OTTAWA, CANADA — Sometimes trying to get the mainstream government to cooperate in good will with adult entertainment businesses is a little like trying to get politicians from different parties to cooperate with one another. That’s certainly what members of an association...

LONDON, ENGLAND — More than a year after naughty words, naked body parts and explicit sexual activities aired on British television, the government’s decency watchdog this week fined Playboy £22,500 (about $33,246) for the series of offenses.Ofcom, Britain’s equivalent of...

WASHINGTON, DC — Even though a Harvard-based task force formed by 50 attorneys general spent a year studying the issue and found no evidence to support concerns about child predation on the internet, the U.S. Department of Justice has rounded up $50 million in grant monies...

SHAWNEE, KS — Who hasn’t wanted to pop off at a police officer for writing up a traffic ticket? How about write something pithy and evocative on the check associated with that ticket? While the urge may well be universal, one Kansas woman has learned that not resisting it...

LAYTON, UT — When Mormon leader Christopher Layton helped colonize what is now part of the Ogden-Clearfield area of Utah, the only poles that women tended to dance around likely had clothing hanging from them. Today, however, shimmying up and down a metal pole, as well as...

SACRAMENTO, CA — Most public American universities have reputations as bastions of liberal thought and rebellious youthful behavior. In recent weeks, several campuses across the country have taken that impression to a whole new level by offering free-to-students screenings...

SAGINAW, MI — Springtime may be the season during which a young man’s fancy may lightly turn to thoughts of love, but it wasn’t quite yet spring when Jason Leroy Savage became amorous – and it seems unlikely that it was a love connection he was looking for. While there is...

IRELAND — In spite of a reputation for heavy drinking, bar fights and big families, the Irish are not world famous for their prowess as lovers or their creativity and broad-mindedness when it comes to matters sexual. Although the days of the Magdalene laundries are largely...

LONDON, ENGLAND — British Cabinet Minister Jacqui Smith may lose her seat after her husband admitted this week to buying pay-per-view porn with taxpayers’ money.Richard Timney, whom Home Secretary Smith employs as her office manager at an annual salary of £40,000 (about...

ALLENTOWN, PA — Three teenage girls were handed a victory on Monday when a federal judge shot down a prosecutor’s plans to charge them with child porn distribution.U.S. District Judge James Munley issued a temporary restraining order preventing Wyoming County [PA] District...