WASHINGTON, DC — In testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation yesterday, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras and other representatives of the FTC outlined the major enforcement activities and priorities of the FTC...

WASHINGTON, DC — When a Florida court granted naturist Toni Anne Wyner a preliminary injunction assured her and like-minded others that they would be able to stage a nude protest on south Florida’s MacArthur Beach against the then-pending war in Iraq, that was all the...

PENSACOLA, FL — It’s hard to know whether or not Girls Gone Wild producer and multi-millionaire Joe Francis will continue to sport his increasingly signature smirking disdain for the legal system, but right now it’s easy find him if one feels compelled to check....

ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PA — In a ruling issued last week, Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge R. Stanton Wittick Jr. found that his court in Pennsylvania does not have jurisdiction over the Florida-based website DontDateHimGirl.com, a finding based largely on the fact that the...

CANADA — In a decision released last week, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) found that an episode of the MTV Canada program MTV Live covering the subject of virtual sex was too sexually explicit for the morning time slot in which it was rebroadcast last...

THAILAND — Veteran adult producer John Gilbert Bowen, aka John T. Bone, and two other men were arrested Friday in Pattaya, Thailand by local authorities and are to be charged with “making videos of an offensive and sexually explicit nature,” according to the Pattaya Daily...

OCEAN CITY, MD — The City Council of Ocean City, MD this week unanimously approved a moratorium on the establishment of sexually explicit businesses in the town, pending the creation of local ordinances to regulate such businesses.According to The Maryland Coast Dispatch,...

PANAMA CITY, FL — Despite a judge’s order that he present himself by noon local time yesterday to begin serving his jail sentence for contempt of court, Girls Gone Wild owner Joe Francis did not appear to comply with the order – and both Francis and a spokesperson for his...

JAPAN — Three officers in the Japanese Navy who swapped porn files between their computers also may have leaked sensitive information concerning Japan’s missile defense system, according to the Reuters news service.Japanese police reportedly launched an investigation last...

KANSAS CITY, MO — Philip Cosby, executive director of the National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families (NCPCF), has collected between 17,000 and 20,000 signatures from several counties in Kansas and Missouri calling on prosecutors to investigate adult...