China: No Porn For You!

Internet giant Google China issues formal apology for being too slow, in the Chinese government's estimation, to remove all links to porn sites from its search engine. More »

Real American Heroes

A 77-year-old Brooklyn man is being unfairly persecuted by the IRS just because he tried to deduct over $300,000 in "therapeutic" treatments for his chronic depression. You know, like ... prostitutes, erotic massages, sex toys and porn. That sounds pretty therapeutic to us. This guy should be given a medal, not a tax bill. (nypost.com; thumb via doctoradventures.com)

Sex For Oil

Sex! Drugs! Corruption! Big Oil! No, it's not a "Dallas" marathon ... it's the U.S. Interior Department! Who knew that our nation's most boring cabinet department was also the freakiest ... or that working for the government could be so much fun? (telegraph.co.uk; naked park ranger via allthegals.com)

Your Tax Dollars At Work: Women Dig Porn

The federal government paid $147,000 for a research project to determine if women get turned on by pornography. Guess what? They do! Now give us $100,000 and we'll call it even. (abcnews.go.com)

Some Congresspersons displaying a not very firm grasp of technology are pushing for an alternative internet that is completely free—and also devoid of porn. You might as well ask for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich that is also free of peanut butter, because what would be the point? (xbiz.com)

OK, we guess it's official: Toronto really is the swingers capital of the world! But not if the city council has anything to say about it. See, it's a really diverse and cultured city ... as long as you don't upset the tourists with all that sexin'. (canoe.ca)

It was a bad weekend for fans of government intervention, as California's "porn tax" bill goes down in committee and Turkey gives up on their porn registration plan. You may continue to fap in peace. (xbiz.com + hurriyet.com.tr)

The 3rd U.S. Circurt Court of Appeals has upheld last year's lower court ruling that declared the Child Online Protection Act unconstitutional. That doesn't mean they hate children, just that Congress isn't very good at censoring porn from the internet ... for now. (wired.com; Penny Flame's dramatization of what could have been, via AskJolene)

Ellicott City, Maryland, has spent 11 years battling "The Pack Shack" adult store and all they've managed to do is pass a few unconstitutional laws and give $187,000 in tax money to the store's owners. But at least now they can choose from a fine selection of used paperbacks to go with the sex toys and lingerie. Maybe City Hall just can't fight a determined sex shop? (baltimoresun.com)

The Justice Department wants to amend the 2257 regulations (again) with the apparent goal of making them even more difficult to comprehend and abide by. Maybe this kind of stuff is what lawyers use to get off? (avn.com)

It's bad enough that airport security wants to make you fly without shoes; now they want to look at your naked body and then open your laptop and take all your porn! Gee, we wonder why people aren't as interested in flying as they used to be? (quickdfw.com + networkworld.com, via Fark)

Is porn still porn if it's not real? The FBI can't seem to decide if illegal porn can still be illegal if the images are computer generated. Well, we don't know about legal, but if you can jerk off to it then our standards have pretty much been met. (10zenmonkeys.com; image via)

Max Hardcore Trial Update

So far, most of the legal wrangling in the obscenity trial of Paul Little (a.k.a. Max Hardcore) has been a prolonged argument about just how much porn a jury needs to see in order to determine if it's obscene. Believe it or not, it's the defense team that is saying they need to see all of it, a strategy which could backfire. After watching eight hours of hardcore porn in a packed courtroom, even we might get the urge to convict someone. (avn.com + tampabay.com + foxnews.com)

Stormy Daniels Does It For The Kids (Or Not)

Stormy Daniels descended on Washington, D.C. yesterday to speak at the National Press Club on behalf of the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection; the AVN Crossover Star of the Year, er, crossed over to deliver the message that kids who want porn can just wait until they're old enough for it, the same way they have to wait to vote or drink or get addicted to prescription drugs. (After all, there are plenty of old folks out there willing to buy her product, so she doesn't need to prey on the young and innocent to earn a buck.) Of course, Stormy commands quite a presence (even in a prim business suit buttoned up the neck), so we feel confident that her message was heard. Now what is she going to do about those gas prices? More »

So, about that whole 2257 being overturned thing we heard about a while ago? It looks like that decision might get overturned too. Which bums us out, of course ... but we're not all that surprised either. (avn.com)

OK, we're sure there's a very good reason why the reflection in Dick Cheney's glasses in this photo of him on the official White House site makes it look like he's staring at some naked chick with giant hooters, but for the life of us we can't figure out what it might be: either our eyesight is getting more pervy in our old age, or those fly fishing expeditions on the Snake River in Idaho really are as wild as we've heard they can be. (whitehouse.gov - thanks Kyle et al.)

