UK: Kids exposed to inappropriate TV, say overwhelming majority of parents

“Footballers’ call girls are the result of sexualised society”

Alabama: Librarian sues over porn in her workplace

MN: Winona County bans hotel porn for county employees

Issue before N.Y. court: When is bondage prostitution?

    Law.com: “A Manhattan judge has ordered the New York City Police Department to shine a light on the hazy legal line separating bondage, domination and sadomasochism from prostitution. In a decision last week, New York County Supreme Court Justice Carol R. Edmead directed the NYPD to provide the Urban Justice Center’s Sex Workers Project with documents regarding police investigations of several Manhattan bondage, domination and sadomasochism clubs between 2006 and 2008.”


  • Posted: 09/09/2010
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  • Source: www.law.com

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Arkansas: Jury clears sexually oriented business of charges

    KATV: “The trial of two men and their corporation accused of promoting obscene material ended in a not guilty verdict late Friday night at the St. Francis County Courthouse . . . The brothers and J&W Investments, Inc., were charged in November of 2008 with two counts of selling or promoting obscene materials after confidential informants with the sheriff’s department purchased movies from Adult World locations on Hwy. 38 near Interstate 40 at Widener.”


  • Posted: 09/09/2010
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  • Source: www.katv.com

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Lawmakers cautious to applaud removal of Craigslist “adult services”

CA State Capitol: “Thousands rally against gay marriage, abortion”

Sex for sale: Why Sweden punishes buyers

Marcia Segelstein: Sex is everywhere

Craigslist drops ads for adult services

Strip club law takes effect in Missouri

How free streaming video threatens the porn industry

    Scott Fayner writing at Technology Review: “By 2005, the BitTorrent technology gave way to something more manageable and user-friendly: streaming video . . . Suddenly, anybody who wanted to watch a clip could do so almost instantly. You clicked on a video and it played in the browser: no more waiting, no more downloading. This simple innovation has demolished the porn industry’s traditional way of doing business. Porn tube sites are now among the most visited websites in the world.”


  • Posted: 09/02/2010
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  • Source: www.technologyreview.com

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Judith Reisman: Muslim female slavery and porn in Baghdad

FCC appeals negative decency ruling

MN: Child porn defendant faces new litigation by alleged victims

Judge refuses to stop Missouri law on sexual businesses

Australian police, Facebook crack child porn ring

Concerned Women applaud FCC’s appeal of indecency ruling

Manhattan Judge James Gibbons quits after massive porn cache is found on work computer

Bikini-clad strippers protest church in rural Ohio

    AP on MyWay: “The strippers, fueled by Cheetos and nicotine, are protesting a fundamentalist Christian church whose Bible-brandishing congregants have picketed the club where they work. The dancers roll up with signs carrying messages adapted from Scripture, such as “Do unto others as you would have done unto you,” to counter church members who for four years have photographed license plates of patrons and asked them if their mothers and wives know their whereabouts.”


  • Posted: 08/27/2010
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  • Source: apnews.myway.com

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FCC appeals ruling on indecency restrictions

Law Review: Is Your Bedroom a Private Place? Fornication and Fundamental Rights

    Is Your Bedroom a Private Place? Fornication and Fundamental Rights
    Amanda Connor, 39 N.M. L. Rev. 507 (2009)

    “The thesis of this note is that the Tenth Circuit failed to apply the reasoning from Lawrence in the case of Seegmiller. Part II of this note describes the facts, procedural history, holdings and reasoning in the case of Seegmiller. Part III examines the background law surrounding Seegmiller and focuses on two points. First it recounts the historical development of the fundamental rights doctrine. Second, it juxtaposes Justice Blackmun’s call for a fundamental right to privacy in his dissent in Bowers v. Hardwick with an analysis of the Lawrence majority opinion. Part IV, the analysis section, examines whether the Supreme Court should recognize a fundamental right to privacy and argues that Seegmiller was not correctly decided based on the reasoning of Lawrence.”


  • Posted: 08/26/2010
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Not forsaken: reaching sex slaves in mid-America

    CBN News: “Today, [Kristy Childs] works to rescue other women and girls who are trapped in the commercial sex trade through her organization Veronica’s Voice. It is named for a friend of Childs who was killed on the streets.Ministries in the Kansas City area are stepping up to answer the call . . . Exodus Cry is an international anti-trafficking organization committed to ending human trafficking and modern day slavery. They are headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., and recently opened a shelter for rescued victims of human trafficking.”


