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Unique Delivery

InterClimax has been one of the prime players in the live video feed and interactive content industry since its inception in 1997. With 60 employees and 250 models online daily from 50 studios worldwide, the Holland-based company is a true porn-broadcasting network.

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NakedSword Bulks Up

When the dot-com boom went bust, futures and fortunes evaporated overnight. But for those with a diversified portfolio — like the two forward-looking men behind leading gay video-on-demand provider NakedSword.com — the fallout was nullified by a shrewd investment in streaming technology and in a product that never seemed to fall out of favor.

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Faster, Cheaper, Nastier

When a porn producer's gut is being gnawed at by some vexing problem, he will happily let you in on it, and the current bellyache affecting Porn Valley is distribution.

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IPTV Takes a Front Seat

In the ongoing mission to expand markets and widen the scope of worldwide adult broadcast distribution, the latest buzz is Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), considered by many to be the next bleeding-edge technology poised to explode.

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Can Adult Break CP Link?

As director of nephrology at the Children's Hospital in San Diego, Dr. Jacques Lemire specialized in pediatric kidney transplants. The well-respected doctor retired from the institution in 2004; in April, federal investigators searched Lemire's home and office at UCSD Medical Center and discovered thousands of child pornography images on his computers.

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Putting the Spin on Porn

Longtime publicity guru Brian Gross is soft spoken, confident and assured — far-flung from the image of the manic carnival barker or smooth-talking snake oil salesman one might normally associate with the world of public relations.

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Stories for Sale

According to the Encyclopedia of Literature (Merriam Webster), written pornography has been largely superseded by explicit visual representations of erotic behavior since World War II. But in modern culture, where sex has saturated nearly every form of entertainment and where the Internet has become the greatest disseminator of content, it seemed only a matter of time before the salacious written word made a comeback.

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Wanted List

Danny Ting and Ahn Tran met back when they were both senior-level consultants for the now-infamous Arthur Andersen Consulting. Proving that sometimes timing can indeed be everything, the two future partners were about to embark on a project for ill-fated Enron Corp. when, over dinner, Wanted List.com was conceived.

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Ron Cadwell

If you are a business owner selling over the Internet, choosing an online processor is a mission-critical decision. Since 1998, merchants around the world have trusted CCBill and company icon and CEO Ron Cadwell as one of the foundations of the adult industry.

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Taylor Wane

"I don't know how we survived before the Internet," Taylor Wane says with a rush of wonder in her soft British accent. "It changed everything. Today I can reach fans all over the world with just the click of a mouse."

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The Making of Raven Riley

Jay Man of JayManCash confidently proclaims: "We have a two-year plan for Raven Riley. Year one: amateur Internet model. Year two: transitional phase from amateur to glam. Right now we're at the very beginning of phase two."

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opinion

MySpace Now A Porn Fav: 2

In part one we looked at how MySpace.com's sex-obsessed demographic fuels the website's popularity. In this conclusion, we'll continue our look at this powerhouse portal – and the powerhouse behind it all.

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MySpace Now A Porn Fav: 1

Writer and satirist Dave Barry once accused TV journalists of having the intellectual depth of hamsters. Many would argue that the same sentiment can be applied to loyal viewers of media titan Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel, a right-leaning, flag-waving, jingoistic propaganda machine thinly disguised as broadcast journalism.

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Eric Edwards

Eric Edwards is talking over a speakerphone from his new home in a small mountain village 4,500 feet above Los Angeles. "These days, I just kick back and coast with my cancer, enjoying the silence of the mountains.

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Eastern European Invasion

Vladimir Lenin, the first premier of the Soviet Union, once observed that in Russian society "it is women who have to do, usually alone, all the dirty work of the kitchen and household, work that is unimportant, hard, tiresome and soul-destroying."

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Homegrown Video

Despite being at the helm of a very public company that virtually invented amateur adult videos, both Farrell Timlake and Spike Goldberg, the guardians of the trademarked entity Homegrown Video, are conspicuously low-key.

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opinion

Sex and Publicity

A sex-positive image (combined with a few brilliant public relations gimmicks) has the potential to convert any boutique company into a powerhouse to be reckoned with. Many adult marketers have come to realize that this is the secret sauce that attracts the mainstream spotlight.

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Profits During The Holidays

For retailers of adult products, both online and offline, mining for profits during the gift-giving holiday seasons doesn't have to be as difficult as a trek to Apache Junction, Ariz., home of the fabled Superstition Mountains and the legendary Lost Dutchman's gold mine.

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Why Attend Trade Shows?

Imagine a futuristic society where humans have been reduced to Cerebromorphs — disembodied brains stored in tanks in massive depositories. The brains are hard-wired to computers, memory files and comprehensive study programs. In the tanks, they are required to pass through multiple levels of understanding before they are liberated and implanted in near-perfect bodies.

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Porn As Eco-Activism

Titillating tofu eaters. Erotic environmentalists. Sensual sex educators. Nudists against Bush. Welcome to the world of adult entertainment with a social conscience — a fascinating blend of alternative porn and politics that just might have you humming Grateful Dead tunes while you surf.

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