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Source Media: Venus Adult News
Nick Orlandino, CEO of Diamond Products, the holding company of Pipedream and Jimmyjane, announced his retirement after working in the industry for 35 years.
As CEO of Diamond Products Nick Orlandino oversaw the growth of Pipedream and other brands like Icicles, Jimmyjane, Kingcock, Metal Worx, Real Feel and Sir Richard’s Condom Company. Orlandino also founded the Adult Novelty Manufacturers Expo, the industry’s first B2B trade show. From 1999 to 2003 he was on the board of directors of the Free Speech Coalition (FSC).
Orlandino plans to move back to New York and focus on his family. He said: »I just feel like it is time. It’s time for me to relax, enjoy the fruits of my labor and spend time with my family. I’ve put in a lot of blood, sweat and tears at Pipedream. A lot of my contemporaries have passed away, and the industry has changed a lot — it’s not fun anymore.«
For now, it seems unclear who will succeed Orlandino as CEO of Diamond Products. But he made it clear that he will remain closely attached to the company’s future as an investor and keep his shares. He also made vague remarks that there might be a comeback at some point: »I’m not saying I’m done. I just need to chill for a little bit.«
His career at the Los Angeles based Pipedream started in 1992. Two years later he became a partner and run the company until today. During his career he won several awards for his contributions to the adult industry, among them Free Speech Coalition’s 2014 Man of the Year Award and Industry Pioneer Award by XBIZ.
If you want to know more about Pipedream go to www.pipedreamproducts.com
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President Trump signed a bill Wednesday that gives federal and state prosecutors greater power to pursue websites that host sex-trafficking ads and enables victims and state attorneys general to file lawsuits against those sites.
Addressing the victims and family members in attendance, the president said, “I’m signing this bill in your honor. … You have endured what no person on Earth should ever have to endure.” Trump added, “This is a great piece of legislation, and it’s really going to make a difference.”
Standing next to Trump as he signed the legislation was Yvonne Ambrose of Chicago, whose 16-year-old daughter, Desiree Robinson, was slain after being prostituted on Backpage in 2016. “It means so much to our family,” Ambrose said of the bill. “Hopefully, there won’t be many more people who have to endure that pain.”
[How a 16-year-old went from Backpage to prostitution to homicide victim]
The bill, nicknamed “FOSTA” for its title, “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act,” goes into effect immediately, but its impact was already being seen around the Internet as sites shut down sex-related areas and stopped accepting sex-related advertising.
“FOSTA gives prosecutors the tools they need,” said Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.), chief sponsor of the bill, “to ensure that no online business can ever approach the size of Backpage again.”
Civil liberties advocates attacked the bill as too broad, creating new liability for websites that had previously been protected by the Communications Decency Act for content posted by third parties. A number of websites, including Craigslist, began shutting down sections that might be construed as sex-related after the bill passed the Senate last month, and Wagner said online sex-related advertising revenue had declined 87 percent in the past 60 days, roughly when her bill passed the House.
But the horror stories emerging from websites such as Backpage, in which young girls were trafficked for months or even years, created a tide of frustration that the websites couldn’t be forced to stop hosting the ads and that the victims couldn’t sue the sites for damages. The federal indictment of Backpage officials unsealed Monday described one girl who was prostituted on Backpage from ages 14 to 19, saying she was gang-raped, choked to the point of seizures and forced to perform sex acts at gunpoint. The Communications Decency Act, often credited with creating an environment of free speech which enabled the Internet to flourish, was successfully invoked by Backpage and others in claiming they were merely hosting questionable content, not creating it. Criminal cases in California and civil cases in many states were dismissed by judges who said the intent of the act was to protect the website hosts, and they invited Congress to change the law.
Congress accepted the invitation. First, the Senate investigations subcommittee launched a detailed investigation of Backpage, eventually extracting millions of documents from the company showing Backpage was raking in more than $100 million in annual profit in recent years, and then finding Backpage was in fact involved in its advertisers’ content. Internal emails demonstrated that Backpage officials edited ads, or advised customers how to edit their own ads, so that terms indicating that a person was a “teen” or “young” or “fresh” would be removed, yet the ad itself would remain online and the victim still prostituted. The report issued by the Senate committee in January 2017 boiled with anger, declaring that “Backpage knows that it facilitates prostitution and child sex trafficking” and that “Backpage’s public defense is a fiction.”
