SEATTLE, WA – The Seattle City Council approved one of the tightest sets of regulations for any major American city on Monday, banning lap dancing and the common form of tipping done by inserting bills into a performer’s G-string.The council split 5-4 on the measures, which...

WICHITA, KS – Mayor Carlos Mayans and a group of outraged Wichita residents are determined to run the15 adult businesses out of their city, come hell or high water. Having already accused local porn shops of obscenity and violations of community standards, the city is...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – In a sense, Larry Flynt has been serving up hot dishes for years; his company now plans to do so in a much more literal fashion, by opening a chain of themed restaurants under the moniker, “Hustler Bar & Grille.”According to Hustler Bar & Grille...

MANCHESTER, NH – Republican Senator Sam Brownback hopes that someday he’ll be able to answer, by pointing to his own experiences, a rhetorical question posed to him recently by a college student: what would he have done differently had he been president for the past five...

NEW YORK, NY – Seeking to extend their brand presence to further global heights, Playboy Enterprises, Inc. announced yesterday that they plan to open new, freestanding Playboy Concept Boutiques in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur by year’s end. The upscale retail outlets will offer the...

HOLLYWOOD, CA – Approximately a month after Representative Mike Pence (R-IN) first proposed adding Bill H.R. 3726 to the Child’s Safety Act of 2005, the legislation finally seems to have registered on mainstream Hollywood’s legal radar.Referring to Pence’s provision as...

NEWPORT BEACH, CA – Acacia Research Corporation announced today that its Acacia Media Technologies subsidiary had reached an agreement with attorneys representing “the university community” on licensing terms for the use of Acacia’s DMT® technology. University attorneys, however,...

POLK COUNTY, FLORIDA – With $151,000 worth of bail bond obscenity charges lodged against him by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, NowThatsFuckedUp.com website owner Chris Wilson probably never thought he’d see the light of pre-trial day. Yet, thanks to the fact that his...

CYBERSPACE – The owner of three BDSM websites, known in the BDSM community as GrandPa DeSade, announced today that he would be removing his websites from the internet out of fear of a possible obscenity crackdown by the federal government. The move comes after other BDSM...

NEWPORT BEACH, CA – Acacia Research Corporation has announced that it will release its third quarter financial results on Thursday, October 20th, and conduct a conference call for shareholders on the same day.While there has been little news of late concerning the ongoing...