JAKARTA — If prosecuting attorney Resni Muchtar get his way, the editor-in-chief of Playboy Indonesia will be found guilty of distributing indecency and spend 32 months chilling in prison for publishing and making money from the kind of photos that Americans of all ages see...

GERMANY — As men and women throughout the world, especially undeveloped countries, search for simple ways to protect themselves against not only unwanted pregnancy but also STDs, especially HIV/AIDS, German sex educators are hard at work on a very promising solution: a...

JOHNS CREEK, GA –John Cornetta, owner of the embattled Love Shack lingerie and adult video store, figures he’s the one now holding all the cards in his store’s ongoing battle with Fulton County and the new town of Johns Creek.“The status quo is, I’m there and I’m open. I’m...

WASHINGTON, DC – The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) yesterday held a press conference announcing the launch of a public service announcement campaign designed to educate parents about the ESRB’s video game ratings system and to encourage parents to use the system as a...

PANAMA CITY, FL — Joe Francis and his Girls Gone Wild crew just got some much-needed good news from the legal system.Several years prior to contending with accusations of rape in Akron, OH, the infamous production company ran into trouble when it was revealed that two of...

AMSTERDAM – Rotterdam-based XCast Entertainment announced this week that its American branch, American Xcess, has signed global co-distribution agreement with Content Junky, the “world’s largest multi-platform content licensing and delivery company,” according to a press...

BOULDER, CO – New Frontier Media Inc. (NOOF on Nasdaq) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a “special dividend of $0.60 per share payable on February 14th 2007, to shareholders of record as of January 15th 2007.”In addition, New Frontier also announced a...

FRANKFORT, KY — The citizens of Louisville can take a deep sigh of relief, safe in the knowledge that the men and women who enter their strip clubs will no longer be at risk of seeing an entirely naked woman or, worse yet, being touched by her.Thanks to a 2000 McCracken...

NORWAY — The owners of the Diamond Go Go Bar in Olso have done what few have managed to do — they fought the tax man and won.Although Norway waives its valued-added tax (VAT) for performers, including sword-swallowers and comics, it has forced strippers and those who...

WASHINGTON, DC — Criticism of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) current broadcast indecency scheme continues to mount, as during the last week alone, two former FCC officials joined the networks in decrying the FCC’s recent indecency-related rulings and...