The idea that pornography leads to negative attitudes toward women is pervasive, helping shape obscenity laws, fuelling censorship attempts and even spawning a recent Hollywood movie. But the notion may have little actual foundation in fact, suggests a contentious new Canadian study that concludes the average porn user holds, if anything, more egalitarian views regarding women than non-users.

Josh Duggar has confessed to cheating on his wife Anna amid reports he signed up for Ashley Madison, a website that specializes in facilitating extramarital affairs. Josh, 27, and his parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar broke their silence Thursday on the Duggar family website.

Everybody from CBS to Lifetime is now offering their own streaming subscription video service, and now the porn industry hopes to join the fun. According to a new announcement by PornHub, the website is now offering users an "all you can eat" buffet of streaming 1080p pornography for $10 a month. This "Premium Package" of porn will include access to 100,000 videos curated from the website's catalog of quality fare.

For Internet n00bs who don't know they can get pr0n for free, now Pornhub will let you pay.

After we initially ran the first installment of What Women Want back in September of last year, we got tons of questions from readers and reporters alike.

Over 247,000 attempts were made to visit X-rated websites from the UK Parliament’s computer network last year, with the numbers spiking during parliamentary recess in April, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed.

Sabine Raymonvil, 30, performed in a number of adult movies with pornographer Emerson Callum, who was convicted of drugging and raping women who auditioned for him.

A leading psychologist has warned that young men are facing a crisis of masculinity due to excessive use of video games and pornography. Psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University Phillip Zimbardo has made the warnings, which form a major part of his latest book, Man (Dis)Connected. In an interview on the BBC World Service's Weekend programme, Zimbardo spoke about the results of his study, an in-depth look into the lives of...

A man who posted thousands of sexually explicit photos of victims on a "revenge porn" website has been jailed for 18 years. Kevin Bollaert, 28, was convicted in February of running a website that hosted more than 10,000 explicit photographs. The website - ugotposted.com - was launched in December 2012, enabling photos to be posted without the subject's permission. Bollaert, of San Diego, ran a parallel site...

Few parents are delighted to learn that their daughter is a porn star, even a highly successful one. But for 21-year-old Mia Khalifa of Florida, a family dispute has taken on international dimensions. Khalifa is PornHub's highest-ranked adult star. But she is also Lebanese-born -- and her chosen line of work has not only disappointed her parents but generated huge controversy in her native country.

Saudi Arabian authorities recently announced that they have hacked and disabled about 9,000 Twitter accounts associated with the publication of pornographic materials and arrested many of the handles' owners. The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (a.k.a. Haia, the Saudi religious police) organized the sting, sweeping up many Saudis and expats accused of organizing alcohol- and gambling-fueled parties. But in an apparent first for the Kingdom...

Porn stars and studios have called on Google to help publicise legal ways to buy adult content in an effort to combat piracy. Prominent industry figures said they deserved the same measures as those recently introduced to publicise legitimate music and film sites. "Google continues to discriminate against the adult industry," actress Angela White said.

I shadowed Kayden Kross and Manuel Ferrara to learn the ins and outs of writing and shooting a pornographic film.

Mindgeek is a cautionary tale of consolidating production and distribution in a single, monopolistic owner.

The wise F. Roger Devlin once commented that since “Cosmopolitan is the top-selling magazine in American college bookstores. It is not too much to call it an important part of an American woman's education.” The observation served as a critique of those who ignore that magazine when peering into the mind of the American woman.

I met Manuel seven years ago on the set of my first porn shoot. I was quiet and nervous and huddled away on a couch in a back room, burning through coffee and the W-9 tax packet I had been handed on my way in.

To live in Tehran, writes British-Iranian journalist Ramita Navai in this collection of true stories, requires one essential skill: lying. “Morals don’t come into it,” Navai writes. “Lying in Tehran is about survival . . . when the truth is shared in Tehran, it is an act of extreme trust or absolute desperation.”

Jonathan Koppenhaver, a mixed martial-arts fighter from California known as “War Machine,” was arrested Friday after a weeklong manhunt sparked by the alleged beating of his porn star ex-girlfriend.