09.04.2015 | Van Nuys, California, USA – Evil Angel, home to the most highly awarded, influential and groundbreaking performers and directors in adult entertainment, is well-known for hard-core adult films that cater to every adult fetish. The company has expanded its audience reach by giving a platform to talented female directors that recently have become powerhouse players themselves.
 


 
Female directors such as Evil Angel’s Aiden Starr, Francesca Le and Dana Vespoli are becoming more popular and in-demand as the landscape of pornography changes to indulge the dirty minds of the so-called fairer sex.
 
A “lifestyle fetish player” drawn to the dark side of the sexual spectrum, Aiden Starr’s brand of erotic expression is on par with the depraved minds of Evil Angel’s male mainstays, such as Joey Silvera, Jonni Darkko and company founder John Stagliano. “I really feel at home at Evil Angel with the other perverts,” says Starr, who was seemingly born to be a dominatrix. While working in New York as a fetish model and performer, Starr managed a prominent fetish dungeon; she later opened a dungeon herself when she moved to Los Angeles. Starr’s performance in “Belladonna’s Girl Train” won a 2009 AVN Award for Best All-Girl 3-Way Sex Scene.
 
Francesca Le has directed over 150 adult films in the 13 years she and director/performer husband Mark Wood have operated LeWood Productions. She understands the value of developing talent with a different point of view, to entice more viewers. Le’s films are beloved by fans and critics, having earned multiple AVN Awards, because she’s free to shoot the wild, hard-core content of her fantasies.
 
Dana Vespoli, who has won numerous adult film awards for directing (including Best Transsexual Release), has seen many changes in her 12-year career, as women have taken the opportunity to control of their place in the adult industry without the persistent stigma of victimization. Vespoli had been a porn fan from an early age, often renting movies during college. She came into the business as a fan of Stagliano, Silvera and John Leslie. Now, Vespoli has become a peer of some of the directors she admired. She shoots her own camera and stills, preferring to work with a very small cast and crew. Vespoli’s primary interests are themes of gender and power transgression, psychosexual elements and, of course, hard-core sex.
 
“Women are sexy, in an alluring way that men are not,” says company founder John Stagliano. “They work on the art of being sexy in their personal lives. This gives them insights men don’t have into turning on their sex partners. Couple this with my observation that women tend on average to be kinkier than men, and you have a very interesting porn resource.” It’s no longer a man’s world… at least not in the adult industry.



27.03.2015 | North Hollywood, California, USA – On March 13, Doc Johnson’s Ask The Doc Playboy Radio show hosted Chad Braverman and Sunny Rodgers interviewed special guest Dan Savage at the Hump Film Festival in Los Angeles.
 


 
In Savage’s Ask the Doc interview, Chad Braverman and Sunny Rodgers (Doc Johnson’s creative director and marketing manager, respectively) touched on topics ranging from the origins of the term ‘pegging’ to the importance of sex toys, and everything in between.
 
Dan Savage, whose Savage Love column is syndicated in more than 50 newspapers internationally, is one of the most read and most controversial sex columnists in the world. His Hump Film Festival, billed as “the world’s best amateur dirty film festival,” exhibits homemade erotic cinema and features Savage himself as the master of ceremonies.
 
“I have always been a huge fan of Dan Savage’s column, and his work in general,” said Chad Braverman, Doc Johnson Creative Director and Ask the Doc Show host. “But beyond his books and his columns, Sunny and I feel extremely lucky to have had the chance to interview him on Ask the Doc because he has played such an important role in shaping and influencing the pleasure product industry as we know it today. “
 
“Dan Savage could not have been a more perfect fit for Ask the Doc,” added co-host Sunny Rodgers. “With his experiences and background, we knew Dan Savage would have some incredible stories for us, and he did not disappoint. The fact that he actually invented the term ‘pegging’ really says it all.”
 
Doc Johnson’s Ask the Doc show on Playboy Radio broadcasts live every Friday between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. PST on Playboy Radio. The show gives listeners a close-up and often comical inside look into America’s leading sex toy manufacturing company, and the adult industry at large. The weekly show launched in November, and has since regularly featured guest spots from a stream of famed industry leaders including Jacky St. James, James Deen and ‘Movember’ founder JJ Owens.
 
Fans can connect to Ask The Doc on Twitter (@askthedocshow) and Facebook, and access all previous episodes of Ask The Doc on the show’s Souncloud page. Listeners can also record their questions 24 hours a day at (323) 642-9444 or call in during the show to have questions answered live.



