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The use of web tracking panel data provides new insights into Germans' online pornography use. According to new research published in Archives of Sexual Behavior, German Catholics, Protestants, and the religiously unaffiliated are as likely to use online pornography as each other. By comparison, members of minority religions in Germany, such as Muslims or Orthodox Christians, are less likely to use online pornography. "Prior studies have shown that religiosity can be a strong predictor of pornography usage," said Dr. Pascal Siegers of GESIS—Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. "We wanted to re-investigate these questions using web tracking data that is...

The Atlantic claims online pornography is killing the environment at a greater pace than physical pornography ever did, in an article this week. “So many people watch porn online that the industry’s carbon footprint might be worse now that it was in the days of DVDs and magazines,” declared Atlantic writer Matt Kessler. […] … “Using a formula that Netflix published on its blog in 2015, Nathan Ensmenger, a professor at Indiana University who is writing a book about the environmental history of the computer, calculates that if Pornhub streams video as efficiently as Netflix (0.0013 kWh per streaming hour),...

The European Parliament is preparing to vote on a proposal to ban all forms of pornography. A report detailing the ban was prepared by the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality. Embedded under Article 17 of the report is a clause that, if eventually made into law, would effectively ban pornography across all types of media, including the Internet, in Europe. Freedom of speech campaigners have criticized the move, claiming that the clause has been quietly inserted into the legislation. They also described the inclusion of the article as an “unacceptable political invasion of people’s bedrooms”. …

November 26, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - It was in the mid 90s that we began to hear a whole lot about this new thing called “the Internet,” which could answer all of mankind’s deepest questions. At around the same time I hit puberty and began to spend my time moping about pondering the age-old riddle of what, exactly, women look like underneath their clothing. Evidently at some point I put two and two together and punched the appropriate keywords into the prehistoric version of Google, with spectacular results. So far so good, and if it had stopped there, the experiment might...

Santorum and Romney are dead in the water. What is the matter with these guys? They should have one message, and one message only. Let's talk about all the things that Obama said he would be, and wasn't! That is all it will take to beat him. Santorum is now going to focus on internet porn. Wonderful! I will tell you that as of right now I would say that only Newt will know how to stay "on message". One thing Newt knows better than the other two is that instead of talking about each groups issue, bring all the...

About 1,000 Utahns were told to join the "war on pornography" Saturday at a conference aimed at teaching them how to protect themselves and their children against it or how to get help if they are addicted. "Internet pornography is the sexual revolution times 1,000," said Patrick Trueman, former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section Criminal Division under President Reagan and President George H.W. Bush. At the Utah Coalition Against Pornography's ninth annual conference at Little America Hotel, Trueman said porn leads to sex parties and prostitution and "hijacks our brain" to make users...

This story is a double-edged sword. On one hand the Washington Times has found that spending working hours on internet porn is rampant at the National Science Foundation and has grown sixfold in the past year, but on the bright side while they are screwing around on porn sites, they aren't screwing around with the country. Like when the Foundation awarded a grant of more than $325,000 to Daniel Shain, professor at Rutgers University, to trek to Alaska in search of the elusive ice worm. Unfortunately, he and several students spent two weeks last August hunting through snow and ice...

Woo-hoo! "The Simpsons Movie" has won its name back on the Internet. A UN agency has ruled that ownership of the domain name thesimpsonsmovie.com must be handed to News Corp.'s Twentieth Century Fox, which owns the rights to the film and the popular TV series. Twentieth Century Fox complained to the World Intellectual Property Organization over the use of the film's name in the Internet address of a site registered by Keith Malley of New York. Fox lawyers claimed Malley was using the address to divert Internet users to a website that included sexually explicit depictions of several characters from...

While the debate rages over what to do with the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library and whether we need a new central library for the city, a larger concern is being ignored: Internet porn at the library. When I walked into the West End Branch Library on 24th Street NW last week, several men were sitting at the computers, looking at hard-core pornography on the Internet. Meanwhile, children on the other side of the room were also using computers. One child was running around behind the men, who were studiously observing the most intimate parts of a woman's body...

(AgapePress) - A black pastor affiliated with a ministry that trains churches and low-income or underprivileged citizens in computer literacy is sounding the alarm about how Internet pornography websites often use deceptive tactics to target certain demographic groups.Pastor Bill Mooney-McCoy is director of TechMission's Safe Families program, which provides filtering software and educational materials at its website -- resources designed to help children and families stay safe online. He is also a member of the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston, a group that recently sponsored an online safety workshop.During this information session, Mooney-McCoy took the opportunity to warn...

