Dave
Navarro takes to porn
With
the Rock Star TV series going down in flames after a
dismal season last year (thanks T-Bonehead), Dave
Navarro had a bit of time on his hands and idle hands
are the devil's playthings so Navarro is moving into a
new entertainment medium: pornography.
4-9-2007
Locals grin and bear site hijacking by porn barons
First, porn barons hijacked a parish
website - now, they're touting sex on a dotcom aimed at
attracting tourists to the south-west of the country.
The latest casualty is the Beara Peninsula in west Cork.
4-9-2007
Porn trailblazers guessed right - sex became big business
The death of sex
impresario Jim Mitchell following an apparent heart
attack last week was a major time-capsule moment. In a
city that has long fashioned itself as the country's
singular feel-good fiefdom of pleasure and personal
liberties, Jim and his late brother, Artie Mitchell,
earned the honorific of San Francisco's once-and-forever
Porn Kings. 30-7-2007
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
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
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
Pornographers taking their lumps on 'Net?
You might say the pornography industry
has been hoisted on its own ... well, let's not go
there. It's long been taken as a truism in the
technology world that when it comes to exploiting the
latest and greatest gadgets and services, purveyors of
pornography have been out there leading the pack,
particularly on the Internet.
1-7-2007
Texas: Police raid lingerie shop
An
obscure law sends one local lingerie store clerk to
jail. And now she may forever have to register as a sex
offender. The lingerie store, Somethin' Sexy was raided
by police last week for violating Lubbock`s sexually
oriented business ordinance.
31-5-2007
'Porn' auction shows sex sells
The
free market has spoken: Sex is worth more than porn.
That's one conclusion from the near record-breaking
auction of an Internet domain name announced this week.
The rights to Porn.com brought in the second-highest
payment for an address since the Web's creation, with
closely held MXN Ltd. forking over $9.5 million.
22-5-2007
Mansion likely paid for through porn
When 34-year-old Cable Rosenberg's
13,500-square-foot Tudor style mansion was profiled this
year, thousands of viewers clicked on an online
slideshow, hoping to catch a glimpse inside one of the
most expensive homes in the Southeast Valley.
16-5-2007
COMMENTARY
Porn again: Liberal media
If I had intentionally
set out to write an article intended to provoke a
backlash that made liberals look like a bunch of leering
louts eager to ogle 18-year-old girls and transform
society into a deregulated libertarian paradise where
low-income women are routinely exploited.
22-5-2007
Alabama sex-toy ban goes to Supreme Court
The owner of adult stores in Alabama
asked the Supreme Court on Monday to throw out a state
ban on selling sex toys, calling it an unconstitutional
intrusion into the bedroom.
22-5-2007
Porn shot at BSU now available at local adult store
The pornographic film
that stirred controversy on the Ball State University
campus during Spring Semester is now available in
Muncie. "The Vampire Diaries Vol. 1: Night Class," which
includes scenes filmed on campus, became available at
Priscilla's adult novelty store early last week.
16-5-2007
Texas: Adult entertainment industry braces for change
City Council
unanimously adopted the six-foot rule for local strip
clubs located within the city limits during Tuesday
morning's session. Adult-oriented businesses within the
city limits so now must brace for major changes to their
business model. 12-5-2007
Consul worker moonlighted in porn
An employee at Israel's New York
consulate resigned recently after it came to light that
he had been moonlighting as a star in pornographic
films. 12-5-2007
Internet pornography brings pleasure, profit to college student
Internet pornography
accounts for 20 percent of the $12.9 million pie of the
adult entertainment industry. Interested viewers
purchase memberships to Web sites catering to their
particular niche and these sites are managed by
webmasters like Sheldon Kennedy.
14-4-2007
Google strokes porn guy
Never let
it be said that Google, the search giant many think is
on a path to take over the world, doesn't have a soft
spot in its heart for a New York-based maker of adult
films. 14-4-2007
NEWS-COMMENTARY
Porn domain: Muddy waters
ICM Registry, the
company that wants to launch the .xxx internet domain
for pornography, is considering taking ICANN to court,
after the domain name system overseer rejected its
proposal. No matter what, court battles and lawsuits
seem to be the future of the .xxx domain.
