CAMBRIDGE, MA — Asia, Africa and the Middle East will lead online growth for the next five years while the industrialized West slows to a crawl, according to a new report from Forrester Research.In 2008, the top five countries in terms of numbers of internet users were the...

FORT MYERS BEACH, FL — From all available accounts, Fort Myers Beach town manager Scott Janke was a great employee. Alas for Janke, liberty and common sense, he’s lost his job – because the Town Council doesn’t like what his wife does for a living.Janke’s wife is an adult...

LOS ANGELES, CA — Ken Hoyt appears to have a problem. In spite of his work as a porn professional, the 44-year-old is seriously challenged when it comes to keeping his pecker in his pants and the women in his sites of legal age. Hoyt, a registered sex offender, was arrested...

WASHINGTON, DC — Domestic terrorism. Torture. War crimes. Drugs. Five months into his tenure as U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder has a lot on his plate.Apparently Holder’s reported weight loss indicates to the Christian right the man needs more to eat. Last week, the AG...

DULUTH, MI — Whether it takes all kinds of we’ve simply got all kinds is a subject for debate – but one thing certain, Duluth, MI police definitely want to find a man with a self-identified fetish for rubber balls. Or slashing them to bits, anyway. Surveillance tapes...

CYBERSPACE — A covert video reportedly shot peephole-style and depicting ESPN reporter Erin Andrews undressing in a hotel room has all but disappeared from the internet, but rumors of the tape’s existence continue to fuel malware infections among the curious.Antivirus firm...

HARRISBURG, PA — A convicted rapist’s bid to overturn Pennsylvania’s ban on pornography in prisons ended Monday when the state’s Supreme Court unanimously backed the Department of Corrections rule.Shannon R. Brittain, 34, challenged the ban on constitutional grounds, saying...

ALAMEDA, CA — An on-again/off-again female porn performer learned two sad things during June: that she had tested positive for HIV – and that sanity goes right out the window when government officials hear those three letters. Known only as “Patient Zero,” the performer has...

BERLIN — Celebrity sex tape scandals have been all the rage for several years now – but most of them had at least one thing in common: they concerned sex tapes that had actually been made at some point in time. That apparently came as news to three German men who thought...

HONG KONG — A new survey has fueled the flames of censorship as Hong Kong mulls tightening controls on sexually explicit internet content. Published Sunday, the study’s results indicated 80-percent of the island’s schoolchildren, some as young as age 10, have accessed...