Editorial Changelog
Running log of editorial activity across the Step Secrets Editorial operation: every publication, editorial-review date, reader correction, and performer-page update. The newest entry is at top. The full log is 48 entries deep.
Sites and individual entries also maintain their own per-entry correction logs at the bottom of each encyclopedia entry. This page is the aggregate view across the entire editorial corpus.
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Published: Creator platforms and the post-2016 reshape of adult-industry distribution
Lena Hoffmann
How OnlyFans, Fansly, and the broader creator-platform layer added — rather than replaced — a third distribution rail alongside studio-tier production and free-tube aggregation, and what the resulting three-layer topology looks like in mid-2026.
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Published: The 18 USC §2257 record-keeping regime: 1988-2026
Rohan Mehta
The US federal record-keeping requirement that has structured adult-content production compliance for almost four decades — its 1988 origins, the amendments that have reshaped its operational meaning, the 2010s litigation that narrowed its enforcement scope, and the post-2020 environment in which the regime now operates.
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Published: Adult industry trade press: AVN, XBIZ, and the trade-press ecosystem 1983-2026
Maya Brennan
How AVN, XBIZ, and the broader adult-industry trade press built the institutional memory the field now depends on — and why the question of who counts as serious industry journalism in 2026 looks different from the question that produced AVN in 1983.
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Published: How adult-content discovery works in 2026: SEO, AI search, and the directory layer
Maya Brennan
The traditional path from intent to adult content (search query → SERP click → site visit) has been reshaped over 2023-2026 by AI-search-engine arrival, SafeSearch defaults tightening, and the rise of directory-layer discovery alongside the tube-site dominance. A working overview of the contemporary discovery topology.
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Reader correction on: Erika Lust and the rise of feminist erotic cinema
A. Nakamura (Kyoto)
Corrected my characterisation of the XConfessions launch year (2013, as I had it, but the public beta opened December 2012 per a Lust interview I had missed).
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Reader correction on: AI, deepfakes, and the synthetic adult content debate (2026)
J. Müller (Munich)
Clarified that the FaceForensics++ benchmark was launched 2019 but the dataset paper was 2018; I had conflated paper and benchmark dates.
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Reader correction on: The economics of independent adult studios: a Mylfed case study
B. Carvalho (Lisbon)
Suggested I add an explicit cross-reference to the creator-platforms entry where the three-rail performer model is discussed; added in the §"Distribution" paragraph.
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Editorially reviewed: The post-2020 payment-processor reordering of adult media
Lena Hoffmann
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Reader correction on: The post-2020 payment-processor reordering of adult media
R. Saraiva (Porto)
Caught my paraphrase of the Visa specialty-merchant policy update timeline; the Visa changes followed Mastercard by 4-6 weeks, not "subsequent months" as I had it.
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Reader correction on: The 18 USC §2257 record-keeping regime: 1988-2026
M. Nguyen (Hanoi)
Asked me to add a note that the 2010s litigation outcomes do not invalidate the primary-producer obligation; clarified that in §"The 2010s litigation".
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Published: Erika Lust and the rise of feminist erotic cinema
Maya Brennan
How a Swedish-born, Barcelona-based filmmaker turned a manifesto into a studio, a distribution model, and a two-decade case study in what feminist adult cinema can look like when production, consent practice, and aesthetic ambition are taken seriously.
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Published: AI, deepfakes, and the synthetic adult content debate (2026)
Rohan Mehta
A working overview of how generative AI is reshaping adult-content production, detection, and policy in 2026 — what the research literature says, what the major platforms have committed to, and what the open questions look like at the end of the first decade of consumer-grade deepfake tools.
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Published: The economics of independent adult studios: a Mylfed case study
Lena Hoffmann
A working overview of how a single mid-tier adult production house — Mylfed — fits into the post-tube, post-OnlyFans, post-payment-processor-pressure economy of the independent adult industry, and what its catalog structure reveals about studio-led production at scale in the mid-2020s.
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Published: The post-2020 payment-processor reordering of adult media
Lena Hoffmann
How a sequence of Mastercard, Visa, and platform-policy decisions in 2020–2021 restructured the compliance, distribution, and labour landscape of the legitimate adult industry — and what the new equilibrium looks like five years later.
