Durex creates vibrating underwear you can control via smartphone apps

The undergarments vibrate whenever your partner, using a smartphone app, decides you need some "attention" -- giving a new definition to "phone sex."

Make Love Not Porn founder wants to make the Y Combinator for porn

Have an adult-themed startup idea? Cindy Gallop, the outspoken founder of Make Love Not Porn, wants your number.

The big data of porn: What number crunching teaches us about adult films

Here's what you can learn by spending six months studying the profiles of 10,000 porn stars.

Twitter raises Vine’s age rating to 17+ following porn problems

Twitter-owned video sharing application Vine has raised its age rating from 12+ to 17+ following controversy surrounding pornographic clips shared widely on the service.

After controversy, Vine makes porn harder to find

Vine is taking steps to curb access to porn after it attracted a lot of unwanted criticism this morning for placing a hardcore porn video at the top of every user's feed.

Oops: Hot video app Vine places porn at the top of every user’s feed (updated)

Users of the popular video-sharing app Vine got a surprise this morning when a short clip of hardcore pornography was selected as an "editor's pick" and placed at the top of every user's feed.

Google’s decision to block explicit images is a huge win for Bing & Search.xxx

Google has modified its popular image search to block many explicit pictures, a move that could be a huge win for competing search engines.

Boyfriend Maker sneaks violent sexual content — including references to pedophilia — onto Apple’s app store

Apple has worked hard to keep the app store free of porn. But it looks like one developer has snuck an app with violent sexual content -- including references to pedophilia -- into the app store right under Apple's nose.

Come4.org is a cause-driven, ethically inspired, non-profit porn site

Your self-pleasure could save the pandas, bring clean water to a rural village in Asia, or give needy kids access to schoolbooks. What could be sexier than that?

Search.xxx launches to make your porn browsing ‘easier’ & ‘safer’

ICM Registry, the company behind the .xxx domain, has launched a new search engine called Search.xxx that intends to make looking for online adult entertainment safer and easier to access.

Video chat service ChatRandom is destroying Fanning & Parker’s Airtime with two killer features

Money can't buy you love, the Beatles told us. Neither can $33 million in venture capital and massive celebrity endorsements from stars like Jimmy Fallon, Snoop Dogg, Julia-Louis Drefus, Alicia Keys, and Jim Carrey.

Why won’t Microsoft let you store porn in the cloud?

Cloud storage services such as Dropbox and Google Drive are quickly changing how consumers deal with content on a day-to-day basis. But each company has its own set of restrictions, with Microsoft's SkyDrive as the most restrictive player by far. It might shock you how much so.

Catalogs is the Apple app store’s stealth (soft) porn category

Earlier this year, Apple rejected an app, Geometric Porn, that featured squares, triangles, circles, and even rectangles in juxtapositions reminiscent of intercourse. Fairly tame stuff, one might think, but it contravened both Apple’s and Google’s app store guidelines.

Some surfing …

Comcast, defender of Internet freedom and friend of the little guy (don’t laugh)

Comcast is helping the little guy avoid getting screwed. For once.

The massive media conglomerate is refusing to comply with court-ordered requests to deliver the names and contact information of its customers to porn studios. The studios claim that Comcast’s …

BateFlix lets you search for nudity in Netflix (update)

Someone has created a new site called BateFlix that will allow you to search the bulk of Netflix’s DVD-rental and streaming video library for all the titles that contain nudity.

Think of it as sort of a cross between Netflix …

Porn bigwigs get their panties in a twist over .XXX domain

Manwin Licensing is going to court to make the world safe for porn peddlers.

Specifically the Luxembourg-based company that operates YouPorn and Playboy.com wants to block the adoption of the .XXX domain and alleges that the Internet Corporation for Assigned …

Gawker Media is ditching its porn site, Fleshbot. Any takers?

Gawker Media is getting ready to sell Fleshbot (NSFW), its blog devoted to adult entertainment and human sexuality.

The network contains a roster of successful sites, from Lifehacker and Gizmodo to Jezebel and Jalopnik, each relatively well respected in its …

Exploit turns Facebook into a haven for gory, violent and pornographic images

If you’re wondering why we’ve chosen the impossibly cute photo of five-week-old kitten Link as eye bleach for this post’s art, it’s because an increasing number of eyeballs that frequent Facebook could use it.

Many of the giant social network’s …

Google TV gets a 24/7 streaming porn channel

Google TV, the search giant’s combo hardware-software entertainment endeavor, could be on its way to attracting a larger male customer base, as porn studio Vivid Entertainment is now streaming sexually explicit content to television sets by way of a Google …

Floodgates open for .XXX domains, ushers in new era of Internet porn

After a decade-long battle, adult entertainment sites today can start bidding for their own .xxx top-level domain, which will make porn sites easier to find for lonely souls.

Today marks the beginning of the domain’s “sunrise” period, a 50-day long …