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A plan to turn the old armory building on Mission Street into a porn film studio has run into a wall of opposition, with several community groups expressing outrage that a company specializing in bondage videos intends to move into their family-filled neighborhood. The backlash against Kink, a Web-based pornography distributor currently housed South of Market, has prompted Mayor Gavin Newsom's office to take notice but caused other city officials to simply shrug apologetically. Because the company, which has quietly called San Francisco home since its founding a decade ago, doesn't plan to make any structural changes to the building,...

Two uniformed men strolled into the main room of the Little Falls library in Bethesda one day last week and demanded the attention of all patrons using the computers. Then they made their announcement: The viewing of Internet pornography was forbidden. The men looked stern and wore baseball caps emblazoned with the words "Homeland Security." The bizarre scene unfolded Feb. 9, leaving some residents confused and forcing county officials to explain how employees assigned to protect county buildings against terrorists came to see it as their job to police the viewing of pornography. After the two men made their announcement,...

Trial set for alleged video voyeur District attorney brings in specialist to prosecute Wright Kristi Richie Press-Herald Staff Facing a new prosecutor in Webster Parish, alleged video pornographer Benjamin Wright was arraigned in District Court Monday. Wright pleaded not guilty to four counts of video voyeurism involving juveniles; nine counts of video voyeurism involving adults; 50 counts of pornography involving juveniles; and public intimidation. District Attorney Schuyler Marvin called in one of his Bossier assistants to head up the prosecution team on the case. Jeff Cox, who is over the juvenile program in Bossier and Webster Parishes and specializes in...

An Indianapolis woman faces obscenity and other charges after being arrested for driving around town with the mural of a naked woman on her sedan, police said. Indianapolis police took Erica Meredith, 25, into custody Thursday night following a Northeastside traffic stop when an officer saw the 3-by-5 foot airbrushed color portrait of a stripper at a dancing pole. The officer wrote in a report that "this painting, applying contemporary standards, displays a theme which appeals to the purient of interest of sex." The 1976 Buick was impounded at the location of the traffic stop -- the 4100 block of...

<p>A few quick keystrokes and pornography is easily available to anyone who wants it.</p> <p>Too easily, if you ask Marty Miller, a counselor who treats those with pornography and sexual addictions. Recently, he has had increasing numbers of people asking him for help, leading him to begin support groups for men.</p>