WASHINGTON, D.C. — If a bill approved Wednesday by a 409-2 majority of the U.S. House of Representatives is any indication, Congress remains largely populated by a herd of proudly redundant, technologically illiterate Nosy Nellies.Among the curious provisions of the...

FRANCE – Paris’ dirty little secret is secret no more.Even before there was a United States to serve as a benchmark of Western sexual conservatism, the French had a libertine reputation. Perhaps that’s why the Bibliothèque Nationale, France’s national library, has been collecting...

USA — It’s the end of another era. This time it’s the end of the pay phone era. With Americans relying increasingly upon mobile telephone technology in order to stay in touch when they’re away from home, at least one provider in the 129-year-old communication business has...

SALT LAKE CITY, UT — Salt Lake City, UT residents on Tuesday night proved they don’t need the adult industry’s help to expose their children to adult materials.Nevertheless, the adult industry got the blame for that and more at a city council meeting during which a...

REDWOOD CITY, CA — It’s a complex business, this apologizing. Often, the goal is an “I’m sorry” without necessarily acknowledging fault or precisely explaining the infraction in question. Such certainly seems to be the case with game development giant Electronic Arts and...

MEMPHIS, TN — If by the end of the year the city of Memphis manages to push through its first city ordinance governing sexually oriented businesses, it almost will make the months Shelby County officials spent hammering out their own law a waste of time.Shelby County’s new...

NEW YORK CITY, NY — You can take the porn star out from in front of the camera, but apparently you can’t take the sex industry out of the porn star. Or maybe it’s just Jenna Jameson. Having supposedly shaken the dust of the porn industry from her platform pumps, sexual...

AUSTRALIA – AbbyWinters.com parent company G Media is under fire for offering content that may violate Australia’s decency laws and for allegedly taking advantage of young, possibly naïve models.According to a December 3rd report in the Herald Sun, G Media and other online adult...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Strike Force Zadeh may simply be stalled in contributory copyright-infringement lawsuits against search engines and Internet retailers, but its pursuit of online payment service providers has come to an end. The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear...

PORTLAND, UT — A federal lawsuit challenging amendments made in 2005 to Utah’s Harmful to Minors Act — a hotly debated law requiring websites that may contain material unsuitable for children to label themselves or face criminal penalties — last week lost almost half of its...