Naughty America: a veteran studio that went VR early, mind the trial terms.

What is Naughty America?

Naughty America is an independent, privately held porn studio based in San Diego. It was started in June 2001 by Andreas Hronopoulos under the name SoCal Cash, took the Naughty America name in 2004, and its trademark is held by La Touraine Inc.

It has a habit of chasing new technology. It began shooting in ultra-high definition in January 2014, announced VR content at CES in January 2016, and in 2018 floated a paid service to edit customers’ faces into scenes, which its CEO defended as “just editing.”

How Naughty America works

You join, then browse and watch scenes from the studio’s catalogue in your browser. Alongside regular scenes it offers VR scenes, which have traditionally meant downloading files and opening them in a headset’s video player rather than an app store.

Recent user reviews praise the amount of content but not the site itself: they complain about limited search, no sorting by date, pages that don’t always load and ads even for paying members. It’s a big library that can be hard to dig through.

What’s free and what isn’t

Full scenes need a paid membership that renews until you cancel. Be careful with trials: a 2023 US class action against the company and its payment processor, Epoch, alleged that a $1.95 three-day trial also signed people up to another adult site at $31.95 a month, even if they cancelled the trial. We couldn’t find how the case ended.

Where you live matters too. Twenty-seven US states have passed age-verification laws for porn sites, and since 25 July 2025 the UK has required “highly effective” age checks, so expect to prove your age, or find the site unavailable, depending on where you are.

How it’s run, and the red flags

Its worst moment for customers came in March 2016, when data on about 1.4 million accounts, including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and passwords, was stolen and sold online. The company said payment details are held by outside processors and weren’t affected.

The 2018 face-swap idea also raised consent questions: the company said performers would agree, but critics asked how it would check that customers had permission for the faces they sent in. Add the trial-billing lawsuit, and this is a real, long-running business whose checkout and data handling deserve a close look.