WAR ON PORN WILL HEAT UP… GUARANTEED!!!!What this VP Is All About and How It Will Effect YOU! The Adult Industry

Sarah Palin: A Dominionist: As Ultra Right Wing As They Get!

IF SHE GETS IN, THE WAR ON PORN WILL HEAT UP… GUARANTEED!!!

Sorry to have to get SO political, but, “morally. as a member of the “Adult Industry” and a believer in the First Amendment and all personal rights that ar FOR NOW granted to us in the Constitution I feel VERY STRONGLY that this MUST be brought into the forefront.

Religion, especially in this country, gets a free ride, a “Get Out Of Jail Free Card” when it comes to scrutiny, Many times the “Main Stream” media will stay away from any story regarding the religion of a candidate ESPECIALLY for those running for Vice President or President.

But this is different….. this is not “RELIGION” as most people know it. This is ULTRA RIGHT WING, and very Dangerous. I laughed and oohed and aaahed with everyone about the sex scandals, But to find out that Sahah Palin is even REMOTELY involved with the DOMINIONISTS … quite frankly...read more

VIVID ENTERTAINMENT WINS "ADULT FILM STUDIO OF THE YEAR" AWARD AT STOREROTICA CONVENTION AND TRADE SHOW IN LAS VEGAS

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VIVID ENTERTAINMENT WINS "ADULT FILM STUDIO OF THE YEAR" AWARD AT STOREROTICA CONVENTION AND TRADE SHOW IN LAS VEGAS

LAS VEGAS – (September 3, 2008) – Vivid Entertainment Group was chosen as "Adult Film Studio of the Year" during the recent StorErotica Convention and Trade Show at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas from August 24-27.

Vivid is the world's leading adult film company that is best known for its elite corps of adult actresses known as the Vivid Girls. The firm has won more AVN Awards (adult entertainment's "Oscar") than any other studio in the industry, has an archive of almost 2000 movies, and is recognized as the pioneer in taking the adult industry into the mainstream.

Strippers take aim at Tories

By: John Stewart

September 5, 2008

- At a press conference outside a Mississauga strip club yesterday, adult entertainment industry leaders said they think a law that essentially bans foreign strippers should be an issue during the next federal election campaign.
It seems the unlikeliest of federal election issues, but adult entertainment industry representatives insist that the Conservative legislation should be on the public's radar as the election campaign begins.
"I am completely appalled that Diane Finley (federal immigration minister), as a woman, is not supporting women," said Sheena De Janeiro, a former dancer and now co-owner of the Airport Strip Club on Torbram Rd. in Malton. "What is she trying to say? That this is not a good opportunity for women?"
The Adult Entertainment Association of Canada, which hosted the conference outside the Treasures strip club on Atlantic Dr., denounced the new legislation, which they say is killing their business...read more

Moncton mayor calls for more control of strip clubs

September 5, 2008
The Canadian Press

MONCTON, N.B. — The City of Moncton is taking action to try to gain some control over strip clubs.
The city has passed a resolution it hopes will be backed by the Cities of New Brunswick Association that calls on the province to make legislative changes that will put more power in the hands of municipalities when it comes to exotic entertainment.
"We find that municipalities have very limited ability or authority to deal with these kinds of businesses, particularly if they are pre-existing," said Moncton Mayor George LeBlanc.
"We are asking government to give municipalities more authority and more flexibility to deal with this kind of business right through the province."
Municipalities are not allowed to ban strip clubs outright, but can create zoning bylaws to keep them out of certain areas or restrict them to particular areas....read more

The Porn Business Goes Public

September 4, 2008
Tom Johansmeyer

Is porn really growing up? There’s no shortage of talk about the mainstreaming of the skin trade, but most of it misses the mark. Instead of ogling the Vivid Video billboard on 7th Ave, check out the OTC listings instead. Adult entertainment just got a new publicly traded player, Adult Entertainment Capital, Inc., and the flesh biz just moved a step closer to legitimacy.

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Adult Entertainment Capital Takes Porn Public

September 4, 2008
DigitalJournal.com

Adult Entertainment Capital, Inc. has launched the first publicly traded and licensed investment option. Investors can put their money into all types of adult business—from gentlemen's clubs to lifestyle resorts, content and emerging technology platforms. This groundbreaking development changes the porn finance landscape.

