on their devices, even taking screenshots (at least one per minute, in the case of Covenant Eyes) and eavesdropping on web traffic.”
These church-endorsed and -marketed apps “then report a feed of all of the users’ online activity directly to a chaperone — an ‘accountability partner,’ in the apps’ parlance.”
After Wired presented its findings to Google, the search giant determined that Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You violated its privacy policies, and a month later Christian news wire Baptist Press reported that the apps were appealing the ban.
A Lucrative Business Built on the Myth of ‘Porn Addiction’
Today, Baptist Press reported that Covenant Eyes’ Dan Armstrong defended the app by stating that “accountability is powerful and needs to be done appropriately. When it comes to churches, leaders must truly commit to creating safe places with safe processes for addressing issues like pornography. Strugglers need to have a safe environment to be honest and vulnerable about their journey. Help from unwanted porn use should be for everyone, whether it’s men, women, or children struggling.”
Accountable2You doubled down on their business model by telling Baptist Press that they markets their services to “individuals, families and the church. We have a group plan that is designed for a church to share a discount with their members.”
Although they claimed that “by design, the pastor and church leadership do not see any member’s activity,” Accountable2You also stated that “members can share their activity with whomever they choose or not at all — and we do not encourage pastors to receive accountability reports from their congregants.”
Last year, Baptist Press interviewed Dawn Hawkins, CEO of NCOSE — formerly Morality in Media — who offered her support to the religious surveillance apps.
“We have heard from hundreds of people who have struggled with pornography addiction and dependencies that the best way most of them have found to help is through an accountability model, similar to AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) and many successful gambling recovery programs,” Hawkins, an outspoken Mormon anti-porn activist and former Republican lobbyist, told the Christian news wire.
Hawkins also claimed that “pornography can be highly addictive” and that research has “objectively identified a wide array of harms from pornography use.”
Scientists have found no basis for classifying pornography as an addiction; the idea seems instead to have arisen as a point of religious dogma in response to personal feelings of shame and guilt. The LDS Church has promoted “porn filters” in Utah and nationwide, based on church elders’ theological belief that all porn — a term that for them encompasses all depictions of sexuality outside of the Mormon marriage — is a ploy by Satan to destroy Mormon households.
Ron DeHaas, president and co-founder of Covenant Eyes, chairs NCOSE’s board of directors.
DeHaas offers what he calls “accountability software” from a small office in Owosso, Michigan, located in the economically ravaged expanse between Flint and Lansing.
DENVER — One of The Pleasure Parlor’s adult subscription boxes has been featured in a Glamour Magazine article titled “8 Best Sex Toy Subscription Boxes That Deliver Endless Pleasure.”
The Pleasure Parlor subscription box company is owned by sexpert and pleasure products industry veteran Casey Murphy. According to Murphy, who also the founder of Bold Type Marketing, the service offers “a bespoke experience for subscribers with the most customizable options available, based on anatomy, experience level and interests.”
Glamour selected The Pleasure Parlor’s Just For Me box as Best for Solo Play. The article’s image showcases the Yumi Rechargeable Finger Vibe by VeDO Toys, Bad Day Killer Arousal Balm by Bijoux Indiscrets, and the Big Pussy Energy affirmation card deck by Vanessa Muradian.
Just For Me is a gender-inclusive subscription box, delivered quarterly. Murphy explained that the box contains “body-safe sex toys, arousal balms, lubricants and lifestyle items such as oracle cards, creative workbooks and other accessories centered around self-love and pleasure rituals.”
“The Pleasure Parlor has been my muse and passion project for the last seven years,” Murphy stated. “I started the business — which is also an ecommerce boutique — when I was working as an account manager for an industry distributor. I believed that learning Shopify and drop-shipping would help me better serve my e-commerce accounts who were navigating similar situations.”
To avoid any conflicts of interest with her accounts, Murphy explained, she created a custom-tailored experience for her consumers.
“To this day, The Pleasure Parlor continues to dance to the beat of its own drum in the adult subscription box space,” Murphy said. “I attribute receiving visibility in mainstream publications like Glamour, Buzzfeed and Women.com to this approach.”
The Pleasure Parlor also offers Just For Us — a quarterly subscription for couples — and The Zodiac Box, a one-time purchase containing a curated selection of intimate products for each astrological sign.
For more information, email casey@thepleasureparlor.com.
CLEVELAND — Edonista has hired April Hoopes as its director of sales.
A 19-year industry veteran residing in Cleveland, Ohio, Hoopes joined the pleasure products industry in 2007. Initially working for a large retail chain based in Cleveland, she worked her way up from sales associate and store manager to district manager. By 2017, Hoopes transitioned to manufacturing with a sales and education role at Evolved Novelties, and in 2021 accepted the director of sales position with Nu Sensuelle.
“With her almost 20 years of experience in the adult products industry, both on the manufacturing and retail sides, April is an invaluable addition to our company’s team,” Edonista’s head of HR said. “April’s dedication and passion for her work awarded her the 2022 SE Award for Brand Ambassador of the Year. As a well-known industry professional, April has demonstrated unmatched loyalty to product quality, as well as to continuous education to keep herself up to date with any new industry technologies. The team at Edonista believes that April’s knowledge, experience and enthusiasm will be a key contribution to the line they are looking to develop in the near future. With female members making up the majority of the team, Edonista seeks to develop a curated selection of products that can cater for all bodies and preferences.”
Hoopes noted that many of Edonista’s goals and missions aligned with hers, which inspired her decision to join the team.
“They are a brand that is dedicated to education and growth and freeing the stigma that sex is shameful and dirty,” Hoopes said. “For Edonista, it’s not just about ‘How do we create another product?’ but, ‘How do we create something that’s going to be better?’ or ‘How is this going to make a difference?’ And that’s our goal moving forward. That’s how we continue to make change. We’re going to do some pretty unique things, not just with products but with marketing and store support as well.”
According to the company, Hoopes will be expanding Edonista’s customer base and provide trainings and and sales support to store personnel, contributing to the brand’s growth worldwide.
Hoopes can be reached at april@edonista.fun.