HARRISBURG, PA — Add this to the laundry list of trumped up excuses to interfere with perfectly legal adult businesses: using bank holidays to force sex related shops to close or endure legal sanction.Fortunately for the owners and managers of the Lawrence County township,...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — It was so much fun robbing the Very Intimate Pleasures adult shop the first time that the armed thieves may well have come back for a second full body fondle. According to the Marin Independent Journal, it was less than a month ago that the San Rafael...

VALENCIA, CA — Billing is a good thing. Ideally, it means that money will be received in exchange for services or products rendered. When things aren’t so ideal, it means needing to extend reminders that payment for services or products rendered is not merely a courtesy,...

DETROIT, MI — Affiliate members feeling like their links are out of control can breathe a sigh of relief – if they’re PimpRoll.com affiliate members, that is.Whether webmasters are simply control freaks or have a genuine need to spend more time in the driver’s seat when it...

WASHINGTON, DC — If there have been days when you felt compelled to take a hammer to an iPod or run over a laptop with an 18-wheeler, you’re not alone. According to a new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, nearly half of all Americans experience...

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA — As the Australian government ramps up to a beta deployment of its new mandatory internet filtering system, citizens are venting their outrage at the proposed size and nature of the blacklist. The trial is expected to start before Christmas and last six...

ROCHESTER, NY — Bulls aren’t the only ones that get excited when they see red. According to a new study, the sight of a woman wearing red inspires amorous emotions not merely in Chris De Burgh by most men in the viewing public. Red has long been the color of passion and...

WASHINGTON, DC — A new consumer watchdog group led by a former AOL exec and sponsored by AT&T promises to hold internet companies accountable for the ways in which they collect, store, use and share consumer data.The Future of Privacy Forum (FutureOfPrivacy.org), which...

PORTLAND, OR — An internet pornographer who pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the strangulation death of his 18-year-old live-in girlfriend was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday.According to court documents and family statements, 38-year-old Paul Eugene...

CHINA — Publish or perish may be the motto of academics hoping to gain tenure, but when you’re a factory working sending smutty messages to co-workers, it might be something best left for leisure time. Or so one now-unemployed Chongqing factory worker discovered.It must...