For some reason, AVN pulled their link to this article.

Cytherea is alive, well, human and the subject of a good article in a local paper: Cytherea’s Rise, Fall, Rise, Et Cetera.

I wish our own porn “journalists” would write something like this about individuals in the industry, and knock aside some of the hype.

From TheAtlantic.com,

To everything (turn, turn, turn) … there is a season (turn, turn, turn) … and a time … to every purpose … under heaven.

So true, Bible. So true, Byrds. What the truisms neglect to tell us, however, is that “every purpose under heaven” includes not only planting and reaping and laughing and weeping, but also, apparently, performing porny Google searches.

We know this, now, because of the plantings and reapings of Science. According to a paper just published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, Internet pornography — like so many storms, like so much kale — is seasonal. Porn’s peak seasons? Winter and late summer.

Researchers at Villanova examined the Google trends for such commonly-searched-for terms as “porn,” “xxx,” “xxvideos” … and other, more descriptive phrases that, because I am looking at a portrait of James Russell Lowell as I write this, I will let you look up in the paper itself. Once they’d gathered those terms, the authors examined them in Google Trends. And what they found was a defined cycle featuring clear peaks and valleys — recurring at discernible six-month intervals. The cycle, as you can see in the chart above, maps surprisingly well to the world’s calendar seasons.

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Unemployment in Spain is over 50% for those under 25. That means big competition for Porn Valley, even if Berth Milton isn’t personally hiring - and the worst is yet to come.

This photo is of young Spaniards - male and female - lining up for a single porn shoot in Madrid. What will these young people do for money that you won’t do?

Full article: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/04/spains-unemployment-level-outrageous/51634/

Lux Alptraum, the new owner and CEO of Fleshbot, is profiled at Salon.com.

Maybe Fleshbot won’t be so annoying and scattered now that she’s in charge….

www.salon.com/2012/02/19/a_new_breed_of_porn_ceo_female

Hey, I’ve been out of the country for a couple of months and it’s high time to update some things that have become broken on the site or in the industry.

I’ve added some noteworthy new sites to the line-up of news feeds on The Floating World: Peeperz.com, ZZinsider.com, YNOT Europe, ThereIsNoMoneyInPorn.com, Striptaculous.com, Xbiz.net and Smutlife.com.

I’ve repaired some feeds that have been changed or broken on their proprietors’ end: Galaxy Publicity, Adult Chamber, LukeFord.com, OCModeling,com, PornStarPerformance.com, StarFactoryPR.com, Tod-Hunter.com and tonyBatman.com.

And a few sites have gone into the dumpster since they are no longer updated: Pornstar Babylon, PornStarsAfterHours.com, PornNewz.com, East Coast Adult News, IAmIvan.com and, surprisingly XPeeps.com, (since it is owned by AEBN, a thriving company).

If you know of other porn industry news sites I should include, or see other feeds I should drop, just let me know: terri@thefloatingworld.com.