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April 8, 2002 Cybersmut and Debt Undermine Penthouse By DAVID CARR ob Guccione, the publisher of Penthouse, fought for decades to introduce pornography to mainstream audiences. In succeeding, he may have built a gallows for his once hugely successful magazine. Pornographic images of every bent are now just a click away on the Web, often at no charge, and Penthouse, which once sold almost five million copies a month, now has a circulation of 650,000. The auditors of Mr. Guccione's debt-ridden company, General Media, the parent of Penthouse and affiliated enterprises, stated in its annual report that the company would...

OECD's cautionary tale of porn and cyberspace Thomas Fuller International Herald Tribune Tuesday, April 2, 2002 PARIS The trouble at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development began when its French-language Web site was replaced by an "adults only" page offering links to "puritan sex" and "porn tryout." Gone were the statistics on the economic performance of the developing world, the data on agriculture, food and fisheries, and the authoritative articles on corporate governance and sustainable development. Instead, visitors who logged on to the site Dec. 17 were offered the "Greatest Sex Sites," a long list of mostly unprintable...