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Adult performer/director Stormy Daniels' candidacy for the U.S. Senate took another step forward today as Daniels announced the formation of a committee to explore a potential campaign. "Two weeks ago, I embarked on a listening tour where I had the pleasure of hearing the thoughts and concerns of my fellow Louisianans," Daniels said in a statement. "These conversations were highly encouraging and convinced me to officially explore the possibility of running for the United States Senate. The Daniels campaign has set up a new website, TeamStormy.com, which is accepting monetary donations online. The original DeaftStormy.com site, which initially supported Daniels...

CHILD abuse campaigners Sara Payne and Shy Keenan have backed a top cop who is risking jail in a battle over suspected paedophile images. They said they were “1,000 per cent” behind Chief Constable Colin Port, who is refusing to return 87 computer hard drives to their owner. They were seized from the man’s home along with 2,500 child porn images — but he claimed the raid was illegal and won a High Court order banning police from examining them. Ms Keenan said: “Sara and I cannot believe this man has used the law to stop the police taking proper...

A Taiwanese carpenter who found out about his wife's affair when he spotted her starring in a pornographic film with his friend later stabbed him in a revenge attack. The man, known only as Lee, from Taipei, spotted his wife cavorting in a DVD called Affairs With Others' Wives which he had bought to watch at home. The encounter was apparently recorded on a hidden camera in a motel.

Grove City College officials say no deal is in place that assures John Gechter will graduate from the school. Gechter withdrew last week after the college suspended him for working in the pornography industry. Gechter was discovered by a fellow student and school administrators appearing in online gay pornography. The conservative Christian school suspended Gechter for behavior that conflicts with the student code of conduct. Gechter led a secret life for two years, flying to the west coast on weekends to work in porn videos designed for internet audiences. In an interview with our newsroom last week, Gechter said he...

John Gechter's story has been troubling me ever since I read it in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09128/968674-298.stm)on Friday, May 8th. Gechter was set to graduate from Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania which is about 65 miles north of Pittsburgh. The college is situated in a rural area, and was founded in 1879 as a strict Christian institution, which it remains today. It prides itself as an authentic Christian institution. The college is also listed as one of the top ten conservative schools in the nation with very rigorous academics. Sex outside of marriage, heterosexual or gay is forbidden,...

An adult film star named Stormy Daniels has announced her plans to run for the Louisiana Senate seat in 2010, seat currently held by Republican David Vitter, whose family-values reputation was marred when it emerged he had visited prostitutes. Miss Daniels, 30, born in Louisiana, insists she's serious and is spending her own money on a "listening tour" to hear what people have to say as she considers a possible run, and said she isn't just starting a publicity stunt to promote her work or embarrass Mr Vitter. However, she said she hasn't lived in Louisiana for seven years –...

America is raising a generation of children on porn - and your child just might be one of them. According to the London School of Economics, nine out of 10 teens who go online will view pornography. The Kaiser Family Foundation reports that 70 percent of those who viewed porn stumbled across it - many while innocently doing their homework - and had not been looking for it. The purveyors of hard-core porn are so fixated on creating addicts out of our sons and daughters that they have made it virtually impossible for children to escape their clutches. Even one...

"Two American Fork fifth-graders could face criminal charges for looking at pornography on a school computer, but some people are wondering how they were able to access the images in the first place. Police were called last week after two 11-year-old boys at Forbes Elementary School pulled up images of sexual acts on a school computer and then showed the pictures to nine other students, said American Fork Police Sgt. Gregg Ludlow. The incident came to light when one child told a parent and another told the principal. Ludlow called the images "pretty explicit" but declined to elaborate. He said...

San Jose council votes down porn filters at public library computers A year and a half of debate over filtering pornography out of San Jose public library computers came to a head late Tuesday when the City Council rejected spending money on the technology. After a lively debate that lasted hours, the council voted 7-3 to approve a proposal by the vice mayor and two councilmen that would remind computer users of existing policies to be courteous to others. Mayor Chuck Reed and council members Pete Constant, who led the push for the filters, and Pierluigi Oliverio were opposed, favoring...

In its biggest crackdown of pornographic web sites, Iran has arrested 26 men and women on a wide array of charges from producing adult and child porn content to mocking Islamic beliefs. The arrests, made by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, also marks another operational change for a complex military organisation. The Guards not only make long-range missiles and run businesses in Iran, but they are also accused of supporting militants from Iraq to Lebanon and trying to militarise Iran's nuclear programme. The special Guards unit for fighting organised internet crimes announced in late March that its task force had closed...

