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Articles by Peter Smith

Stripping For Success

When Bob Dylan wrote the legendary lyric, “The times, they are a’changin’” so many decades ago, little did the genius from Minnesota know that his catch-all lyric could one day be applied to the world of adult stars and the enterprise of feature dancing. But yes indeed, along with virtually every other aspect of our society, now that realm is experiencing changes due to economic pressures.

Peter Smith ·
opinion

Making a Display of Yourself

Legend has it that you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink. In the world of adult retail, the same essential rule applies. The question for manufacturers, studios, and of course the brick-and-mortar foundation, is how to do the leading. How to get two-legged consumers — with untold amounts of shiny, attractive product to choose from — to guzzle up your company’s urge quenching product.

Peter Smith ·
trends

Employee 101

Not so long ago, when a consumer entered an adult emporium, the helpful, knowledgeable staff was rarely helpful or knowledgeable.

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Get a Towel and Dry Off, These Studios are Hot

The world of technology — which seems to govern virtually every other world, in some fashion or another — continues to move forward at a ridiculously rapid pace. A factor that certainly governs the realm of adult, particularly when it comes to all things online.

Peter Smith ·
trends

When the Whip Comes Down

As any savvy person will tell you, it takes more than just a funny hat and a profoundly perverse belief in abortion to be the pope. That same essential rule holds true in the world of fetish directors, the auteurs who bring consumers the pleasure of all that BDSM pain.

Peter Smith ·
trends

Kink on the Web

Imagine, if you will, the Internet as the fabled Trojan Horse. And instead of containing an invading army waiting to take over an unsuspecting city, let's say that the massive beast's structure is filled with pornography — XXX of all stripes, but particularly BDSM fetish material — with all those whips and chains and cuckolding and orgasm denial and diaper training…

Peter Smith ·
trends

Foreign Affairs

Countries overseas offer an abundance of stunning, talented ladies well schooled in the fine art of unbridled boffing, plus they have those seductive native tongues with which to mumble whatever it is they say while engaged in on-camera fantasy sex. And there are all those castles and forests to shoot in; it's all so bloody good, right?

Peter Smith ·
profile

Filmco Gets Weird

When Abraham Lincoln uttered the wise phrase, "You can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time," it's doubtful he had forced lactating, double penetration, dwarf action or granny gang bangs in mind.

Peter Smith ·
profile

Fyre TV Heats Up

The adult industry is one of progress, advances, perpetual forward growth, and that goes far beyond the challenge of how many plastic toys a female rectum can hold at the same time. And while the capacities of anal innovators like Audrey Hollander and Belladonna are not without merit, that's not the only pioneering front on the porno horizon.

Peter Smith ·
trends

Power Play

Let's start things off with a nice barnyard analogy: Just because you can milk a cow doesn't mean you're capable of running the entire farm.

Peter Smith ·
trends

Golden Age of Adult

Call it nostalgia, call it romance, call it a simple yearning for the good old days...

Peter Smith ·