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pornography stories: 123 news summaries

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OPINION

 Leave Porn Sex to Porn Stars 

In a real-life bedroom, no one cares about the money shot

Nov 2, 09 11:53 AM CST
(Newser) - In the middle of an underwhelming bedroom session with a lover she dubbed “Mr. Jackhammer,” Mary Elizabeth Williams had an epiphany: Men (and probably some women) are learning far too many of their moves from porn, and it’s time to stop. “Thinking you can learn to... More »

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pornography • sex • trend • Jay-ZTV

MOVIE REVIEW

 Turning Green Shines, Mostly 

Film on black-market porn in Ireland sways most critics

Oct 30, 09 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Project Greenlight runner-up Turning Green —about a teen in Ireland who tries to make a buck selling porn—leaves most critics pleased.
  • It mixes a “generally jolly, frisky tone” with “more threatening moods,” including “an astounding left turn” from Alessandro Nivola, writes Robert Koehler
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film • pornography • movie review • Ireland • Project Greenlight

'Svengali Sex Slave' Case Heads for Supreme Court

Web porn trafficker claims mutilation of woman was consensual

Oct 14, 09 4:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court yesterday agreed to hear a case involving a sex trafficker, nicknamed the "S&M Svengali," who whipped and mutilated a "sex slave" and then posted photos of it on his for-profit website. Glenn Marcus claims that the acts were consensual, but the woman... More »

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pornography • US Supreme Court • sex slave • Sonia Sotomayor • 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals

 Crowds Flock to
Church's 'Porn Talk'

Former sex film producer among the speakers at Christian anti-porn forum

Sep 19, 09 6:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Over a thousand people are descending on an Atlanta-area church this weekend for 3 days of talks on pornography, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The "Porn Talk" event, one of many put on by anti-porn Christian group XXXchurch.com, seeks to address the harm pornography is doing to children, families,... More »

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pornography • church • sex addiction • Christians • sex industry • porn industry

Gingrich Honors Porn Exec, Invites Her to 'Intimate Event'

Former House Speaker's group says it mistakenly sent letter

Sep 12, 09 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - A group founded by Newt Gingrich has named a porn executive “Entrepreneur of the Year” and invited her to an “intimate event” with the former House speaker, Talking Points Memo reports. “I’m honored, and more than a little surprised,” Allison Vivas responded in a statement.... More »

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entrepreneurs • Newt Gingrich • pornography • mistake • 527 groups

Struggling Porn Industry
No Longer Recession-Proof

Porn has become 'like potato chips,' frustrated actress says

Sep 12, 09 3:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Previous recessions have been kind to pornographers, but this one has been a knee to the industry’s groin, the Economist reports. Revenues have plummeted by up to 50%—from $6 billion in 2007, by one estimate—performers are being forced to lower prices, and production has been nearly cut... More »

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Internet • California • pornography • recession • adult films • San Fernando Valley

OPINION

 'Tragedy Porn' 
 Drags Down 
 News Sources 

Online outlets mull pay models, putting a price on sensational stories

Sep 7, 09 2:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Word is that newspapers will soon start charging for online news—but no one’s quite sure what it’s worth. Take a story like the Jaycee Dugard kidnapping: It’s “tragedy porn” that “neither informs nor enlightens. It merely titillates,” writes Simon Dumenco for Advertising Age.... More »

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media • Internet • Rupert Murdoch • news • pornography • online news • online newspapers • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido

TRAVEL

 Europe's Sleaziest 
 Tourist Destinations 

From Paris to Athens, avoid (or enjoy) these sex-and-drugs zones

Sep 5, 09 6:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ah, Europe, home of landmark cafés, glorious historic churches—and stinking, dangerous red-light districts rife with hookers, drug dealers, and pickpockets. Correspondents for the Times of London highlight the continent's most tawdry areas.
  • Reeperbahn, Hamburg: Germany's decorous port town turns as seedy as it gets here. Pimps fight
... More »

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travel • prostitution • pornography • Amsterdam • Paris • drug dealing • Prague • Athens • pimp • Hamburg

OPINION

Hookers Are
Turning Off
Twitterers

Rising tide of porn
spam threatens
family market

Sep 2, 09 6:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Porn spam is becoming more prevalent on Twitter and the site needs to step up enforcement or risk losing plenty of users, writes Sarah Lacy in BusinessWeek. Prostitutes seem to have flocked to Twitter of late, Lacy writes, noting that her husband received 43 scantily clad "followers" in just... More »

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social networking • MySpace • spam • pornography • prostitute • Twitter

(Newser) - The No. 1 reason many Firefox users refused to upgrade to the browser’s latest version was fear that it would expose their deep, dark—think "naked"—online secrets, PC Pro reports. Firefox 3’s new address bar suggests your bookmarked sites as you enter URLs, which 25%... More »