Lawmakers there are considering a bill that would make it legal for teenagers 18 and under to exchange explicit photos and videos of themselves – an act that's come to be known by teens as "sexting." Under the current law, teenagers could be prosecuted as sex offenders if they get caught sending graphic sexual images of themselves, even if it was consensual. A state House committee will hear more testimony on it later this week. Do You Think Sexting Should Be Legal For Teens? Leave Your Comments Here!In a recent study, 18 percent of female students nationwide say they've tried...

San Jose City Council to reconsider porn filters at libraries San Jose officials are preparing for a showdown later this month over online pornography in city libraries. City officials last considered whether to electronically filter library Internet use in 1997. At the time, they overwhelmingly concluded the technology was too primitive to snag smut without also snaring information about health topics like breast cancer. The council will revisit that decision in what is expected to be a heavily attended evening meeting April 21. Councilman Pete Constant since October 2007 has called for reconsidering that move. He has cited improvements in...

A groundswell of outrage, concern and confusion sprang up over the weekend, largely via Twitter, in response to what authors and others believed was a decision by Amazon to remove "adult" titles from its sales rankings. On Sunday evening, however, an Amazon spokesperson said that a "glitch" had occurred in its sales ranking feature that was in the process of being fixed. The spokesperson added that there was no new policy regarding "adult" titles. As of Monday morning, a number of titles affected by the glitch were still without sales rankings. No one at Amazon was available this morning to...

(UPDATED) As if it wasn't hellacious enough working customer support for Amazon.com on Easter, the online book store's reps must now explain why gay romances (and other books) are too "adult" to rank. Straight romance like Jackie Collins and straight porn like this book of Playboy centerfolds is still ranked on Amazon. But not the homosexul stuff: Gay romance publisher Mark Probst noticed hundreds of such books lost their rankings over the past two days, including Transgressions, about a 17th century liaison between a cavalry trooper and a farmer's son, and False Colors, about a 19th century naval lieutenant attracted...

"Sexting" is a national activity of young girls of taking nude or seminude photographs of themselves, and sending them out using cell phones. The photos get widely distributed, leading to harm to the girls, and in one case, to a suicide. The ACLU has sued a local prosecutor, seeking a court ruling that "sexting" is free speech, and the prosecutor should cease acting against it.The facts for this article, but not its legal conclusions, come from an article on the MTV website on 27 March 2009. The article begins by discussing the phenomenon of "sexting," teenaged girls sending nude...

British media regulator Ofcom has fined Playboy TV 22,500 pounds ($32,990) for airing sexually explicit images in breach of broadcasting rules. It said on Thursday the free-to-air channel Playboy One had broadcast unencrypted raunchy, and what the watchdog deemed offensive, material until September 2008. Ofcom had received five complaints relating to seven late night programs broadcast between September and December 2007.

I was a porn star. I was living the unglamorous life in the porn industry...

[video] In a battle between a vile hardcore porn publisher and a vile softcore porn publisher, wheelchair-bound Larry Flynt claims he’s had more women than Hugh Hefner. “ To tell the truth, we don’t care about either of these guys. They’re both living in the past. But based on longevity, we’d give the nod to Hefner. As far as we can tell, the guy invented sex and most of the primary positions associated with it. He’s been doing it since dinosaurs roamed the earth. He drew the first centerfolds on the wall of a cave. The first issue of Playboy...

[image] excerpt: The Federal Aviation Administration revoked David Keith Martz’ pilot license this week. Martz got the FAA’s attention when they saw an online video in which Martz had sex with porn star Puma Swede while flying his helicopter over San Diego. The FAA investigated after the videotaped sexcapade was made available online.....

LOGAN COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- An investigation is underway in Logan County after someone found some indecent pictures on a school computer. West Virginia State Police tell WSAZ.com that the file was found on a computer at Chapmanville High School. Investigators say the file contained provocative photos of students, some of them contained nudity and partial nudity. Right now, no one knows who took the pictures or where they came from. The Logan County Superintendent tells WSAZ.com the pictures were found by a technician when he was cleaning the county's computers. State police were contacted immediately to investigate the incident....

