BROCKTON, MA — You know there’s a problem when even small-town America notices your bottom line is shrinking.While adult entertainment hasn’t yet tipped the needle into the red zone of commercial viability, few would deny an industry that once seemed recession-proof no...

STAUNTON, VA — Tomorrow morning, seven jurors will be selected for what is likely to be an important community standards trial – and part of Staunton, OH prosecutor Raymond C. Robertson’s promise to keep pornography out of the city’s retail shops. Last October, Rick Krial’s...

TAMPA, FL — Should local governments regulate private clubs that cater to sexually active adults? That’s the question Hillsboro County officials will attempt to answer in September when code enforcement officials take up the case of a seven-year-old swingers club that may...

GERMANY — American poet Robert Frost once wrote that “Good fences make good neighbors.” While the United States is busily erecting and maintaining a fence designed to keep illegal immigrants keen to work at high-demand/low wage jobs at bay, Germany and Poland have been...

IRAQ — One man’s pleasure is another man’s torture. In the case of devout Muslim detainees forced to endure pornography during the so-called “war on terror,” that’s not an exaggeration. A 20-page witness statement from Ahmed Jawad al-Fartoosi, viewed by the Guardian,...

MARINA DEL REY, CA — A fatal flaw in the internet’s addressing system was patched in early July, but the International Corporation for Domain Names and Numbers remains sufficiently concerned about the potential for hackers and phishers to launch attacks through un-patched...

LOS ANGELES — Never let it be said filmmaker Kevin Smith is a ratings wimp. When his latest film, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, was slapped with a rating of NC-17 — no children allowed, period — Smith appealed to the Motion Picture Association of America and won. The movie...

LOS ANGELES, CA — Celebrity pregnancies are all the rage this year – and former porn princess, now B-horror zombie stripper, Jenna Jameson has wanted desperately to be in a family way for years. Recent news of a possibly successful Jameson-Tito Ortiz cross-fertilization has...

CANADA — North America is a little safer today, thanks to attentive guards bravely patrolling the Canada-US border and protecting it from the scourge of – perfectly legal gay porn. As Canada’s online queer information resource site Xtra.ca tells it, Rick Frenette and his...

HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND — A new analysis of the global mobile payments opportunity forecasts by 2013, 2.1 billion mobile subscribers will “pay by mobile” for digital goods downloaded to their mobile phones.The analysis was published August 5th by Juniper Research, which defined...