STANARDSVILLE, VA — In an effort to “get ahead of the curve” where adult-oriented businesses are concerned, Greene County, VA, supervisors have established a county-wide zoning code that allows such businesses to locate only within specified industrial districts.“We know...

NEW YORK, NY — Comcast Corp. wants to develop what it calls an industry-wide “Bill of Rights and Responsibilities” (BRR) for file sharing. The terms would dovetail with the company’s evolving policy about users who trade images, sound, videos and games online.Currently...

APOPKA, FL — The producer of a live adult entertainment website who aspired to create a mainstream reality TV show was arrested over the weekend and charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment after he allegedly held several women against their will.Marc Brilleman, 33,...

INDONESIA — There’s no fool like a governmental fool, and if anyone working within East Java’s Indonesian government has any sense, they realize that they qualify for the term after local masseuses felt compelled to tell them where to get off – and they didn’t suggest that...

TAVARES, FL — Oh, what a difference a nipple makes. Depending on whether or not barely visible medical tape qualifies as enough of a cover-up for body-shy legislators and sex-negative neighbors, a Lake County strip club may find itself in hot water. According to the Orlando...

WASHINGTON, DC — The FBI has been running roughshod over American citizens’ rights to privacy, and Congress wants the bureau reined in.That’s the bipartisan message coming out of Washington this week, as legislators in both chambers begin hearings about the FBI’s alleged...

DUBAI — Sorry, conspiracy theorists. The mystery of the curiously cut communication cables has been solved, and the culprits weren’t terrorists or covert operatives of a shadow government.Instead, internet and telecommunications outages that crippled India, Pakistan, and...

BARCELONA — MySpace, AdultFriendFinder, and any number of telephone social networking services have an exotic new high tech kid on the block to contend with, thanks to the introduction of Private Media Group, Inc. and Pilgrim Telephone Inc.’s Intimate Connections.Now,...

NEW YORK CITY, NY —The only copy of the most notorious film of Marilyn Monroe’s career sold for $1.5 million recently – and her adoring fans will never see it. Sold by memorabilia collector Keya Morgan to a New York businessman and admirer of Monroe’s, the new owner has...

WASHINGTON, DC — Adult entertainment producer, director, distributor and erstwhile performer John “Buttman” Stagliano will be arraigned April 21st on eight federal counts including interstate transportation of obscenity and distributing obscenity to minors. A forfeiture...