A little girls’ icon gets ink. Can ‘Pole Dance Barbie’ be far behind? By Matt Philbin Culture and Media Institute March 10, 2009 We can be sure she’s not the first of her generation to mark her 50th birthday by getting tattoos. After all, the cultivation of youth-obsessed narcissism and bad taste is a Baby Boomer hallmark (see Clinton, Bill). But “Totally Stylin’ Tattoos Barbie” is no less disturbing for being a product of her generation. Mattel is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the bubbly blonde franchise with an update – tattoos for her and her young owners. Of course,...

Lately the phrase "unlimited texting" is taking on a whole new meaning: "In Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Utah (at last count) minors have been arrested for 'sexting,' or sending or posting soft-core photo or video self-portraits," The American Prospect reported. Among the recent cases: Six high school students from Greensburg, Pa., were charged with possessing, manufacturing and distributing child pornography this month after nude pictures of several underage girls were confiscated from one of the boys' phones. The three 14- and 15-year-old girls who sent the self-made child porn and the three...

Passengers are angry about being forced to fly on a new Southwest Airlines plane featuring a bikini-clad model, saying it is "soft porn" and is offensive to families. Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, currently dating actor Leonardo DiCaprio, is pictured lying seductively in a revealing white bikini along the length of the Boeing 737 as part of a promotional deal with Sports Illustrated. The latest addition to the US-based airline was unveiled this month and is deployed like other aircraft in the fleet, servicing all its routes.

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - A new study is revealing, what some may consider, startling information about Utahans and what they do online. New research shows Utah is number one in the nation for online pornography subscriptions. The research is just coming out Tuesday, from a study done by Harvard Business School Professor Benjamin Edelman, published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. It tracks subscriptions to online pornography sites by states. The study measures the online porn subscriptions per thousand people, per thousand homes with internet users, per thousand homes with broadband users, and also when accounting for...

Oh, yep, yep I just barfed a little in my mouth. I'm ok, I'm ok, deep breaths. I'm in my happy place... From SF Gate:"The Southern California mother of octuplets is being offered $1 million to star in hardcore porn. Vivid Entertainment spokeswoman Jackie Martin says the offer also promises a year of health insurance for Nadya Suleman and her 14 children. Suleman gave birth to octuplets at a Bellflower hospital on Jan. 26, and already had six other children. The home the unemployed single-mother lives in is facing foreclosure." (image on site) This image provided by NBC shows Nadya...

ABC News is excited about porn. At least excited by the "fact" that conservative and religious states have the highest levels of porn usage in the country. This, ABC says, is according to a study by Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School. Yes, it's another one of those dime-a-dozen studies. ABC trumpets the bare "facts" in its February 28 piece titled, "Porn in the USA: Conservatives Are Biggest Consumers." In its first few paragraphs the report claims that, "Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious” than states in the more liberal areas...

A new study shows that the states that consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption.

[photo] Hating the media is our reason for living. And we think intentionally misleading news stories are almost as pornographic as pornography. Like the one ABC News ran the other night. At IHateTheMedia.com, we admit right up front that what we do is commentary. On a good day, mildly amusing commentary. We would never call ourselves a news organization, and after this so-called news report, maybe ABC News shouldn’t either. “Porn in the USA: Conservatives Are Biggest Consumers,” (link) ABC’s report, said “Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious.” The backgroundAccording to...

A new study shows that states that consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption. "When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different," says Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School. However, there are some trends to be seen in the data. Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds. "Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things...

BC News is excited about porn. At least excited by the “fact” that conservative and religious states have the highest levels of porn usage in the country. This, ABC says, is according to a study by Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School. Yes, it’s another one of those dime-a-dozen studies. ABC trumpets the bare “facts” in its February 28 piece titled, “Porn in the USA: Conservatives Are Biggest Consumers.” In its first few paragraphs the report claims that, “Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious” than states in the more liberal areas...

[photos] What the hell? You all remember the story Fox News Producer Aaron Bruns arrested on child porn charges, right. We don’t know how we missed it this week, but on Monday the Kenneth in the (212) blog uncovered (NSFW)–so to speak–that Aaron Bruns had a starring role in the soft-porn instructional book entitled The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Supercharged Kama Sutra Illustrated. We’re not going to show the NSFW photos here. But, we did clean up one photo that shows you an interesting Kama Sutra move with a stick. We know it’s Saturday, but being the curious guys and...

