By opening its archives, the New York Times has created a mine of well written, well researched background information on anything you can enter a search string for.
If you’re interested in the porn industry, here’s a listing of some the best articles they’ve written on the business. There are many more if you dig.
For Pornographers, Internet’s Virtues Turn to Vices
Why porn isn’t selling anymore.
Published: June 2, 2007
A Disciplined Business
A profile of Kink.com.
Published: April 29, 2007
Campus Exposure
Looking at Harvard’s porn magazine.
Published: March 4, 2007
In Raw World of Sex Movies, High Definition Could Be a View Too Real
The perils of HD pornography.
Published: January 22, 2007
The Graying of Naughty
De’Bella and 50+ pornstars.
Published: December 31, 2006
The Student Body
Sexy student magazines.
Published: April 23, 2006
Naked Came the Vintner
A look at Savanna Samson’s wine business.
Published: February 26, 2006
When the Car Beside You Is an XXX Theater
Is it fair to watch porn in your car?
Published: October 27, 2004
Strip Club’s Cover Charge Is Voter Registration Card
A Texas strip club gets political.
Published: October 5, 2004
Credit Cards Seek New Fees on Web’s Demimonde
VISA put the squeeze on porn sites.
Published: November 18, 2002
A Demimonde in Twilight
The end of the golden age of porn magazines.
Published: June 2, 2002
Cybersmut and Debt Undermine Penthouse
The death of Penthouse
Published: April 8, 2002
EROTICA INC. — A special report.; Technology Sent Wall Street Into Market for Pornography
The mainstream’s most successful pornographers.
Published: October 23, 2000
What Sex Sites Can Teach Everyone Else
When online porn was still the future.
Published: September 22, 1999
Sex Shops on the Defensive, But Far From Stamped Out
Rudolph W. Giuliani’s imperfect war on porn.
Published: January 26, 1999
Pornography As a Way Of Life
A brief review of the Al Goldstein documentary ‘Screwed’.
Published: January 10, 1997
Virtual Porn: Ultimate Tease
When the future was CD ROMs and Prodigy chatrooms.
Published: October 4, 1995
Tremor Slows ‘Porn Capital’
How the Northridge earthquake hit the jizz bizz.
Published: January 31, 1994
Porn, the Low-Slung Engine of Progress
A history of porn and innovation from the earliest novels to teledildonics.
Published: January 9, 1994
‘900′ Telephone Business Withers as Problems Rise
The death of the 900 number.
Published: April 21, 1993
Access of Young to Telephone Pornography Faces Key Challenge in
Protecting minors from the interne… phone.
Published: November 22, 1987
(You’ll need a free registration but if you don’t think the NYT archive is worth an email address you’re a hippy who should get off the internet because you’re slowing the rest of us down. You have to provide more information than that to get a library card.)
Sammy baby- you used the wrong form of “its” again.
A possessive “its” shouldn’t have an apostrophe, as “it’s” is a contraction of “it is”. You’re not trying to say “By opening it is archives”, now, are you?
Tsk, tsk.
Amazing that the NYT would have this much good information available
Furry - As I get this right more than 50% of the time I hope you realize it’s statistically improbable that I’m guessing how to punctuate correctly. I’m just a blogger without a proof-reader /degree in English Literature.
Plus, as an Englishman I reserve the right to change English when and where I want to. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
I didn’t even go to high school, so don’t go throwing the degree thing at me. I just have a thing about pluralization.
And anyway, you have me as your proof-reader/slave-trainer.