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 26 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
L. 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
R. 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
M. 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
M. 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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Published: Erika Lust and the rise of feminist erotic cinema
M. 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)
R. 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
L. 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
L. 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
M. 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
L. 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.
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