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Porn: You Want It

"I have reached the conclusion, which I think is confirmed at least by negative implication in the Court's decisions since Roth and Alberts, that under the First and Fourteenth Amendments criminal laws in this area are constitutionally limited to hard-core pornography. I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that." - Justice Potter Stewart in JACOBELLIS v. OHIO

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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 »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- Playboy Woos Posers Who Lost Shirt on Wall St.
  
  Reuters | Oct 2, 08 11:16 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The bear market could create some new bunnies, Reuters reports, with Playboy seeking females from the financial world to pose for an upcoming "Women of Wall Street feature. The magazine—which ran "Women of Enron" and "Women of WorldCom" specials after those companies folded—says it is looking for current and former finance workers, the more senior the better. More »
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 »
- 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 »
August 2008
- College Boots Wrestlers for Baring All on Porn Site
  
  Omaha World-Herald | Aug 13, 08 7:00 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Two University of Nebraska wrestlers have been chucked off the team after posing naked for a gay pornography site, the Omaha World-Herald reports. The coach said the behavior of the two wrestlers, including 2007 125-pound NCAA champion Paul Donahoe, did not reflect "the standard of excellence we aspire to on and off the mat." More »
- 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 »
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 »
- NJ Assemblyman Under Investigation for Child Porn
  
  Star-Ledger | Jul 25, 08 12:55 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - New Jersey Assemblyman Neil Cohen faces allegations of storing child pornography on his office computer, the Star-Ledger reports. Two of his fellow Democratic lawmakers turned him into authorites after being alerted by a staffer. Cohen, 57, has served 17 years in the Assembly, currently as deputy speaker, and has sponsored bills against child porn and pedophilia. He made no public comment and is said to be under psychiatric care. More »
- 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 »
- Murdered Girl's Stepdad Indicted for Child Porn
  
  Associated Press | Jul 17, 08 8:15 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The former stepfather of murdered Vermont teenager Brooke Bennett has been indicted for child pornography, and may face obstruction of justice charges for the girl’s death, the AP reports. Raymond Gagnon was charged yesterday with both transporting child porn and having it on his computer. More »
- Brinkley Takes Stand Against Porn-Lovin' Ex
  
  New York Post | 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 masturbate on the World Wide Web, just makes me worry about his judgment,” she said. More »
- Brinkley Ex 'Fesses Up to Sex Mania
  
  New York Post | 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 sites for “young, fit girls,” the New York Post reports. More »
June 2008