DES MOINES, IA — In a unanimous ruling rendered early Friday morning, the Iowa Supreme court struck down the state’s same-sex marriage ban.“The Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa...

COLLEGE PARK, MD — In the wake of a funding-withdrawal threat from the state legislature and the subsequent cancellation of free, on-campus screenings of Digital Playground’s award-winning XXX film Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge, students at two University of Maryland...

REIGATE, ENGLAND — Residents and passersby are used to seeing the past along the streets of Reigate. After all, it’s a historic market town packed with visual reminders of days, years, decades, and centuries gone by. For one shop owner, that past is bluer than its bluest...

EDMONTON, CANADA — An Edmonton, Canada-based psychologist whose practice consists almost entirely of men who claim to be addicted to pornography calls internet-based adult entertainment “the crack cocaine of porn.”That’s the premise for a new Canadian Broadcasting...

OTTAWA, CANADA — Sometimes trying to get the mainstream government to cooperate in good will with adult entertainment businesses is a little like trying to get politicians from different parties to cooperate with one another. That’s certainly what members of an association...

LONDON, ENGLAND — More than a year after naughty words, naked body parts and explicit sexual activities aired on British television, the government’s decency watchdog this week fined Playboy £22,500 (about $33,246) for the series of offenses.Ofcom, Britain’s equivalent of...

WASHINGTON, DC — Even though a Harvard-based task force formed by 50 attorneys general spent a year studying the issue and found no evidence to support concerns about child predation on the internet, the U.S. Department of Justice has rounded up $50 million in grant monies...

SHAWNEE, KS — Who hasn’t wanted to pop off at a police officer for writing up a traffic ticket? How about write something pithy and evocative on the check associated with that ticket? While the urge may well be universal, one Kansas woman has learned that not resisting it...

LAYTON, UT — When Mormon leader Christopher Layton helped colonize what is now part of the Ogden-Clearfield area of Utah, the only poles that women tended to dance around likely had clothing hanging from them. Today, however, shimmying up and down a metal pole, as well as...

SACRAMENTO, CA — Most public American universities have reputations as bastions of liberal thought and rebellious youthful behavior. In recent weeks, several campuses across the country have taken that impression to a whole new level by offering free-to-students screenings...