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.
Kink.com, which distributes its videos on X-rated Web sites with names such as Hogtied and Men in Pain, bought the old State Armory in the Mission District for $14.5 million....
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Two UA departments discovered that hackers broke into their servers Wednesday and inundated them with links to hundreds of Web sites containing pornographic material.
Computer servers at the philosophy department and the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory were the only ones affected by the intrusion, said Jim Slagle, project manager of the LBT.
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Los Angeles, CA (BANG) - When it comes to getting down and dirty onscreen, Jenna Jameson knows exactly who she wants to do it for her.
Scarlett Johansson is being lined up to play porn sensation Jenna in a movie of her life story.
The stunning actress has been handpicked by adult movie legend Jenna as her personal choice for the lead in a film adaptation of her book, "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale."
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Bishop Paul Loverde of Arlington, Va. is concerned that pornography is running untamed in American culture.
In a pastoral letter titled "Bought With a Price: Pornography and the Attack on the Living Temple of God," Loverde articulates his reasons on why pornography's move from the outskirts of our culture to Main Street U.S.A.
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WASHINGTON - Tucked away in a spending bill pending in Congress is language the porn industry finds offensive.
Along with billions of dollars in funding for the Justice Department and the State Department is a little-noticed provision that would require Web sites that feature "sexually explicit" content to contain special labels to make it easier to keep kids away from them.
Posted by Super Sub in: Porn & Sex Industry, Legal Issues, Internet, USA at 5:29 AM GMT
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Imagine for a moment that a sex scandal involving pages had forced a Democrat Congressman holding a safe seat to resign in disgrace weeks before crucial midterm elections, while also reflecting badly on other members of his Party in tight races across the country.
A month after the votes had been tallied, and the Democrats had surrendered control of both chambers of Congress in a stunning defeat, a House ethics panel released a report on the subject containing the following information...
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The founding pastor of a large, suburban Denver church is stepping down after admitting to sexual encounters with other men.
Leaders of the 2,100-member Grace Chapel of Englewood Sunday night announced former pastor Paul Barnes is leaving his post for violations of the church's code of conduct.
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Last Wednesday, Americans were introduced to porn star turned science teacher Tericka Dye when she appeared with popular psycho-babbler Dr. Phil.
For those who missed it, more than a decade ago, as a single mother struggling to get by, Dye acted in several films, including "Three To Tango", "Double Your Pleasure Double Your Fun" and "Rug Munchers," under the name Rikki Anderson.
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An Arkansas state correction officer has been fired from the Benton Work-Release Unit after allegedly having sex with an inmate.
Prison officials say the 24-year-old woman had been employed by the Department of Correction for less than six months...
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Five Martinsville firefighters will undergo lie detector tests as their department tries to determine who ordered pay-per-view pornography at a firehouse in May, 6News' Jeremy Brilliant reported Wednesday.
Fire Chief Tim Fraker said 17 movies, most of them pornographic, were ordered from a cable service and watched during regular shifts in late May.
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The Christian News and Media Agency looks at the recent poll by Morality In Media on pornography and it's impact in the United States.
The butcher, the baker, and the porn-filmmaker? Pornography is becoming so commonplace in our culture that, one day very soon, it may be seen as just another way to make an honest living.
That was the distressing message of a series of articles that appeared in The Denver Post. Titled "Pornopolis," the articles examined the "rock-star status" of pornography and its influence on modern culture.
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An Orlando police investigation found that five officers -- including two lieutenants -- used city computers to look at pornography while they were on duty, authorities said Tuesday.
Investigators discovered a handful of e-mails sent among officers with pictures of naked women performing sex acts or in sexual positions...
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Internet access for the public at the Mount Clemens Public Library has been revoked because of an increase in the number of people looking at sexually explicit material.
The plug was pulled on the computers earlier this month after employees noticed a "large increase" in visitors using the free Internet service to access what the library termed obscene material in violation of library policies.
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The 2003 Lawrence v. Texas Supreme Court ruling was a victory for GLBT and sex positive activists everywhere.
Two consenting adults were now allowed to have any type of sex they wanted within the confines of their own homes. But as the news hit the masses, several people pondered how this ruling would affect anti-prostitution legislation, as well as laws prohibiting sex in public spaces. I guess they imagined that once people were allowed to do whatever they wanted, they would do it wherever they wanted.
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“I write the filthiest, dirtiest, sex column in the world,” Dan Savage proclaimed last night as he fielded questions from the audience on topics ranging from oral sex to George Bush in a real-life version of his column in the alternative Seattle weekly, The Stranger.
The first questioned from the audience referred to pubic hair and why people shave it off.
“You can do whatever you want with your genitals,” Savage said. But he did relate “denuded genitals,” as he put it, to the U.S.’s “weird relationship to the adolescent body.”
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A California couple are facing federal charges after allegedly taking membership in the mile-high club a little too seriously.
Carl Warren Persing, of Lakewood, Calif., and Dawn Elizabeth Sewell, of Huntington Beach, Calif., were indicted after refusing to stop "overt sexual activity" during a flight to Raleigh.
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Eyewitness News has learned high-ranking Orlando police officers admitted under oath they were emailing each other pornography on city time on city computers. Channel 9 found out about the pornographic emails because of a lawsuit filed against the police department by five officers.
The lawsuit claims the five officers were sexually harassed at work and, on top of that, they faced retaliation for reporting it.
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The “Larry King Live” talk show on CNN often tries to enliven political commentary with gossip and celebrity guests.
But when a postelection session last Wednesday strayed into speculation about some politicians’ sex lives, CNN first put the gossip on the air — and then tried to erase the evidence.
Posted by Super Sub in: Politics, USA, Censorship at 6:54 AM GMT
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Just when one thinks Britney Spears' freshly-dumped hubby Kevin Federline can't stoop any lower, he scrambles to prove otherwise.
After the 25-year-old singer dropped the D bomb on the wanna-be rapper on last Tuesday and cut him access to her fortunes, the 28-year-old is allegedly trying to peddle a sex tape the couple made during their honeymoon.
Posted by Super Sub in: USA, Celebrity Sex at 6:26 AM GMT
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A porn trial without dirty pictures - That's what's playing out in a courtroom on the 17th floor of the federal courthouse in Center City, where a drawn-out First Amendment case is being heard.
At issue is the Children Online Protection Act, or COPA, a law Congress enacted in 1998 but never enforced as it bounced all the way up to the Supreme Court and back down again.
Posted by Super Sub in: Porn & Sex Industry, Legal Issues, USA at 6:14 AM GMT
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