Tag Archives: Topic: Pornography

Seattle Times Newspaper: After her 10-year-old saw porn on a man’s computer screen at the Lake City library, a mom objected — to the library and to the media.

How Appealing quotes and links to the AP and the earlier 5th Circuit opinion: A federal appeals court in New Orleans has agreed to rehear two cases in which a victim of child pornography sought restitution from men who viewed sexually explicit photographs of her on the Internet.” | In re: Amy Unknown.

First Amendment Center: The 11^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in June 2009 that a notorious death doesn’t give publishers a blank check to publish any images they wish. The case went to trial, and a jury in June 2011 voted to slap Hustler Magazine with $19.6 million in punitive damages for running the photos.

In evaluating the adequacy of alternative channels of communication when deciding an as-applied constitutional challenge to the State’s statute limiting the places where sexually-oriented businesses may operate, trial courts are not precluded from considering the existence of sites that are located outside of New Jersey but that are found within the relevant market area as defined by the parties’ experts.

CBS Los Angeles: he Los Angeles City Council approved a new law Tuesday that will require adult film stars to use condoms.

‘Naturist’ convicted in Ontario after naked drive-through visits, judge upholds Canada’s nudity laws | National Post: In convicting a local businessman of public nudity charges after he shocked female clerks at drive-through windows at a local Tim Hortons and A&W restaurant, an Ontario court judge has upheld Canada’s nudity laws as an acceptable infringement of the man’s freedom of expression.

Business Week: An ordinance that would require porn actors to wear condoms during film shoots was tentatively approved by the City Council on Tuesday. The council voted 11-1 for the proposal.

State Journal: Three West Virginia delegates are introducing a bill that would limit the activities of “sexually oriented businesses” in West Virginia.

LifeSiteNews.com: he U.S. Supreme Court’s justices broadly expressed skepticism over a petition to relax broadcast decency standards in oral arguments heard today.

Baptist Press: Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have each told Morality in Media (MIM) his administration would prosecute violations of the bans on hardcore pornography, the anti-porn organization reported Monday (Jan. 9).

Findlaw: Can you fire a pregnant waitress? Or any other pregnant employee? Josie Muriel says you can’t, which is why she is suing Larry Flynt’s New York Hustler Club for sex and gender discrimination

MSNBC: The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will weigh the government’s power to regulate profanity and nudity on broadcast television in a challenge to a long-standing policy that goes back to comedian George Carlin’s “Seven Filthy Words” monologue.

Bradenton, FL Patch: The revised land development code bans liquor service at topless bars and enables code enforcement officers to issue citations.

Findlaw: Employment law and OSHA compliance become infinitely more interesting when applied to California’s pornography industry. This week, a Los Angeles city clerk certified more than 70,000 signatures for a ballot initiative to require condoms in porn.

The Washington Post: The state Division of Gaming Enforcement ruled Friday that it would be OK to have a strip club inside the Taj Mahal Casino Resort. It would be Atlantic City’s first so-called “gentlemen’s club” inside a casino in the 33-year history of legalized gambling here.

Catholic Culture: An unidentified buyer has purchased the internet address “vatican.xxx,” raising the possibility that a pornographic site could occupy that space on the web.

CBS St. Louis: A Missouri city is fighting back against an adult sex-shop by not turning on the store’s water as the owner takes his case against the town to federal court.

News from The Associated Press: Police arrested 112 people in 22 countries after a yearlong investigation into child pornography, Europol said Friday, warning that technology is making combating the spread of child abuse images ever more difficult.

News from The Associated Press: “Many people are surprised to learn there are more people trapped in slavery today than any time in history,” said Jacquelline Fuller, director of charitable giving and advocacy for Google.

Christian Legal Fellowship: Last Thursday, the Government of Canada initiative to require mandatory reporting of internet child pornography by internet service providers came into force. Bill C-22 was an EFC-supported measure which received Royal Assent in March. Today, as a result, suppliers of internet services, electronic mail services and social networking sites operating in Canada are required to report any tips or concerns about the presence of child pornography on their service to the Canadian Centre for Child Protection.

