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UK Study Warns of 'Pornification'

Calls for crackdown on lads mags, sexist billboards

(Newser) - Britain must crack down on nudity and sex on television, in men's' mags, and on billboards to prevent the 'pornification' of society, a new study warns. The research, commissioned by the government, also rips digitally altered photographs, saying children are being pressured to conform to unrealistic images and gender stereotypes...

Apple Pulls Sexy iPhone Apps



 Apple Pulls Sexy iPhone Apps 
CENSORSHIP DEPT?
Feb 19, 2010 11:35 AM CST

Apple Pulls Sexy iPhone Apps

Evidence of systemwide effort to rid App Store of explicit material

(Newser) - Apple appears to be cracking down on sexually explicit applications for sale in its App Store as one and then another racy app becomes unavailable. TechCrunch has what a developer says is an email describing the decision to pull his program. “We have decided to remove any overtly sexual...

John Mayer's Next Gig: Porn Writer?

Vivid Entertainment extends offer after 'Playboy' interview

(Newser) - John Mayer’s public image may be in the toilet, but his controversial Playboy interview did score him one positive: The chance to live out his “dream” of writing pornography. Vivid Entertainment, the company that has made overtures to such class acts as Tiger Woods, Carrie Prejean, and Octomom,...

Playboy 's No. 1 Fan? This 44-Year-Old Chicago Woman
Playboy's No. 1 Fan? This 44-Year-Old Chicago Woman
COLLECTION HAS OWN APARTMENT
Feb 7, 2010 5:04 AM CST

Playboy's No. 1 Fan? This 44-Year-Old Chicago Woman

Peggy Wilkins moderates fan list, and even has Hef's ear

(Newser) - One might think Playboy’s biggest fan is a teen boy getting his first forbidden glimpse—but in reality, it’s a 44-year-old Chicago woman who’s bought every issue for the past 30 years, and keeps a spare apartment just to house the collection. And Peggy Wilkins is proud...

Gizmodo, Drudge Fooled by Fake 'TSA Porn'

That's not an image from a body scanner, just a nude model

(Newser) - Gizmodo gets about “30,000 views in a single day” of a post with hot TSA full body scanner pics of an attractive female, Kashmir Hill writes, but it would be wise “to add a ‘this is a hoax’ update” since the photos are obviously fake....

Cops: Fatal-Crash Trucker Was Watching Porn

Mom of 2 killed when rig plows into her car

(Newser) - A trucker has been arrested after police determined he was leering at porn on his lap top computer when he plowed into a disabled car on a New York freeway, killing the female driver. Thomas Wallace, 45, of Ohio has been charged with manslaughter in the death of a 33-year-old...

iPad Leaves Porn Connoisseurs Flat
 iPad Leaves Porn 
 Connoisseurs Flat 


OPINION
Jan 28, 2010 2:34 AM CST

iPad Leaves Porn Connoisseurs Flat

Size, content limits iPorn on iPad

(Newser) - The iPad looks unlikely to be changing the porn industry the way Internet-enabled computers and smartphones did—and not just because you need both hands to hold it. The device is designed to download from Apple's app store, the iTunes store, and the iBooks store, none of which are any...

Gaming Worse for Kids Than Porn: Ron Jeremy

Famed porn star's 'ignorance' upsets baffled techie gathering

(Newser) - If there’s anything odder than legendary porn star Ron Jeremy showing up the Consumer Electronics Show, it’s said legendary porn star pooh-poohing one of the sacred cows of the people he was talking to. CES coincided with the Adult Entertainment Expo, and Jeremy wandered over to participate in...

Next Up in 3D: Porn
 Next Up in 3D: Porn 
Jan 11, 2010 10:35 AM CST

Next Up in 3D: Porn

New 3D porn company unveils service at Adult Entertainment Expo

(Newser) - 3D is coming to Hollywood blockbusters, to home theaters—and to porn. Pointing out that the adult entertainment industry has been a driving force behind the adoption of past technologies including VHS, satellite television, and the Internet, a producer from Bad Girls In 3D at this weekend’s Adult Entertainment...

Brit Body Scans Risk Breaking Kid Porn Laws

Officials debating how to protect children

(Newser) - British officials must exempt children from full-body security scans at airports or risk running afoul of the nation's child pornography laws. The British Department for Transport confirmed that the "child porn" problem is among the "legal and operational issues" being discussed as Britain prepares to use the controversial...

