MINNEAPOLIS, MN — With temperatures below freezing for an extended period of time, it may come as no surprise that the sight of bare flesh might be a cause for alarm in Minneapolis. The fact that the flesh in question belongs to two window display mannequins, however, makes...

BERKLEY, MA – Berkley Planning Board Chairman Steven Leary thought he had the perfect place in mind for a commercial zone that would be open for use by a properly licensed adult entertainment businesses – a stretch on the outskirts of Berkley’s east side, along State Route 140,...

DALLAS, TX — The Penthouse Key Club was a popular Stemmons Corridor strip club not too long ago. Perhaps a little bit too popular. With 21 topless dancers accused of adding prostitution to their dance menu, the Dallas Police Department definitely felt that the club’s...

WASHINGTON, DC — Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) has introduced a new iteration of the “Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today’s Youth,” or “SAFETY” Act, reviving a number of proposals that have previously drawn fire from free speech advocates and civil...

ARLINGTON, VA — Citing the results of a widely-reported telephone survey conducted by researchers at the University of New Hampshire, the CP80 Foundation issued a press release Friday reiterating its call for the division of the internet into a so-called “Community Channel”...

INSECT KINGDOM — Life is brutal and short in the worlds inhabited by animals and insects. Predators, weather conditions, pollution, human capriciousness, they can all influence how long and pleasant, or short and painful, an already brief life can be. Even the butterfly,...

SALEM, MA — For some people, life is an astonishingly straightforward proposition. Certain things are simply evil, regardless of empirical evidence, and some things are always good, using the same high standards. For those who find the idea of adult entertainment repellant,...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Local residents and neighborhood activists are taking their opposition to Kink.com’s acquisition of San Francisco’s historic National Guard Armory to the streets – literally.A protest was scheduled to take place outside of the Armory Thursday at noon local...

HOLLYWOOD, CA – While the tone remained mostly civil, the depth of the division between supporters and opponents of the proposed .xxx sTLD were clearly on display at yesterday’s “The Proposed .xxx TLD: A Dialogue with ICM Registry” panel discussion at the Xbiz Hollywood...

THAILAND — Times change and so do cultural sensibilities and tastes. Gone, at least for now, are the days when an everyday walker could ponder, admire, and quietly celebrate the beauty of the human form, including its fun and potentially reproductive bits.This is the sad...