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The pornographication of America's culture prevents victims from thinking clearly. Sadly, behavior once labeled bizarre or self-destructive is now common. Police say Michael Cooper of Germantown, Maryland, approached women on social media and dating apps under the pseudonym “Rebecca Lattimore.” Through online conversations, Cooper would “slowly coax them to send nude photos and videos,” according to a recent article in the Washington Post. Following this, he’d disclose the truth, that he was “actually a dude,” and demand the women have sex with him or he would send their compromising media to pornography sites, family members of the women, friends, and...

Pornographers are bracing for the first major obscenity clampdown in three decades under President Trump’s new pick for attorney general, William Barr, a strident social conservative whose views threaten the lucrative industry. Anti-porn campaigners were thrilled with Trump's selection of Barr, previously attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, noting his enthusiastic obscenity prosecutions in the early ‘90s. Pornographers are taking the threat seriously, but argue a crackdown would be hypocritical under the thrice-married Trump. His links to the industry include softcore Playboy cameos, an alleged affair with Playmate of the Year Karen McDougal, an alleged tryst with hardcore star...

A lawyer in California has submitted a ballot initiative with the state Department of Justice calling for the death of anyone who engages in sodomy in the state, the San Diego Gay & Lesbian News reports.

A "BIG budget" porn movie was shot in a London hospital that hired out one of its wards to a film company, it has emerged. The movie also ended up generating "substantial income" for the hospital, an MP revealed. Speaking in the House of Commons yesterday, Tory MP Penny Mordaunt said: "When I was director of Kensington and Chelsea Council, I discovered that one of our local hospitals was hiring out one of its closed, but fully-equipped, wards to a film company to use as a film set. "To add insult to injury, the movie was a pornographic one. "Although...

LOS ANGELES – Lindsay Lohan has landed the lead role in an independent movie about 1970s porn star Linda Lovelace, one of the film's producers said. The 24-year-old actress will play Lovelace, who shot to fame with the landmark 1972 porno movie "Deep Throat," while Bill Pullman will portray Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner in the period drama, producer Wali Razaqi told The Los Angeles Times. The film, called "Inferno," will be based on the events of Lovelace's life and will delve into the "difficult stuff she went through and overcame," Razaqi said. Razaqi said he and director Matthew Wilder...

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...

With the financial industry, auto makers and more getting assistance from the federal government to stay afloat during the recession, the adult industry decided it would try to get something as well. Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis and “Hustler” magazine publisher Larry Flynt have said they will petition Congress for financial aid along the lines of what the Big Three auto makers are getting. Francis said that he and Flynt are asking for $5 billion, and that they have sent letters to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Congress and their local Congressman, Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) with the proposal.

Porn reduces the mind and flattens the soul. I don't like it. That's not hypocrisy talking; that's just experience. I sometimes think of myself, ironically, as a progressive: I started off as a liberal but I progressed to conservatism. Part of that transformation is due to my time in the industry. How does a conservative trace his roots to such distasteful beginnings? I didn't like porn's liberalism. In porn, everything taboo is trivialized and everything trivial is magnified. Being in the adult entertainment industry was sort of like being in a cult, and like all followers of a cult, I...

In his second inaugural, George W. Bush used the words liberty and freedom 42 times. And, indeed, if America is about anything, she is about freedom. But freedom from what, and for what? What brings the old question to mind is the decision by Adelphia Communications, the cable operator that has long refused to carry pornography, to offer triple-X rated programming for the first time in a major media market: Southern California. What is triple-X-rated programming? Sallie Hofmeister of the Los Angeles Times explains: "Single-X-rated movies feature nudity, long-range or medium-range camera shots, simulated sex and sex between women." Her...

BARBRA STREISAND is sick of advertisments for anti-impotence drugs, deeming them "morally questionnable". The singer and actress claims Hollywood films hardly ever shape our moral attitudes, unlike commercials for CIALIS, which improves a man's ability to function for up to 36 hours. She moans, "I resent this thing about Hollywood and moral values. What movies are out now that have questionable moral values? "You know what I think has questionable moral values? The Cialis commercials."

Another young performer in pornographic movies tested positive for H.I.V. last week. She is the third to do so in the last month, prompting a 60-day industry-wide halt to filming so that actors can be tested and re-tested for the virus. The testing has taken place at the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, the organization I founded in 1998 to provide sex-film performers counseling and testing for sexually transmitted diseases. Each month we give about 1,200 actors a test that can identify H.I.V. as early as 14 days after infection. We also test for chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. It's...