WASHINGTON, DC — A Federal Trade Commission report released Thursday indicates the governmental consumer-protection agency is willing to take official steps to force the internet industry to safeguard users’ privacy if industry members don’t clean up their acts on their own...

BEIJING, CHINA — Chinese authorities believe they’ve found a way to get rid of the porn and dissident material that remains on the Web behind the Great Firewall of China: They plan to begin offering rewards to citizens who rat out the publishers.The rewards porn snitches...

CLAY COUNTY, FL — Although company founder Joe Francis may be a free man once again, the suffering that he and his entertainment empire must endure seems never ending. The latest: a Girls Gone Wild bus trashed and burglarized. According to members of the crew who had been...

DEAKIN WEST, AUSTRALIA — The Eros Association, Australia’s adult-industry trade association, is asking members to donate to a special relief fund that will benefit the victims of the bushfires that have devastated the area of Victoria north and west of Melbourne.The fires,...

AUSTIN, TX — No one is less surprised than the owners of the affected strip clubs, but the Texas Legislature’s much-talked-about 2007 “pole tax” of $5.00 per patron is still considered unconstitutional by the American justice system.That doesn’t mean, however, that the tax...

MOSCOW — An American attorney in the Moscow office of a high-power international legal firm may sue her former bosses for sexual harassment after she was let go from her job in the wake of publishing an erotic novel.Deidre Dare, 43, was dismissed from a $213,000-a-year job...

PHILADELPHIA, PA — While there’s plenty of pleasure to be had by watching a well shot piece of commercial erotica, there’s nothing quite like watching a real live porn shoot take place. HotMovies.com, which has brought so many erotic fantasies to the eyes of the world,...

OLYMPIA, WA — When the economy gets desperate, tax hike lovers follow suit. Although air and photosynthesis remain tax-free, one Washington state politician thinks that citizens and visitors should pay an additional 19-percent to view erotic materials. Federal Way State...

SURREY, ENGLAND — A recent survey of British teens has determined the kids may not be all right: Children between the ages of 13 and 16 reported spending at least 100 minutes weekly browsing online porn.That’s roughly 87 hours or three and one-half days annually. (The...

WATFORD, ENGLAND — A new survey conducted by sex-toy e-tailer OnJoy.com revealed British real estate agents get the most sex, but truck drivers are underprivileged between the sheets.According to the poll of 3,000 British adults, Realtors have sex an average of four times...