Feature Articles
How to Turn Retail Seasonal Lulls Into Sales Opportunities
opinion
How to Turn Retail Seasonal Lulls Into Sales Opportunities
For many adult retailers, summer brings a predictable change in customer behavior. Routines shift, travel increases and shopping habits become less steady.
Breaking Down AI-Powered Moderation and Platform Safety
opinion
Breaking Down AI-Powered Moderation and Platform Safety
Adult platforms, including content sites, cam services and dating apps, consistently face a range of high-risk challenges. These include verifying consent, particularly for user-uploaded content, addressing non-consensual material such as leaks and so-called revenge porn, and ensuring effective age verification and protection for minors.
How to Optimize Subscription Billing for Compliance and Stability
opinion
How to Optimize Subscription Billing for Compliance and Stability
The Federal Trade Commission’s “click to cancel” rule is coming back around. Last year, a federal appeals court vacated the FTC’s Negative Option Rule, aimed at addressing deceptive or unfair practices and making it easier for consumers to cancel online subscriptions.
Tips for Turning Content Into PR Impact for Sexual Wellness Brands
opinion
Tips for Turning Content Into PR Impact for Sexual Wellness Brands
Public relations was never intended to generate immediate revenue. It is a strategic tool for building brand visibility. However, one of the most valuable services offered by full-service PR agencies is often underutilized: content creation.
Key Strategies for Streamlining Payment Processing Approval
opinion
Key Strategies for Streamlining Payment Processing Approval
Why is it taking so long to get my account approved? It's frustrating for everyone involved, but it's all part of the process. Over the past year, timelines have stretched to 60 days or more for merchants to complete onboarding, from internal compliance review to banking partner approval and final card brand registration.
How Female Shoppers Are Setting the Pace for Retail
opinion
How Female Shoppers Are Setting the Pace for Retail
Not long ago, walking into an adult store often felt like stepping into the shadows. Dim lighting, overwhelming product displays and a transactional experience made many of these spaces unwelcoming. For many women, these environments were not designed with comfort, curiosity or empowerment in mind.
What to Know About Alabama's Regulatory Push on Adult Content
opinion
What to Know About Alabama's Regulatory Push on Adult Content
Over the past two years, Alabama has quietly but aggressively transformed itself into one of the most restrictive and unfriendly jurisdictions for the adult entertainment industry. Through the enactment of House Bill 164 and related enforcement mechanisms, the state has layered taxation, compliance burdens and content restrictions in a way that goes far beyond traditional regulation.
How AI Is Turning Adult Retailers Into Developers, No Degree Required
opinion
How AI Is Turning Adult Retailers Into Developers, No Degree Required
Every long relationship with software hits a point where you realize the tool isn’t exactly what you need. It does what the vendor assumes you need, often created by engineers who have never counted units in a stockroom or looked at countless stockouts and wondered which ones really matter.
Why Discretion Has Been the Defining Force in India's Sex Toy Market
opinion
Why Discretion Has Been the Defining Force in India's Sex Toy Market
One of Besharam’s earliest customers contacted us three times before placing an order. Not about the product, but about the packaging. “Will anyone know what’s inside?”
How to Pivot Platforms Without Disrupting Your Income
opinion
How to Pivot Platforms Without Disrupting Your Income
As a creator, you must inevitably navigate the constantly changing terms of service, regulations and financial systems of various platforms. Those platforms host your content at their own discretion, so deplatforming is always a possibility.
Creator Tips for Making the Most of Adult Industry Expos
opinion
Creator Tips for Making the Most of Adult Industry Expos
Showing up to industry expos is one of the smartest moves a creator can make. If it’s your first time going and the idea makes your stomach flip a little, don’t worry. Preshow jitters are perfectly normal. But if you’re serious about building real momentum, throw those doubts and worries out the window and pack your bags.
How to Draw in and Retain High-Spending Fans
opinion
How to Draw in and Retain High-Spending Fans
One of the biggest misconceptions in the creator economy is that follower count determines revenue. Many creators assume the path to higher earnings is simply more traffic, subscribers and views. In reality, it’s common to see a tiny fraction of fans responsible for the majority of spending.
Balancing Growth and Audience Loyalty as a Creator
opinion
Balancing Growth and Audience Loyalty as a Creator
When creators who have been around a while feel the pull to explore something new, a quiet fear often creeps in: What if growth and evolution end up costing me the audience I worked so hard to build?
How Retailers Can Get the Most Out of Trade Shows
opinion
How Retailers Can Get the Most Out of Trade Shows
Trade shows offer something that catalogs and online browsing can’t match. Seeing, touching and discussing products in person gives you a better sense of how they might perform in your store.
How Promoting Wellness Fuels Retail Growth in Uncertain Times
opinion
How Promoting Wellness Fuels Retail Growth in Uncertain Times
My PR and marketing work helping adult brands, performers and platforms reach audiences has made one thing very clear. The brands most likely to succeed in the current economic, political and social climate are the ones marketing more than just sex.
How Pleasure Brands Can Capture Attention Through Press Trips
opinion
How Pleasure Brands Can Capture Attention Through Press Trips
In many industries, press trips are considered desirable but optional — a bonus rather than a core element of a brand’s marketing strategy. In sexual wellness, however, they are essential.
What to Know About Deepfakes, Likeness Rights, and Digital Consent
opinion
What to Know About Deepfakes, Likeness Rights, and Digital Consent
AI is reshaping virtually every sector of the global economy, and the adult industry is no exception. Many adult companies have already explored or adopted AI in content production, and surveys indicate that around 65% have considered implementing AI technologies in their operations.
Key Strategies for Adapting to Stricter PCI Compliance Standards
opinion
Key Strategies for Adapting to Stricter PCI Compliance Standards
When it comes to PCI compliance, the days of simply filling out some paperwork and answering a few questions are gone. A casual approach is just not viable anymore.
Automating Retail Accounting With AI
opinion
Automating Retail Accounting With AI
With 21 locations, I’m pretty much always hiring. Unfortunately, the employment market these days can be chaotic, as candidates send out applications across dozens of job boards with a single click. For managers like me, this results in more time spent sorting through signals and static.
5 Ways Social Media Can Boost Retail Sales
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opinion
5 Ways Social Media Can Boost Retail Sales
In today’s retail landscape, social media isn’t optional. It is one of the most essential drivers of product discovery, store traffic and long-term customer loyalty. The retailers seeing the strongest engagement and sell-through today are creating experiences customers want to share.
