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<b>WASHINGTON, DC --</b> Two dozen conservative Christian groups banded together Tuesday to form what they hope will become a single force for advancing shared political and social agendas. (More)

<b>KIEV, UKRAINE --</b> Despite protests from free-speech advocates and other broad segments of the population, Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko on Tuesday signed into law strict new legislation than bans pornography. (More)

<b>PHILADELPHIA, PA -- </b>A special judicial panel of judges who have apparently never taken a case that they could identify with have formally admonished so-called “Cow Porn” judge Alex Kozinski for the unforgivable sin of putting softcore silliness on his website where it can easily be located. (More)

<b>NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND -- </b>Squeezing more productivity out of employees while keeping costs down in an ancient ambition and many an effective and ineffective technique has been employed in its pursuit. A British business consultant has proposed what may be one of the more provocative methods: nudity. (More)

<b>EL DORADO, KS -- </b>Reading the headlines about Emily Sander’s life would lead the casual observer to think that the most exciting thing that ever happened during her brief 18 years on earth took place during the three months when she was a softcore model know as “Zoey Zane.” The horrific truth, of course, is that the most exciting thing that ever happened to her was being butchered in a cheap hotel room. (More)

<b>NEW DELHI -- </b>Mukteswar Temple is one of the most petite of the Indian temples. Build in the 10th century, its intricate and wildly imaginative erotic carvings are more familiar to the average non-native than its name. Often associated in people’s minds with the <i>Kama Sutra,</i> the temple is one of many celebrations of sensual spirituality that stand in stark contrast to the modern nation’s prudish policies, which include deeming public kisses to be obscene behavior. For same-sex couples in the country, however, life has become a little less repressed. (More)

<b>AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS --</b> Science has confirmed what humans have known all along: Increased sexual activity leads to increased birth rates. (More)

<b>PROVO, UT --</b> Brigham Young University, affiliated with the Mormon Church, has lifted a three-year campus-wide ban on YouTube. (More)

<b>VALLETA, MALTA --</b> The Malta Communications Authority has proposed new regulations that will require all companies providing telecommunications services in the country to alert subscribers when abnormal charges are billed to their accounts. If adopted, the service will be free and allow consumers to limit their expenditure per phone call. (More)

<b>AKRON, OH -- </b>Although some cities and states allow dancers and customers to get up-close-and-personal, if you’re close enough to smell her sweat, chances are you’re too close to the stripper in question if she’s shaking her groove thing in the not-so-sexy state of Ohio. (More)

<strong>PITTSBURGH, PA</strong> – Robert Zicari and his wife, Janet Romano, owners of the now-defunct adult production house Extreme Associates, were sentenced Wednesday to one year plus one day in federal prison after pleading guilty in March to one count each of conspiracy to distribute obscene materials. (More)

<b>CYBERSPACE -- </b>Site visitors have long known that BradsReviews.com is where they go when they want to know what’s good, bad and indifferent in the world of gay porn. Now that the site has been re-designed and re-launched, the path to quality queer smut is only smoother and more satisfying. (More)

<b>CYBERSPACE -- </b>What sane person wants to tweet saucy offers of fame, fortune or flesh to a hot celebrity only to find out some spammer or other pathetic pretender is on the receiving end? Twitter.com feels the pain of its 140 character communicating members and has begun beta testing “Verified Account” badges for users who are so gosh darn popular that people pretend to be them. (More)

<b>STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN --</b> A publicly traded Swedish software company that says it wants to compensate copyright owners for material file traders illegally share via peer-to-peer networks has offered SEK60 million (about U.S. $7.8 million) for BitTorrent index The Pirate Bay. (More)

<b>BEIJING, CHINA --</b> The Chinese government on Tuesday announced an indefinite delay in the requirement that all personal computers sold in the country be equipped with software to filter “inappropriate” Web content. (More)

<b>INNER GROVE HEIGHTS, MN -- </b>Exotic dancers are used to stripping off their clothes, but the ladies who perform at the King of Diamonds Gentlemen’s Club near Minneapolis, MN are sick of being stripped of something else: their right to be employees. (More)

<b>NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND -- </b>A former civil servant has been acquitted of the obscenity charges leveled against him over fictionalized rape, torture and murder fantasies published on the internet. (More)

<b>LOS ANGELES, CA -- </b>Poor Carrie Prejean. All she ever wanted to do was wear stylish clothing while flashing her toothy smile and heaving her pageant-bought boobs and spreading whatever message she hoped to spread while serving as Miss California USA. (More)

<b>LIEGE, BELGIUM -- </b> In spite of all the self-righteous blahblah from supposedly respectable individuals keen to lecture adult entertainment performers about how they should mend their ways and get mainstream work, the world of mainstream work continues to refuse to cooperate. The latest case in point can be found in Belgium, where a popular bus driver is facing the likelihood of being fired -- because she is also Miss Nude Belgium 2009. (More)