  • Posted: 08/25/2010
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Former editor of Indonesian Playboy magazine faces jail

Senators push back on storing naked security images

Porn offers window into Iraq’s chaotic politics

    Findlaw (AP): “The nude women on the DVD cover in a Baghdad street stall say it all: Change, whether you like it or not, is afoot in Iraq . . . The porn, in an odd way, has told the story of Iraq’s security and political situation since Saddam Hussein’s ouster in 2003. It emerged in the anything-goes atmosphere that erupted in the vacuum immediately following the U.S. invasion – then went back into hiding amid the anarchy when armed militias roamed the capital through 2008, targeting those they saw as immoral . . . The openness with which porn is sold in some of Baghdad’s streets is almost unheard of in the Arab world.”


  • Posted: 08/23/2010
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  • Source: news.findlaw.com

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Law Review: South Carolina’s Sexual Conduct Laws After Lawrence v. Texas

    South Carolina’s Sexual Conduct Laws After Lawrence v. Texas
    Marghretta Adeline Hagood, 61 S.C. L. Rev. 799 (2010)

    “In Lawrence, the Supreme Court found that a Texas law criminalizing consensual homosexual sodomy violated the right to privacy, which is a subset of substantive due process. This Note will show how, in the wake of the Lawrence decision, South Carolina’s criminal laws proscribing private consensual adult sexual activity are unconstitutional because they intrude into a constitutionally protected zone of individual liberty.”


  • Posted: 08/23/2010
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UK: Illegal porn being sold in local corner shops

Philosopher: To defeat same-sex “marriage” conservatives must defend traditional sexual morals

Law Review: The First Amendment Implications of Sexting at Public Schools

    The First Amendment Implications of Sexting at Public Schools: A Quandary for Administrators Who Intercept Visual Love Notes
    Robert H. Wood, 18 J.L. & Pol’y 701 (2010)

    “This Article analyzes the First Amendment implications of this type of student speech and concludes that when balancing the competing interests of school discipline and the constitutional rights of minors, school administrators should accord greatest weight to students’ First Amendment rights. By doing so, school administrators will protect minors from the uncertain fates of the criminal justice system where child pornography laws often punish sexting by minors.”


  • Posted: 08/20/2010
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Meeting fails to end Ohio church-strip club feud

2 men sentenced in Ind. for online child porn ring

Authors hit out at Britain’s “pornification”

GA: Adult entertainment rules may get tougher in Gainesville

Yakima to set Sept. 7 for strip club project appeal

Will pornography rule private domains or will online gaming get its own domain as well?

Ohio strip club owner, pastor to meet over feud

Sears ignores calls to stop selling porn

NRO interview with Bill Bennet: Taking the sex out of texting

    National Review Online: “National Review Online’s Kathryn Jean Lopez talked to Bennett about this private-sector effort to help families . . . KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: Shouldn’t parents know who is texting their children, and what the communications are about? WILLIAM J. BENNETT: On the first part, absolutely. On the second, yes, in ugly or bad cases. A key thing about allowing children to text and have smartphones is for parents to have a conversation with their children first — a very serious conversation. MouseMail and other products for older children require such a conversation and enhance it.”


  • Posted: 08/12/2010
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  • Category: Marriage & Family
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  • Source: article.nationalreview.com

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Law Review: Sexting or Self-Produced Child Pornography?

    Mary Leary, Sexting or Self-Produced Child Pornography? The Dialogue Continues – Structured Prosecutorial Discretion within a Multidisciplinary Response (April 1, 2010). Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, Vol. 17, No. 3, Spring 2010; CUA Columbus School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-31. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1657007

    “This article builds on the concept that the solution does not lie in the criminal law. Rather, it seeks to refocus the debate by suggesting that part of the solution depends on the formation of a comprehensive ‘smart’ response. To accomplish this, society and its institutions (educational, social service, religious, law enforcement, legal, and civic) must come together and form a considered strategy that encourages prevention and a smart response when prevention fails. This article examines the role of prosecution, if any, in that ‘smart’ response. This article argues against the use of blunt instruments that fail to recognize the complexity of SPCP. These extremes include ‘zero tolerance’ policies, which in most cases do far more harm than good; decriminalization, which prevents a prosecutor from ever abusing his or her discretion, but also precludes juvenile court intervention even where the conduct is particularly egregious or the youth is in particular need of such; or an ad hoc approach by prosecutors which risks inconsistency, unfairness, and bias.”


  • Posted: 08/12/2010
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  • Source: ssrn.com

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MN: Duluth planning commission recommends strip club restrictions

Connecticut AG calls for Craigslist to shut adult section

Pimps force Mexican women into prostitution in US

OH: Churchgoers, strippers protest one another in Coshocton County

Canada: Town prohibits new sexually oriented businesses

Expert: U.S. AG’s new strategy to stop sexual abuse of children is flawed

Justice Department’s “new strategy” to curb sexual exploitation of children ignores adult pornography

Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images

    cnet / Privacy Inc: “The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse. This follows an earlier disclosure (PDF) by the TSA that it requires all airport body scanners it purchases to be able to store and transmit images for ‘testing, training, and evaluation purposes.’”


