CHATSWORTH, Calif.—In just the past month two of the largest (remaining) adult studios announced their Fall, Winter and, in one case, 2010 lineup of parody productions. The land rush is on and about to get really serious. Expect other studios to fall in line, pronto. There is a limited amount of territory remaining to be staked out and planting a flag in the ground is exactly what those recent, and any future, announcements is all about.

BRISBANE, Australia – We can now declare the global economic downturn a bona-fide depression: Erotic Airways, the three-year-old airline formed expressly for the purpose of providing the adventurous a lift into the exclusive ranks of Mile High Club members, has mothballed its sole plane due to economic hard times.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Blackbox Republic, a new company focused on reinventing the online relationship market, emerged from stealth-mode Wednesday with $1 million in seed funding. The company claims it has created an all-new community exchange platform that combines social networking, event planning, e-commerce and mobile.

The first Blackbox Republic offering will be tailored for members of the world’s sex-positive movement, a large and growing community that is not served by public social networks or transactional dating sites, a spokesman said.

BEIJING - In its continuing campaign to snuff out China-bound pornography on the Internet, the Chinese government has warned companies that provide third party billing that they should cease providing such services to companies that sell pornography and other lewd material online.

The warning, via the police, came on the heels of an investigation into a case in north China's Hebei Province in which people were charged for selling memberships to porn sites using third-party payment services, according to the Shanghai Daily.

TOKYO - The good news is that the user-base for mobile porn is expanding rapidly, and will continue to grow at ever-escalating rates for the foreseeable future; the bad news is that the explosion in porn downloads is overloading mobile networks.

Case in point, Japan, a leader in mobile network infrastructure and investment, which is itself at the breaking point, capacity-wise, due to the 91 million Japanese who now surf the Internet using mobile devices to download movies, music, games and, increasingly, porn.

According to Bloomberg, despite very healthy profits, mobile carriers DoCoMo and KDDI Corp. have been forced to impose limits on the heaviest users as the country's $74 billion network feels the strain.

COTAI, Macau - The second annual Asia Adult Expo (AAE) will take place Dec. 4-6 at the Venetian Macau Resort Hotel.

The event provides international buyers and manufacturers the opportunity to explore the latest adult-oriented market trend and products and network with companies rfom around the world. Professional seminars also are held during the expo, which last year attrected visitors from Australia, Canada, Chinese Mainland, Holland, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Spain, Switzerland and the United States.

LOS ANGELES – Unzipped Media has added GayWired.com to its family of print and electronic publications covering the LGBT community.

GayWired will continue to provide a hip, youthful spin on celebrity and pop-culture topics — including breaking news, politics, entertainment, photos and gossip — for which it has become known, the new owners indicated.

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. - The Maxpayments processing company has built a solid reputation among domestic merchants by providing exceptional turn-key payment processing services. Now Maxpayments takes the next step by expanding their reach to include the most popular global payment options via the announcement of their new strategic partnership with 2000Charge. The landmark deal allows Maxpayments clients to accept EuroDebit transactions and reach untapped customer segments by converting international clients, thus increasing sales.