MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — The New South Wales Supreme Court has ruled that even though cartoon characters are not flesh and blood, they are people.The news came as something of a shock to Alan John McEwan and his defense team. McEwan was convicted on child porn charges in...

CAMARILLO, CA — Someone has a particularly sarcastic sense of humor, and the owner of the Christian-oriented movie-review site MovieGuide.org doesn’t think they’re funny.“This is a criminal attack on our ministry,” Dr. Ted Baehr said after an email purporting to be from him...

MANILA, PHILIPPINES — Imelda Marcos, one-time “Steel Butterfly” and widow of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos may have owned hundreds of pairs of shoes, but if recent raids by the Manila police department are any indication, she didn’t own any sex toys.More than $2,000...

WASHINGTON, DC — Once upon a time, the online menace could proudly proclaim at least a million people screwed – but thanks to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Internet denizens of all security levels may soon be able to say “thank you, please drive to jail!”Most loathed...

NEW DELHI, INDIA — A just-released report from India’s National Crime Record Bureau says the country’s cybercrime rate increased by more than 50-percent during 2007 — and porn was among the chief culprits.“Crime in 2007” indicates 99 porn-related cybercrime cases were...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Men always have been preoccupied with their sexual equipment. Now, though, an Australian researcher is convinced women are equally concerned about how what’s “down there” measures up to an elusive ideal.According to University of Sydney PhD candidate...

CAMBRIDGE, MA — It’s official: it’s not men’s fault that they think about sex all the time. Their brains really are wired that way.So concludes an August article appearing in the online version of the Nature journal. According to Harvard molecular neuroscientist Catherine...

PHILADELPHIA, PA — With gay marriage all the rage and conservative social pundits torn between outrage about same-sex fidelity and the heterosexual “hook up culture,” there’s something strangely appropriate about Girlfriends Films going exclusive with HotMovies.com.Not only...

NEW YORK, NY — If regulators don’t cave to commercial interests, consumers may expect to see friendlier credit card terms after Thursday’s scheduled meeting of the Federal Reserve Board.On the agenda are new regulations that prohibit banks from raising interest rates on...

BANGALORE, INDIA — An amendment to India’s Information Technology Act 2000 is set to change the way the government responds to sexually explicit content online and deals with the material’s creators.Passed in 2000, Section 67 of the ITA prescribes punishment for publishing...