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Monday December 24 07:35 AM EST Pornography seen on public access channel Pornography seen on public access channel By Tom O'Konowitz Daily Herald Staff Writer Viewers who tuned in to Naperville's community television station early Sunday were startled to see X-rated programming, police say. Between 1 and 2:45 a.m. Sunday, "hard-core" pornography was broadcast to some televisions through Channel 17, a local cable access station, according to Naperville police Sgt. Steven Schindlbeck. Residents who know Channel 17 for its wholesome shows such as "Rise 'n' Shine Kids," "Showbuzz" and "Pet-A-Rama," alerted Naperville police to the lewd programming. Schindlbeck said police, ...

CHAMAN (Islam News): Tools of vulgarity have been sent to Kandahar via the Pakistani border region, Chaman, loaded on three vehicles. Acording to reliable sources, on 24 December, three Mazda pickups were observed carrying satellite dishes, video films, musical instruments and tapes. Many Quetta traders have sent these for selling in Kandahar and these traders were personally approached by Gul Agha for engaging in this vulgar trade. The majority of the films included Indian sex movies and the American agents are taking special efforts to spread these video films among the common people in Kandahar. This should not come as ...

<p>Ever wonder why some songs - no matter how good or how bad - get stuck inside your head and won’t go away?</p> <p>An American scientist says it’s the combination of simplicity, repetition and an adrenaline-rush beat.</p> <p>Those factors turn an otherwise ordinary sequence of notes into something unforgettable, according to Professor James Kellaris, a social psychologist at the University of Cincinnati.</p>

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<p>VENTURA, Calif. (AP) - A former Las Vegas topless dancer is charged with cyber-stalking for allegedly creating a Web site with photos of her ex-lover engaged in sadomasochism and then notifying his family.</p> <p>Robin Kelly, 43, is charged with two felony counts of stalking, two counts of attempted witness intimidation and one count of attempted extortion. A preliminary hearing in Ventura County Superior Court is expected to conclude Wednesday, when the judge will rule whether she should stand trial.</p>

Monday December 17 8:27 AM ET Condoms in Explicit Sex Scenes Wanted BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian congresswoman is pushing for a bill that would require TV and movie actors to don condoms before engaging in explicit sexual acts.The bill, making its way through Brazil's Congress, proposes a ban on imports, sales or the reproduction of all images of sexual acts -- including oral sex -- that do not show a condom. The ban would extend to TV, cinema, videos and magazines.Nair Xavier, the bill's sponsor, argues the condoms-only stance would support Brazil's campaign against AIDS, which has been ...

HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - NBC will pit Playboy Playmates against pigskin with a special Super Bowl Sunday edition of the network's red-hot reality series ``Fear Factor.'' In a bid to steal away some of Fox's Super thunder, NBC plans to broadcast a two-part, 80-minute edition of ``Fear Factor'' during halftime and immediately after Fox's Feb. 4 Super Bowl broadcast. The episode will feature six Playboy Playmates competing for coin in the controversial game show's usual assortment of gross-out stunts and dares. Past stunts have had people eating buffalo testicles or being dropped in a rat pit. The first 20 minutes will ...

LONDON (Reuters) - One in four Britons has had sex in the car park after the office Christmas party, according to a survey, which said more than 80 percent of British people admitted to enjoying saucy in-car activity. Women in Cheshire, northwest England, have sex in cars most often, with 20 percent saying they do it once a month or as often as possible, said the survey by MSN Carview, the international network of automotive Web sites on Microsoft's MSN portal. Meanwhile, 22 percent of women in Newcastle upon Tyne, northeast England, said they had had sex in the back ...

<p>Farmington Hills police are investigating a woman's claim that her dentist kept her a drugged captive and raped her repeatedly for more than a month.</p> <p>Police Chief William Dwyer said the 26-year-old patient of the Farmington Hills dentist told investigators the alleged attacks took place in his apartment and office.</p>

A Chesnee man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday after he admitted breaking into a Spartanburg County home while nude and attacking a sleeping woman. Tony Mize, 34, of 110 Old Kimbrell Road pleaded guilty to assault with intent to commit first-degree criminal sexual conduct and first-degree burglary. Mize admitted he broke into a Chesnee-area home about 2:30 a.m. on Aug. 25. The 19-year-old victim told sheriff's investigators that she bit her attacker when he tried to cover her mouth with duct tape. The victim, who was not seriously injured, pulled her attacker's mask off during the struggle ...

TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - A man sentenced to probation for using a tiny video camera in his sneakers to peek up women's skirts also used the ``sneakercam'' to ogle women at his probation office, prosecutors told a Florida court. The allegations came to light during a hearing on Tuesday after defendant Daniel Searfoss was arrested a second time on voyeurism charges, the Tampa Tribune reported on Wednesday. Searfoss, a 43-year-old mechanic, was first arrested last Dec. 31 on a misdemeanor voyeurism charge at a Wal-Mart store in Plant City, Florida, near Tampa. Police said he wired a camera hidden in ...

<p>PHILADELPHIA — An Internet domain name once used by volunteers seeking to help out at last year's Republican National Convention is now being used by a company hawking smut.</p> <p>Philadelphia2000.org, created for RNC volunteers or for those wanting to buy or sell GOP souvenirs, is now a backdoor to Internet porn sites such as "Porn Tryout" and "Sex Illustrated."</p>

Grandson told of 'people screaming' in south side basement, affidavit says A south side woman was charged Wednesday with running a bondage den in the basement of her home where she was raising two young grandsons. Jacquess Dyer Patton-Ugan, who was arrested when police raided the home Monday, is suspected of soliciting business on a Web site in which potential customers were encouraged to "explore the erotic world of controlled domination" in "the confines of Madame Venus Du Plaisir's Paradise." As vice detectives established contact over the Internet, other officers received complaints about traffic in and out of her home ...

A German has been given official permission for mourners to throw his collection of porn videos on his coffin instead of flowers.The 68-year-old applied to the authorities in his hometown Bonn to be able to take his naked "friends" with him when he dies.After several weeks of investigation, the Bonn city council has told the terminally-ill man there are no objections to his funeral plan.He has been named only as Erwin M.Copyright © 2001 Ananova Ltd

Why am I logged in??? Why are any of us logged in?On August 22, 2001 I posed the question Am I Logged In??? It was a simple question. It was a question making no accusation, nor absolving blame. It was constructed to be an imperfect (why else ask the question) iambic pentameter haiku. It was a query posed to those with analytic acumen, ownership of a pocket calculator, and the decency of fellow human beings who have the courtesy to close their tags. I felt sure that in kind, the responses would come from engineers, construction project managers, and at ...

The more sex you get the faster you grow No sex please, we're Japanese. That, at least, is what the folks who make Durex condoms would have us believe many in Japan are saying. According to Durex SSL International's annual poll of 18,500 people in 28 countries, the Japanese are the world's least prolific lovers. Folks here apparently average 36 sexual encounters a year. What's all this sex talk got to do with economics? Nothing, until you take a deeper look at which countries supposedly have the least sex and trends in their gross domestic product. Only then, after ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - A Finnish man has been jailed for five years after shooting dead his neighbor's wife during a wild sex game, the chief prosecutor in the case said Tuesday.The families of the 37-year-old man and the woman, in her early 30s, lived side by side in the two halves of a house they had built together. They had also teamed up to run a restaurant, said the prosecutor who asked not to be named.According to the man's court statement, the woman put her son to sleep one evening in July and then arrived at the man's house wearing ...

Haunted house aims to scare teens into safer sex By Lucas L. Johnson II The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- If ghouls and goblins don't spook trick or treaters, perhaps the scarier side of sexual intimacy will. Hoping to combat one of the nation's highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases, city health officials have staged the "STD Free! Haunted House" to show young people the horrors of gonorrhea, syphilis and other diseases. "We want to scare their pants back on," said Elizabeth Frazier, a registered nurse at Tennessee State University's health center. "We encourage abstinence. But if they can't do ...

More sex please, we are the Taliban Aditya Sinha (Peshawar, October 31) With their harsh edicts, the Taliban are known as women-haters. However, there is a little-known soft side to the Taliban, filled with the romance and passion of a cheap novel. There is the rumour about Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar — that they’re related by marriage. Two years ago, the rumour was Osama had married Mullah Omar’s daughter. And when the current crisis broke, it was said Mullah Omar had married Osama’s daughter. So did this mean that each of the girls concerned went to bed with ...

Osama bin Laden Infamous Sponsor of International Terrorism Born in 1957 to a Syrian mother and a Yemeni laborer (who went on to establish a huge and enormously successful construction company in Saudi Arabia) Osama (Ussamah) bin Laden is the 7th of more than 50 children his father had sired from numerous wives. Osama bin Laden married his first wife, a Syrian girl, when only 17. His upbringing is said to have been strict, subject from his infancy to his father's very rigid religious and social codes. His formal education from primary school through university was in Jedda, Saudi ...