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Internet • pornography • web browser • Firefox • Mozilla • Web browsing • bookmarks

Investors: Fund Manager Blew Cash on Porn, Swingers Club

He's also tied to a Palin-themed porno

Aug 12, 09 11:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - A group of hedge fund investors are suing California moneyman Milton Ault III, saying he used their money to “fund his lifestyle, which included the development of a ‘swingers ranch’ in the Catskills and other pornographic-related endeavors,” according to court filings. Ault, who says he’s been... More »

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pornography • hedge fund • swingers • swingers club

(Newser) - The American porn movie biz is not so hot anymore, and the recession isn't the only reason. Porn entrepreneurs say free content on the Internet is horning in on their business, reports the Los Angeles Times. "The opportunities in this industry really are disappearing," said a star of... More »

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Internet • pornography • profits • piracy • adult films • porn.com • porn star • porn industry

OPINION

 Ladies, It's Time to Enjoy Porn 

Female audience for adult films is growing

Jul 24, 09 1:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - For years, women have “been told that we won’t—or shouldn’t—be turned on by porn,” but that can, and should, change, writes Violet Blue for Oprah.com. If you just can’t get into the “hokeyness—the ridiculous costumes, the awful cinematography, the ludicrous... More »

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entertainment • women • pornography • adult films • trend • porn industry


 Porn Star's Hubby 
 Loses Town Manager Gig 

Mayor acknowledges he did a good job, but could be distracting

Jul 23, 09 9:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Porn cost Scott Janke his job. He didn’t download it at work, but he did marry an adult video star. The Fort Myers Beach, Fla., town manager and Anabela Mota (stage name: Jazella Moore) wed last year, but the mayor and council members didn't hear about it until Tuesday,... More »

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Florida • pornography • termination • porn star • Scott Janke • Anabela Mota Janke • Jazella Moore • Larry Kiker • Fort Myers Beach, Fla.

 Razors Snip Pubes 
 in Hair-Raising Trend 

More men opting for 'back, crack, and sack'

Jul 18, 09 5:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pornographers have proved prescient yet again: The industry’s obsession with shaving pubic hair has reached mainstream society, including teens, in a trend that’s puzzling experts and portraying the hirsute as freaks, Der Spiegel reports. One German poll found 50% of women and 25% of men trim or remove... More »

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women • men • pornography • shave • teenager

 SF Porn King's 
 Son Busted in 
 Girlfriend's 
 Murder 

Mitchell brother's son beat lover with baseball bat: cops

Jul 14, 09 3:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - The son of a legendary San Francisco killer porn king has been charged with beating his girlfriend to death with a baseball bat and running off with their screaming baby daughter, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. James Raphael Mitchell, 27, was arrested on a highway near his girlfriend's Marin County... More »

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California • San Francisco • crime • murder • pornography • baseball bat • Jim Mitchell • Artie Mitchell • Mitchell Brothers • James Mitchell • Behind the Green Door

(Newser) - In many ways, the life of a porn screenwriter is a breeze compared to Hollywood, Christopher Beam writes for Slate. “Your average 90-minute porn film will have between five and seven sex scenes,” he explains. “At five to 10 minutes each, that leaves only about a half-hour... More »

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pornography • adult films • screenwriters • movies • cinematographer • porn industry • script • sex scene

Porn Flicks Too Soft on Plot, Grumble Stars

Actors' fun vanishes with stories as porn kings cater to Internet

Jul 8, 09 3:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Porn films with storylines are becoming a thing of the past as studios switch to filming content for the Internet, reports the New York Times. Earlier efforts to capture the DVD market led studios to create big-budget movies with narrative arcs connecting the sex scenes like 2005's Pirates—but the... More »

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pornography • adult films • porn star

(Newser) - Japan's mammoth 3G wireless network is beginning to buckle as users download world-record amounts of porn, Bloomberg reports. Mobile carriers have been forced to restrict the heaviest users of their "unlimited plans" to prevent outages. Privacy laws prevent the firms from saying what is being downloaded, but porn providers... More »

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cell phones • Japan • pornography • download • adult films • cell phone industry • DoCoMo

 Teacher Sends 
 Kids Home With Porn 

DVD inadvertenly includes 'inappropriate images'

Jul 3, 09 10:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fifth graders in northern California got an impromptu sex ed lesson when their teacher handed out DVDs that featured a brief interlude of homemade porn, CBS5 San Francisco reports. The video retrospective of the school year inadvertently included 6 seconds of “inappropriate images” of teacher Crystal Defanti getting busy.... More »

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pornography • sex • sex education • elementary school • sex tape • teacher • Crystal Defanti

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