URBANA, NY — The legendary but rarely proven “negative secondary effects” of adult-related businesses is nearly always cited as an excuse to ban, limit, or otherwise control and restrict them. Yet they are once again being presented as a prime reason for...

GERMANY — Two men convicted of using trojan-horse exploits to infect end-user PCs in furtherance of a porn dialer scam have been sentenced to jail time in Germany, according to the German news agency, ADP.The two men, ages 31 and 35, allegedly spread malicious software...

JOHNS CREEK, GA – Attorney Alan Begner isn’t about to advise his client, John Cornetta, to close his Love Shack store – not when he believes the law is on his side and his client has any other option.Federal District Court Judge Tom Thrash Wednesday ruled that Cornetta had to...

AMSTERDAM — In the sexual tourist’s book of modern world wonders, the prostitution windows of Amsterdam’s famed red light district is surely near the top. Alas, due to rising crime rates, those days are drawing to a close.”We’re not knights on a...

CYBERSPACE — Sam Manning has seen the toll that meth can take on a human life — and the lives of those around the addict, especially within the gay community. He speaks for many when he observes that the drug “has changed the face of our community both literally...

CLEVELAND, OH — The man behind Smiling Bob probably isn’t smiling much these days.Steve Warshak, owner and CEO of Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals, creators of the “male enhancement” product Enzyte, has seen his share of legal troubles this year, including an action...

LOS ANGELES, CA — Producers and consumers of erotic visual content spend a lot of time looking at breasts but they don’t necessarily spend much time thinking much about the reality of owning and caring for a set of breasts. Although breast cancer rates are decreasing,...

LAS VEGAS, NV — During the summer 2006 Internext show, adult webmasters were inspired by offers of prizes and cash to wander the halls of the host hotel in search of not simply more business contacts and hot content, but treasure. So successful — and fun — was...

CYBERSPACE — In response to calls for greater transparency and criticism asserting that the organization’s relationship with certain branches of the US government is too cozy, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has retained the services of...

CYBERSPACE – What do Paris Hilton, Hezbollah, refinancing, cancer, hurricane Katrina, the World Cup, Carisoprodol, and Borat have in common? According to Google, all are among the top search terms and hot search trends of 2006.Google’s year-end Zeitgeist report, released Tuesday,...