GARDEN CITY, NY – Jeffrey Toback, a Democratic member of the Nassau County legislature, has dropped his lawsuit against Google Inc., which Toback had claimed had “paid links” to child pornography sites and had made advertising for child porn and “other obscene content” an...

BRISTOW, OK — Did former district court judge Donald Thompson masturbate on the bench while hearing a court case or merely have one – no – two penis pumps with him? If one of the pumps was, indeed, jutting from the former judge’s robes, was it fully engaged or merely being...

CYBERSPACE – Following the announcement of a lawsuit filed in Texas asserting that popular social-networking site MySpace lacks “meaningful protections or security measures to protect underage users,” MySpace announced it will implement new policies designed to restrict adult...

THE WORLD — From Budweiser beer to Wheaties cereal, all manner of products that have nothing at all to do with athletic endeavors have cashed in on the branding opportunities presented by major sporting events.From the controversial, like alcoholic beverage companies...

CHICAGO, IL — What once was an empire built on softcore sex appeal now embraces a wide array of content types under a variety of brand names. As of today, that empire has now grown to include the current queen of the video sex scene, Jenna Jameson’s world renowned Club...

When Tim Berners-Lee did us of all a huge favor by inventing the World Wide Web, the name it was given said it all – it was and remains the world’s first truly global medium. And given the open architecture and non centralist nature of the underlying internet, it looks like it’s...

DULUTH, MN — Friday wasn’t Jim Grandishar’s day. Early in the morning he learned that his adult book store had been targeted by domestic terrorists – and later in the day he learned that his adult book store had been targeted by the Duluth police.Grandishar contacted police...

SANDY SPRINGS, GA – At a meeting Tuesday, the Sandy Springs City Council tabled a vote on a proposed obscenity ordinance, delaying the vote until the Council’s July session in order to hold further discussions and refine the ordinance’s language.“There was a sense among some of...

WALDO, FL — Apparently someone in the small town of Waldo, FL feels that violence is an appropriate method for expressing opposition to an adult bookstore that has set up shop in area.A bottle of unidentified but caustic and corrosive liquid was anchored to the Café Risque...

WASHINGTON, DC — A dozen major companies, including some of the tech sector’s largest firms, issued a joint statement yesterday calling for “comprehensive harmonized federal privacy legislation” that will “provide protection for consumers from inappropriate collection and...