WASHINGTON, DC — Strip club owners – especially those with a predominantly gay clientele – have long joked about the nearly underground nature of their profession. If Ward 1 Council Member Jim Graham has anything to do with it, at least some of the XXX clubs displaced by...

CYBERSPACE — Perhaps it’s appropriate that July, the month during which the first-ever computer virus was developed (on an Apple II, for those wondering) should be as active a malware month as any other. Three of the latest threats to computing safety are directed at Adobe...

CYBERSPACE — The Cold War may be over, but word from the virtual front is that the Russians are still coming – at least where infested websites are concerned. The latest weapon in the Russian cyberterrorism arsenal is a recently uncovered vulnerability within the Internet...

KANSAS CITY, KS — The National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families claims to really care about the health and wellbeing of the monogamously and heterosexually married, as well as their offspring. Topping their list of threats to these demographic groups...

WESTFIELD, VT — Jim Cunningham is not a man who has spent a lot of time ogling naked bodies. Blinded by the ravages of diabetes, the 53-year-old conservative Catholic father of five has nonetheless spent 20 years of his life writing favorably about naturism and now extols...

WASHINGTON, DC — Although the U.S. Department of Justice insists that its latest proposed amendments to 2257 record-keeping requirements is part of the government’s fight to protect children from sexual exploitation, Free Speech Coalition director Diane Duke and board...

WASHINGTON, DC — In spite of the fact that a panel of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit cast aside Federal Communication (FCC) penalties for fleeting or single use of the infamous “F-word” (aka “Fuck”), Senator John D. Rockefeller (D-W. VA) has introduced...

UK — The British are famous for their dry, wry wit – but 2,091 citizens of the green and pleasant land have had it up to here with seeing the queen’s English twisted by the internet.Words like “blog,” “netiquette,” “cookie,” and “wiki” are no joking matter to cyber slang...

SCOTTSDALE, AZ — It looked grim for the future of lap dances in Scottsdale strip clubs until yesterday, when city officials and club attorneys were able to reach a mutually acceptable compromise that will allow topless erotic dancers to ply their up-close-and-personal trade...

SALT LAKE CITY, UT — Sami R. Harb and his brother Michael may never have met controversial adult video producers/directors Rob Black or Max Hardcore, but a federal grand jury appears determined to make sure that all four men share similar punitive fates.The two Cleveland,...