Milton "Todd" Ault III, President and CEO of Adult Entertainment Capital, recognizes that the adult industry has suffered from a lack of strong financial investment opportunities, particularly in public capital markets. Adult Entertainment Capital, Inc. plans to meet that need by offering business development funds, financial management and full or partial buyout options to progressive adult oriented companies across all stages of the business cycle...read more

Boynton Beach strip club owner declares his business a public nuisance

By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 03, 2008


WEST PALM BEACH — Norman Goddard, owner of the Boynton Beach strip club Platinum Gold, pleaded guilty to a felony charge Wednesday in a deal which included having Goddard declare his business - situated at the gateway to the city - a public nuisance.

Prosecutors dropped the hefty original charges Goddard faced after his arrest a year ago: trafficking in oxycodone and deriving proceeds from prostitution. Goddard, 54, instead pleaded guilty to the rarely-prosecuted felony of operating a public nuisance where controlled substances are illegally kept or sold...read more

Penthouse Denies Every Claim in Broadstream Adult FriendFinder Suit

Penthouse Denies Every Claim in Broadstream Adult FriendFinder Suit

The plaintiff in Broadstream Capital Partners vs. Penthouse Media Group recently filed an amended complaint in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, and the defendant has replied with a 22-page response filed Aug. 4 that essentially denies every claim made by the plaintiff.

Free Speech Coalition Releases 1st Annual Report

Free Speech Coalition Releases 1st Annual Report

The report has been distributed to FSC members and will be available for public view on the FSC website on Wednesday.

Veoh Porn Case Judge Rules in Favor of Tube Sites

Veoh Porn Case Judge Rules in Favor of Tube Sites

In a decision that will affect every video-sharing site on the Internet, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that just because a tube site encodes videos doesn't mean they control those videos.

Adult Patent Law Case Settled Out of Court

Adult Patent Law Case Settled Out of Court

A patent law court case that ensnared a prominent adult industry figure has come to a quiet close.

Saved by a loophole

August 22, 2008

Our view: Howard County porn shop is legal, but it's still a blight
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani was hailed as The Man after he cleaned up New York's Times Square by chasing out the seedy adult bookstores and X-rated theaters that blighted the area.

But even Rudy might have been stumped by the Pack Shack, a Howard County smut shop that authorities have been trying to get rid of for years, and that keeps popping back like a Whack-a-Mole.

The Pack Shack has thwarted every effort to shut it down. No one even knows who owns it. It's been to business development along Route 40 near Ellicott City what crab grass is to a golf green.

The latest assault on this embarrassment involved pelting it with zoning ordinances that define adult stores as devoting at least 20 percent of their space and 20 percent of their stock to sexual materials. The Pack Shack was chock-a-block with the stuff, so the zoning gambit seemed like an easy win for the county.

But the store's owners, whoever they are, struck back by finding a loophole wide enough to drive a truckload of porn through. They filled every spare inch of the building's basement and entrance with inoffensive used paperback books, T-shirts and the like. The smut's still there, brazen as ever, but it's swamped by the sheer volume of other junk, allowing the store to evade the 20 percent rule on a narrow technicality.

Let no one mistake this outcome as a blow against censorship, as the attorney representing Pack Shack had the gall to suggest Wednesday. It's the unrepentant gloating of a vile commerce that degrades women and poisons the minds of everyone exposed to it. And it's all perfectly legal.

Adult book store raids net drug, lewdness, prostitution busts

August 22, 2008
By Jeff McShan / 11 News

HOUSTON -- For months, the Houston Police Department’s vice squad has been raiding adult bookstores and arcades across the city. The raids, including the latest at the Houston 420-Talk of the Town on Thursday night, netted plenty of arrests of those patronizing the stores.

What are the police finding inside these places? It’s a lot more than adult videos and magazines.

Often, the arrests are for illegal drugs. But more often the busts are for public lewdness, indecent exposure and prostitution.

And that’s just the customers.

At every bust so far, detectives have found the owners of the sexually-oriented bookstores are operating illegally because they don’t have the proper city license.

