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For our bookish readers, here's a homework assignment:
The Association for Progressive Communications has teamed up with Sex Work Awareness for the Exploratory Research on Internet & Sexuality Research Project, with research teams based on...
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Bing, the Microsoft search engine that was unveiled last year, has begun filtering out "sexually explicit" results in 22 Arab countries, according to new research by the Open Net Initiative.
Back in January ONI searched 100 Arabic keywords...
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A snow woman described as “nude” is getting the cold shoulder from Rahway, New Jersey residents. The family who carved Venus de Milo in last week's snow outside their home on Colonia Boulevard has been asked to cover up her “...
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After receiving complaints, Apple is cracking down on all the sexy apps that developers have put together for the iPhone. But since Apple's App Store didn't really have anything remotely pornographic to begin with, the Cupertino-based company is...
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…I gotta say I’m kinda confused. OK, I’m peeved.
When I think of what you people put me through after the 2004 Superbowl, I shiver—and not in a good way.
That ½-second shot of me during halftime? First, you accused me of ruining not just...
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You’ve heard about the recent Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Overturning the heart of the McCain-Feingold Act, the Court said that corporate donations to elections cannot be limited because it would...
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If you want to get porn in Australia, you better not be a fan of the Itty-Bitty Titty Committee. This Wednesday, the Australian Sex Party put out a press release alleging that the Australian Classification Board (the body charged with rating and...
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Internet users in several Asian countries may have been disappointed earlier this month after both Yahoo and Bing quietly began censoring adult material. The Guardian reported Monday that both search engines, as well as Yahoo-owned photo-sharing...
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YouTube is known for not tolerating NSFW video content; we understand that it would rapidly become just another porn tube site if they didn't enforce the rules. However, there appears to be a growing tendency to censor all videos that even...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 1:36pm By Chris Hall
More than 3,500 registered New York sex offenders have had their Facebook and MySpace accounts deleted, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday. The mass purge was the result of a piece of legislation passed last year called...
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Last week trustees at a public library in Ames, Iowa voted to keep a free magazine written "by teens, for teens" on its shelves after some parents petitioned for its removal. According to The Ames Tribune, the city's public library...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 3:53pm By Chris Hall
Representative Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) was only four years old when H.L. Mencken died in 1956, but since then, he seems to have taken Mencken's famous definition of puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere might be happy" as...
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Last April, the University of Maryland inadvertently found itself at the center of a debate about free speech, academic freedom, and pornography when a student group on the College Park campus tried to screen the award-winning adult film Pirates 2:...
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Today starts WRAP Week: White Ribbons Against Pornography.
Sponsored by groups including Concerned Women for America (CWA) and Morality in Media (MIM), the goal of the week is “to educate the public about the extent of the pornography problem and...
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• Because murder is a terrible thing, the state of Alaska wants to outlaw films depicting murder.
• Because physical abusing and raping women is a terrible thing, the state of Alaska wants to outlaw TV programs showing this.
• Because sexually...