PULLMAN, WA —Adult performer Jack Venice (ne Christopher Jack Reid) is wanted by police for his possible role in the rape of a woman in a sorority house.The Seattle Times reports that Venice is wanted by the local authorities for investigation of second-degree rape,...

LOS ANGELES, CA —LFP Broadcasting LLC, parent company of Hustler TV, announced this week that it has signed an exclusive worldwide PPV and VOD agreement with Platinum X Pictures, off-shoot production company connected with Red Light District. Platinum X will join a number...

CYBERSPACE — The world of computing was a lot of things 25 years ago – but sprinkled with smiley faces isn’t one of them. Yet today, the emoticon comes not only in the traditional colon, hyphen, parenthesis format but in a wide array of keyboard and html formats, as well....

COLUMBUS, OH — Citizens For Community Standards is gearing up to fight conservative opposition here to Senate Bill 16, also known as the “Community Defense Act.” Passed in June of this year by the state’s general assembly, the bill is now up for a vote in November. The bill...

NEW YORK, NY — With yet another Attorney General resigning amidst controversy and scorn, U.S. President George Bush finds himself once again faced with the complex task of deciding who should be the next man or woman to face brutal questioning from the Left and the Right....

CYBERSPACE — Jim McBride, owner and operator of MrSkin.com, released his second book early this month. His site focuses on celebrity nudity and his second book, like his first, is about that subject. Titled Mr. Skin’s Skintastic Video Guide: The 501 Greatest Movies For Sex...

PHILADELPHIA, PA — Not too long ago, West Jordan, UT computer tech and ex-Comcast subscriber Frank Carreiro helped spread the word about what he and others consider to be Comcast’s mysterious bandwidth use limits and the draconian ways that the company enforces them....

RENO, NV —Even while cooling his expensive heels in a Nevada prison, Girls Gone Wild softcore smut meister Joe Francis is thinking of ways to bring nefarious fame and fortune to even respectable mainstream actresses. His latest bright idea is to offer $500,000 to Disney’s...

MEMPHIS, TN —A new ordinance outlaws alcohol from being served in Memphis, TN strip clubs, effective January 1st. Because this butts the city out of the clubs, it has created a new “Sexually Oriented Business Board,” which will oversee permits for employees of adult...

WASHINGTON, DC —This week, CBS appealed the $550,000 fine given to it by the Federal Communications Commission in the wake of Janet Jackson’s highly-notorious “wardrobe malfunction” at the 2004 Super Bowl in Houston, TX.Broadcast live and seen by an estimated 90 million...