Findlaw: Ruling against a group of Latrobe Specialty Steel Co. employees who were fired for sending sexually explicit emails through their work accounts, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the workers had no basis in claiming that they were really fired because of their age. | Hodczak vs. Latrobe Specialty Steel Co.

Christian Newswire: News that the .XXX Domain is going live today caused Morality in Media to call for an investigation of ICM Registry, the company behind the .XXX Domain, for possible violations of federal laws prohibiting distribution of hard-core obscene Internet pornography.

Businessweek: “You can’t just trump the law by saying a naked dancer’s erotic message is protected by free speech,” said Scott Bergthold, a Chattanooga, Tennessee, attorney who helps municipalities craft and defend adult-business regulations. “We’re dealing with cases where cities are outlawing touching between naked dancers and customers that involve prostitution acts and she’s coming in with these opinions. It’s ridiculous.”

(AP) Boston.com: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has ordered an “extensive and thorough review” of a foreign exchange program that has been used by U.S. businesses as a source of cheap labor and exploited by criminals to import women to work in the sex industry.

News from The Associated Press: Only 1 percent of kids aged 10 to 17 have shared images of themselves or others that involve explicit nudity, a nationally representative study found

CBC News: Police are warning dozens of Nova Scotia teenagers that sharing nude photos of themselves could lead to criminal charges.

Western Courier: Macomb’s City Council quickly introduced, discussed and unanimously passed Ordinance No. 11-36, a set of licensing regulations for “sexually oriented business activities.”

Federal courts have disagreed about how to enforce a law that requires people convicted of possessing child pornography to pay restitution to the victim, even if they didn’t know the victim. But the Supreme Court refused to take up the case Monday.

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Los Angeles v. Alameda Books Nos. 11-245, 11-379. Document related to that litigation, the 9th Circuit opinion, and a summary of the issues involved can be found at SCOTUS Blog here.

Education News: Fear the Roo,” the University of Akron slogan tied to its marsupial mascot, could take on a totally different meaning if it became fair game for an X-rated website.

SCOTUSblog reports that City of Los Angeles v. Alameda Books, Inc.. is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court again.

LifeSiteNews.com: In a conversation with a priest in my diocese, I shared my spiritual director’s report that every other confession he hears from men involves the sin of pornography. The pastor’s response was shocking: “Oh, it’s much worse than that!” Since then, this sad reality has been confirmed by many others: The sin of pornography is overwhelming Catholic men.

ZDNet: Major pornography companies have filed a lawsuit against ICANN over adult TLD .XXX.

More information at the Legal Scholarship Blog: Sex Trafficking in the U.S.: Researching Vulnerable Populations – Corvallis, OR.

BBC News (includes image of naked hiker): Switzerland’s highest court has ruled that local authorities can impose fines on people hiking nude in the Alps.

Carson Holloway at Public Discourse: The Supreme Court has helped to foster a culture that encourages the sexual exploitation of children.

MarketWatch: Responding quickly to concerns that its iBoss Web Filters were blocking access to LGBT websites for employees of Montgomery County, Maryland, Phantom Technologies assures customers that its web-filtering technology is designed to function within the guidelines of the ACLU’s Don’t Filter Me campaign, which seeks to curb illegal filtering of pro-LGBT content.

News from The Associated Press: Officials of a California school system plan to meet with the agent who schedules celebrity guests to read to children after some parents complained that having a former adult film star as a participant was inappropriate.

Missouri families won a major victory today in our state courts. The Missouri Supreme Court, in a unanimous ruling, upheld the state’s new law regulating sexually oriented businesses

Sacramento Bee: Sacramento County supervisors approved an emergency ordinance Wednesday prohibiting any new adult-related businesses in the county’s unincorporated areas.

Patrick Trueman at the Knights of Columbus: Catholics have a duty to fight against pornography and its devastating spiritual and societal consequences.

Northwest Herald: Just to be clear, no speakeasies, dance halls or more-than-massage parlors have voiced interest in calling Johnsburg home. Despite this lack of interest, Johnsburg’s Village Board has taken the opportunity to freshen up its adult entertainment ordinance . . .

