A Look Back at 2018 in Porn & Sex
2018: what an incredible year for porn, for sex, and for Adult Empire! Take a look back, supplemented by posts from the Adult Empire Blog throughout the year.
January
- 1/4: Kissa Sins joins Jules Jordan Video.
- 1/5: Reports circulate that Playboy may end its iconic print edition.
- 1/17: Mia Malkova makes waves when she appears in an Indian docudrama.
- 1/19: Romi Rain is among the big winners at XBIZ 2018.
- 1/22: The Donald Trump/Stormy Daniels controversy roars on as Daniels zooms to the top of Adult Empire’s pornstar rankings.
- 1/26: CNBC announces its annual Dirty Dozen.
- 1/29: Adult Empire captures its 12th win as Best Retail Site at the 2018 AVN Awards and Angela White wins Performer of the Year. (Watch AE’s red carpet interviews here.)
February
- 2/7: Adult Empire launches its 20th anniversary celebration with a series of videos and blogs looking back at two decades in the industry.
- 2/8: Chelsea (AE sex toy guru) visits the Fleshlight factory.
- 2/8: Stormy Daniels joins Digital Playground.
- 2/14: Lisa Ann announces her return to porn in an Instagram post.
March
- 3/8: Aubrey Kate makes history as one of porn’s first transgender contract stars.
- 3/21: In a porn cliche gone wrong, Christiana Cinn endures a puzzling proposition from her pizza delivery man.
April
- 4/5: A couple joining the Mile High Club becomes a viral video.
- 4/18: Lisa Ann’s comeback movie debuts.
- 4/26: Stormy Daniels is named the Penthouse Pet of the Century.
May
- 5/10: Bonnie Rotten announces she’s making a porn comeback.
- 5/16: As the world watches the latest royal wedding, hardcore audiences enjoy Spizoo‘s royal spoof of the high-class nuptials.
June
- 6/20: Elegant Angel introduces the latest volume of its popular Best New Starlets series.
July
- 7/3: Whorecraft VR debuts.
- 7/4: The Magic Wand celebrates 50 years as the world’s best-known sex toy.
- 7/5: Drake gives a shout-out to Evil Angel and Vivid in his latest track.
- 7/18: A new study points to threesomes and group sex as the biggest sex fantasies.
August
- 8/8; The “68” sex position creates internet buzz.
- 8/10: Brittany Andrews returns to porn.
- 8/30: Nikki Benz gets scolded for checking out her (decidedly PG) Facebook page on a plane. (Facebook later updates its content regulations to exclude most adult content and references to sex.)
September
- 9/13: Alexis Fawx stars in her first anal scene.
- 9/13: Prolific pornstar Kyle Stone dies at 54.
- 9/27: The long-awaited sequel to Fallen debuts.
- 9/27: What’s a “devil’s triangle”? The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings bring certain sex terms into the spotlight.
October
- 10/13: Angela White wins the top AE pornstar ranking for a record 13th straight time.
- 10/16: Kendra Sunderland returns to porn after a temporary retirement.
- 10/31: Angela White releases I Am Angela, another in an impressive lineup of 2018 showcase features.
November
- 11/6: Prinzzess marks 10 years as a Girlfriends Films contract star.
- 11/15: Anna Bell Peaks retires from porn.
- 11/21: Dana Vespoli ends her long and successful tenure as a Sweetheart Video director.
- 11/29: A report alleges that Hugh Hefner disposed of his secret sex tapes by dumping them into the ocean using a weighted coffin.
December
- 12/2018: Adult Empire’s YouTube channel hits 100,000 subscribers.
- 12/5: Dakota Skye returns to porn.
- 12/17: Tumblr bans pornography, setting off a discussion about the place of adult entertainment in the social media landscape.
- 12/17: Angela White is crowned Adult Empire’s inaugural Empire Pornstar of the Year.
