Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
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Image-based abuse: tracking the law, the tech, and the gap between them
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News Rising popularity of VR headsets prompts inclusion in UK’s inflation calculation
The UK's ONS added VR headsets to its inflation basket for the first time in 2025, a quiet acknowledgment of mainstream adoption that includes, unofficially, the VR porn market driving much of that household
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News Lelo F2S penis stroker adds AI for stamina and pelvic floor training
Lelo's F2S masturbator adds AI-guided stamina training and Kegel coaching via app, with gyroscope-synced movement and a $199 price tag matching its F1S V3 predecessor.
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Analysis Rise of AI kissing apps creates tangle of ethics issues
AI kissing apps like Pollo.ai, Vidu, and Filmora are generating non-consensual deepfake videos without legal consequence, exposing a gap in existing deepfake laws that focus on explicit content.
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News ‘The next phase of human-computer interaction’: Clone robot pre-orders to open this year
Clone Robotics will open pre-orders for Clone Alpha in 2025, a humanoid robot with over 1,000 hydraulic artificial muscles designed to mimic human movement.
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News Womanizer launches Enhance to combine ‘rumbly’ vibrations with its Pleasure Air tech
Womanizer's Enhance combines Pleasure Air clitoral stimulation tech with dual-motor rumbly vibrations, selling at $159 in three colorways.
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News ‘Digital faithfulness’ Ring lights up if your partner cheats
Raw dating app's biometric 'faithfulness' ring claims to alert partners to each other's arousal states via LED signals, raising immediate surveillance and consent concerns.
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News FirmTech launches RingMate vibrator that attaches to erection-monitoring smart rings
FirmTech launches the $125 RingMate clitoris vibrator, designed to attach to its erection-monitoring TechRing, alongside news of a forthcoming female arousal-tracking wearable called the Clitique.
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News Grok 3 ‘Sexy’ mode brings explicit AI chat to the mainstream
xAI's Grok 3 launched in beta with a "sexy" voice chat mode that delivers explicit sexual roleplay, putting it well outside the guardrails of mainstream AI chatbots like ChatGPT.
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News Kiiroo launches PleasureDrive, a tip-activated rival to Lovense’ sex machines
Kiiroo launches the PleasureDrive, a $549 tip-activated sex machine built with HiSmith, entering direct competition with Lovense's machine lineup.
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News ChatGPT now lets you write erotica, following guidelines update
OpenAI updated its Model Spec to permit erotica generation in limited contexts, stopping well short of full adult content but marking a measurable loosening of ChatGPT's long-standing restrictions.
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News Apple ‘deeply concerned’ about native iPhone porn app Hot Tub
Apple called itself 'deeply concerned' after Hot Tub, a native iPhone porn app aggregating Pornhub and xHamster content, launched on AltStore PAL under EU Digital Markets Act sideloading rules Apple can't legally block.
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News Autoblow ‘addiction warning’ highlights usage time, and potential privacy issues
Autoblow's Brian Sloan revealed 15% of users spend over an hour daily with the device synced to porn, prompting a self-imposed addiction warning label that doubles as a publicity move.