Americans may paint themselves in increasingly bright shades of red and blue, but new research finds one thing that varies little across the nation: the liking for online pornography. A new nationwide study (pdf) of anonymised credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider finds little variation in consumption between states. "When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different," says Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School. However, there are some trends to be seen in the data. Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious...

[photo] Nadya Suleman, mother of the California octuplets born last month, has landed smack dab in the middle of a public relations feud between rival porn producers. One adult film producer has offered Suleman $1 million plus free health insurance to star in one of their porn movies. In response, another porn producer offered...

SNIPPET: "Critics of Ogden had cited his history of representing the pornography industry in private practice. But one of Republicans who voted for Ogden -- Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter -- explained that despite thousands of voter contacts opposing the nominee, he was swayed by an opinion piece explaining the principle that a client's view cannot be attributed to a lawyer." SNIPPET: "Pat Trueman, a former Justice Department child exploitation prosecutor, reacts to the committee vote. "It's clear that the Senate Democrats want these radical nominees [to be approved], because it's not just David Ogden -- there's a couple of others that...

[image] Apparently, D.C. stands for “Disgusting Creep.” Last month it was a reporter for Fox News. This month it’s a former National Public Radio science editor. Legal documents (click here to view) say David Malakoff has been charged with possessing child porn between April and June, 2008. He had been a science editor and on-air correspondent for the publicly-supported radio network until he “resigned” in June, 2008. Interesting juxtaposition of dates, we’d say. Watch for more news as this dirt-o-rama develops in D.C.

The Politics of Porn by Robert R. Reilly    2/18/09     In many major American cities, the tawdry sections of town that once housed pornographic cinemas, bookstores, and strip joints have given way to shiny new office buildings and Starbucks coffee houses. Does this sign of urban renewal also signify moral renewal? Has America finally grown bored with a surfeit of pornography? Unfortunately not. Pornography has simply relocated from inner city slums to a far worse location -- the home, which it now infiltrates via the latest technology.   U.S. News and World Report (Feb. 10, 1997) revealed...

Talk of a New York tax increase just got a little, er, hotter. It turns out that New York Gov. David Paterson's proposal on downloads of music and software would also apply to downloading pornography.

Adult download tax proposal awaits climax in Albany BY Stephanie Gaskell DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Updated Monday, February 16th 2009, 9:53 AM Governor Paterson wants to tax Internet porn on top of music and movie downloads. Diver/Getty This is the best tax you ever had. A state proposal to add a 4% tax for downloading movies and music will also apply to Internet porn. Gov. Paterson recently suggested the so-called iPod tax to help close a $15 billion budget deficit, but few realized the levy would also apply to XXX-rated material. The skin industry denounced the move as a cheap...

published by:Public Discourse: Ethics, Law and the Common Goodhttp://www.thepublicdiscourse.com view article in original form David Ogden and the New Pornographers: Why the Senate Should Reject His Nominationby Matthew Schmitz February 12, 2009 David Ogden has impressive legal credentials, but his long career as a pornography-industry attorney casts doubt on his ability to enforce laws meant to protect children. David Ogden graduated from Harvard Law School, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and worked in the Justice Department under President Bill Clinton. He brings to his Senate confirmation hearings a long résumé that shows him to be an effective and...

(video of Aaron Burns) TVNewser is reporting that Fox News Channel producer Aaron Bruns has been arrested and charged with one count of possession of child pornography. A Fox News spokesperson told TVNewser, “We are aware of the arrest and he is currently suspended without pay.” Bruns has been with FNC in the Washington, D.C. bureau for over six years. He was an embedded producer with the Hillary Clinton campaign last year. FishbowlDC further reports that Bruns’ was previously arrested on charges of distributing child porn in 1999. Fox News told TVNewser that his criminal record did not surface as...

Adult film star Stormy Daniels (photo) says she may run against Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter. Vitter, who was named in a Washington, DC prostitution ring, calls himself a social conservative. “I don’t see how I can possibly embarrass him more than he already embarrassed himself…,” Daniels said. “Honestly, I’m not sure I’m willing to take the pay cut that comes with being a senator.” This is like the old joke about the gorgeous woman who sits down next to a guy in a bar. He turns to her and says, “Would you have sex with me for $1,000,000. “Well,...

US porn actress 'to run' for Senate against disgraced politician A US porn actress is preparing to run for the Senate against a shamed politician whose phone number was found in the records of a notorious Washington madam. By Agencies 09 Feb 2009 Stormy Daniels (centre) at the National Press Club for ASACP Photo: PA Potentially running with the slogan "Screwing People Honestly", Stormy Daniels said she is prepared to wrestle Louisiana Senator David Vitter, if the Republican incumbent refuses a face-to-face debate over the issues.

