SAN DIEGO, CA – While some insist that adult bookstores are always a dangerous place for decent people to enter, the real risk takes place when shops posses people with interests that go beyond consensual sexual behavior. Like robbing the place while waving a gun around, for...

BLACKPOOL, ENGLAND — In the case of Chubby’s Bar, what passersby could see was more than they wanted to get. Alas for the topless club, the fact its windows allowed far more visibility than is in good taste or legal means it will get something it doesn’t want: closed....

LOS ANGELES, CA — Spurred by what it views as a lack of cooperation from the adult film industry’s primary health-testing clinic, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) intends to ask a judge to order Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation...

CYBERSPACE — Being a stone cold computer nerd doesn’t mean you can’t get online and tweet with the best of them, porn folk and regular Joes alike. Thanks to the innovation that only lurks inside the brain cases of die-hard geeks, Commodore 64/128 users can now participate...

BRISTOL, ENGLAND — When bride-to-be Haylie Hocking discovered weeks before her planned lavish wedding and reception that groom Jason Brake was a part-time porn star, she did more than blush: She dumped him.Hocking, 27, said Brake, 30, never mentioned his side job during...

LANCING, MI — For Michigan exotic dancers who like the to show skin, less may well become more – licensing fees, that is. State lawmakers, always on the look-out for ways to extract tax money from working citizens, have hit upon the bright idea that strippers who shed their...

LOS ANGELES, CA — Although most of the damage has been done, the rabble roused and the hew and cry ratcheted up several notches, public health officials in Los Angeles now say they were misunderstood last week when they indicated at least 16 new cases of HIV infection have...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — It’s a busy world and those who live in it often find themselves moving so fast that they feel like they’ve gone absolutely nowhere. Fortunately, some things don’t need to be taken slow – and Cybernet Expo’s Speed Networking is one of those things....

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — Ever defiant, The Pirate Bay has launched beta-testing of an encrypted virtual private network its founders hope will make more difficult the enforcement of copyright complaints against both the service and its users.Freedom from hassles comes at a...

SHERMAN OAKS, CA — Amid growing uproar within and without the San Fernando Valley’s adult entertainment industry, Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation on Monday released new recommendations for health-status interactions between content producers and performers.“It...