Can porn go public? Porn isn't going away. While it has become a part of mainstream culture, adult entertainment remains on the public finance sidelines. The business is dominated by small owner-operated companies, obscuring financial details and stifling growth. To grow aggressively, the porn industry needs money, but the business has a long way to go before most companies are large enough even to consider IPOs. 15-7-2007

		The naked truth about strip clubs Everything is dark walking inside from the street, straining the eyes. The music is loud rock with a throbbing bass. Slowly, the eyes adjust to see red walls, leather chairs and couches, a bit of fluorescence on the walls. Then, into the main room, in the bright light from above, a blond woman is dancing to the rhythm on a raised stage, naked save for a minuscule bit of lingerie, sinuous as a Slinky. 15-7-2007

		Geek Squad is Peep Squad Geek Squad hatched plot to harvest porn from pornstar Jasmine Grey's hard drive, days before she died in car crash. A former Best Buy employee recounts yet another data snooping for pornography on users' computers that are brought in for repair. The retail chain has come under fire recently for a rash of data snooping incidents - usually related to pornography - on customer computers. 15-7-2007

		Dirty tricks of the sex.com scam Sex.com is one of the most valuable properties on the internet, worth $100 million a year and with 5 million page views a day. In 1995 it was stolen from its owner Gary Kremen - who fought for 12 years to win it back. In this extract from a new book by Kieren McCarthy, he tells the story of this ingenious scam. 'So one day, the name disappeared," explains Gary Kremen. "One day it said one thing, one day it said another." 15-7-2007

		Jessica Alba wants more cock Alba has stunned her teen fans by appealing for more male nudity in women's magazines. The 26-year-old actress is disgusted by the inequality between gender-targeted publications, and is leading a campaign for more explicit nudity for female readers. She says, "Men's magazines have nipples, so why don't women have a magazine where men show their penises? 15-7-2007

X-rated trade targeted by tax measure
Tax sex in California? A state lawmaker is pushing to tax X-rated products, sex shows, and explicit pay-per-view movies to help supplement public services. Assemblyman Charles Calderon said he is not attacking pornography, only trying to ease its impacts on neighborhoods. 15-7-2007

Porn: The elephant in the bedroom
Every sex therapist I spoke to said that in the Internet age it is a problem in many romantic relationships. But it is easily fixed, they advise. It's a matter of educating one (often, but not always, the woman) that she should be more broadminded and understand that her spouse's habit of masturbating to cyberporn is not tantamount to infidelity. 15-7-2007

Chicago: The most happy bordello
The great cathouse era of Chicago was in the first decade or so of the 20th century. This era and those cathouses have now been described with scrupulous concern for historical accuracy and in clear, lively prose by Karen Abbott in "Sin in the Second City." 15-7-2007

Selling sex toys in America: No men allowed
Patty Brisben had never even seen a sex toy before she started selling them from her home in 1983. She has now become a leading authority on everything from G-spot vibrators to strawberry lubricants. 15-7-2007

Travelling with porn? Think again
When a 29-year-old Thunder Bay resident landed at the Ottawa International Airport on June 16, he became the subject of the fifth kiddie porn seizure at that airport this year. 15-7-2007

Hate-crime trial has a weird twist
The teen says that the woman got into their car, and performed oral sex on him in the back seat while his friend drove. They ended up near a lifeguard tower on the island of Palm Beach after midnight. According to the 17-year-old, the woman was on top of him when he saw something he didn't expect under her bikini bottom. 15-7-2007

Fort Lauderdale mayor says $250K robotic toilet may put stop to 'illegal sex'
Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle has shifted his attention to a robotic toilet, saying the invention could have a special edge over a traditional restroom in preventing the "homosexual activity" that he said plagues other public restrooms. 15-7-2007

Porn star now seeks priesthood
Some people have their midlife crisis in reverse, like Ronald Boyer, who for most of his professional life has been better known as a star of pornographic films, Rod Fontana. 15-7-2007

Gay porn star Kent North dies at 35
Adult video performer Kent North died in London on July 4 of an apparent drug overdose, according to Hot House Entertainment, where he was under an exclusive contract. He was 35. 15-7-2007

Prosecutor under fire in teen sex case
District Attorney David McDade has handed out some 35 copies of a video of teenagers having sex at a party. 15-7-2007

Canada: Teen 'sexual predator'
A Barrie teen convicted of sexually assaulting several Grade 9 Bear Creek high school students is a "sexual predator" who should be kept away from girls, a Crown attorney told the court last week. 15-7-2007

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