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Articles by Gila Morgan

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40-Plus and Fabulous

During the past year or so, the adult entertainment industry has awakened to a truth that much of the mainstream movie and TV audience has known for years: mature women are hot. Not just sexy hot, but sales hot.

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Do it Virtual

Companies like Red Light Center and Second Life are trying to find real-life revenue from their sites where online video games meet adult social networking.

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Steve Lightspeed

It's a double life — and maybe a charmed one. There's the Steve Lightspeed, founder and CEO of Lightspeed Media, who's built a mini-empire of softcore websites featuring some of the adult industry's most popular models, the man who travels the world recruiting new talent and doesn't think twice about flying dozens of webmasters and friends to a "Lightspeed Adventure Weekend."

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Gail Harris

The proprietors of Santa Anita Racetrack are lucky that Gail Harris doesn't play the ponies. With her savvy for picking winners, the track would be hers by now.

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The View From Paris

On one level, it's no surprise that a successful adult affiliate site operates out of Paris. Look at all the contributions France has made to romance and sex: Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, French kissing, French postcards.

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Pleasing Over-40 Consumers

Remember when adult movies actually told stories, when porn actresses displayed breasts made entirely of human tissue and were allowed to have more than 10 percent body fat? Remember when the photography left more to the imagination than your average OB-GYN exam?

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Pleasing Over-40 Consumers

Remember when adult movies actually told stories, when porn actresses displayed breasts made entirely of human tissue and were allowed to have more than 10 percent body fat? Remember when the photography left more to the imagination than your average OB-GYN exam?

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Jan Verleur

By now, people who follow the adult entertainment industry have seen the rather vague ads for Pink TV, which promise great things but don't say much about the product.

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The Racial Market

Somebody get the Magic 8 Ball, the producers are again trying to figure out what people in the "ethnic markets" are looking for in adult entertainment.

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Hooking Up the World

The American legend of the Midwestern farm boy who goes west and makes good is alive and well in Silicon Valley. Andrew Conru, founder and CEO of FriendFinder.com, AdultFriendFinder and a handful of other social networking sites, is that rarest of creatures: someone who, by 38, not only realized most of his tech dreams but rode out the bursting of the Internet bubble instead of getting splattered by it.

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The Gay Video Market

For a long time, many video stores saw the product of gay studios as something that catered to a niche market and stayed away from it, largely because of the money involved.

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Crystal Ball Not Required

Retail stores that advertise their wares with adjectives like "hot," "exotic" and "naughty" usually are viewed as different from mainstream emporia. But when it comes to inventory management, adult retail outlets might as well be selling toasters or toggle bolts.

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Stacey Hirsch

The young woman's straight, dark, lustrous hair cascades down her back, framing a tawny face with smiling brown eyes and a radiant smile. She relaxes in her chair, luscious body evident under a low-cut, skinny-strapped top.

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