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Flynt Produces Palin Porn

CitizenSugar — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:25:04 -0700

Flynt Produces Palin Porn Porn-peddler Larry Flynt sought a woman who resembles GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin for an upcoming X-rated film based on the Alaskan governor. The Hustler founder solicited Palin look-alikes through a Los Angeles Craigslist solicitation after Palin delivered her wildly popular Republican National Convention speech. “Looking for a Sarah Palin look-alike,” the ad said “for an adult film to be shot in the next 10 days.”

Front Page: Senate to Vote on Bailout, Chinese Gymnasts Win Age Fight, Spain Arrests 121 For Child Porn

CitizenSugar — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:53:42 -0700

Senate to Vote on Bailout:
Senate leaders have scheduled a vote today on the $700 billion bailout proposal after adding tax breaks and a higher insured bank deposits limit in an attempt to win House approval and send the bill to President Bush by the end of the week. Senator Harry Reid said, “It has been determined, in our judgment, this is the best thing to move forward," when he announced the unexpected move.

Chinese Gymnasts Win Age Fight:
International gymnastics officials closed a five week investigation in to the ages of the Chinese gymnasts competing at the Beijing Olympics, ruling that documentation rules that the gymnasts were old enough to compete. The scrutiny has not yet cleared gymnasts who won the team bronze in Sydney eight years ago saying, "The FIG does not consider the explanations and evidence provided to date in regards to these athletes as satisfactory.''
Spain Arrests 121 For Child Porn:
In what's described as Spain's largest operation against child internet porn, Spain's authorities say they have arrested 121 people and millions of images. Police say two of those arrested were using their own children to make pornography. The sting involved 800 officers, 210 searches, and 347 hard drives seized. The raids bring the number of people arrest for child porn in Spain in the past five years to 1,200.

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Should the Law Consider a Striptease Performance Art?

LibertySugar — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:45:35 -0700

The future of (public) nude dancing in Iowa depends on the legal answer to one question: is stripping art? Iowa's ~~strip clubs~~ performing arts centers are under legal attack, after an underage patron's performance sparked a court battle. Iowa's public indecent exposure laws forbid all-nude strip clubs, but artists still dance naked at "performing art centers."

Back in 2001, the underage niece of a sheriff decided to bare all at the establishment Shotgun Geniez, dragging the owner into court to argue that the law does not apply here because it exempts theater, concert hall, art center, and museum performances.

The club in question, which usually prevents under 18 year olds from entering, sells posters and provides sketch pads for patrons. While the owner argues that she did not violate Iowa's public indecent exposure law because the dancing is art, the prosecution says the facts are clear: an underage girl stripped, case closed.

If the case makes it up to the state supreme court, there may be a state-wide decision regarding whether naked dancing equals art. How do you think the court should treat subjective standards like "art" and "indecency?"

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The Google Defense: Can Search Terms Determine Obscenity?

LibertySugar — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:00:00 -0700

A defendant in an obscenity trial hopes to introduce Google search data to show that community tastes go beyond apple pie and toward a more sexual appetite. Under the law, a jury or judge must decide if the alleged obscenity violates the vague benchmark of "community standards."

In the past, defendants have relied on the wide availability of sexual material in the community, to prove standards. The current defendant, pornographic website operator Clinton Raymond McCowen's, wants to go further, showing interest and consumption rather than availability. While local statistics from Pensacola, FL, show that residents search NASCAR, surfing, and Nintendo more than orgy, orgy competes with apple pie, and other wholesome American terms, reports the New York Times.

This unusual case reveals the futility of trying to carefully censor the Internet. Since 2000 the US federal government has initiated only 15 nonchild porn-related obscenity cases. Local prosecutors have similarly dropped the charges against Internet porn.

If a jury finds this porn-site operator guilty of obscenity, and then goes home and searches for porn, are they acting like a bunch of hypocrites? Should citizens be left to self-censor the Internet? Does it make you nervous to realize how much data Google keeps?

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Sexy Shop Protesters Put "Secrets" Customers on YouTube

CitizenSugar — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:00:56 -0700

Shoppers looking to snap up a pair of lacy panties (not unlike those the thong bandits arrested over the weekend used) in Vacaville, CA better be prepared to have their shopping habits shown on YouTube.

Protesters have been gathering outside of Secrets Lingerie Boutique to film shoppers heading into the store because they say Secrets "is a shop that is profiting from pornography and other materials that we feel are degrading to people and exploitative."

The store sells lingerie and gifts in front and adult movies in the back. A local business owner defends the honor of the underduds store saying, "from what I've seen so far, it's no worse than Victoria's Secret, or worse than Hanes Underwear store across the way in the factory stores."

