N.Y. Lawmaker Drops Google Porn Lawsuit

A Long Island politician has dropped a federal lawsuit that had claimed the search engine company Google Inc. profits from child pornography.

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Man Sentenced for Transmitting Porn Images

A former Roman Catholic priest convicted of sending pornographic images to a sheriff's investigator posing as a teenage boy has been sentenced to the maximum 10 years in prison.

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Company Appeals Decision on Porn Domain

The battle over a virtual red-light district is entering another round.

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Child Porn Suspect Arrested in Mich.

Authorities on Monday arrested a 28-year-old man who was accused at a federal hearing in April of molesting a teenage boy.

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Chat Rooms Help FBI Hunt for Pedophiles

Seconds after she announces her presence in an online chat room, the girl is besieged by a half-dozen men who want to know more about her.

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Porn Maker Allows Downloads for TV Viewing

Hollywood has been tiptoeing its way toward letting consumers buy a movie online, burn it onto a DVD and watch it on a living-room TV. While the studios hesitate, the adult film industry is taking the leap.

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N.Y. Lawmaker Sues Google Over Child Porn

A Long Island politician sued Google Inc. on Thursday claiming the search engine leader is profiting from illegal child pornography.

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Cable Co. Apologizes to Retired Teacher

The retired schoolteacher who denied watching porn, wrestling and gangsta rap on pay-per-view and disputed her $1,126 cable bill has won her battle with Cablevision — and an apology.

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2nd Paratrooper Pleads Guilty in Porn Case

A second Army paratrooper pleaded guilty Monday to charges stemming from an investigation of soldiers who appeared on a military-themed pornographic Web site.

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Woman, 62, Fights $1,431 Cable Porn Bill

A 62-year-old retired schoolteacher is fighting with a cable company over a hefty bill for porn and gangsta rap programming she says she never ordered.

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Attorney General Describes Online Kid Porn

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales used strikingly graphic language Thursday to focus attention on online child pornography and said Internet services companies are not doing enough to combat the problem.

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Activists Lament Porn's Move to Mainstream

The industry's VIPs mingle at political galas and Super Bowl parties. Their product is available on cell phones, podcasts, and particularly the Internet — there it's an attraction like no other, patronized by tens of millions of Americans.

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NASA Manager's Office Searched for Porn

The headquarters office of a senior NASA manager was searched and computer equipment was seized in a child pornography investigation, according to court documents and an online report.

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Bavaria Bans Cell Phone Use in Schools

The German state of Bavaria on Tuesday announced a ban on the use of cell phones in schools to prevent students from viewing images of pornography and extreme violence.

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27 Face Charges in Child Porn Enterprise

Participants in an international Internet chat room transmitted live visuals of child molestation and traded thousands of pictures of child pornography, federal authorities said Wednesday in announcing charges against 27 people.

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Life Sentence for Child Pornographer

A federal program that identifies alleged child molesters by publicizing their photographs has led to a life sentence for a five-time sex offender.

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Army Moves Soldiers During Gay Porn Probe

A group of paratroopers from the elite 82nd Airborne Division have been moved from their regular barracks while military officials investigate allegations that they appeared on a gay pornography Web site, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

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Police: Weaving Driver Distracted by Porn

A man who was stopped for driving erratically on a divided highway was distracted because he was looking at pornography, authorities said.

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Porn Spam Has 5.6% Click-Through Rate

An interesting piece of trivia from NY Times: "Spam messages promoting pornography are 280 times as effective in getting recipients to click on them as messages advertising pharmacy drugs, which are the next most effective type of spam.

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Men's magazines: it's a zoo out there

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‘It’s happening in movies, adverts and magazines ... porn is seeping in’

From the page: -- Her thesis, in any case, is not about pornography. “It’s about what’s happening in movies, magazines and advertising,” she says, “and how porn, which is not such a big deal in itself, is seeping into everything else.” --

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The Porn Supremacy

From the page: -- Casual sex among young people has been the norm for the last 30 years but what’s different now is the pressure to conform to this, which is sad given that feminism was always about choice. --

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Sex church preaches how 'Jesus loves porn stars'

Sex church preaches how 'Jesus loves porn stars' A Christian missionary group making the rounds at US adult entertainment conventions hands out Bibles with "Jesus loves porn stars" stamped on their covers.

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Lads' mags: porn or good fun?

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Ashlee Simpson Says No To Playboy

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Web firms unite against child porn

...by creating a massive database of child-pornography? I suppose there's more to it than that if you read the article, but it seems like it will be open to abuse. Plus, who gets the job of seeking out all the material in order to catalogue it? Scary stuff.

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The Way of All Flesh

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14 fired as porn goes viral at DVLA

Up to 115 employees at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) have been disciplined over the sending of pornographic emails. The government body has dismissed 14 of those people.

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Does 'Jesus Loves Porn Stars' Bible Go Too Far?

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Police Say Porn Suspect Had Sex With 16-Year-Old

Police Say Porn Suspect Had Sex With 16-Year-Old TAMPA - Police filed additional charges Wednesday against a man accused of running a homemade pornography studio, saying he had sex with a teenager.

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Thongs, implants and the death of real passion

-- Lap dancers, porn stars, big-lipped, zeppelin-breasted exhibitionists - meet the new role models for young British women. And, says feminist writer Ariel Levy, women are not just accepting this supersexualised culture - they are fuelling it.

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Critics say antiporn effort could affect wrong sites

-- Photographer Ron Hildebrand believes the black-and-white nude portraits displayed in his online gallery are "more sensual than sexual."

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Porn-surfing Oregon Worker Exposes 2,200 Taxpayer IDs

Don't surf porn at work. A) You'll get fired. B) That might not be all the harm that's caused...

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Porn-Surfing Oregon Worker Exposes 2,200 Taxpayer IDs

The identities included Social Security numbers, names, and addresses, and were transmitted to an unknown hacker by the keylogging Trojan horse that was on a PC in the state agency where the employee has been working.

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Operator Of Adult Website Facing Charges

-- A woman who produced bondage and domination videos at her home and sold memberships to customers who watched them on her website turned herself in to police Thursday.

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Trojan spyware nets personal data

The Oregon Department of Revenue says more than 1,300 people face identity theft after a state employee downloaded data-stealing spyware.

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Lee Duigon: A New Theme Park: Fornicationland

-- Preparations have been speeded up for the opening of what may be the most controversial theme park ever--Fornicationland.

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Child porn ring uncovered in Turkey

Police arrest 10 people, including a US citizen, who produced and spread child porn in exchange for money over the Internet

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Wired News: Porn Webmasters Bush-Whacked?

Republicans believe in small government. ** ** Republicans reserve the right to override our belief in small goverment when we see something we don't like.

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Pornonomics

If we use the lessons displayed in Freakonomics, what can we ascertain as the true beginnings of the Internet, and can we hypothesise on its direction?

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Porn situations vs real situations

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'Video Games As Bad As Porn' Bill Signed Into Law

Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry has signed into law the State-specific Bill HB30004, which redefines a list of items, such as hardcore pornography, which are deemed “harmful to minors”, to include video games which use “inappropriate violence”.

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Erotic expo comes to Miami Beach

I guess South Florida can finally call itself world-class, for it has its very own porn expo. Miami Beach, home to more timid events such as your average car show, is holding the Exxxotica porn industry expo this weekend, and The Miami Herald has the details.

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