WASHINGTON, DC — After struggling to thrive for 13 agonizing years, the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) was allowed to die quietly today when the U.S. Supreme Court declined without comment the opportunity to reconsider Mukasey v. ACLU. The Clinton-era law was allegedly...

WINNIPEG, CANADA — Everybody has a reason why they can’t behave. Michael Leahy wrote the book Porn Nation to explain how an addiction to pornography caused his life to unravel, eventually costing him his career, his wife of 15 years and his two children.Now he’s a celebrity...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — A new application that allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to manipulate a 3D model in ways Apple might not approve nonetheless has found its way into the Apple App Store and onto iTunes.Resistor Productions’ iGirl application became available on Apple’s...

GUANAJUATO, MEXICO — Once upon a time, not so long ago, the city of Guanajuato adopted an anti-obscenity law. Along with the usual naughty words and tantalizing images that were clearly forbidden, many conjectured that the salacious act of kissing in public was also...

NEW YORK, NY — The Source is the most respected voice in hip-hop journalism. Although many consider the hip-hop culture and its musical message sometimes problematic and one month’s cover featured a seemingly suicidal man with a pistol poked under his chin while another...

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND — Members of the Scottish Parliament are poised to follow their counterparts in England, Wales and Northern and pass a law that criminalizes the possession of “extreme pornography.”The British ban, which takes effect January 26th, provides up to...

GREENSBURG, PA — Adults aren’t the only ones who can be charged with child pornography offenses, as six teenagers in Greensburg, PA, discovered after sharing nude photos of themselves via their cell phones.According to police reports, two girls aged “14 or 15” messaged the...

COVENTRY, ENGLAND — While many in the international community wonder if former United States president George W. Bush will ever be charged for war crimes, a Coventry mail-order pornographer who specialized in body fluid heavy content is preparing to spend 18 months in...

TUPELO, MS — Ultra-right-wing “family values” organization the American Family Association earlier this month issued a call for its members to boycott food megaliths PepsiCo and Campbell’s Soup Company.“Many people aren’t aware that when their school participates in [the]...

AMSTERDAM — Although the Dutch are as mired in the global economic slowdown as anyone else, one sector of their market continues to thrive: sex.That’s according to an informal survey conducted by Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa, which asked leading sex shops and other erotic...