Are the panty-vigilantes, justified? To find out,

Seventy People Arrested in Australian Child Pornography Ring

CitizenSugar — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:00:10 -0700

The largest child pornography investigation in history has resulted in the arrest of over 70 people in Australia. The arrests were the culmination of a six-month investigation that spanned 170 countries. If that number doesn't blow your mind, consider this: the people arrested ranged in age from 19 to 81, and were from all walks of life, including a teacher, a youth worker, and a police officer.

The investigation was dubbed Operation Centurion, and collected information from a website containing downloadable pornographic images of children ranging from 18 year-olds to — get this — infants, being physically and sexually abused. No one is entirely certain where these images originated or the identities of the children in the photos.

During a 76-hour period of monitoring the site, it logged over 12 million hits, with 2,800 hits originating from Australia. The Australian Federal Police Commissioner said of this sting: “The AFP will not tolerate any form of child abuse in Australia or anywhere in the world and will continue to work with local and overseas counterparts to arrest those behind child exploitation.”

Though the arrests are a victory, the police sadly don't know if the children in the photos are still being abused.

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Free Minutes? Teens Sending Naked Pics Via Cell Phones

CitizenSugar — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:15:15 -0700

Remember when school rumors about who was slutty were of the analog variety? That is to say, whispered behind hands in the hallway? Not anymore folks. In this all blog, all the time kids are snapping digital proof of their moral transgressions — and beaming naked pics of themselves to classmates' cell phones, who of course forward the illicit snaps onto friends.

Think what happens in cyberspace stays there? Nope. In La Crosse, WI, a 17-year-old boy was recently charged with child pornography, sexual exploitation of a child and defamation in conjunction with posting nude photos of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend on his MySpace page. The naughty pics came from a cell phone.

The impulsive racy acts have consequences lasting well beyond "delete." To see how,

DearSugar Needs Your Help: Am I Overreacting?

DearSugar — Sat, 31 May 2008 09:00:00 -0700

DearSugar and Creeped Out Crary need your help. As her boss's right hand woman, she has access to his e-mail inbox, but instead of reading professional messages, she's been filtering through personal notes containing a significant amount of pornography. She's fed up with his chauvinistic antics but she's not sure if she's overreacting. Can you offer her some advice?

Dear Sugar,
One of my responsibilities at work is to respond to my boss's emails and monitor his email inbox for invitations to conference calls and meetings. He gets many personal forwards too, and quite a few of them contain photos of people having sex. He even forwards them to other people, and every time he writes an email, I get cc'd so I often open them thinking they are real emails that pertain to the job at hand. He even sends out responses like, "I had to close the door for this one!" and my desk is right outside his office! To make matters worse, he spends much of the day downloading porn from the internet, and his computer is always bugged with viruses.

Porn actually doesn't bother me, but it really irritates me that he is so incredibly casual about it. I think it just reinforces the stereotype of the older successful man being able to do whatever he wants at work. He has a very old-fashioned view of his support staff and he expects the women and secretaries to just to deal with him, but we are professionals too, and I just think we deserve more respect.

The problem is we work in a very small firm with no HR department and he is a senior partner. I want to say something but I'm not sure if I'm overreacting? Am I making this a bigger deal than it is? What should I do?

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CA Lawmaker to Profit From Porn — Sexy Gets a 25% Tax

CitizenSugar — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:00:33 -0700

Sacramento just got an influx of exotic dancers recently. No, Hugh Hefner didn't move the Playboy Mansion; the girls were there protesting a new tax increase threatening to devastate the adult film and entertainment industries.

A Southern Californian assemblyman has proposed a 25 percent tax of gross revenues on producers and distributors of adult material. This will include tariffs on not only videos, but also strip clubs, magazines, and cable television. The sponsors of the bill believe that the adult industry “deserves it” since they're a prime cause of sexually transmitted diseases and create a species of men who become so addicted to online sex that they lose their jobs and then live off of the state’s programs. At $4 billion of revenue a year, it's not exactly a bunch of singles stuffed into the state's garter. To see who's not into it,

Stars and Strips: Porn Ban To Hurt Soldier Morale

LibertySugar — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:00:21 -0700

The US Congress is considering legislation that would restrict the sale of pornography on US military bases around the world. Soldiers overseas would no longer be able to read the in-depth articles in magazines such as Playboy.

The Pentagon is all for Penthouse, ruling last year that such magazines were not technically porn — but US Representative Paul Broun from Georgia wants to overrule that decision with new legislation.

Soldiers — who say they read the magazines for their stories, too — are not happy about this censorship. One soldier said the ban would demean soldiers, treating them as if they were back in elementary school.

But, Rep. Broun believes:

Allowing the sale of pornography on military bases has harmed military men and women by: escalating the number of violent, sexual crimes; feeding a base addiction; eroding the family as the primary building block of society; and denigrating the moral standing of our troops both here and abroad.

Should the military have higher standards than the rest of American society? Should the people serving overseas have access to the same entertainment/smut we have at home?

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