• Friday, November 13, 2009 - 1:53pm By Chris Hall
    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:...
  • Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 10:56am By Chris Hall
    Despite the best efforts of Maryland State Senator Andrew Harris to shut down a campus screening of the X-rated feature Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge, over 200 University of Maryland students showed up at a lecture hall on campus to see excerpts...
  • Monday, April 6, 2009 - 6:19pm By John Pettitt
    The effort by Maryland state Senator Andrew Harris to ban a screening of the X-rated movie Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge on the University of Maryland campus has resulted in a perfect example of the Streisand effect. Had Sen. Harris simply...
  • Friday, April 3, 2009 - 12:25pm By Chris Hall
    A screening of the adult movie Pirates 2: Stagnetti's Revenge was going to be held for students at the University of Maryland, but got an abrupt cancellation when state legislators threatened to cut funding if the school went ahead with the film....
  • Friday, March 27, 2009 - 4:00pm By Carol Queen
    All right, class, it's time for our special lecture on anthro-economics. To begin, just google this phrase: "conservative states use more porn." How many results do you get? Several hundred thousand, a.k.a. “a huge boatload”?...