6-4-2007
YouTube porn rival scores 2 million members
One of YouTube's most famous policies is
that the site is "not for pornography or sexually
explicit content". That's a situation which has helped
rival XTube, which is happy to display adult movies, to
grow rapidly. 24-3-2007
Canada: Teen porn use exposed
A
study performed by University of Alberta researcher
Sonya Thompson has shown that more than one-third of
13-year-old boys in Alberta have viewed Internet porn.
The results have prompted some to call for schools to
start tackling the controversial issue.
24-3-2007
Governor wants Congress to make port 80 porn-free
The governor of Utah signed a nonbinding
resolution on Tuesday that calls on the US Congress to
do something about the rising tide of Internet
pornography, preferably using technology to stick it in
a ghetto where those who don't want to see it don't have
to do so. 17-3-2007
City gives green light to porn filmmaker
The fetish film production studio that
moved into the former State Armory in the Mission
district earlier this year isn't going anywhere despite
an outcry from residents who say the company has turned
a national landmark into a "porn palace.".
11-3-2007
Canada: Porn rampant among 13-year-old boy
A new Canadian study is a wake-up call to
parents to start talking to their children about the
dangers of viewing pornography. A survey of urban and
rural 13-year-olds revealed that boys in particular are
being exposed to startling amounts of sexually explicit
materials, most of it via the Internet.
11-3-2007
Is Telus willing to accept the scorn with its porn?
The Roman Catholic
archbishop of Vancouver's public scolding of Telus Corp.
has experts predicting that the phone company's decision
to offer pornographic photos and videos to customers
could mean sacrificing its image in favour of the bottom
line. 14-2-2007
San Francisco: Porn studio puts city in a kink
It takes a lot to make San Franciscans
blush, but a video porn company has managed to do it. A
studio that makes S&M movies recently took over a
historic building that once housed the National Guard,
unleashing a rare public debate about decency in a city
famous for sexual permissiveness.
5-2-2007
Sexual stereotypes influence behavior in adult bookstores
Visits to adult
bookstores elicit behavior that ranges from macho
swagger to skulking insecurity in men and bold
confidence to adolescent giggling in women, a new
University of Florida study finds.
5-2-2007
The Porn Pastors: XXXChurch.com
The American evangelical church, in its
various denominations, has boldly sent missionaries to
every corner of the world. But according to a team of
evangelists based in Michigan, there's one industry in
the homeland that's been largely ignored by the church.
It's the booming business of pornography.
5-2-2007
Pornography is a "dirty little secret"
Pornography is a "dirty little secret"
and people are logging on to look at it, more than ever.
"It felt like a high. It felt like, just an
uncontrollable urge," said Justin Van Antwerp.
5-2-2007
Agreement indicates horror flick planned, not porn flick
Ball State University
officials were stunned to learn that an X-rated film
involving students was shot more than two years ago in a
mansion normally reserved for seminars.
5-2-2007
Porn studios raided to ensure adult-only casts
The FBI seeks records to make sure minors
haven't been hired. The industry and public policy
experts question the probes' effectiveness. The Federal
Bureau of Investigation has recently stepped up raids of
porn studios in the San Fernando Valley, saying it wants
to ensure that children are not being sexually
exploited. 18-1-2007
No future in porn downloads: adult industry
It's often said that the porn industry
has led the market in working out new ways to make money
from the Internet. Adult sites were the first to make
use of affiliate marketing schemes to sell their wares,
and the first to offer subscription sites for selling
both images and video.
18-1-2007
Canadian sheriffs want their sex video with porn star off web
Two sheriff's officers
are threatening to seek a court injunction that would
order a local porn star to remove a naughty homemade sex
tape of their menage a trois with her from her Web site.
18-1-2007
Outsourced porn gives more bang for its buck
The porn industry can be counted on to
lead from the cutting edge of business. It has been
instrumental in making a fortune for its purveyors in
the print media and where would the internet be without
it? Secure online payments, streaming video,
pay-per-view, amateur content sent in by viewers - porn
has blazed a trail others have slavishly
followed.
