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The good news: Conservative anti-porn organization Morality in Media recently lost $150,000 in Congressional funding. The bad news: For the past two years, conservative anti-porn organization Morality in Media had $150,000 in Congressional funding. From the Morality in Media announcement list: Dear Friend of Morality In Media, You can’t save the world if you can’t [...]
It isn’t safe for an honest pornographer in Iran these days: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – A man was flogged in public in the town of Behshahr, northern Iran, for producing home-made pornographic videos, state media reported on Sunday. The unnamed man was lashed 100 times in public, the daily Etemaad Melli wrote. He had [...]
Quickie: Anti-Sex Bipartisanship, Premature Puberty, Free Porn
by Sabrina Morgan
on January 9, 2007
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· in Adult Industry, Quickies, Society, War on Porn
Commentary: Does Sitcom Strategy Explain Anti-Porn Laws? (AVN) Precocious Puberty on the Rise (Alternet; thanks to Sexoteric for the link) Forum Aimed at Limiting Spread of Free Porn Launches (XBiz) Stevensville man undeterred in his long battle against obscenity (Missoulian.com) Kink.com Acquires Historic San Francisco Armory Building (XBiz) Comment: Sarah Carey: We need more sex, [...]
Quickie: FBI Meets With Adult, Gay Marriage, Voluntary Content Labeling
by Sabrina Morgan
on January 4, 2007
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The FBI Meets With Adult: 1 (XBiz) Citizen journalism website seeks sex-trade worker to cover Pickton trial (Canadian Press) Porn Sites Start Adapting to Wii (1up.com) Indications of a Slowdown in Sex Entertainment Trade (New York Times) Sex Offenders Fill Geriatric Wards of U.S. Prisons (NPR) Sex-Crazed Teens, Porn and Booze Bunk: 2006′s Worst Science [...]
The phrase “porn addiction” has been repeated so often in the past few months that it’s becoming accepted as fact. First: Obsessive porn usage is a compulsion, not an addiction. It’s an addiction only in the same sense that any pleasurable activity is worth endlessly repeating. It’s a form of escapism and should be no [...]
Remember the Pence Amendment? The one that was lingering in the House, that involved making lascivious exhibitation of the genital area and simulated sexually explicit conduct – presently exempt – subject to 2257? The one that, if it became law, would make R-rated movies subject to 18 U.S.C. § 2257 regs… Yeah, that one. The [...]
If you haven’t caught the posts and discussions over at SugarBank on porn, obscenity, and the violence/sex split, get your smut-happy ass over there pronto. If there’s reason to draw a line between violent movies and sex movies, should we be drawing it now? If not is there anything that we shouldn’t allow others to [...]
J.T. Benjamin of ERWA fame has a great idea: Mind your own fucking business. “…And what is this theme? How must we respond to the Holy Terrors’ War On Whoopie? Four words. Mind Your Own Business. It’s firm. It’s assertive. It’s simple. It’s “Get The Government Out Of Our Private Lives.” It’s Freedom. It’s Liberty. [...]
Labors of a Digital Pimp was featured on Fleshbot a couple of days ago; if you missed him then, you’ll want to check him out now. He’s had excellent coverage of the Alito nomination process and how it could impact the average surfer’s porn viewing (free speech = free porn; less freedom of speech equals [...]
This post from the Boston.com forums might be the best summary of the current U.S. porn “problem” I’ve seen yet: The “Pornification of America” eh… This argument is sounding erily familiar to the anti-porn arguments from the Regan era. Sex sells…everything. So unless you think you can stop advertising agencies from using sexuality to sell [...]
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