So, Your Wife's a Porn Star?

Porn has become 'like potato chips,' frustrated actress says

(NEWSER) - Previous recessions have been kind to pornographers, but this one has been a knee to the industry’s groin, the Economist reports. Revenues have plummeted by up to 50%—from $6 billion in 2007, by one estimate—performers are being forced to lower prices, and production has been nearly cut in half. “Last year, I did a scene a week,” says veteran Nina Hartley. “This year, I do a scene a month.” She won’t slash her $1,200 fee for a “straight boy-girl” scene, but others have relented. More»

(NEWSER) - With unemployment rising, more women are moving on up by stripping down, the AP reports. The adult entertainment industry, is receiving a barrage of applications from women seeking good pay and job security in fields ranging from porno to exotic dancing. "You're seeing a lot more beautiful women who are eligible to do so many other things," a stripclub manager says. More»

Channel will go less raunchy, more intimate, in effort to draw ladies

(NEWSER) - Now that you can get porn for free on your computer, Playboy TV is struggling to convince men to pay $15 a month for its soft-core offerings—some of which are even softer than HBO shows. Enter its new strategy: Market to the female audience. How? By adding a block of shows called "TV for 2," mostly reality-type shows that will still feature erotic content, but in a more contextualized and less raunchy fashion and with higher production values—which, studies show, is what most women want from their porn. More»

Turns out adult films are her calling

(NEWSER) - Apparently her career as a stripper wasn’t netting her quite enough dollar bills, because Amy Fisher has decided on a new life path: porn star. The Long Island Lolita, who first exposed herself to the world in a sex tape released by her then-estranged husband, made another adult film last year but had previously sworn, “I’m not going to be a porn star.” However, when your public calls… More»

Opponent Steve Poizner paints eBay as smut marketplace

(NEWSER) - Even Meg Whitman's opponents in the California governor's race agree that she led eBay to greatness—as a smut market. A new ad created by Republican Steve Poizner's campaign says when Whitman took the helm, she scrubbed guns from the site but created a separate hardcore-porn division that became one of the largest on the Internet. He slips in a dig about her Goldman Sachs dealings—"Double Gasp!" declares Mediaite —before breaking it down: "Meg Whitman: bad judgment, wrong values." More»