See for example this thread first. Again, adult topics and situations, so clear the kids out of the room. And for those who are not computer geeks, ICANN is the "Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers". They have something to do with defining and assigning internet domains and suchforth. ICANN has announced it rejects The web domain called .XXX (If you surf with one hand I'll bet you understand) ...but you still could type "Google" and "Sex"

Guess who's "talking to the kids" on "MySpace.com"? Eon McKai produces "alt-porn," and represents one of the biggest porn companies, VCA, now owned by Hustler. McKai says he is talking to the kids and urges the "mainstream industry" to do the same. "Since watching Suicide Girls [the popular alt-chick Web site] grow, I try and promote my product in the same way," says McKai, who is also promoted by his company, VCA. One of the first things I did was create a MySpace profile and start talking to the kids, I just open that channel. We sent buttons to...

Millions of men and boys are falling for the destructive myth that looking at "adult" porn is normal, healthy and harmless for "regular guys." Way too many are finding themselves handcuffed between two cops, under arrest for sexual conduct with a kid. The hook-ups with kids are occurring on the main streets of U.S. cities and the dark alleys of the virtual world. Experts estimate that 50,000 sexual predators prowl the Internet for children every day. As long as myth trumps truth, the next estimate could be 10 times what it is today. Stopping predators before they ravage our...

WASHINGTON -- Justin Berry, who for five years starred in his own Web cam child pornography business, told a House panel Tuesday that the Justice Department is moving too slowly to round up 1,500 pedophiles whose information he surrendered last year. "I believed that the government would protect the children being abused. I believed they would act quickly," Berry, now 19, told the House Energy and Commerce Committee. "I was wrong." Justice Department spokesman Bryan Sierra disputed that, citing a threefold increase in federal prosecutions of child pornography and abuse cases nationally over the past decade. The unit investigating Berry's...

So, if you’re an over-protective parent, move to Vietnam. If you need some extra attention, go to London. Gentlemen, if you’re concerned about your performance, Chinese women might not be your best bet. Ladies, if you hate taking the pill, you might like a Brazilian. Or a Swede When it comes to unplanned pregnancies, the worry warts come from Hong Kong, Poland, and Serbia Montenegro. And as for who’s getting lucky the most...you can still safely leave it to the French. Everybody is thinking about sex. Last year mobile phone firms spent billions of pounds on networks that will soon...

Utah's governor signed a bill on Monday that would require Internet providers to block Web sites deemed pornographic and could also target e-mail providers and search engines.The controversial legislation will create an official list of Web sites with publicly available material deemed "harmful to minors." Internet providers in Utah must provide their customers with a way to disable access to sites on the list or face felony charges. Technology firms had urged Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman not to sign the bill (click for PDF), saying it was constitutionally suspect and worded so vaguely its full impact is still unclear. The...

Businessman to plead guilty to selling porn By PENNY BROWN ROBERTS proberts@theadvocate.com Advocate staff writer A Gonzales businessman plans to plead guilty to selling sexually explicit images of children on the Internet, a court document shows. Daniel Lensky, also known as Daniel Haist, 63, 40434 Black Bayou Extension, is scheduled for rearraignment before U.S. District Judge James Brady in early January. A memo to lawyers in the case made public Wednesday indicates federal prosecutors have reached a plea agreement, but does not detail its terms. Lensky faces five counts of trafficking sexually explicit images of children, each of which carries...

Porn publisher Perfect 10 Inc. sued Google for copyright infringement last Friday, accusing Google of failing to remove from its search results thousands of photos posted online (on non-Google sites)without permission from Perfect 10. The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, states Perfect 10 Inc. alleged that any web user can find its copyrighted pictures of nude women which have been pirated on other websites, for free by performing Google searches. According to a wire report, Perfect 10 said it has sent 27 formal requests to Google to remove the offending sites from its index...

Two of the men viewed porn on Internet; lawyer calls it 'locker room-type atmosphere' AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Thursday, July 22, 2004 Three Austin police officers have been suspended for telling dirty jokes and making sexual comments in front of a female co-worker and must attend any training or counseling a department psychologist recommends. Two of the officers also viewed Internet pornography that included nude photos of actresses such as Pamela Anderson and a naked obese woman, according to their attorney and disciplinary memos obtained Wednesday. "It was basically a situation where there was a locker room-type atmosphere," lawyer Jamie Balagia said....

Explain this to me: The Supreme Court of the United States says the First Amendment protects the right of hard-core pornographers to lure children into "adult" Web sites where they will be exposed to every manner of deviant sexual behavior? Yet that same court says the First Amendment restricts the right of groups critical of this decision from airing ads at election time that oppose presidential candidates who might appoint similarly disposed judges. As incomprehensible as it might seem, this is the state of First Amendment jurisprudence as the current term of the Supreme Court comes to a close. On Tuesday,...