  • Posted: 08/04/2010
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  • Source: news.cnet.com

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Case highlights inconsistency between N.Y. statutory rape laws, federal child porn laws

Adult porn – the root of the problem

Just 29% say FCC does a good job regulating profanity, sexual content and violence

PA working to outlaw teen sexting

U.S. AG needs broader effort to stop child porn

WV: Planners deny opening for “adults only” store

DOJ report says child porn on the rise

Split en banc Eleventh Circuit rules child molester’s 17½-year sentence substantively unreasonable

WI: Grand Rapids looks to regulate sexually oriented businesses

WV: Judge denies sexually oriented businesses appeal for liquor license

Gamer sends boy porn over Xbox

Judge OKs law requiring pornographers to keep age records

Canadian man gets 11 years for sex tourism charges

Scotland: Sex offender fails to overturn pornography ban

Pornography and women

    Marcia Segelstein writing at OneNewsNow: “[W]hile most people may think of men when they picture purveyors of pornography, women are joining their ranks in droves. A big part of the problem – for both men and women – is the easy accessibility of porn. Thanks to the Internet, it’s not even necessary to leave your house. Anonymity feeds temptation. A survey conducted in 2003 by Today’s Christian Woman found that one out of every six women, including Christians, admits struggling with an addiction to pornography.”


  • Posted: 07/27/2010
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  • Source: www.onenewsnow.com

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China censors ease up on pornographic websites

If Jacob Sullum is right, then inability to precisely define “indecent” and “obscene” means anything can air during TV family hour

Kansas AG highlighting new child porn restitution law

Defense officials investigated for child porn

Law Review: Adult Domestic Trafficking and the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act

    Adult Domestic Trafficking and the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act
    Lindsay Strauss, 19 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 495 (2010)

    “Adult domestic trafficking is a serious national issue that requires attention from the federal government in order to stop the traffickers, pimps, and johns who exploit countless women each year. The federal government refuses to recognize that the domestic trafficking of American citizens is a national issue, even though state laws have proven to be ineffective and have failed to curtail this industry’s growth. Adult domestic trafficking victims are still not recognized by the legal system or by some feminist scholars as victims. These women, accordingly, do not receive the services and help they need to leave this system of abuse, and their pimps go unpunished and are free to abuse again. The most recent reauthorization of the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPA)–the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA of 2008)–represents a step in the right direction to address human trafficking. It increases the services available to child domestic trafficking victims and international victims, and it lowers the legal barriers these victims face when they seek justice against their traffickers. The TVPRA of 2008, however, is only a first step toward addressing the issue of human trafficking because adult domestic victims are largely left out of its reforms. To successfully combat the issue of human trafficking in the next reauthorization of the TVPA, the federal government must address the inherent problems faced by adult domestic victims. Without a uniform and serious federal approach to the issue of human trafficking, which includes adult domestic trafficking, human trafficking will only continue to grow and adversely affect thousands of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents.”


  • Posted: 07/23/2010
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Sex trafficking in Spain linked to prostitution ads

Some Internet porn sites in China now accessible

8th Circuit: Blanket prohibition on nude pics for sex offender stricken as probation condition

The great firewall of Australia: Political concerns

Law Review: How Google Searches Can Illuminate Miller’s “Contemporary Community Standards”

    Defending Against a Charge of Obscenity in the Internet Age: How Google Searches Can Illuminate Miller’s “Contemporary Community Standards”
    Shannon Creasy, 26 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 1029 (2010)

    “Whether Miller‘s contemporary community standards test should be completely abandoned has been the subject of much debate and falls outside the scope of this work. To date, most governmental attempts at Internet regulation have been aimed at protecting children from online pornography, which is another issue that falls outside the scope of this work. This Note will, however, explore the challenges the courts have encountered when applying the community standards test, the ways in which both parties have attempted to shed light on Miller’s requirements, and how courts can simplify this process by allowing Internet search engine data to be introduced as evidence of the community’s values. To that end, Part I traces the history of obscenity law in the United States up to the current Miller test. Part II examines the application of the Miller test, analyzing the challenges involved in defining the community and the difficulties defendants face when trying to prove the standard with various types of evidence. Finally, Part III argues in favor of more clearly identifying the relevant community and, under any definition of community, allowing Google searches (and other search engine data) to be admitted as evidence to establish the values of that community.”


  • Posted: 07/21/2010
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