They were announced last week, but then they were un-announced but now they’ve been re-announced! (Supposedly, someone accidentally published the page before it was supposed to go live). But anyway, the 2014 Cybersocket Award Nominees have OFFICIALLY been announced.…
Timber Brown, an acrobat who made it to the semi-final round on this season of “America’s Got Talent”, jerked off for DirtyTony in 2006.…
Or at least the way gay culture does. Some tall poppies in Sydney raised money for anti-bullying efforts, then decided instead to make a video full of whimsy and tiny hats and talking mimes to celebrate whimsy and tiny hats …
Leave it to an aesthetic wizard like Michael Lucas to conjure up beads of ejaculate as perfect in their droplet-ness as on the tears on a Disney princess, and as immune to gravity as basket of a butterfly kisses. …
What’s the best way to make a Jersey Shore sequel and still disguising that your cameras have never actually stepped foot near the the boardwalk? Have the characters take a trip to Hollywood, only minutes from your beach side set …
Is their a better argument for redefining marriage than Cole and Hunter from Maverick Men? I’m fairly sure that Rick Santorum would rather marry a horse than allow the barebacking former Xtube couple to consecrate their non-monogamous sexlationship.…
If you listened to drag queens, you’d think that them and Valerie Solanis were the only ones that ever did anything after Stonewall . You know who they’re trying to erase? GAY HIPPIES.…
For all of you who dismiss gay porn as nothing more than soulless encounters between cash-starved party boys, we offer you this: a gallery of porn stars in love from Ben Leon's just-released and aptly named "Porn Stars in Love."
Microsoft just rolled out a new search engine, Bing.com, hoping to beat Google for online purchases by promising cash back and better results. We thought we'd test it for things we might actually be willing to pay for. 
Director and porn star Collin O'Neal announced today that he's leaving the business due to the preponderance of free porn.
With shifts in the gay industry press, the Grabbys may soon be the only gay porn awards in town. And if they continue to be as exciting as this year's, we don't think anyone will complain. 
While everyone else was passed out on GHB, The Sword dutifully recorded every grunt and groan of the 2009 Grabby Awards this past weekend in Chicago.Â
The Sword is in Chicago for The Grabbys and the International Mr. Leather competition, but we aren't leaving you behind. In fact, we're hoping you'll come rescue us.
Yes, The Sword has totally shifted into US Weekly mode. With summer right around the corner, we thought we'd check in with our favorite paragons of aesthetic virtue to see how porn stars prepare themselves for the never-ending scrutiny of the beach paparazzi. 
When Raging Stallion director Ben Leon asked us to help edit the interview footage from his upcoming Porn Stars In Love feature, we jumped at it. After all, it [...]
We love Matt Siegel's investigative reporting. The cub reporter has exposed Bruce Vilanch's handsiness and 
Of all our favorite Bea Arthur stories, none beats this one from our unabashed correspondent Matt Siegel who once had the dubious honor of driving Miss Arthur to an [...]
Watch out, Jessie Helms -- someone younger and hungrier is about to push you down the stairs! SF Weekly writer Matt Smith has he's gotten porn site Kink.com banned from a California-subsidized program that trains Bay Area video professionals because the site is "medieval" and grosses him out. 
Anal lining aside, sultry soap star David Taylor doesn't consider moving to gay porn to be much of a stretch.
We suspect that most of the attendees of the GayVN Awards have no firm memory of the actual event. So as a public service, we at The Sword offer you this unvarnished look at the booze-soaked parties, the booze-soaked brunches and the pop-em-if-you-got-em circus known as the GayVN [...]
And you thought we wouldn't be able to sex up Tax Day! We asked some of our favorite porn stars and sex workers to see how they lowered their debt to Uncle Sam (and no, it doesn't involve writing off pity fucks as charitable contributions). 
John Waters' latest exhibition features children smoking, a large ham, a huge bottle of poppers and absolutely nothing to do with Erik Rhodes.