25.02.2015 | Aarhus, Denmark – Some of the largest distributors in both Europe and USA will announces, they will participate as exhibitors at the new Scandinavian tradeshow I Denmark, taking place April 15th to April 17th 2015.
 


 
“We are proud to announce that Scala Playhouse, Pipedream and California Exotic Novelties will be amongst the exhibitioners on our brand new fair. Their participation indicates to us, that the business welcomes this new initiative. Naturally many others interesting exhibitioners will also be present, as well as manufactures.” Says Kenneth Pihl.
 
In addition to these great news, NE Expo announces they will present a series of awards on the show, where the visitors can vote for their favourite distributor/manufacturer to receive the NE Expo Award in varies categories.
 
The team behind NE Expo recommend to visit their website on regular basis for lates info, and to sign up as visitor. Business owners and distributors who want more information can contact Kenneth Pihl on email pihl@nordicerotic.dk or by phone +45 3080 7767.



23.02.2015 | Broomfield, Colorado, USA – Eldorado, is in the midst of its February Facebook promotion, VIP Spring ILS trip.
 


 
With the Spring International Lingerie Show approaching at the end of March, Eldorado has developed a promotion on the company’s Facebook page to give customers a VIP experience at the spring show.
 
Customers and fans can caption the photo of Eldorado founder and CEO, Larry Garland, at the top of the Facebook page for a chance to win a VIP trip to Spring ILS. Each winner will receive flight, hotel, guest passes, and a VIP dinner with Eldorado and System JO! Each winner will ALSO receive an Escante gift basket (worth $300 retail value) and meet and greet with them at their booth during the show!
 
Fans can comment through February for a chance to win. Two winners will be selected on February 27. For more information and to enter to win, visit Eldorado’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/EldoradoTradingCompany.



17.02.2015 | Los Angeles, California, USA – When former intern Veronica Vain traded in her Wall Street job for a career in porn, she made big splashes in both mainstream and social media. Now Evil Angel’s Manuel Ferrara and filmmaking/performing partner Kayden Kross have staked exclusive claim to the sexy, young Vain’s virgin experience in adult entertainment.
 


 
Director Ferrara and the ambitious Kross will feature Vain in “Screwing Wall Street: The Arrangement Finders Play.” In all, four full sex scenes will debut on EvilAngel.com, and then Evil Angel will release the entire project on DVD in the Spring of 2015. The first segment is set to today premiere on the website.
 
vainVain explains how she decided where to market her assets: “Kayden was one of the few porn stars I actually knew prior to researching porn, because she was brilliant and beautiful and I had stumbled across her blogs one day and fell in love with her. Manuel and Evil Angel were the icing on the cake. But regardless, Kayden, Manuel and Evil Angel alone would not have swayed my decision; it was the potential to bring product placement into pornography, and therefore open new revenue streams to the industry, that came with the trio. That really got my Wall Street side excited, and I jumped on it. The payout wasn’t too shabby, either.”
 
“Screwing Wall Street: The Arrangement Finders Play” is “the first adult feature to be significantly funded by product placement,” according to Kross. “The money that Arrangement Finders put up to make this film and to lock in Veronica Vain’s first scene also allowed her to have possibly the biggest first scene payout in adult [movie] history.” The ArrangementFinders.com website connects women with men offering financial support; their name is placed in the movie title.
 
Vain’s venture synergizes the Wall Street and erotic facets of her personality portfolio. “This dialogue scene parodies the meeting of Bud Fox and Gordon Gekko in the movie ‘Wall Street,’” says Kross. “Considering the wave of media around the ‘Wall Street Porn Star,’ we thought it was important to incorporate that aspect into the movie we made around her.” Vain’s story has recently been in the New York Post, New York Daily News, Business Insider and all over the Internet.
The dialogue of the premiere precedes a full, explicit pairing of Vain and veteran cocksman Ferrara. “This scene is an incredibly strong performance — not for a first time performer, but in general,” says Ferrara. “Veronica is an extremely sexual person, and it reads on camera.”
 
Ms. Vain is bullish on her career transition as she learns the ropes. “I was surprised by how 90 percent of the day is just shooting the dialogue and doing makeup and photos and whatever, and only 10 percent was the actual sex,” comments Vain. She loves “worry-free bareback sex,” and is ready for the girl-girl scenes she’ll be doing in the movie. “I’m a little intimidated, especially to work with the likes of Kayden and Stoya, who are so much more experienced. However, I’m also excited for the challenge.” See more at www.EvilAngel.com.