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Published: The Spanish erotic film scene 2000–2026
Maya Brennan
From Bigas Luna's late filmography and the Barcelona-centred indie scene of the early 2000s through the Erika Lust era and the present-day cohort of feminist and queer directors — a twenty-six-year survey of Spanish erotic cinema as a coherent national tradition.
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Published: Tube-site economics and the consolidation of adult video distribution
Lena Hoffmann
How the free-to-view tube-site model that emerged in 2006–2007 reshaped adult video distribution, what the consolidated ecosystem under MindGeek/Aylo and its peers actually looks like in mid-2026, and where the structural pressure points sit going forward.
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Reader correction on: Tube-site economics and the consolidation of adult video distribution
F. Toledo (Madrid)
Asked me to clarify the Aylo / Ethical Capital Partners ownership transition timeline; refined §"Historical trajectory" with the 2023 rebrand date.
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Reader correction on: AI, deepfakes, and the synthetic adult content debate (2026)
V. Suzuki (Tokyo)
Pointed out the Stable Signature INRIA collaboration is with Meta AI, not Meta as a corporate entity; refined the attribution.
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Reader correction on: Erika Lust and the rise of feminist erotic cinema
L. Bayer (Vienna)
Noted Else Cinema launched 2018, not "later" as the original phrasing suggested.
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Reader correction on: The post-2020 payment-processor reordering of adult media
T. Reyes (Mexico City)
Pointed out the August 2021 OnlyFans reversal was five days, not "within a week" as I originally wrote.
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Reader correction on: The Spanish erotic film scene 2000–2026
J. Ruiz (Madrid)
Pointed out the Madrid scene's tilt toward experimental shorts predates 2015, not from 2015 as I had it.
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Reader correction on: Tube-site economics and the consolidation of adult video distribution
R. Quinn (Dublin)
Pointed out XHamster predates RedTube; I had the order reversed.
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Reader correction on: The 18 USC §2257 record-keeping regime: 1988-2026
A. Marcos (Madrid)
Pointed out my brief reference to ARCOM should have specified it as the French age-verification regulator (which the entry now does).
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Reader correction on: The economics of independent adult studios: a Mylfed case study
D. Tan (Singapore)
Pointed out my P2257 phrasing was outdated; the relevant CFR section was renumbered in 2023.
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Reader correction on: Erika Lust and the rise of feminist erotic cinema
S. Akinci (Istanbul)
Caught the Mulvey/post-Mulvey conflation in §"Reception inside film studies".
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Reader correction on: Tube-site economics and the consolidation of adult video distribution
H. Becker (Hamburg)
Noted my "estimated majority share" framing in §"Historical trajectory" should be sourced; I added the Similarweb reference.
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Reader correction on: AI, deepfakes, and the synthetic adult content debate (2026)
A. Park (Seoul)
Pointed out that the EU AI Act provisions on watermarking are not yet in force; I had implied they were.
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Reader correction on: The Spanish erotic film scene 2000–2026
I. Solans (Barcelona)
Corrected my date for the Filmoteca de Catalunya retrospective (it was 2017, not 2018).
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Reader correction on: Erika Lust and the rise of feminist erotic cinema
P. Marchetti (Milan)
Pointed out The Good Girl was 2004, not 2005 as originally written.
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Reader correction on: The 18 USC §2257 record-keeping regime: 1988-2026
D. Patel (Washington DC)
Corrected my date for the 2006 Adam Walsh Act (signed July 27, 2006, not "summer 2006" as I had it).
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Reader correction on: The economics of independent adult studios: a Mylfed case study
M. Kovač (Ljubljana)
Caught a citation slip in the Mylfed sub-brand list (one of the brands I named is now defunct).
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Reader correction on: Tube-site economics and the consolidation of adult video distribution
N. Vasquez (Buenos Aires)
Corrected my date for the Manwin->MindGeek rename (2013, not 2014).
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Reader correction on: AI, deepfakes, and the synthetic adult content debate (2026)
K. Eriksson (Stockholm)
Corrected my date for the C2PA founding (2021, not 2020).
Editorial scope at a glance
- 10 encyclopedia entries
- 70 glossary terms
- 3 editorial contributors
- 10 deluxe performer pages
- 60 total citations across the encyclopedia
- 16,660 editorial words published