ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NJ — “Porn: Business of Pleasure,” billed as a “nothing off-limits [look at] the controversial multibillion dollar industry that aims to please but has been known to offend,” will debut at 9 p.m. ET Wednesday on CNBC.CNBC anchor Melissa Lee served as lead...

FALL RIVER, MA — Business owners are worried that the opening of a strip club in an industrial park may drive businesses from the area in spite of the fact that a strip club is a business. Yesterday, the Fall City City Council met to discuss non-adult business owner...

FLEMINGTON, NJ — If the Borough Council gets its way, those hoping to purchase sexy magazines will need to be at least five-feet tall in order to know they’re even available for sale in retail outlets courageous enough to carry them. As is so often the case, council members...

PORTLAND, OR — Blackbox Republic, a new company focused on reinventing the online relationship market, emerged from stealth-mode Wednesday with $1 million in seed funding. The company claims it has created an all-new Community exchange platform that combines social...

CYBERSPACE — When you have 140 characters available to pimp your ride, keeping your message simple and direct is essential. Twitter users who want to share web links frequently use URL shorteners in order to stay within the character limit and still have room to make a...

LAKELAND, FL — A former Polk County, FL, elementary school teacher received a prison sentence of five years plus 10 years probation after his conviction on charges of possessing virtual child pornography. The case is unusual in that the four images found in John Stelmack’s...

BEIJING, CHINA — In its continuing campaign to snuff out China-bound pornography on the internet, the Chinese government has warned companies that provide third-party billing to cease offering services to companies selling pornography and other lewd material online.The...

BEIJING, CHINA — Chinese website operators who include on their sites material classed by the government as “harmful” have been put on notice: Moving their sites to foreign servers will not protect them.In the latest round of arrests of people associated with online smut,...

DARWIN, AUSTRALIA — Anyone who’s ever watched women swarm over male strippers knows that they get away with all kinds of physical contact that men would be tossed out of the club for even considering. Someone on the Australian Territory Liquor Commission must be aware of...

NOVATO, CA — It reads like a sad sequel to the biblical story of Cain and Abel: Porn magnate’s son is charged with the murder of his girlfriend, echoing his late father’s conviction for fratricide nearly two decades years earlier.James Raphael Mitchell, the 27-year-old son...