04.02.2015 | Chatsworth, California, USA – Topco Sales made its high-profile presence known at AVN’s 2015 Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE) last week, with back-to-back show events, a novelty award win and special guest appearances by Topco star, former ‘Teen Mom’ Farrah Abraham.
 


 
FarrahThe toy company, recognized in the industry for its vast array of quality adult personal products for men, women and couples, brought its sales staff out to Las Vegas’ Hard Rock Hotel & Casino to celebrate Topco’s success, ending on a high note when Topco won an ‘O’ Novelty Award – Best Non-Powered Sex Toy – for Abraham’s Grip-On Stroker from the Wildfire Celebrity Series. “AEE is the ultimate industry resource for getting your name out there, and we were grateful for the attention this year,” said Lynda Mort, Topco’s Marketing Director for Private Brands. “Farrah Abraham got the crowds excited by promoting her new line of toys, and we couldn’t be more pleased with the response.”
 
Abraham was everywhere at AEE, representing Topco Sales: she signed at AVN’s booth, hosted Life nightclub AVN pre-party, presented an AVN Award and hosted the Vibe VIP section at the Awards Show. But most importantly, Topco and Abraham unveiled their next venture together for 2015: a life-size blow-up doll of Abraham. “We’ve had many requests for a sex doll in Farrah’s likeness, so we’re looking to create the next best thing that fans will appreciate,” said Mort. For more information, visit www.topcosales.us.



23.01.2015 | Los Angeles, California, USA – Boutique adult toy brand B Swish has expanded their Deluxe Line of personal massagers with some exciting new offerings. Already popular amongst the new releases, the Bwild Deluxe Bunny possesses the high quality luxury feel and look B Swish is known for but not a high-end price tag.
 


 
BSDWB0644_bwild_deluxe_bunny_raspberryThe Bwild Deluxe Bunny is the first rabbit styled massager to join B Swish’s Deluxe Line. The Bwild Deluxe Bunny has dual motors and 6-functions for maximum pleasure. Waterproof and made from silky all over silicone, the shaft’s uniquely contoured head will fill the sweet spot you desire, while the bunny’s velvety smooth tickly ears and pinpoint precise nose will drive you wild. Many of the massagers featured in the Deluxe Line originally debuted in 2007 with B Swish’s conception and then went through a transformation in 2012 and 2013 with 2nd generation massagers being released. Since this transformation of B Swish’s Deluxe Line, all of the massagers are now 6-functions, waterproof, battery operated, made from body-safe silicone, and come with all new packaging.
 
Jae, In-House Health Educator at B Swish, says “The Bwild Deluxe Bunny is an all new product to join our Deluxe Line; it is wonderfully powerful and has a soft silky silicone finish. The shape is perfect for beginner, intermediate and advance users alike, and it features 6-functions, which are scrolled through using a red back-light controller with a separate off switch. The fashion forward colors and affordable price-point make the Bwild Deluxe Bunny a must-stock”.
A welcome addition to the Deluxe Line for B Swish, these new rabbits come in an assortment of blue Lagoon, Raspberry and Jade, which all look great when merchandised on a wall together. To know more, please have a look at the company’s homepage.



22.01.2015 | Los Angeles, California, USA – California Exotic Novelties has several Expert Sexperts, and its public relations director Desireé Duffy, participate in panel discussions during the upcoming AVN Show in Las Vegas, at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
 


 
Susan Colvin, President and CEO of California Exotic Novelties, says, “We thank our Expert Sexperts for participating in the panels. Spreading information about sexual health and wellness, and educating the public as well as the industry, is a big part of our joint mission.” Sunny Megatron is a sexuality educator and blogger. She is the host/executive producer of Sex with Sunny Megatron on Showtime, host of Kinky Korner and Inside Adult’s Outside the Box web series, and a California Exotic Novelties’ Expert Sexpert.
 
The Love Birds, Drs. Chuck and Jo-Ann Bird, are Board Certified Clinical Sexologists, Relationship Experts, Radio Show Hosts, and California Exotic Novelties’ Expert Sexperts.They will all speak on fan seminars, as well as on panels for the AVN Novelty Expo. Director of Public Relations for California Exotic Novelties, Desireé Duffy, is speaking on the Return of the Superstar panel. It focuses on recent trends in packaging.
 
