<strong>YNOT</strong> Massive erotic picture gallery FreeOnes.com opened registration for its annual Miss FreeOnes competition Sept. 1. The 2011 contest, voting for which will begin Nov. 15, is open to any erotic model or porn star who has a section on FreeOnes and is registered and verified as an Official Checked Star Member on the FreeOnes Message Board.
<strong>YNOT</strong> Porn star popularity tracker Fame Registry on Aug. 30 announced the winners of what the website plans to make an annual tradition. The first Fame Registry Awards honored the women and men who came out on top in 12 categories, based upon statistics gathered by the registry over the past year.
<strong>YNOT</strong> Kimber James may have won the 2010 AVN Transsexual of the Year award, but this gorgeous performer doesnt classify herself as a TS star. In fact, James doesnt worry about labeling herself and she doesnt think her fans worry about it either.
<strong>YNOT</strong> Affiliate program Fetish Hits has launched a new BBW site featuring large women in hardcore action. At the same time, the company re-launched one of its most seasoned mature-women destinations.
<strong>YNOT</strong> Hustler Hollywoods Freedom Party to benefit Free Speech Coalition has added more stars and entertainment to the live stage show event taking place Wednesday at the world-famous Whisky a Go Go.
<strong>YNOT</strong> Hush Hush Entertainment will end its licensing and distribution deal with Shanes World effective Sept. 20, the company announced Monday. According to a spokesperson, the dissolution of the nearly three-year relationship was amicable and will allow Hush Hush to grow in new directions.
<strong>YNOT</strong> A respected Manhattan criminal court jurist whom colleagues described as professional and careful on the law resigned Thursday amid allegations he viewed pornography on his work computer.
<strong>YNOT</strong> Warrendale, Pa.-based Right Ascension Inc., parent company of e-tailer AdultDVDEmpire, last week pleaded guilty to a single count of mailing obscene materials after being charged with mailing four sadomasochistic DVDs to undercover FBI agents in 2007.
<strong>YNOT</strong> Newly formed company YNOT Group LLC has acquired and taken direct control of the assets of YNOT Network LP, including popular <a href=http://www.ynot.com/ target=new>YNOT.com</a>, one of the oldest resource-and-information websites devoted to adult entertainment professionals.
<strong>YNOT</strong> Affiliate program IHeartBucks has launched its latest incarnation. Version 3.0 of IHeartBucks.com offers a more streamline website and more sales tools.
<strong>YNOT</strong> DirtyHardDrive has added official fan sites for adult starlets Andy San Dimas, Tiffany Tyler and Kayla Carrera to its network.
<strong>YNOT</strong> To celebrate its 10th anniversary, affiliate program TopBucks will offer increased pay-per-sign-up rates on select sites Sept. 6-10.
<strong>YNOT</strong> San Francisco-based Io Group Inc., parent company of gay adult studio Titan Media, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking damages from and an injunction against 244 anonymous defendants the company accuses of content piracy and civil conspiracy. The action, filed Aug. 19 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges [d]efendants reproduced, distributed and publicly displayed, through the [peer-to-peer] network eDonkey2000, certain Io Group-owned audiovisual works.
<strong>YNOT</strong> On Aug. 13, iP4Play facilitated its first iPhone call between adult cam girl Brees Kelly and a client in the U.S. The client paid for a 10-minute session but the call ended in satisfaction after just over five minutes.
<strong>YNOT</strong> Adult starlet Vannah Sterling has launched her official website under the auspices of the Inn of Sin Cash affiliate network.
<strong>YNOT</strong> Huntington Beach, Calif.-based SexToyDistributing.com, a division of XR LLC, has added Marina Shute to its customer service team.
<strong>YNOT</strong> Tucson-based adult studio Pink Visual will host a two-day, adult-industry-focused Content Protection Retreat to address effective means of combating content piracy and protecting intellectual property rights.
<strong>YNOT</strong> <i>Cosmopolitan</i> magazine this week released a mobile app that instructs curious Android phone users in the finer points of sexual positions. Called <i>Cosmo</i>s Sex Position of the Day, the app is available in Googles Android app store.
<strong>YNOT</strong> Perhaps Girls Gone Wild producer Joe Francis should avoid opening his mouth in public, because his feet are beginning to look like Swiss cheese.
If I could do it all over again, what would I change? I get that question a lot. I think I have, and have had, a great life, and I wouldnt change much of anything. Yesterday though, while doing my daily exercise at the beach, I gave it some thought in between being sidetracked by a pretty woman in skimpy beach attire who was laying out on the sand. Heres some of what I came up with.