Backpage top executives James Larkin, Michael Lacey and Carl Ferrer were summoned by the committee on the day after the report’s release but invoked their Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate themselves. At the same time, Backpage announced that its “Adult Services” section would close, but the ads merely migrated to the “Dating” section. And young girls continued to be prostituted on the site, the federal indictment alleges.
[Backpage has always claimed it doesn’t control sex-related ads. New documents show otherwise.]
The FBI later obtained the CoStar documents, and prosecutors cited them in the new indictment as evidence that “Backpage often affirmatively creates the content of the illegal prostitution ads being published.” The Philippines project was part of “Backpage’s plans for ‘International Planning and Expansion,’ ” the indictment stated.
So in April 2017, Wagner introduced FOSTA in the House, and Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), who had overseen the Senate investigation of Backpage, introduced SESTA — the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act — last August. Yvonne Ambrose testified tearfully before the Senate in support of SESTA. A combined version of the two passed the House under FOSTA in February, and then FOSTA cleared the Senate by a 97-2 vote last month. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), one of the original authors of the Communications Decency Act, was one of the two “no” votes, saying it was a mistake to change the law and would have unforeseen consequences for the Internet.
The bill amends parts of four federal laws, beginning with clarifying that the Communications Decency Act “was never intended to provide legal protection to websites that unlawfully promote and facilitate prostitution.” It adds a clause to the decency act that makes clear it has no effect on civil suits or state criminal cases related to federal sex-trafficking crimes. FOSTA amends the “Mann Act,” prohibiting interstate prostitution, by adding a new section prohibiting using a website to “promote or facilitate the prostitution of another person.”
The bill also amends the law on sex trafficking of children to clarify “participating in a venture” as “knowingly assisting, supporting or facilitating a violation” of the law. And FOSTA creates the ability for state attorneys general to bring civil suits against violators of federal prostitution laws. Anti-trafficking advocates had felt that federal authorities were sometimes slow to pursue violators, and state attorneys general have long denounced sites like Backpage without being able to take action.
Large Internet companies such as Google and Facebook initially declared their opposition to the bill because of the increased responsibility it would place on websites to monitor third-party content. Google began marshaling its lobbyists for a fight, urging congressional staff to keep members from co-sponsoring Wagner and Portman’s bills. But the big companies backed down as they met resistance from members of Congress and anti-trafficking groups, and as their own status plunged in the wake of revelations about election interference and private data sharing. When Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg declared her support for the bills, the path was cleared.
[Internet companies drop opposition to bill targeting online sex trafficking]
“This is a big victory for trafficking victims and survivors,” Portman said, “who for too long have been denied the opportunity to get the justice they deserve. No one thought that we could get this done. But with the bravery of sex-trafficking survivors, the hard work of anti-trafficking advocates, and the commitment of my colleagues, we did.”
Critics still feel the new law creates too much opportunity for lawsuits against websites for content they didn’t post and didn’t know about. Emma Llansó of the Center for Democracy & Technology said Craigslist has already shut down its personals, missed connections and dating sections, many of which have long had innocent intents. In those sections, Craigslist posted a note which reads, “US Congress just passed HR 1865, ‘FOSTA,’, seeking to subject websites to criminal and civil liability when third parties (users) misuse online personals unlawfully. Any tool or service can be misused. We can’t take such risk without jeopardizing all our other services, so we are regretfully taking Craigslist personals offline. Hopefully we can bring them back some day.”
“That’s the difficult position a FOSTA law puts operators in,” Llansó said, creating reluctant censorship by sites fearful of liability. She said websites may not be aware of suspicious content in one area of the site, and that where the decency act credits websites for attempting to moderate objectionable content, the new law “may discourage them from moderating” for fear they will be accused of knowing about bad content.
Mehlman-Orozco, and some law enforcement officials, noted that Backpage was often cooperative with police investigations and provided a place to track the traffickers. “What we should have done was facilitated the cooperation” between the websites and police, requiring more and better notification, she said. “All we’ve done is gotten rid of one virtual place where this can happen. But there are thousands of others out there waiting,” many of them out of reach of American law enforcement. One adult site posted a thinly veiled message on Facebook advising users that it was running slow because it now had so much traffic.