New Travel Trend: Porn Vacations
 New Travel Trend: 
 Porn Vacations 
STRANGE trips
Dec 30, 2009 2:58 PM CST

New Travel Trend: Porn Vacations

Participants help out behind the scenes, and sometimes on camera

(Newser) - If Club Med is too boring for you, why not try a new vacation idea in 2010: Porn Week. The travel company offers tourists the chance to watch a porn movie being made, with the bonus opportunity of helping out behind the scenes—or, in the case of a few...

Porn Star Tera Patrick Not Into Sex: Ex
 Porn Star 
 Tera Patrick 
 Not Into Sex: Ex 
CAREER MISMATCHES
Dec 22, 2009 8:56 AM CST

Porn Star Tera Patrick Not Into Sex: Ex

She says they broke up because he picked porn over her

(Newser) - Sounds like someone's in the wrong business: Tera Patrick, half of the now-separated "first couple of porn," is "not a sexual person," ex Evan Seinfeld says, telling the New York Post , "We barely had sex in our own marriage." Seinfeld's comments came after Patrick...

All Guys Watch Porn
 All Guys Watch Porn 
Dec 7, 2009 3:52 AM CST

All Guys Watch Porn

Research stymied by pornography's ubiquity

(Newser) - Canadian researchers hit a roadblock in recent attempts to study the effects of porn on male sexuality: they couldn't find any 20-something men who hadn't watched porn, dashing hopes of creating a "porn-free" control group, Gawker reports. Just how porn-addled are young men? Single guys watch 40 minutes in...

Trump Sees Porn in Prejean's Future

Carrie could use her porno millions for good causes, Donald says

(Newser) - Quote of the day goes to Donald Trump, who recently suggested that Carrie Prejean’s next career move be to enter the porn industry. The dethroned Miss California has apparently been calling the pageant owner, asking for career advice, the New York Post reports. The Donald told one source, “...

Sex Tape Star to Prejean: Release It!

But Prejean's lawyer is threatening to sue, so she's still not on board

(Newser) - If there’s anyone who knows how it feels to have a sex tape leaked—and the profit that can be gained—it’s former Playmate Shauna Sand, and she says Carrie Prejean should just release hers. In a letter to Prejean, she says she was “stunned and terrified”...

Porn Director Making Jaycee Dugard Film
 Porn Director 
 Making Jaycee 
 Dugard Film 
BAD IDEAS DEPT.
Nov 18, 2009 10:32 AM CST

Porn Director Making Jaycee Dugard Film

Rep slams Shane Ryan's plan to focus on Jaycee and Phillip Garrido

(Newser) - Worst idea of the day (year?) so far: A horror-porn director plans to make a film about kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard and her relationship with accused abductor—and rapist—Phillip Garrido. A spokesperson for Dugard called the idea “exploitive, hurtful, and breathtakingly unkind” after filmmaker Shane Ryan told a...

Levi Picking 'Porn' Over Baby: Palin

Sarah tells Oprah Johnston is too busy to see his son

(Newser) - So much for not slamming Levi Johnston during her Oprah interview: Sarah Palin told Winfrey that her daughter’s babydaddy is too busy doing “porn” to visit his child. “Some of the things that he is doing is kind of heartbreaking,” Palin said when asked about Johnston’...

Porn Co. to Prejean: We'll Make You a Star

Says Carrie could score millions off sex tapes

(Newser) - Carrie Prejean’s eight so-called “sex tapes” could earn her millions of dollars—in the porn industry. Vivid Entertainment re-extended a helping hand to Prejean—when the company first offered her $1 million to do a porno, all she had to her name was a topless photo. Now that...

Your PC May Be Rife With Kid Porn

Victims face tough fight to clear names

(Newser) - Pedophiles troll the darkest corners of the Internet for abhorrent images—images that PC viruses let them download, store, and access on your computer until the police come knocking on your door. Lives and reputations are being ruined as unwitting users take the fall for images they were unaware of,...

Leave Porn Sex to Porn Stars
 Leave Porn Sex to Porn Stars 
OPINION
Nov 2, 2009 11:53 AM CST

Leave Porn Sex to Porn Stars

In a real-life bedroom, no one cares about the money shot

(Newser) - In the middle of an underwhelming bedroom session with a lover she dubbed “Mr. Jackhammer,” Mary Elizabeth Williams had an epiphany: Men (and probably some women) are learning far too many of their moves from porn, and it’s time to stop. “Thinking you can learn to...

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