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Flynt Flogs Quickie Porno Starring Palin Lookalike

Will release X-rated movie featuring Palin look alike

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... More »

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pornography • Larry Flynt • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • McCain-Palin

(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... More »

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Internet • pornography • sex tape

Social Networking Deposes Porn as Web King

Users searching less for adult sites as they spend more time on Facebook et al.

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... More »

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social networking • Hurricane Katrina • pornography • Thanksgiving • Web tracking • trend

OPINION

Is Pornography Adultery? Time to Sharpen the Debate

Smut may be losing its stigma, but at what price to marriage and our own decency?

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... More »

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Internet • prostitution • women • men • marriage • pornography • infidelity • adultery

  Naked Harry Hits Internet 

Two days in New York was all it took

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... More »

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Harry Potter • pornography • Broadway • Daniel Radcliffe • Equus

 Pal: Duchovny Addicted to Porn 

Web obsession prompted actor to enter rehab

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... More »

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pornography • celebrity • sex addiction • David Duchovny • Internet addiction • Tea Leoni

 Porn Claim Riles Kafka Scholars  

Experts have uneasy dreams about author's proclivities

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... More »

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pornography • biography • British Library • anti-Semitism • Franz Kafka • literary criticism • Heinrich Heine • Bodleian • Rainer Stach • Klaus Wagenbach

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 So, Your Wife's a Porn Star?

Domestic bliss abounds, as long as you don't ask about the office

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... More »

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California • pornography • adult films • adult performer • married couples

 Jenna Jameson Is Pregnant

Porn star, UFC champ boyfriend are expecting

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,... More »

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pornography • Jenna Jameson • Ultimate Fighting Championship • celebrity pregnancy

Europe Seeing Rise in War Memorial Porn

Latest case has couple filming sex acts at WWI monument in France

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.... More »

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Canada • France • pornography • trial • monument • World War I • desecrate • Vimy Ridge

Hotel Porn Gets Spanking From Religious Right

Conservatives push Marriott to drop pay-per-view sex flicks

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... More »

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travel • pornography • conservative • children • Marriott • hotel • adult films • movies

OPINION

'Venal' Phil Gramm No Big Loss to McCain Camp

'Nation of whiners' quote simply the latest in a long string of bad moves

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... More »

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John McCain • gay rights • pornography • white supremacism • Enron • subprime crisis • Phil Gramm • Whinergate • NEA

Brinkley Takes Stand Against Porn-Lovin' Ex

Model slaps fourth hubby's bad judgment
in divorce proceeding

Jul 8, 08 1:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Clean-cut supermodel Christie Brinkley let her soon-to-be ex-husband have it today in divorce court, denouncing his sexual misdeeds, including his affair with a teenage girl, and his addiction to porn. “I mean, sneaking out of the house when you've got beautiful, loving children there, to go choose instead to... More »

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pornography • celebrity divorces • Christie Brinkley • Peter Cook

Brinkley Ex 'Fesses Up
to Sex Mania

Tearfully admits to affairs, $3,000-a-month porn habit

Jul 3, 08 10:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cheating hubby Peter Cook was in tears during Christie Brinkley’s sensational divorce trial yesterday—which the supermodel insisted be open to the public—as he confessed to a laundry list of sexual excesses including spending $3,000 a month on porn, pleasuring himself on web cams, and trolling swinger... More »

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New York • celebrity trials • pornography • sex • cybersex • Long Island • mistress • swingers • cheating • custody battle • celebrity divorces • Christie Brinkley • Peter Cook

Tarantino May Turn to Porn for Next Project

Adult star Tera Patrick up for role in remake of '60s cult hit Pussycat

Jun 30, 08 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Porn star Tera Patrick is being considered for a role in Quentin Tarantino's remake of Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!, the New York Post reports. "Quentin loves her, and she's a dead ringer for original star Tura Satana," says a source. The original cult film, released in 1966,... More »

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Quentin Tarantino • pornography • Tera Patrick

Lawyer Uses Google to Judge Obscenity

Common search terms can show 'community standards,' he says

Jun 24, 08 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - A defense lawyer in a Florida obscenity case is trying out a new technique for determining those elusive “community standards” courts have been fighting over for years: what locals search for on Google. The resourceful attorney compared the frequency of local searches for words like “orgy” and “... More »

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Google • pornography • obscenity

 Hef Had 
 Family 
 Foursome, 
 Gay Tryst 

Playboy founder green-lights a sex-filled biography

Jun 23, 08 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hugh Hefner has signed off on a new biography that delves into the Playboy kingpin's sexual liberation, the New York Post reports. In "Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream," Steven Watts writes how the skin-mag magnate had a foursome with his first wife, his brother Keith... More »

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pornography • sex • oral sex • homosexuality • biography • Hugh Hefner • group sex

Judge Quits Calif. Porn Obscenity Trial

Declares mistrial over his own sexually explicit website

Jun 13, 08 8:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - The California judge whose risqué website stalled an obscenity trial 3 days ago has recused himself, the Los Angeles Times reports. “In light of the public controversy surrounding my involvement in this case, I have concluded that there is a manifest necessity to declare a mistrial,” Alex... More »

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California • pornography • court • obscenity • mistrial • federal judges • Alex Kozinski • recusal

Porn Trial Halted After Judge's Risque Site Found

Offers to step down from obscenity trial after cow porn pics discovered

Jun 12, 08 7:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - A federal obscenity trial has been suspended after the Los Angeles Times revealed that the presiding judge—a high-ranking conservative who has been mentioned for the Supreme Court—had his own website featuring explicit photos and videos. The publicly accessible material on Alex Kozinski's site included photos of naked women... More »

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pornography • trial • judge • obscenity • Alex Kozinski • Ira Isaacs

Sex Robots Haunt Franken's Senate Bid

Comedian's past continues to plague Dem run in Minnesota

Jun 9, 08 12:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - It’s not easy being a comedian-turned-Senate candidate. Al Franken’s bid to replace first-term Minnesota Republican Norm Coleman has hit some speed bumps lately, Bloomberg reports. Though Franken has nabbed the party’s endorsement, he’s been dogged by bits from his past—like a 2000 Playboy article entitled... More »

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Senate • pornography • comedy • Minnesota • Al Franken • Playboy

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