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The Show Must Go On: Paxum and Clickadu on Navigating the Pandemic By Gene Zorkin The COVID-19 pandemic and public health response to it has created a disruption the likes of which the business world has never seen – and certainly which the adult industry has never seen. The only relatively recent historical precedent for an epidemic on the global scale of COVID-19 took place in 1918 – an era when, I think it’s safe to say, the term “adult entertainment industry” wasn’t yet part of anyone’s lexicon. While the adult industry has, in some ways, been impacted less severely by the pandemic and related
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business shutdowns that have happened in many other market sectors, COVID-19 and the public health response have certainly been extremely disruptive. The industry experienced a widescale, if “voluntary” production hold. As directors and producers recently interviewed by YNOT have detailed, film crew members and other behind-the-scenes players struggled to make ends meet and were eager to get back to work. Fans everywhere are doubtlessly thirsty for new content featuring their favorite