Duffy says, “This show consists of so many great panels and programs. I’m honored to be involved! Susan Colvin and her companies, California Exotic Novelties and Jopen, have contributed many innovations to packaging design. I’m excited to discuss the changing trends.” The speakers all have profiles on www.ClubCalExotics.com.



15.01.2015 | Delmenhorst, Deutschland – Die brandneue deutsche Ausgabe des Sign Magazines ist ab sofort online an gewohnter Stelle abrufbar. Bereits zu Beginn des neuen Jahres gibt es einiges zu berichten …


Es gibt neue Entwicklungen bei VPS Film-Entertainment: So setzt das Unternehmen auf einen neuen Onlineshop speziell für Händler – nach wie vor ist man vom Reiz der DVD als Medium für Pornofilme überzeugt, solange Preis und Qualität stimmen. Qualität steht auch bei Joydivision im Vordergrund. Inzwischen seit 20 Jahren erfolgreich im Geschäft, steht der Hersteller von Konsumwaren und Toys wie den Joyballs und den Joyballs anal Wave für seine Kunden nach wie vor für hochwertige Produkte „Made in Germany“. In dieser Ausgabe werfen wir auch einen Blick in die Niederlande, nämlich speziell zum Fetischwarenhersteller Mister B, der seit Kurzem einen neuen Flagship-Store in Antwerpen hat, und zu Rimba B.V. in Etten Leur. Dort bekam das Sign Magazine Einblick in die Produktion von Lederwaren vor Ort, die teilweise per Hand gefertigt werden. Außerdem erfahren Sie Neues und Interessantes über die neuen Womanizer-Modelle der epi24 Gmbh, PoS-Strategien Scala Playhouse und die Arbeit von WebGuard, die sich für Urheberinteressen in der Pornobranche einsetzen.

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Delmenhorst, Germany – The hot new January issue of Sign Magazine Germany can now be viewed online. Just at the beginning of the new year, there’s already a lot that we can report on …

There are new developments at VPS Film-Entertainment: The company has set up a new online shop especially for retailers. As long as price and quality add up, VPS is convinced that DVDs have a future as a medium for pornographic film. Quality is also the main focus at Joydivision. Even after 20 years in the adult business, the Hanover-based manufacturer’s products still have the constantly good reputation as quality products “Made in Germany”, which are both consumables and toys like the Joyballs and the Joyballs anal Wave. We are also taking a look at the business in the Netherlands in this issue, especially at Mister B, manufacturer of fetish products, who has recently opened a new flagship store in Antwerp, but also at Rimba B.V. located in Etten-Leur. Sign Magazine offers you an insight into leather production in place, with many products even being hand-made. We further inform you about the new Womanizer models by epi24 GmbH, PoS strategies at Scala Playhouse and the way WebGuard works, which is a society advocating for copyright in the porn industry.

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11.12.2014 | Ottawa, Canada – We-Vibe today announces an exclusive distribution agreement with Digital E-Life to bring the We-Vibe brand of sensual lifestyle products to India. Digital E-Life will soon offer the full line of We-Vibe couples and solo products to Indian consumers on its web store, thatspersonal.com, and through other leading e-commerce sites.
 


 
“Working together with Digital E-Life, we see tremendous opportunity for the We-Vibe brand in India,” says Beth Brown, International Business Development Director for We-Vibe. “We-Vibe is already globally recognized as the best known vibrator brand and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to partner with an innovative company to expand that reach into new territories.”
 
Digital E-Life, through its e-commerce site thatspersonal.com, has opened up the Indian market for new sexual health and wellness products. The company brings quality products from well-known global brands to Indian consumers with the aim of being the leader in discreet purchase and delivery.
 
“We want to introduce our buyers to the best products from the world’s leading brands and create a safe and conducive shopping experience for them,” said Samir Saraiya, CEO of Digital E-Life. We are thrilled to distribute We-Vibe in India because of their high quality innovative products as well as their commitment to excellence”.
 
We-Vibe is successful in designing and manufacturing high-quality, body-safe, eco-friendly intimate products. The original and signature couples’ product, We-Vibe, quickly became the fastest-selling sexual wellness product of its type in history. We-Vibe also offers a line of solo-use products including Touch by We-Vibe and Tango by We-Vibe. We-Vibe products are available in thousands of retail locations in over 50 countries. We-Vibe is from Standard Innovation, a Canadian company dedicated to shaping the future of sexual health and wellness.