2018 Year in Review

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

  • 1/4Kissa 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.
  • 1/19Romi 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

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

July

August

  • 8/8; The “68” sex position creates internet buzz.
  • 8/10: Brittany Andrews returns to porn.
  • 8/30Nikki 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

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.

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