Every month tens of thousands of new torrent files are added to The Pirate Bay, but what content do these files point to? New data shows that with 44%, most of these uploads point to copies of TV-shows and movies. Porn comes in second place with roughly a third of all uploads, up from one in ten a few years ago. The percentage of music uploads, on the other hand, is declining steadily, with audio only making up just 9% of all new files added today.

Remember when porn meant something? At the lackluster 2014 AVN Awards, an event long-billed as the Academy Awards for the adult industry, things got a little weird.

Since the passage of Measure B in 2012, which strictly imposes the use of condoms on all porn sets in Los Angeles, triple-x movie production has largely begun to move out of the San Fernando Valley. However, gay porn company Falcon Studios is now attempting to hearken back to the days before the measure was passed. In their latest release California Dreamin' 1, the studio filmed all its scenes with condoms but managed to digitally remove the prophylactics in post-production.

That is a direct line from one of the characters in The Lock In, a The Blair Witch Project-like Christian horror film made for the web by Holy Moly Pictures, a Christian startup company. In the movie, high school seniors attend a church lock-in. One student brings a pornographic magazine to the lock-in, and the magazine is possessed by a demon.

Your ultra-high-definition television will soon offer even more eye-popping entertainment — of the adults-only variety. According to the Wall Street Journal, pornographic film company Naughty America plans to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to upgrade its shooting to 4K — meaning adult flicks with crisper, clearer, more up-close-and-personal resolution.

Would you pay $42,000 to have cybersex with this woman over webcam? Or, rather, did you? According to Kink.com, someone in Australia ponied up that record-setting amount for a one-hour "webcam session" with its porn director, Maitresse Madeline.

Author Virginia Wade's fiction debut follows a group of women who embark on a week-long camping trip to Mt. Hood National Forest. There, in the shadow of Oregon’s highest mountain, they are kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a mysterious woodland creature. "What the hell is that thing?" asks one protagonist.

The days of big-screen porn are over, and the implications could actually be a little dangerous. 

The adult movie industry shuts down, and adult performers find other ways to make money.

Back in April, a high school in Florida fired its English teacher after learning that she was moonlighting as an "eyecandy model" for an obscure promotion company called XXXTremeVisionRadio. Though she had only done a few typical glamour model shoots under an assumed identity, Olivia Sprauer was nonetheless canned on the spot and escorted off Martin County High School grounds by security.

It is the kind of letter that might well lead to a distinctly uncomfortable conversation around the breakfast table: this month, between 20,000 and 30,000 German households received legal warnings for having viewed copyrighted pornographic films via the streaming website RedTube.com.

The digital currency Bitcoin has been generating a lot of column inches in recent weeks, on the back of the virtual cash’s market value recently shooting past $1,000. This sudden increase has led to much head scratching in the media as learned tech journalists give their earnest thoughts on the cause of the boom in value.

In recent days thousands of Internet users have received letters demanding 250 euros to settle online copyright infringement allegations. What is particularly strange about this case, however, is that the targets are all said to be users of RedTube, a site that streams video in a way not dissimilar to YouTube. But as panicking users unintentionally DDoS a lawfirm’s website while looking for advice, the mysterious plot continues to thicken.

'These days, I am rarely surprised when, after a lecture or book signing, someone will try to talk to me about their addiction to porn and ask where how to get help.'

Until July I shared an apartment in England with two cousins, Lorenz and Alessandro. When I moved out at short notice, I was worried that I'd left the pair in the lurch, but as it turned out my timing couldn't have been better. "We're moving to Romania to open a catering business," they told me. That plan seemed a little unusual, not to mention completely economically unviable, but they assured me that they had it all worked out.

The porn film industry faces another shutdown after it was announced Friday that a performer had tested positive for HIV. The name and gender of the performer were not released. Officials with the Free Speech Coalition, an adult-film industry trade group that called Friday for a moratorium on filming, said the HIV-positive result came from a testing center in Los Angeles. The moratorium would be the third such shutdown this year.

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In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron asks British blokes to fess up about their fantasies—for the good of the children. In Britain, browsing internet porn is about to get a whole lot more complicated. As of next year those who like to have an occasional self-fiddle while watching a saucy movie—that is, every male human being aged 13 and upwards—will effectively have to ask for permission from his Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Its targets extend beyond suspected terrorists—and some rhetoric that the First Amendment would protect is singled out.

The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches, according to a top-secret NSA document.