Is it possible that Janice Dickinson took home more than her appearance fee when she hosted the 2009 GayVN gay porn awards last month? 
Next to the Chrysler building, Michael Lucas's abs may very well be one of New York's most enduring icons. But just as Rome wasn't built in a day, [...]
Thousands of San Franciscans filled Dolores Park for the city's annual Hunky Jesus contest, a part of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Easter celebration.
Lady Gaga will be performing at the White Party this weekend and if promoter Jeffrey Sanker has his way, she'll never stop. 
Yes, you heard right!. Former talk show queen and star of such hits as Mrs Winterborne and Murder, She Purred is using her slimmed down derriere to help the hapless reality rejects score a man, or something. Possibly. 
We've been waiting nearly two years for someone to adapt Wild Hogs into a porno, but it looks like Hollywood has again beat the adult industry to the punch. 
While most porn stars prepared for the GayVNs by stocking up on chicken breast and GHB, one-time porn couple Scott Tanner and Damian Rios partnered with Stop AIDS Project to create a series of informercials stressing the importance of using condoms. 
The ever-charming and ever-risqué Dolly Parton saddled up to 60 Minutes last night and revealed that she's always been attracted to tits -- no matter what they're on.
This morning Queerty editor Japhy Grant laid out a rather loaded question to his readers: Can gay porn ever be legit? Posed as part of a neutral Friday Forum, he offered this hand-wrung analysis in the form [...]
The reason your mom got a Brazilian wax has its roots in a fear of AIDS, or so says a researcher at Elizabethtown University in Pennsylvania. 
When we didn't hear from our far-flung correspondant Nick Capra [...]
Twink powerbottom Caleb Carter hung himself this Saturday in San Diego, leaving the porn industry confused and saddened.
Here's one more change in the Obama Era: gay VOD powerhouse NakedSword-AEBN and top gay producers Raging Stallion-Pistol Media have announced [...]
Adult industry trade magazine Adult Video News has the answer to porn producers faced with declining sales: more use of the word Negro! 
Last week, gay porn gadfly Jason Curious provided Facebook friends with a blow-by-blow account of his sex-filled Vegas weekend, despite the fact that we hadn't asked and were in the middle of eating. (You can thank us later for sparing you the hair-gel-as-lube and unicorn-thonged details). 
While we've been spared Obama-themed promotions from gay porn companies, East Harlem-based Pitbull Productions couldn't help but mine Dr. King for a little economic stimulus.
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When porn star boyfriends Damien Crosse and Francesco D'Macho moved to Madrid together last fall, we never would have imagined the seeminly limitless amounts of depravity the two would [...]
The Rentboy.com Dirty Secret Party this weekend at the Blue Moon Resort in Vegas had so many seniors and so much discount chicken you might have confused it for a Coral Gables Denny's, but that didn't mean The Sword couldn't get into a little trouble. 
The Adult Entertainment Expo in Vegas doesn't generally draw large gay crowds, but this year there was one product everyone was gagging [...]
Falcon's Matthew Rush isn't dead yet, but the massive star has ended his LIFETIME exclusive with the legendary studio.
Last year gave us new forms of art like novels written on cellphones, text message embroidery and creative 
It's been a historic year, for sure. There was the election thing, and the financial thing, and the war thing, but honestly while you were talking about all those things we were staring at your crotch. Here, in short-attention-span and flesh-filled form is the gay porn industry's Year of Magical Sphincting.
The Secret of NIMH is actually ecstasy and dance music, according to some European researchers who tested their hypothesis by giving lab rats MDMA while bombarding them with loud music. Turns out, all the dancing and trancing led to less fucking.
Also, possibly, men in skirts. 
And no, it's not from the 13-inch penis he took last week.
This Saturday, the acclaimed univerisity will attempt to rap with a lisp and a limp.
And no, it doesn't smell like JLo Glow.
Steve Cruz is a pubic disgrace! 
Aspiring porn star Conner Habib is using his platform to stump for more than just schtupping. 
