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It’s a wrap: California’s Occupational Safety & Health Administration is pressing ahead to make condom use a matter of law for actors in adult films.

Best known for revolutionizing gay porn, Wakefield Poole had already established himself in the highest ranks on Broadway, both as performer and director-choreographer. A coke addiction, major career changes and a happy old age make this one great read.

Efforts to pressure the adult entertainment industry to stop featuring unprotected sex in porn films may have reached a tipping point. Events in Southern California, the epicenter of the industry, during December indicate a showdown is on the horizon.

An adult film actor who tested positive for HIV says he now wishes he had known more about the risks of contracting sexually transmitted diseases in the industry and is calling for mandatory condom use in porn films.

The 6’ 5" 19-year-old who amassed thousands of fans online as the so-called "Barefoot Bandit" may be an aficionado of gay porn, according to a police affidavit from last year.

The most popular couple on XTube has the balls to go into publishing. Will the millions of online views translate to hard copies or fall flaccid? It’s up to Cole and Hunter to prove they really deserve to be called the Maverick Men.

An AIDS activist group filed a workplace safety complaint against Larry Flynt, accusing the porn king of creating an unsafe environment for his stable of sex stars by not requiring they use condoms.

It’s a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in.

A screening of Wakefield Poole’s landmark gay porn film Boys in the Sand to benefit local Fire Island charities brings up the intriguing question: When does a hardcore porn film become art?

Porn sites have stepped closer to a new ".xxx" Internet address after the global Internet oversight agency said it made mistakes in rejecting it three years ago.