BEIJING, CHINA — The way of Chinese filmmaking has never been easy. After riding the sometimes brutal waves of political change, the nation’s film industry has become used to the fact it must function within varying degrees of government regulation, including outright...

INVERNESS, Scotland — Porn is porn and football is football, and never the twain shall meet, at least where the Inverness Caledonian Thistle football club’s fans are concerned.Since a report early last week that Neil MacGregor is one of several individuals offering to...

CANOGA PARK, CA — The Free Speech Coalition, the trade organization for the adult industry, revealed its new board of directors for 2008-2009 during an annual membership meeting held in conjunction with AVN’s Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas last week. Four new members...

BANGALORE, INDIA — It’s true that Jenna Jameson has repeatedly alerted the world to her exit from the flesh side of the pornographic camera – but she has also assured that same world that she’ll keep cashing checks for sex related work done in other ways or by other people....

SANTA FE, NM — Taking a cue from Texas and apparently adhering to the political cliché that if a person or business has money, then the government has a right to tax it, New Mexico is investigating the possibility of a “pole tax” of sorts on strip clubs.Democratic Sen. John...

WASHINGTON, DC — It’s anything but lonely at the top. Just ask Apple, manufacturers of the insanely popular iPhone, which since its introduction last year has become the “gotta-have” business accessory among the tech cognoscenti. As might be expected according to the law of...

WASHINGTON D.C. – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau has opened a public comment period as part of its investigation into whether Comcast discriminates against some kinds of Web traffic.Promised by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin during a public...

BURLINGTON, VT – A case now before the U.S. District Court in Vermont has far-reaching implications beyond the child-pornography charges that originally spawned it.At issue is whether forcing a suspect to unlock encrypted files on his computer’s hard drive is tantamount to...

LOS ANGELES, CA — Few adult performers have rocked the industry like underage porn sensation Traci Lords. After sizzling in a very age-inappropriate manner both in 100 now-illegal X-rated films and the pages of Penthouse magazine, Lords ended her porn career shortly after...

DALLAS, TX – Looming over the surrounding flatlands along the Trinity River, the sprawling, North-Central Texas metropolis of Dallas is known for stereotypical women with big hair, men with big egos, and commercial endeavors with big dreams.Since a recent Dallas Morning News...