Wagner said that the law was written specifically to target criminal activity involving sex trafficking and shouldn’t affect websites that aren’t knowingly violating criminal laws. “It narrowly goes in and amends both the CDA and builds out the new crime” in the other laws, the congresswoman said. She said it was written with guidance from state prosecutors and the Justice Department but that “the best part is it combines criminal power with civil power so victims can have justice.”
The management of Adult Industry Association (AIA) is outraged at the blocking on its url AdultIndustryAssociation.org by the algorithm of Facebook and its sister company Instagram.
AIA is an international association, web portal and social media network for adult entertainment businesses, professionals and consumers worldwide. Our mission is to make the adult industry a better, safer and more rewarding place for work, business and pleasure.
Facebook claims that AIA is in violation of their compliance policies with reference to offensive material.
The Founder/President of AIA, Charlie Spice claims that Facebook is engaging in unfair trade practice similar to Microsoft Corporation when the US Government took action against them back in 2000 for violating the nation's antitrust laws through predatory and anticompetitive behavior.
In that case, a federal judge, Thomas Penfield Jackson of United States District Court ruled that Microsoft kept ''an oppressive thumb on the scale of competitive fortune,''.
Microsoft was also ordered to pay nearly $5 million in damages and other costs to Bristol Technology Inc as well as an undisclosed amount to Netscape for unfair trade practices.
Charlie Spice also feels that AIA has been wrongly and unfairly targeted by Facebook based on the following reasons:
As an NGO, Charlie Spice argues that the policies of AIA regarding the publishing of offensive content are aligned 100% with those of Facebook and Instagram.
Furthermore, violating the polices of Facebook is in not in the interest or benefit of the association.
Ironically, Facebook and Instagram both have millions of Escorts, Dancers, WebCam performers, Porn Performers and other adult professionals and business owners listed on their platforms, who post adult entertainment related content daily. Herein lies the predatory and anticompetitive behaviour.
The million of adult professionals and business owners on Facebook and Instagram are all potential subscribers of AIA and therefore, AIA is viewed as a competitor.
Charlie Spice says, "AIA management is now seeking legal advice to take further action as it would we would be a disservice to the global adult industry we represent to do nothing."
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Media Source - Xbiz
CYBERSPACE — The Porn Pedallers, a U.K. cycling club, has had their fundraising contributions refused by a major charity at this year’s Prudential RideLondon event.
“The Porn Pedallers is comprised of porn stars, adult performers and people who work in and around the adult industry,” a rep said. “They ride for fun, but they take their cycling seriously.”
The main point of contention is their jerseys have the logo of their primary sponsor, Television X, printed across the front in bold letters.
“Television X has been commissioning hardcore pornography since 1995 and are often cited as ‘the home of British hardcore,’” the rep continued.
The unnamed charity has stated that they didn't want to be affiliated with "hardcore porn" and they are concerned with the possible ramifications of the association.
The rep explained, “The Porn Pedallers are still planning on riding for organizations who are happy to receive support from people who love riding bikes as much as they enjoy riding their co-stars.”
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Source Media - Business Insider
A feud is erupting between an elite club's founder and its most notorious member — and it could threaten the privacy of wealthy people who belong to the club.
Snctm, a Los Angeles sex club for the rich, is making headlines for kicking out a member and announcing his ban.
Phuong Tran — known by his character name, "Bunnyman" — has been expelled from the club "for behavior unbecoming of a Snctm member" the club said in a statement released to members and obtained by MailOnline.
According to MailOnline, the statement says Tran "stooped so low as to contact our founder's 12-year-old daughter on Instagram with messages that hurt her deeply."
"This was the final straw," it said.
Tran, who is in his mid-30s, is the son of Vietnamese refugees. According to Esquire, he's a manager at a Fortune 500 company. Another Esquire report says that outside of the club, his interests include "scotch, cigars, fine tobacco pipes, and post-WWII contemporary art."
He became the first member of Snctm in 2012, but his experience soured over time. In an Instagram post in November on his Bunnyman account with the caption "The Snctm Family is Dead, Long Live Sanctum Club," Tran deplored the plight of the once "magical place."
"The pillars (privacy, safety, and exploration) that sustained the Club have crumbled," Tran said in the post.
Tran has accused the club's founder, Damon Lawner, of leaking names of celebrity guests to the media. Rumored attendees include Bill Maher and Gwyneth Paltrow, who has published a Q&Awith Lawner on her website, Goop.