Demonstrating once again the depths of stupidity of the Left, an imbecile blogger known as “Charles” at a site called “The Edge of Tommorrow” defends a kiddie porno advocate, David Ogden, who has been nominated by Obama for the position of deputy attorney general of the U.S. The author writes, “The RLC labels David Ogden, Barack Obama’s nominee to be deputy attorney general, a “pornography buff” and “cultural radical” because he has a record of successfully defending obscenity cases. Remember, these are the people who claim to be the libertarian wing of the party.” Clearly, this “Charles,” confuses liberalism with...

David Ogden, nominated by President Obama to help lead the Department of Justice, was grilled by lawmakers yesterday during his confirmation hearing. Ogden’s nomination has been a source of controversy, due to the fact that he has a long record of arguing against child pornography laws, and for a virtually unlimited abortion license. He has represented clients such as Playboy, Penthouse, and the ACLU. "You've taken some very extraordinary positions, some left-leaning and unorthodox positions," Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. told Ogden during yesterday’s hearings. In the process of the hearing, however, Ogden experienced what Fidelis, a coalition of pro-family organizations,...

Sens. Chuck Grassley, Barbara Mikulski and Richard Shelby introduced an amendment to the stimulus package Thursday that would freeze $3 million in operating funds for the National Science Foundation in the wake of a report that NSF employees have accessed pornography sites on government computers. ---snip--- The revelations of porn surfing at the NSF were made last week in the agency’s semi-annual report. Among the most egregious abuses was that of an unnamed “senior official,” who was found to have spent, over the course of two years, 20 percent of his paid work hours viewing graphic images and engaging in...

Christie Hefner, daughter of doddering, octagenerian Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, has a new job. CNN announced this morning that she has been “added to our roster of economic analysts.” Hefner breathlessly revealed her economic expertise by saying the “sense that I’m getting, in talking to CEOs, is that people are hoping for a late 2010 recovery.” “I’ve proposed a special program called ‘The Anchors of CNN,’” Hefner might have said. “In a cost-cutting move, we’ve chosen Larry King as our first centerfold because he already had a staple in his belly.” “I couldn’t be prouder,” said proud papa Hugh Hefner....

It’s art, man. And it’s for sale. A naked Obama with a unicorn smearing suntan lotion on his back. An explicit “Madonna.” Another Naked Obama on a unicorn as a giant, bloated — and naked, of course — Rush Limbaugh floats by like a blimp tethered by a microphone cord. And they can ALL be yours if you are the highest bidder on the ebay auction site. Is it a comment on the absurdity of this insipid Obama worship? Is it merely a way to cash in on a few current themes? And why is everyone always naked with Dan...

PHOENIX - A Tucson television station's broadcast of the Super Bowl on Sunday was interrupted for some viewers by about 10 seconds of pornographic material, the station said. KVOA TV in Tucson released a statement saying that the only viewers who were able to see the material were those who receive the channel through Comcast cable. The station said it will investigate the incident."When the NBC feed of the Super Bowl was transmitted from KVOA to local cable providers and through over-the-air antennas, there was no pornographic material," KVOA president and general manager Gary Nielsen said in a statement. The...

Besides the hype over the Super Bowl game itself, many local viewers are reacting over an incident that happened during the local television broadcast of the game. For viewers of Comcast's standard definition cable signal, the final minutes of the game were interrupted by a thirty-second video clip showing pornography. We contacted KVOA, the channel carrying today's super-bowl. A representative from the KVOA Newsroom said "It was a comcast issue, not KVOA. KVOA had nothing to do with it." Our phone calls to the KVOA News Director were not returned. We also called Comcast and Kelle Maslyn, the Corporate Affairs...

Sex crimes among Summit County juveniles are at their lowest rate since record-keeping began in 1989. Officials are baffled as to why. Well, I can tell them why, and I can tell them in just one word: porn. Never has pornography been more readily available. The hardest of hard-core smut can be seen every day by anybody with a computer and an Internet connection. Isn't porn supposed to lead to more sexual abuse of girls and women? Well, that was the theory, voiced constantly and vehemently for decades. But statistics show precisely the opposite. During the 15-year period ending in...