Europa: Child abusers and viewers of child sex images on the web will face tough penalties in the EU, under new rules approved by Parliament on Thursday. The directive will also require EU countries to remove child porn web sites, or, should this prove impossible, allow them to block access to those pages within their territory. Studies suggest that between 10% and 20% of minors in Europe may be sexually assaulted during childhood.

CourtHouse News: A sex superstore in southeastern Pennsylvania can’t enjoin a Catholic group from protesting outside its business, a federal judge ruled. | Routes 202 and 306 and Novelties and Gifts v. The Kings Men, No. 2:11-cv-05822-PBT (E.D. Pa.)

CSMonitor.com: One of the most hidden and hideous crimes in America is the sex trafficking of children. But this selling of minors quickly becomes less hidden when Internet sites for community advertising become giant magnets for the sex trade.

News from The Associated Press: The mother of a Connecticut man facing a possible death sentence for killing a woman and her two daughters in a home invasion testified Monday she suspected he was visiting hundreds of pornographic adult websites days before the crime.

Daily Mail Online: The Church of England is threatening to use its financial power to stem the tide of internet pornography. It is considering withdrawing the millions it has invested in Internet Service Providers (ISPs) unless they take action.

Connecticut Post: The item, introduced by Councilman Robert Walsh, D-132, in May, would have required “sexually oriented” establishments to obtain annual licenses.

Domain Name Wire: Companies that don’t want their trademark attached to a .xxx domain name have until the end of the day to take action.

CBS News: A federal judge heard arguments Thursday on whether a central Missouri school district should be barred from using Internet filtering software that has prevented automatic access to some websites with information on gay, lesbian and transgender issues.

The Orange County Register: The city plans to remove churches from the types of uses that would bar an adult business from one of three zones in the city.

Mandatory Sex Ed Details May Be Too Racy for Parents: Report | NBC New York:
The workbooks for older students direct them to a website run by Columbia University, which explores topics such as sexual positions, porn stars, and bestiality. The lessons explain risky sexual behavior and suggest students go to stores to jot condom brands and prices.

Robert P. George at Public Discourse: Every member of the community has an interest in the quality of the culture that will shape their experiences, their quality of life, and the choices effectively available to them and their children.

Education Week: The Alliance Defense Fund, or ADF, a legal group based in Scottsdale, Ariz., that was founded, according to its website, to protect the constitutional right to religious freedom, wrote a 10-page letter advising Gwinnett County not to alter the settings on its filtering software from Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Blue Coat Systems Inc. The letter argued that lifting an LGBT filter would allow access to sexually inappropriate material, including sites that give explicit advice on gay, bisexual, and alternative dating and sexual relations . . . “A public school district’s decisions regarding what Web content to make available to students are curricular decisions,” the letter states, “and the case law is clear that public school districts have broad authority over curricular matters.”

News from The Associated Press: A Swedish court on Tuesday convicted 23 women and one man of child pornography offenses in what investigators called a unique case because of the number of female perpetrators.

OneNewsNow.com: our major Internet providers in the United Kingdom will require users to opt in if they want to view pornography, which one anti-porn organization says is a better alternative to systems that filter porn out.

Cassandra Hough at Public Discourse: An “adaptationist” approach to pornography is dangerous because it ignores widespread research showing that pornography harms society at many levels.

LifeSiteNews.com: Videos showing naked men graphically sodomizing one another – included as “resource material” in an “anti-bullying” initiative for Vancouver’s schools – are “really inappropriate,” says a trustee.

The New American: Even before its debut, reported by The New American, the show had come under an intense assault from a group called the Coalition for the War on Illegal Pornography, which charged that the show was little more than prime-time porn that should never be aired. The coalition was made up of such groups as Focus on the Family, the Alliance Defense Fund, the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, and the American Family Association, among others, whose leaders issued a stern condemnation, declaring that “NBC is contributing to the sexual objectification and exploitation of women and encouraging greater acceptance of pornography with its soon-to-be-aired series.”

