#poledancing

The ACLU is filing a federal lawsuit to defend the First Amendment rights of a pole dancing instructor. Yes, lap dances are free speech ... and isn't free speech beautiful? (nytimes.com)

#television

Larry Flynt Fights For Our Right To Fap In Peace

You've seen "The People Vs. Larry Flynt" countless times and read every issue of Hustler cover to cover. But believe it or not, there's a lot about Larry Flynt that you just don't know—and IFC aims to school you with their tell-all documentary "Larry Flynt: The Right To Be Left Alone," which airs tomorrow night. Focusing on some of the less sexy (but still fascinating) aspects of Flynt's life, the movie offers an insider account of Flynt's freedom fighting in the name of free speech with rare footage of the infamous Supreme Court case against Jerry Falwell, Flynt’s prison sentencing for refusing to name his source in the FBI entrapment tapes of John DeLorean, and, best of all, Flynt’s gubernatorial and presidential campaigns. Check out the trailer after the jump. More »

#dvdreview

Coming For A Cause: Just About Everybody You've Ever Masturbated To In "Defend Our Porn"

Whether you want to donate to the Evil Angel legal defense fund or spend 10 glorious, disturbing, jaw-dropping, delightful, and carnivorous hours with the likes of Belladonna, Sasha Grey, Sandra Romain, Eva Angelina, and Tricia Devereaux (or, I imagine, both), you will love "Defend Our Porn." More »

#thelaw

Breaking: Max Hardcore Too Hardcore For Florida

Following 14 hours of deliberation today, a Tampa jury found extreme pornographer Max Hardcore guilty on ten counts of distributing obscene material, the first time Hardcore has been found guilty in a career full of obscenity legislation. Hardcore said that he would appeal, and is free on bail until a September 5 sentencing. "I'm full of good spirits and they didn't get my house," Hardcore told AVN. More »

#obscenity

Belladonna's "Fetish Fanatic 5": Defend Your Right To Anal Squirting!

Stores like Adult DVD Empire may have already pulled our gal Belladonna's newly federally indicted "Fetish Fanatic 5" from their online inventory, but as of this afternoon you can still see the trailer for it on Evil Angel's site. Frankly, after watching it two or three or a dozen times we can't see what all the brouhaha is about; after all, things like enemas, squirting, and inserting dildos with one's (or someone else's) feet are hardly rare in porn these days—and as Evil Angel's Karen Stagliano told AVN today, "Maybe you don't always do (these things) in your normal bedroom, but that's kind of the point of porn." Even if the case doesn't lead to a prosecution, the indictment is bound to have a chilling effect on the adult industry, not to mention on our collective rights to free expression in general. After all, if you can't watch Belladonna and her pals stick various brightly colored liquids and foreign objects up each other's asses, the terrorists will so totally have won. More »

#butwhataboutthechildren

Have you been having trouble trying to figure out all those constantly changing, politically motivated 2257 regulations and the effect all that record keeping will ultimately have on you, the mild-mannered porn consumer? Let our friends at Kink.com explain it all for you. Government-mandated paperwork was never this interesting. (behindkink.com, via Tiny Nibbles)

#thisweekinpornstereotypes

Kick Ass Pictures And Free Speech: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Now that their former trophy star Mary Carey has abandoned her political aspirations and decamped elsewhere, what can Kick Ass Pictures do to distinguish its product from all that run-of-the-mill porn out there? Why, release a run-of-the-mill DVD with a cast of (mostly) black performers, call it "Nappy Headed Ho's", and frame it all as a statement: More »

#greatmomentsinpornhistory