<b>CYBERSPACE --</b> The link in a Twitter message offering free downloads of a sex tape starring <i>Gossip Girl</i> actress Leighton Meester leads to malware instead, according to antivirus software developer Trend Micro. (More)

<b>WORCESTER, ENGLAND --</b> After 11 million Brits confessed to putting more than their cars in gear while behind the wheel, an insurance-comparison website warned “distractions” can lead to tickets, criminal charges, higher insurance rates and maybe even jail time. (More)

BEIJING, CHINA – Beginning in July, China’s crackdown on internet smut will extend to sex-related medical and research sites. The Chinese Ministry of Health this week announced new regulations that require medical and health sites to install software that will block any visitors who are not professionals with approval to work in sex-related fields. (More)

<b>MADRID, SPAIN – </b> The civil division of Spain’s highest court has ruled topless celebrity photos are fair game for tabloids and other news and information outlets. (More)

<B>PATERSON, NJ --</B> One of the Bravo network’s “Real Housewives of New Jersey” has succeeded, temporarily at least, in her bid to keep her real life from becoming part of other people’s fantasies. (More)

<b>LONDON, ENGLAND --</b> The British Board of Film Classification, the U.K.’s equivalent of the Motion Picture Association of America, on Tuesday released new, tighter age guidelines that threaten to leave even some family fare off-limits to children. (More)

<b>LOS ANGELES, CA --</b> The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors says it wants a state law mandating condom usage all adult productions, but so far no state legislators have stepped forward to sponsor such a bill. (More)

<b>LOS ANGELES, CA -- </b>Girls Gone Wild has had enough. Mantra Films and GGW Marketing, the folks behind the nubile franchise, have filed suit in district court, charging a consortium of companies that run Girls Gone Mobile with federal trademark infringement, unfair competition, dilution of mark and breach of good faith, among other allegations. (More)

<b>CYBERSPACE -- </b>Once upon a time dinosaurs roamed the earth. Quite some time later, Mac users laughed in the faces of PC users, insisting that their systems were protected against all manner of attack and infection. Those days are gone. (More)

<b>WASHINGTON, DC --</b> The U.S. Federal Trade Commission expects to release this summer new regulations defining some behaviors for bloggers who are compensated when they endorse or review products. (More)

<b>LONDON, ENGLAND --</b> In a move sure to incite howls of outrage from distaff participants in the sexual revolution, the new owner of the British magazine <i>The Erotic Review</i> told Reuters, bluntly, women are too “drowned in estrogen” to write compelling erotica. (More)

<b>HOUSTON, TX -- </b>The Houston Texans have accomplished a lot of things since they joined the NFL in 2002 after the Oilers moved to Nashville. Qualifying for the Super Bowl is not one of them. Sporting a porn logo appears to be another achievement the team has no intention to attempting in the foreseeable future. (More)

<b>DETROIT, MI -- </b>The power of the bare female breast must never me under estimated, especially when viewed by adult males within close proximity of alcohol. Such appears to be the fear of some Detroit lawmakers who are keen to keep liquor out of area strip clubs that allow their dancers to actually strip. (More)

<b>REDMOND, WA --</b> After suffering the slings and arrows of public condemnation for the ease with which it allows users to access explicit pornographic videos, Microsoft has subdivided its new Bing.com search engine into “porn” and “no porn” domains. (More)

<b>LOS ANGELES, CA –</b> The State of California and Los Angeles County should mandate the use of condoms on all adult film sets or shut down the industry in the interest of public health, an AIDS treatment and advocacy program said Thursday. (More)

<b>SAN DIEGO, CA – </b>While some insist that adult bookstores are always a dangerous place for decent people to enter, the real risk takes place when shops posses people with interests that go beyond consensual sexual behavior. Like robbing the place while waving a gun around, for instance. (More)

<b>BLACKPOOL, ENGLAND -- </b>In the case of Chubby’s Bar, what passersby could see was more than they wanted to get. Alas for the topless club, the fact its windows allowed far more visibility than is in good taste or legal means it will get something it doesn’t want: closed. (More)

<b>LOS ANGELES, CA --</b> Spurred by what it views as a lack of cooperation from the adult film industry’s primary health-testing clinic, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) intends to ask a judge to order Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation to open its patient records for inspection by state investigators. (More)

<b>CYBERSPACE -- </b>Being a stone cold computer nerd doesn’t mean you can’t get online and tweet with the best of them, porn folk and regular Joes alike. Thanks to the innovation that only lurks inside the brain cases of die-hard geeks, Commodore 64/128 users can now participate in the Web 2.0 phenomenon known as Twitter.com. (More)

<b>BRISTOL, ENGLAND --</b> When bride-to-be Haylie Hocking discovered weeks before her planned lavish wedding and reception that groom Jason Brake was a part-time porn star, she did more than blush: She dumped him. (More)

<b>LANCING, MI -- </b>For Michigan exotic dancers who like the to show skin, less may well become more – licensing fees, that is. (More)