The ongoing rift between Lawner and Tran is not new. Tran vocally opposed the club's participation in the reality show "Naked Snctm" on Showtime. And in his Instagram post, Tran described Lawner — referring to him only as "the Founder" — as the club's "Achilles' heel."
Tran said Lawner "lacked any sort of pedigree, class, and experience," mentioning "email outbursts and juvenile antics."
In the Instagram post, Tran said he would leave the club because it had repeatedly cast a performer with an STD. Tran's account includes a link to SnctmUsedtoBeCool.com.
According to MailOnline, Snctm said in the statement: "We have never done this before. Phuong's actions are despicable, and we are compelled to announce the truth."
The club said it was taking measures to protect the privacy of members.
"We feel it necessary to shine light on his disgusting behavior, taking the extraordinary step to expose one of our former members so that our growing community knows to avoid him," the statement said, adding: "Nothing he says may be relied upon, and he is now outside our circle forever."
Snctm offers several expensive membership tiers. Basic membership is $20,000 a year, while the Violet Key membership requires a one-time payment of $1 million, MailOnline reported. Tran called its addition "a hilarious slight to the current Dominus members."
The Dominus membership — the type Tran lost — is available to only 20 people worldwide and costs $75,000.
To attend a Snctm party, a guest must have filled out an online questionnaire, submitted photos of their face and body, and completed an interview with Lawner.
AIA has started to recruit a team of independent Event Managers worldwide to organise masquerade launch parties at top Strip Clubs, Gentlemen's Clubs and Swingers Clubs in a major cities and destinations worldwide.
For full details about this opportunity, please go to http://adultindustryassociation.org/jobs/event-managers
As part of its global launch strategy, the management of Adult Industry Association (AIA) is hosting a series of Masquerade Parties at top Strip Clubs, Gentlemen's Clubs, Swinger's Clubs, Nightclubs and Bars in a major cities and destinations worldwide.
At each event, there will be a guest appearance by a celebrity Porn Performer, Webcam Performer, Stripper or other type of top adult entertainer. The guest list of each event will consist of adult industry professionals, business owners, executives and consumers and admission is by invitation only.
Regular admission policy will apply to regular patrons of the club.
Related companies in the local and international markets will be given the opportunity to become sponsors, and the media/press will be invited to cover each launch event.
For more information on upcoming launch parties, please go to our Events Calendar at http://adultindustryassociation.org/events
Over the past month, many of the members of Adult Industry Association were insisting that AIA should be an association solely for adult entertainment professionals worldwide.
After carefully consideration, we have decided to make the following changes.
AIA has now become AIPA (Adult Industry Professionals Association) and is an international umbrella association for Porn Performers, Webcam Performers, Fetish Performers, Strippers, Escorts and other adult industry professionals worldwide.
All types of adult industry businesses are also invite to join AIPA as Partners of the association.
Hundred of millions of consumers around the world who subscribe to the services and talents of adult industry professionals are also invited to join AIPA as Supporters
Four Catholic men and a Catholic woman were having coffee @ St. Peter's Square
The first Catholic man tells his friends, "My son is a priest, when he walks into a room, everyone calls him 'Father'.
The second Catholic man chirps, "My son is a Bishop. When he walks into a room people call him 'Your Grace'.
The third Catholic gent says, "My son is a Cardinal. When he enters a room everyone bows their head and says 'Your Eminence'.
The fourth Catholic man says very proudly, "My son is the Pope. When he walks into a room people call him 'Your Holiness'.
Since the lone Catholic woman was sipping her coffee in silence, the four men give her a subtle, "Well....?" She proudly replies, "I have a daughter, slim, tall, 38D breasts, 24" waist and 40" hips. When she walks into a room, people say,.... "My God!"
Afro-American, Caribbean, Hispanic and other adult entertainers of colour are invited to join the Urban Adult Entertainment group launched by Adult Industry Association.
AIA is an international umbrella organisation for adult industry businesses, professionals and consumers worldwide. For more information, click here>>
It is free to join our Urban Adult Entertainment group. Please go to http://adultindustryassociation.org/groups/urban
The management of AIA is pleased to represent adult entertainers from the Urban communities worldwide.
All adult business owners, professionals and consumers worldwide are invited to attend the official launch of the new Adult Industry Association (AIA), which will be held on the exotic island of Barbados in the Caribbean, 20th - 21st April 2018.
