Vivid Entertainment, the porn production company that's been soliciting Suleman for years to bare all and that lends its dollars to her ballooning mortgage payments, announced a standing offer of $100,000 for Suleman to perform in one of its videos. more ›

A junior high teacher who was fired this week after administrators found out she appeared in porn says she's not going to take it lying down. Science teacher Stacie Halas was fired after administrators figured out that the rumors that she had performed in a porn were true (once they figured out a way around the district's pesky web filter). more ›

Oxnard School District officials voted unanimously Wednesday to fire a 31-year-old junior high science teacher accused of moonlighting as a porn star. Stacie Halas, who taught science at Richard B. Haydock Intermediate School, was placed on leave last month while the school district investigated the allegations, following reports from students claiming they'd spotted Halas performing a porn video. more ›

A school district in Oxnard sent out a letter to parents at three of its junior high schools, asking that students NOT search for evidence that their teacher is a porn star on the internet. "It has been alleged that one of our teachers is depicted in at least one pornographic video and possibly others on the Internet," Oxnard School District Superintendent Jeff Chancer wrote in the letter. more ›

Terry Gene Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan, has basked in the limelight since the mid-1980s, beginning with his "Super Destroyer" World Wrestling Federation (WWF) days, and now the legendary wrestler has been forced into the red light. A sex tape featuring the actor has been leaked and is currently being shopped to a major porn studio. more ›

If you were driving by the Alex Theatre in Glendale, you might have done a double-take after passing a marquee proclaiming that the theater was hosting a private screening of "Deep Throat." more ›

L.A. City Council's nearly unanimous vote granting final approval to the condoms in porn ordinance is supported by some members of the multibillion dollar porn industry. Those in opposition, however, may pack up set and head elsewhere. more ›

Tuesday's news of Los Angeles City Council's passage of the proposed condoms in porn ordinance has sparked much controversy in the pornography community, and one porn industry lobbying group has its fists raised and ready for battle. more ›

Los Angeles has become the first city in the nation requiring adult film actors to use condoms while on set. City Council voted 9-1 favoring the proposed ordinance today. In addition to requiring adult film actors to practice safe sex, the ordinance will also force production companies to pay a film permit fee. The fee will pay for inspections enforced by the city. more ›

Tonight's XBIZ Awards attracts not only fans of the adult entertainment industry, but also critics of porn mogul Larry Flynt. Barker Hangar in Santa Monica will serve as the chaotic scene of the awards show and a protest staged by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF). more ›

"2011: The Adult Industry in Photos" is a candid look back at the past twelve months at a business that is headquartered in the San Fernando Valley. more ›

On December 21, 2012, the apocalypse will descend on mankind. Now, we don't actually believe this, but many people do, including Pink Visual - an adult entertainment studio in Van Nuys. more ›

Now the group is raising more eyebrows as they plan their next marketing crusade - they're launching a porn site. The website, "peta.xxx," will serve as "a pornography site that draws attention to the plight of animals," according to Reuters. more ›

The results are in! Qumu, the leading business video platform provider, announced on Monday the findings of its June 2011 mobile video in the workplace survey. Conducted by Harris Interactive, the survey included 2,510 Americans aged eighteen years and older. While 64% of Americans watch online videos, only 17% confessed to unproductive habits of viewing video in the workplace. more ›

Mandak Kohn Griffin, a 30-year-old BMX coach accused of sexually assaulting three boys and exchanging child pornography over the internet, was arraigned Monday for crimes authorities say occurred between 2000 and 2002, according the KTLA. If convicted, Griffin could serve a maximum sentence of 85 years to life in state prison. more ›

So what's next for Sam Hain, director of Star Trek: The Next Generation: A XXX Parody? Tonight, Hain will be seen on Last Call with Carson Daly in a pre-taped segment, talking about his love of sci-fi and its transformation into best-selling and critically-acclaimed adult movies. more ›

What better day is there than the Tuesday than during National Library Week for the Los Angeles City Council's Arts, Parks, Health and Aging Committee to take up the vital discussion of the permissibility of internet porn in our libraries? more ›

Thousands of miles, 12 set visits, 4 award shows, 2 conventions, 2 colleges, and 1 benefit. Those were the statistics for LAist last year in covering the adult industry, headquartered in the San Fernando Valley. more ›

It's been a crazy week (and then some) for California's other film industry, as they've experienced yet another HIV outbreak among adult film actors. As is usual for this sort of thing, the latest death sentence inflicted on multiple porn actors has led to a quarantine of potentially affected people, calls for shoot cancellations, and now a reinvigorated campaign to mandate condom usage for adult film actors. Yet, stunningly, it's not intermittent quarantines and interrupted shoots, but the call to mandate safe sex practices, that has the porn industry pitching the biggest hissy fit of all. more ›

For years, LAist has covered the local alt-porn scene -- befriending many of its auteurs, not to mention partying with Vivid-Alt and Burning Angel and visiting their porn sets -- and yet we were pleasantly surprised that a documentary like The New... more ›

The porn industry's self regulation, albeit a good step, but never to the satisfaction of health officials, has been for the most part under the radar until cases like the one happening this week. Yesterday morning it was reported that one case of HIV was within the industry. Then in the afternoon, reports surfaced that there has been at least 16 since 2004, when the last reported group of performers tested positive for HIV. more ›

It's hard times for everyone these days, and that doesn't exclude those whose paychecks rely on people, well, getting hard. Thanks to the "limp" economy, porn pioneer Larry Flynt and his modern-era incarnate Joe Francis (of "Girls Gone Wild" fame), have teamed up to take on Congress in the hopes the Fed can act as a sort of Viagra. more ›

NOTE: See LAist's coverage of world premiere and UC Irvine's Sociology 69: Sociology of Sexuality. more ›

It is estimated that 200 firms, 6000 workers and 1200 actors produce 4000-7000 adult films a year in Los Angeles. Yes, there are more porn-related, adult industry jobs than software jobs in this town. With $4.3 billion in sales and rentals (which is still nothing compared to the $12 Billion made from toys and books), the Adult Entertainment Industry puts $4 billion in revenue back into the local economy. “It’s in an industry producing... more ›

Via Ideal Bite, a daily green e-mail tip, comes this thought: We know you aren't into porn. But your "friends" can save paper and plastic by feeding their fetishes via this neat, new doohickey called the internets. (The rest of us can get our PG-rated magazines, movies, and music online.) That feels common sense, but we didn't know that "less than 5% of paper used to produce magazines is recycled." We also didn't know... more ›

Ever take dirty Polaroids of your wife? Maybe wrote a pornographic love note to your boyfriend? Doodle a penis bouquet on a cocktail napkin? Ever wanted to get your hands on any of the above and enjoy a voyeuristic snapshot into somebody else’s sex life? If your answer to any of these questions was yes, you might be interested in checking out the DIRTY FOUND Outreach Program. Taking place this Friday, April 27th at the... more ›