CBC News: Technology experts are warning companies with websites to protect their domain names from being hijacked by pornography businesses when the website suffix .xxx becomes available starting next year.

The Blog of Legal Times: The FTC has proposed five changes to rules implementing the law. Among them: updating the definition of “personal information” to include geolocation information and certain types of persistent identifiers, such as tracking cookies; streamlining and clarifying the direct notice that operators must give parents before collecting children’s personal information; adding new methods to obtain verifiable parental consent; and eliminating the “email plus” method of parental consent, which allows operators to obtain consent through an email to the parent, coupled with an additional confirmation.

An American Marine has won a relatively landmark case in a military court, which ruled that it was permissible for him to wear some parts of his Marine uniform in a homosexual porn movie.

KRMG.com: State lawmakers are looking into the possibility that the punishment for a crime may be too harsh.
A state prosecutor says sexting’ among teens is on the rise.

News from The Associated Press: The network said Tuesday that its 1960s period piece drama “The Playboy Club” is being canceled, acting less than 24 hours after the new series drew only 3.5 million people for its third episode.

News from The Associated Press: Police may put the brakes on a party bus that was apparently operating as a Sunday strip club for reveling Lions fans at a popular tailgating spot in Detroit.

Stephen Green at Telegraph: The advertising industry has got to realise that what is broadcast affects the cultural environment of us all. No man is an island and no-one knows the unintended consequences of a torrent of sexualised imagery and brutalised language.

WNEM TV 5: According to the Saginaw News, township officials voted Monday night in favor of expanding the number of spots available for these types of commercial businesses.

Donna Miller at LifeSiteNews.com: American cities participating in this travesty are liberal strongholds and listed alphabetically: Austin, TX; Asheville, NC; Chicago, IL; Honolulu, HI; Los Angeles (Venice Beach area); Manchester, NH; Miami Beach, FL; New York City, NY; Portland, OR; San Francisco, CA; and Washington, DC. Canadian cities are: Toronto and Vancouver. Paris, not known for conservatism, was scheduled for an event but police arrested the women.

KMBC Kansas City: The complaint specifically alleges that Ratigan, while an employee of the diocese, created child porn involving the plaintiff in the case and many others. When the diocese became aware of Ratigan’s photographs, the diocese and Finn failed to report Ratigan to the police. Instead, they “aided and abetted” Ratigan over a six-month period by covering up his conduct, duplicating and distributing the images he created and collaborating to destroy evidence, the suit alleges.

ADF Attorney David Cortman at Human Events: But no matter how the ACLU plays this one, it’s indefensible for a simple reason: it does not violate the First Amendment protected rights of anyone to block sexual sites in school. And make no mistake, the sites that would be accessible if the filters were removed are rife with what can only be considered pornography.

Alexander Burns at Politico: A Google search for Santorum has generated some inappropriate results since gay columnist Dan Savage organized an online campaign to link graphic sexual terms to the socially conservative senator’s name.

The Bandera Bulletin: According to David Cortman, Senior Counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, “School districts shouldn’t be bullied into exposing students to sexually explicit materials.” Cortman says, “The ‘Don’t Filter Me Initiative’ would be better named the ‘Public School Porn Initiative.’ The ACLU is pushing its radical sexual agenda on children by intimidating school districts with a long string of scare tactics disguised as a concern over censorship. In truth, these school districts have no obligation to cave to the ACLU’s unwarranted demands. Our children come first . . . An internet article by Alan Sears (ADF President, CEO, and General Counsel) gives school districts who try to protect students from offensive materials reason to hope and stand firm . . . [more]

Hawaii News Now (includes video): Tess and Jamie Meier walked out of District Court, accompanied by their attorneys after their arraignment. Back in August, the two were protesting gender equality rights along Kalakaua avenue, by going topless. | ACLU press release

eSchool News (July/August 2011) reports.

The Expositor – Sparta Tennessee News: Sparta officials have taken the first step in regulating adult oriented businesses by passing a lengthy ordinance that covers all aspects of the operations of these establishments.