After failing to get JM Productions on obscenity charges last year, the Justice Department is now targeting Evil Angel and its owner John Stagliano; the feds handed down a grand jury indictment against the company earlier this week. You wouldn't think a film with a nice wholesome title like "Milk Nymphos" would get anyone in trouble, would you? (avn.com + xbiz.com)

You know that itsy-bitsy $90,000 fine the FCC threw at Fox for lewd television lewdness? Yeah, Fox isn't going to pay it. (At least not while they have a lawsuit about censorship coming before the Supreme Court.) Are they sure they can do that? Because we tried a similar strategy with our taxes and that did not end well. (washingtonpost.com)

Three porn shops in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, have dismantled their viewing booths because of a new city ordinance requiring that they be "well lit, without holes, clean and visible from all common areas," and naturally nobody wants to jerk off in that. (seacoastonline.com)

Nearly half a year after their $84 million dollar porn filter was hacked by a 16 year old, the Australian government has finally admitted that the whole project was a failure. Hey, at least they owned up to it: it's been almost five years, and the US government still hasn't said that about invading Iraq ...(smh.com.au)

Russia is considering a bill that would impose fines for "reading erotic and pornographic publications in public places." No word yet on how this will affect Maria Sharapova's tennis career. (avn.com)

The FCC wants to fine ABC and its affiliates $1.4 million for broadcasting someone's bare ass on a TV show that went off the air like, five years ago. By the way, butt cheeks are now a "sexual organ," but maybe that just depends on how you use them. (broadcastingcable.com, via Gawker)

Brantford, Ontario, spent $430,000 (Canadian!) to buy a strip club just so they could tear it apart. Now, if only there was some easy way for them to make all that money back ... (brantfordexpositor.ca)

Maybe you can't fight city hall, but in Milwaukee you can sure beat it there. Shouldn't every city supply free porn to visitors? What are we paying taxes for? (todaystmj4.com)

Remember Ohio's controversial no-touching strip club law? Well, it's still controversial and lawsuits are still a-flyin'. They've reached federal court now and who is more trustworthy when it comes to fairly settling complex issues than the federal government? (cleveland.com)

Sure, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals says the 2257 code is unconstitutional, but does that mean this fight is really over? Don't count on it, however, if anyone out there can just make sense of this mumbo jumbo that will be a victory in itself. (10zenmonkeys.com)

The city of Warren, Michigan, has spent nearly $300,000 to buy an adult book store simply so they can tear it down. Says the mayor, "This place has attracted perverts and weirdos for over 30 years." Um, isn't that the idea? That place should be a historic landmark! (xbiz.com)

With the Justice Department rocked by scandal, partisan political strife, and its credibility at all time low, what does Senator Orrin Hatch want most from the new Attorney General? More porn investigations. Oh Congress, that's why we love you! Don't ever change! (sfgate.com)

If your political science class has trouble keeping you awake, maybe you can brush up on the three branches of government with "The US Constitution Erotic Coloring Book." It might drier reading then the Big Book of Vaginas (ahem), but it's just as informative. (krudmart.com, via Sugar Bank)

A county website in California was hijacked by unscrupulous porn peddlers last week, so the federal government responded by shutting down the entire ca.gov domain. We believe that is what's known in military terms as a "disproportionate response," but it works so well on the battlefield, why not take it to the web? (washingtonpost.com)

Michael Mukasey, the federal judge nominated to be the next US Attorney General, once litigated on behalf of a "dial-a-porn" service (whatever that is) back in his lawyering days. The nerve of that guy, defending a company that hadn't broken any laws! Can't have someone like that running the Justice Department, can we? (ap.google.com)

The FBI "clarifies" its position on 2257 inspections so now it's crystal clear that not even the FBI knows what the hell it's supposed to be doing. (xbiz.com)

The Justice Department wants Hollywood movies to follow the same 2257 rules as porn companies, but Hollywood has a little more pull in Congress than the Valley, so how do you think this story is going to end? (hollywoodreporter.com)

Senator Arlen Specter, have you met everyone's favorite porn star "General" Jameson? That must be why every guy who meets her is always at full salute. (washingtonpost.com)

Will 2257 regulations be applied to—and ruin—anonymous kinky sex partner social networking sites? And will anyone ever make sense out of these laws before our heads explode? (Don't count on it.) (sdcitybeat.com)

Where's the best place to find porn (and spyware) these days? Try unsecured government web servers. If you run across any unprotected nuclear secrets while you're there, just try to ignore those. (washingtonpost.com)

A town councilor in England displays her commitment to family values by working a second (or is it third?) job as a stripper. Her day job is running a witchcraft store, so that sound you hear is the heads of her conservative opponents exploding. (thesun.co.uk)