JAPAN — The Japanese have one word for Americans who pooh-pooh the idea of viewing entertainment on palm-sized screens: Pooh-pooh.OK, that may be a compound word, but the sentiment remains: Japanese consumers increasingly are forgoing desktop and laptop PCs for much more...

USA — People use hotels for a lot of things; sleeping, watching television, resting, reading, catching up on work, preparing for presentations – even having sex. What they rarely do, apparently, is pull out the old Gideon and get a dose of religion. Because of this, an...

AUSTIN, TX — It’s no surprise that lawmakers are nearly always eager to find a new revenue source. It’s even less of a surprise that adult entertainment establishments are prime candidates for any fees, taxes, or other revenue generating bright ideas that government can...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — If a bill approved Wednesday by a 409-2 majority of the U.S. House of Representatives is any indication, Congress remains largely populated by a herd of proudly redundant, technologically illiterate Nosy Nellies.Among the curious provisions of the...

FRANCE – Paris’ dirty little secret is secret no more.Even before there was a United States to serve as a benchmark of Western sexual conservatism, the French had a libertine reputation. Perhaps that’s why the Bibliothèque Nationale, France’s national library, has been collecting...

USA — It’s the end of another era. This time it’s the end of the pay phone era. With Americans relying increasingly upon mobile telephone technology in order to stay in touch when they’re away from home, at least one provider in the 129-year-old communication business has...

SALT LAKE CITY, UT — Salt Lake City, UT residents on Tuesday night proved they don’t need the adult industry’s help to expose their children to adult materials.Nevertheless, the adult industry got the blame for that and more at a city council meeting during which a...

REDWOOD CITY, CA — It’s a complex business, this apologizing. Often, the goal is an “I’m sorry” without necessarily acknowledging fault or precisely explaining the infraction in question. Such certainly seems to be the case with game development giant Electronic Arts and...

MEMPHIS, TN — If by the end of the year the city of Memphis manages to push through its first city ordinance governing sexually oriented businesses, it almost will make the months Shelby County officials spent hammering out their own law a waste of time.Shelby County’s new...

NEW YORK CITY, NY — You can take the porn star out from in front of the camera, but apparently you can’t take the sex industry out of the porn star. Or maybe it’s just Jenna Jameson. Having supposedly shaken the dust of the porn industry from her platform pumps, sexual...