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Women in adult entertainment are taking the lead behind the scenes. Last year after diving down the rabbit hole of VR porn marketed toward women, I wanted to know more about the people who created it. I was wondering who was trying to satisfy the wants and needs of women, a question that long-troubled Sigmund Freud. (Yet didn’t prevent him from making bogus claims about women’s sexuality even as he admitted ignorance.) I thought most of the VR porn directors and producers would have been women themselves. But actually, the responses I collected from studios showed the gender breakdown [...]

Watch Video… Moderated by Dr. Chauntelle Tibbals Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018 at noon in the Andaz hotel in Hollywood, venue for the XBIZ 2018 event series. In today’s industry, ethical content production is imperative — but what constitutes ethical in practice, as well as within the context of our constantly evolving social landscape? This discussion, hosted by Mindbrowse.com and Ethical.porn, dug deep into “ethical” as it pertains to adult content production. Event participants included performer and custom video producer, Casey Calvert; Grooby’s Marketing and Editorial Director and owner of Ikigai Marketing, Kristel Penn; Lead Director of YanksVR.com and Yanks.com, Lily Campbell; owner of Venus Lux [...]

The recipe for Yanks’ success has followed a straight line over its 15 years — the adult entertainment portal provides real girls and real orgasms. Plain and simple. Leading that charge is Billie Miller who, along with life partner Todd Spaits, took a risk and built an adult brand from the ground up and is now taking Yanks into a new frontier — the immersive world. Yes, experiencing those real girls and real orgasms in virtual reality is the ticket, and Miller knows it. “There are so many VR opportunities that we have some fun brainstorming ideas [...]

SEATTLE—YanksVR, a female-produced virtual reality porn site and content studio, picked up two AVN Awards nominations for 2018. The amateur erotica VR studio received an award nomination for Best Virtual Reality Product/Site, as well as a Best Virtual Reality Sex Scene nod for “Olive Glass Makes Verronica Cum Hard.” “Thank you AVN for the industry support and these two incredible nominations,” said Yanks.com CEO Billie Miller. “We are committed to creating amazing all-female amateur erotica that fans will want to watch over and over.” YanksVR scenes are shot with the highest quality camera equipment that gives viewers a realistic [...]

“The porn world is a magical place, it has rules and politics of its own creation, but it still falls victim to all of the struggles the “real” world faces,” writes porn actress Janice Griffith in a Medium blogpost this October. Griffith, best known for movies such as ‘Squirt in My Face,’ and ‘I Have a Wife,’ is referring to the discrimination and sexism that sex workers deal with on a daily basis. But porn actresses also suffer from a rather unique problem — not being able to spend their money on business-related services. Due to antiquated morality clauses, porn [...]