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Porn, or Porn-Lite, Creeping Into the Kindle

Amazon will have a decision to make eventually

(Newser) - Some unexpected titles have charted high on the Kindle's bestseller list, notes James Ledbetter in Slate . Take Compromising Positions, about an "international fitness company" executive who gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to help a friend demonstrate Kama Sutra positions for her yoga class—you get...

Amy Fisher's New Career: Porn Star

Turns out adult films are her calling

(Newser) - Apparently her career as a stripper wasn’t netting her quite enough dollar bills, because Amy Fisher has decided on a new life path: porn star. The Long Island Lolita, who first exposed herself to the world in a sex tape released by her then-estranged husband, made another adult film...

Brit Health Service Ripped for Buying Porn

Watchdog says helping sperm donors along is unethical

(Newser) - A British think-tank is attacking the National Health Service for spending roughly $1,000 of its $165 billion annual budget on porn magazines and DVDs. The group found that a third of health authorities providing fertility services offered materials to help hurry along the sperm donation process, the Telegraph reports....

Communist Party Gives Children Porn Pen

(Newser) - Customarily, primary school children in Germany receive a cardboard cone with candy on their first day of school. But some 6-year-olds in Essen got a disturbing surprise: Inside their cones were pens that projected erotic images. Furious parents reported it to the headmaster, who promptly laid the blame for the...

Judge Quits Amid Porn Scandal
 Judge Quits Amid Porn Scandal 
Aug 27, 2010 10:21 AM CDT

Judge Quits Amid Porn Scandal

Manhattan judge 'cleavage crazed'

(Newser) - A well-respected Manhattan criminal judge has abruptly resigned after investigators found pornography on his workplace computer, said law enforcement authorities. James Gibbons—who was already on paternity leave after fathering a child with a 31-year-old Legal Aid lawyer—spent 14 years as a prosecutor before being appointed to the bench...

AIDS Activists Hammer Larry Flynt Over Unsafe Porn

Group demands Flynt's stars start using condoms

(Newser) - Activists demanding that porn industry actors use condoms have targeted the world's most famous pornographer. The AIDS Health Foundation has filed a workplace safety complaint against Flynt, accusing him of endangering his performers, AP reports. Protesters gathered outside the Beverly Hills headquarters of Flynt's company and delivered 100 porn DVDs...

Greene's Indicted, but Not Disqualified

Apparently giving porn to a college kid doesn't preclude one from being a senator

(Newser) - Alvin Greene may have no campaign cash, have difficulty articulating his platform, have a penchant for posting the worst campaign videos ever, and may be facing a felony porn charge, but little details like that won't stop him from being the Democratic candidate for South Carolina's Senate seat. Greene meets...

Alvin Greene Indicted on Porn Charge

Weird Democratic candidate faces felony charge

(Newser) - Longshot US Senate candidate Alvin Greene was indicted today on two charges, including a felony charge of showing pornography to a South Carolina college student. A Richland County grand jury indicted Green for disseminating, procuring, or promoting obscenity—a felony—as well as a misdemeanor charge of communicating obscene materials...

Montana Fishburne: I Want to Be Porn Star, Not Actress

As opposed to, you know, regular movies

(Newser) - Well, now it all makes sense: Montana Fishburne appeared to be setting out on an ill-advised path toward traditional fame with her homemade porno …but it turns out she just wants to be a porn star. “I am not in porn to get into acting. I am in...

Indonesia's Parliament Airs Porn

Pols think someone was trying to download porn at work

(Newser) - It wasn't your typical Monday for a group of Indonesian lawmakers and journalists, who got a shock when an online porn video steamed up dozens of computer monitors outside the parliament press room—for the long 10 minutes witnesses say it took security guards to shut down the computers. House...

