RICHMOND, VA — Virginia’s General Assembly has passed a bill that will add a 5-percent tax to pay-per-view movies watched in the state’s hotel and motel rooms.The potential revenue is earmarked for attracting more Hollywood projects to Virginia’s historic towns and scenic...

HELSINKI, FINLAND — The Finnish Board of Film Classification has discovered most pornographic movies sold in the country violate the law — not because they’re obscene, but because importers and the board have been lax about enforcing a labeling regulation.Under Finnish law,...

AUSTRALIA — Although the Australian government appears mad with power when it comes to observing and regulating the erotic activities of its citizens – all in the name of decency and safety, of course – not everyone with a position of power is enthusiastic about the Rudd...

LONDON — Despite its policy of disallowing children younger than 13 to sign up for accounts, the obscenely popular micro-blogging service Twitter is taking it on the beak for pointing minors in the direction of pornography.Members of Parliament, led by Tom Watson, the...

MONTREAL, CANADA — As the world struggles to adjust to the international economy, the good folks at BrainCash are going increasingly international in their content by partnering with Private Media. Those in the know realize this can only evoke beautiful – and highly erotic...

BRITAIN — While untold numbers of their fellow citizens eagerly indulge in the viewing of all manner of erotic materials – often at a cost – the staff at the British Board of Film Classification grind their collective teeth at the indignity they must endure by being paid to...

WESTMORE, VT — The only thing stopping city fathers in Westmore, VT, from enacting a ban on nudity at a local beach is a lack of funds to enforce an ordinance requested by Westmore residents.That may change next week, when voters will be asked to approve a $25,000 budget to...

VATICAN CITY — Men are more tempted by sins of the flesh while women are more likely to commit sins of the mind, according to research conducted by a 95-year-old Jesuit scholar and released by the Vatican.Among Catholics who confess, Fr. Roberto Busa found men reporting sex...

WILMINGTON, NC — Part of a respected art exhibit that has travelled North America for 18 years has been banned from campus at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.The Century Project presents photographs of women of all ages, shapes and sizes, and in a variety...

LOS ANGELES, CA — When Nadya Suleman received more than $165,000 in disability payments for an on-the-job injury, she did the only sensible thing: she got a divorce and started having babies via IVF. Now, the unemployed but college educated “Octomom” of 14 is being offered...