ABOUT AIA
AIA is an international umbrella organisation for adult industry businesses, professionals and consumers worldwide.
Our mission is to further disrupt society's negative and stereotypical views about the adult industry and its stakeholders and to make the adult industry a safer and more rewarding place for work, business and pleasure.
LAUNCH EVENTS
The events are as follows;
20th April 2018
21st April 2018
For more information, go to http://adultindustryassociation.org/launch-barbados
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Source Media: SFGate
Advocates of legalized prostitution took their challenge to California’s 145-year-old ban on commercial sex before a federal appeals court Thursday and appeared to get a hint that they’ll have another chance to show why the law should be cast aside.
The case was brought by three former prostitutes, a would-be client and the Erotic Service Providers Legal, Educational and Research Project. They contend the law violates the right to engage in consensual sex, as defined by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 2003 ruling overturning criminal laws against gay sexual activity.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White of Oakland rejected their argument last year, saying the high court ruling protected only intimate personal relationships, not commercial sex. He said the state had adequately justified the current law as a deterrent to violence against women, sexually transmitted diseases and human trafficking.
But at Thursday’s hearing, members of a three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco suggested that the law might need closer scrutiny, given today’s less restrictive standards, as recognized by the high court, on sex between consenting adults.
“Why should it be illegal to sell something that it’s legal to give away?” asked Carlos Bea, one of the court’s most conservative judges.
Another conservative, Judge Consuelo Callahan, pointed out that prostitution, like gay sex, had historically been “subject to moral disapproval.” Just as in 2003, the current case, she said, “deals with individuals’ rights,” so why wouldn’t a ruling for the right to engage in prostitution be “a natural extension of Supreme Court precedent?”
Deputy Attorney General Sharon O’Grady, the state’s lawyer, responded that the difference is in “the commercial aspect ... the commodification of sex.”
“The state is not telling anyone who they can sleep with,” O’Grady said. It is prohibiting only a harmful category of business transactions, not intimate or enduring relationships, she said.
But Bea said the 2003 Supreme Court ruling might require the court to send the case back to White for another review, and perhaps even a full-scale trial, in which the state would have to show a compelling need for the law.
California made prostitution a crime in 1872, defining “every common prostitute” as a “vagrant” subject to a $500 fine and six months in jail. The law was updated in 1961 to reclassify prostitution or soliciting prostitution as disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor punishable by a $1,000 fine and six months in jail.
The Ninth Circuit left the state law intact in a 1988 ruling that said the relationship between a paid escort and a client “possesses few, if any, of the aspects of an intimate association.” H. Louis Sirkin, the plaintiffs’ lawyer in the current case, argued that the ruling is no longer binding.
The Supreme Court’s 2003 decision established “the right of individuals to make their own individual choices as to how they want to behave” in consensual sexual relationships, Sirkin told the court. “If people put a dollar amount on it, that should not alter the intimate relationship.”
But Bea questioned whether the high court’s ruling applied to “totally anonymous sex” for hire. And the third panel member, Jane Restani, a judge from the U.S. Court of International Trade temporarily assigned to the appeals court, noted that Justice Anthony Kennedy, in the 2003 Supreme Court ruling, had specified that the case before the court did not involve prostitution.
On the other hand, Bea quoted from another portion of the 2003 case in which the late Justice Antonin Scalia, writing in dissent, declared that the ruling “called into question” state laws against prostitution.
True, said O’Grady, the state’s lawyer — but Scalia, in the same opinion, also predicted the ruling would be used to strike down laws against incest and bestiality.
Terry Stephens of UKAP and Real Couples porn site has just been appointed as the Chapter Manager for London for the newly formed Adult Industry Association.
As Chapter Manager, Terry will have the following responsibilities in the London market:
ABOUT AIA
Adult Industry Association is an international umbrella organisation for adult industry businesses, professionals and subscribers worldwide.
Our mission is to further disrupt society's negative and stereotypical views about the adult industry and its stakeholders, and to make the industry a more safe, rewarding and fun place to work, do business and for pleasure.
For more information, visit our website at http://adultindustryassociation.org/
BECOME AN AIA CHAPTER MANAGER
The management of Adult Industry Association (AIA) is recruiting Chapter Managers in each major city worldwide. If you are interested in this opportunity, please go to http://adultindustryassociation.org/jobs/chapter-managers