Disturbing New Career Choice: Sex Tape Star
Disturbing New Career Choice: Sex Tape Star
OPINION
Aug 2, 2010 1:00 PM CDT

Disturbing New Career Choice: Sex Tape Star

Montana Fishburne zeroes in on different path to fame

(Newser) - With Montana Fishburne releasing her own sex tape , a long-held suspicion is confirmed: “Some of those shocking sex tapes those D-list celebrities didn't want you to see are in fact carefully contrived publicity stunts,” writes Mary Elizabeth Williams on Salon . “In what surely has to be the...

China Lets Porn Through Great Firewall

Beijing hasn't announced a policy change, but sites are still up

(Newser) - Get nasty, China: Beijing’s internet censors appear to have loosened up on pornography. Though there’s been no official word of a change in porn policy, Chinese blogs and Twitter accounts have been buzzing over the sudden availability of smut, the AP reports. It’s been eight weeks since...

Oops! Prof Surfs Porn on Live Teleconference Feed

(Newser) - Texas Tech professor Rodney "Rod" Hicks gave his students more than they signed on for (or he intended). The 50-year-old health sciences professor taught a class via teleconference from Austin, but didn't terminate the live video feed after the lecture. The professor then proceeded to surf the web for...

Porn Sites to Get .XXX Domain Name System
 Porn Sites to Get .XXX Suffix 
Jun 25, 2010 7:55 AM CDT

Porn Sites to Get .XXX Suffix

Panel agrees to new suffix for adult entertainment online

(Newser) - Someday soon, .xxx could be bigger than .com in the Internet world. The panel that oversees domain names has agreed to create the .xxx suffix for porn sites on the Web, reports PC World . The move has been long debated, with proponents saying it will help filter such sites from...

Hacker Extorted Homemade Porn From Women

He stole sex tapes, then demanded more

(Newser) - Think you’ve been extremely careful with your secret sex tape? Well, don’t get too cocky, writes Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon . On Tuesday the FBI arrested 31-year-old Luis Mijangos, accusing him of hacking into more than 100 computers via malware disguised as popular songs, and searching them for amateur...

Porn Industry Exploits Its Male Stars
 Porn Industry 
 Exploits Its Male Stars 
opinion
Jun 10, 2010 10:38 AM CDT

Porn Industry Exploits Its Male Stars

Men are the 'punch line' of the industry

(Newser) - The death of Stephen Hill —a porn star who police say killed a colleague and wounded others—prompts Susannah Breslin to examine the often brutal way the industry treats its male actors. "If porn is a joke—and, particularly these days, it most assuredly is—male porn stars...

Video Captures Porn Actor's Final Moments

Stephen Hill apparently leaped as SWAT team closed in

(Newser) - Surrounded by a SWAT team on a rocky cliff, a porn actor suspected of killing a colleague last week moved to the edge of the outcropping and fell some 40 feet to his death, ending a dramatic, daylong standoff with police outside Los Angeles. Video of the apparent suicide captured...

Porn Actor Wanted in Sword Killing Dies in Fall

Cops use stun gun, actor tumbles off cliff

(Newser) - The porn actor wanted in the murder of a co-worker has died after an 8-hour standoff with California cops that ended in his fall from a cliff. Police cornered Stephen Clancy Hill yesterday and finally used stun guns to get him down, at which point he either fell or jumped,...

China Unblocks Internet Porn
 China Unblocks Internet Porn 
Jun 4, 2010 5:57 AM CDT

China Unblocks Internet Porn

Sudden glut of online porn puzzles Chinese

(Newser) - Chinese web censors suddenly and unexpectedly unblocked tens of thousands of pornography sites this week, sparking—among other things—widespread speculation over its motives. Some believe that the government is trying to distract attention from today's anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, while others believe it's a move aimed at...

Porn Is 3-D TV's Best Hope
 Porn Is 3D TV's Best Hope 




Jun 3, 2010 3:30 PM CDT

Porn Is 3D TV's Best Hope

Japanese 3D fare could drive sales of new TVs

(Newser) - Years ago, the prevalence of porn on VHS tapes helped secure that format's victory over betamax. Now adult content again may play a decisive role in the evolution of video entertainment, as the promise of immersive sexual entertainment lures new customers to 3D television sets. With porn representing 30% of...

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