MONTPELIER, VT — When the Vermont Legislature voted Tuesday to override Governor Jim Douglas’ veto of a bill permitting same-sex couples to wed, the sun did not go black, the earth did not split in two and the rivers did not run red with blood. Instead, Vermont became the...

PRINCE GEORGE, MD — In a world where sometimes it’s not just who you know, but who you know really well that determines whether or not the legal system will treat you kindly, it’s nice to hear about justice replacing nepotism. A recent court decision overturning a ban on...

AUSTIN, TX — Rep. Ellen Cohen has decided that strip clubs need to cough up some extra tax revenue and if one way isn’t legal, she’ll just keep looking for ways that are. After all, according to Cohen, sexual assault services and low income health care need funding and who...

DES MOINES, IA — In a unanimous ruling rendered early Friday morning, the Iowa Supreme court struck down the state’s same-sex marriage ban.“The Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa...

COLLEGE PARK, MD — In the wake of a funding-withdrawal threat from the state legislature and the subsequent cancellation of free, on-campus screenings of Digital Playground’s award-winning XXX film Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge, students at two University of Maryland...

REIGATE, ENGLAND — Residents and passersby are used to seeing the past along the streets of Reigate. After all, it’s a historic market town packed with visual reminders of days, years, decades, and centuries gone by. For one shop owner, that past is bluer than its bluest...

EDMONTON, CANADA — An Edmonton, Canada-based psychologist whose practice consists almost entirely of men who claim to be addicted to pornography calls internet-based adult entertainment “the crack cocaine of porn.”That’s the premise for a new Canadian Broadcasting...

OTTAWA, CANADA — Sometimes trying to get the mainstream government to cooperate in good will with adult entertainment businesses is a little like trying to get politicians from different parties to cooperate with one another. That’s certainly what members of an association...

LONDON, ENGLAND — More than a year after naughty words, naked body parts and explicit sexual activities aired on British television, the government’s decency watchdog this week fined Playboy £22,500 (about $33,246) for the series of offenses.Ofcom, Britain’s equivalent of...

WASHINGTON, DC — Even though a Harvard-based task force formed by 50 attorneys general spent a year studying the issue and found no evidence to support concerns about child predation on the internet, the U.S. Department of Justice has rounded up $50 million in grant monies...