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October 2008
- Producer: Flynt Overpaid for 'Palin' Porn Pic
  
  The Campaign Silo | Oct 3, 08 5:30 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - An adult-entertainment producer says smut magnate Larry Flynt overpaid the Sarah Palin lookalike hired to star in an upcoming porn release, Lisa Derrick notes on Firedoglake. Flynt’s help wanted ad offered $2,000 to $3,000, with no expectation of more off-color sex acts, which producer Bill Margold called “remarkably fair. That would spoil the person. $600 is about the going rate.” More »
  
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  Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • pornography • Larry Flynt
- Flynt Flogs Quickie Porno Starring Palin Lookalike
  
  New York Daily News | Oct 2, 08 3:56 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Tapping in to Sarah Palin mania, Hustler founder Larry Flynt is making an X-rated movie using an actress who resembles the VP nominee, the Daily News reports. Days after the Republican convention, Flynt's producers advertised a $3,000 gig on Craigslist "looking for a Sarah Palin look-alike for an adult film to be shot in the next 10 days." The film has been shot; no word on title or release date. More »
  
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  Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • pornography • McCain-Palin • Larry Flynt
- Jilted Men Seek Revenge by Sex Tape
  
  Details | Oct 2, 08 12:08 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - It's not only Britney Spears who needs to worry about her sex tapes going online, Details reports. Spurned loverboys outside Tinseltown are getting back at exes by posting so-called "revenge porn" on the Internet. And they are running afoul of the law. "These were just made-up crimes from Bible Belt tight-asses," said one who was arrested for handing out a private sex video. "It was just a practical joke." More »
  
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  Internet • pornography • sex tape
September 2008
- Social Networking Deposes Porn as Web King
  
  Reuters | Sep 16, 08 2:58 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Porn is no longer king online, thanks to the social-networking sites where people—particularly 18- to 24-year-olds—have become addicted to less X-rated forms of sharing, a Web analyst tells Reuters. “My theory is that young users spend so much time on social networks that they don't have time to look at adult sites,” says Bill Tancer, who studies Web clicks to take our societal pulse. More »
  
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  social networking • Hurricane Katrina • pornography • Thanksgiving • trend • Web tracking
- Is Pornography Adultery? Time to Sharpen the Debate
  
  Atlantic Monthly | Sep 14, 08 12:09 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Does looking at pornography constitute cheating? If so, a lot of men are in trouble in today's age of instant access. Ross Douthat explores the issue in the Atlantic and finds the extremes of the argument unhelpful. No, digital smut won't bring about the end of civilization, but don't be too quick to write it off as harmless, either. "The Internet era has ratcheted the experience of pornography much closer to adultery than I suspect most porn users would like to admit," he says. More »
  
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  Internet • marriage • women • prostitution • pornography • men • adultery • infidelity
- Naked Harry Hits Internet
  
  New York Daily News | Sep 11, 08 9:06 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Just two previews into his bare-all Broadway debut, and naked photos of Daniel Radcliffe —best known to the world for playing a certain boy wizard —have already leaked online, the New York Daily News reports. Radcliffe managed to play the role for five months in London without a single naughty image surfacing. “It's very, very bad behavior,” said the star. “Whoever did it is a creep.” More »
  
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  Harry Potter • pornography • Broadway • Daniel Radcliffe • Equus
- Pal: Duchovny Addicted to Porn
  
  Fox News | Sep 2, 08 11:10 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - David Duchovny entered rehab for sex addiction because of a longstanding addiction to Internet pornography, not because he had cheated on wife Tea Leoni, a friend tells Fox News. The X-Files star, whose character on Showtime's Californication is a sex addict, went public with his demons because a fellow patient had tipped off the media. More »
  
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  celebrity • pornography • David Duchovny • Internet addiction • sex addiction • Tea Leoni
August 2008
- Porn Claim Riles Kafka Scholars
  
  Guardian (UK) | Aug 15, 08 10:23 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Literary circles are in an uproar over a new biography of Franz Kafka that says the existentialist author had a penchant for porn, the Guardian reports. Kafka expert James Hawes, who says he unearthed some of the not-exactly-mainstream magazines the author enjoyed, makes the claim in a new book and says he was "genuinely shocked when I first saw it." Other Kafka scholars are outraged. More »
  
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  pornography • anti-Semitism • biography • British Library • Franz Kafka
- So, Your Wife's a Porn Star?
  
  GQ | Aug 12, 08 11:55 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Married life with a porn star has its downsides, husbands admit: Wives can talk about the day at work, appear odd to soccer mom friends, or even suffer the occasional vaginal tear on the job. Or, says Bill—husband to Ryder Skye—you can lie around thinking of how she makes a living. But "I want her to be happy," he tells GQ . "On the downside, though, there are guys having sex with your wife." More »
  
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  California • pornography • adult films • married couples • adult performer
- Jenna Jameson Is Pregnant
  
  New York Post | Aug 6, 08 12:06 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - After failed in vitro and a miscarriage, retired porn star Jenna Jameson is finally pregnant, the New York Post reports. "She's postponed everything" during her pregnancy, a source says. "She's completely thrilled, this is something she's wanted for a very long time." The dad-to-be is her boyfriend, Ultimate Fighting champ Tito Ortiz. More »
  
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  celebrity pregnancy • pornography • Jenna Jameson • Ultimate Fighting Championship
July 2008
- Europe Seeing Rise in War Memorial Porn
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Jul 28, 08 3:34 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Europe’s war memorials are seeing an uptick in obscene acts of desecration, the Telegraph reports, with the most recent involving a couple making a pornographic film at the Vimy Ridge memorial in northern France, which commemorates some of the 60,000 Canadians who died in the First World War. The couple was given a suspended sentence and ordered to pay a symbolic fine to Canada. More »
  
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  France • Canada • trial • pornography • World War I • monument
- Hotel Porn Gets Spanking From Religious Right
  
  St. Petersburg Times (Russia) | Jul 23, 08 9:20 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Conservatives are pressuring Marriott to remove adult films from its pay-per-view programming, saying porn doesn't jibe with the hotel chain's commitment to families, the St. Petersburg Times reports . "It's corporate greed,'' said the head of a Christian group. Marriott contends nixing the flicks isn't so easy: It owns only a few of the 3,000 properties operating under the brand. More »
  
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  children • travel • movies • conservative • pornography • hotel • adult films • Marriott
- 'Venal' Phil Gramm No Big Loss to McCain Camp
  
  Huffington Post | Jul 15, 08 8:15 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - "Nation of whiners” adviser Phil Gramm was simply an "accident waiting to happen" for the McCain campaign, writes Max Blumenthal in Huffington Post. Blumenthal runs down the “reactionary, venal and destructive” senator’s foibles—which run from enabling Enron to investing in porn. Gramm “left a massive heap of wreckage…in his wake,” Blumenthal asserts, helping former campaign co-chair Ken Lay build the shadow banking system that aided the mortgage meltdown. More »
  
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  John McCain • mortgage crisis •