That’s the main reason police are conducting the raids.

Thursday night’s raid uncovered that Talk of the Town has not only not complied with the city’s sexually-oriented business ordinance; it hasn’t even applied for the proper license.

Since April, the HPD vice squad visited eight adult bookstores and arcades.

It’s not easy catching the illegal activity during these raids, though.

At one raid location, the clerk at the store’s cash register was able to push a button to change all the pornographic movies that were showing in the back into a live feed of the security cameras outside the store.

Luckily, vice officers were already staking out the place and knew what was going on inside.

Police Investigate Porn Shop Robberies

8/20/2008
11 ALIVE

ATLANTA -- The Fulton County Police Department is looking for a man they suspect may be responsible for as many as three robberies of adult video stores.

On August 10, a man entered the Starship store on Old National Highway. After browsing around the store, the man approached the counter where he appeared to be paying for several DVDs. Police say the man raised his shirt to reveal a gun tucked in his waistband and demanded money from the cashier. The man was not able to get any money, but did getaway with several stolen DVDs.

Thirty minutes later, the same man showed up at the Starship store on Fulton Industrial Boulevard and robbed that store in a similar fashion, police said. In that robbery, the man got away with cash and DVDs.

In both robberies the suspect is wearing the same clothes and follows a similar patter, police said. He was seen driving away from the robberies in a tan, older model Ford van.

Police believe the man may also be responsible for a robbery of the Love Shack on Fulton Industrial Boulevard in June.

Nobody was injured during the robberies.

Cities study need for adult entertainment laws

July 20, 2008
By DEB NICKLAY,
deb.nicklay@globegazette.com

MASON CITY — Several North Iowa cities have moved to regulate sexually oriented businesses over the past year — most for no reason other than “to be prepared,” said Alan Kemp, executive director of the Iowa League of Cities.

“Many cities have realized that by the time they have a business that wants to open, it’s almost too late” to place regulatory safeguards, said Kemp.

Kemp said he has not seen any appreciable increase in adult entertainment businesses in the state — from strip clubs to adult bookstores. Cities, he added, are cautious when it comes to such establishments.

“If there is a particular situation in one community, or even the rumor of a business coming, that might trigger a city looking at creating an ordinance,” he said.

The Hampton and Garner City Councils have moved to adopt ordinances in recent months; Clear Lake adopted its ordinance less than a year ago, said City Administrator Scott Flory.

Clear Lake officials have already seen their new law tested. In June, a bar owner opted to have a wet T-shirt contest. City officials said it was in violation of its ordinance and that Alan Slater, owner of The Marina, was operating without a license, required by the ordinance....read more

Judge Strikes Down L.A. Ordinance in Landmark Adult Retail Case

Judge Strikes Down L.A. Ordinance in Landmark Adult Retail Case

Trial court sides with Alameda Books on 1st Amendment

By: Mark Kernes

Posted: 07/18/2008

LOS ANGELES - It's been just over six years since the U.S. Supreme Court decided City of Los Angeles v. Alameda Books, the ground-breaking case that established an adult retailer's right to challenge alleged adverse secondary effects evidence in court. But the opinion in that case included a remand to the trial court to reconsider its previous summary judgment in light of the high court's ruling, and now, it has.

"What the judge said, as I read it," said First Amendment attorney Clyde DeWitt, for plaintiffs Alameda Books and Beverly Books, "is, remember that this was a motion for summary judgment, except now, the Supreme Court has said that for the ordinance to stand requires evidence; it's not just on the face of the ordinance and the studies underlying the ordinance when they first passed it."...read more

New Contraceptives in the United States 2008 Report

Last update: 11:00 a.m. EDT July 18, 2008

DUBLIN, Ireland, Jul 18, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/2ba8b2contraceptives_in) has announced the addition of the "Contraceptives in the United States 2008" report to their offering.

About this report

The U.S. market for OTC contraceptives is in great demand, thanks to growing populations of young consumers who are the most likely to use contraceptives, but also due to an increased emphasis on pleasure, with personal lubrication and sexual enhancement products showing rapid growth. Mintel explores the current climate in the U.S. with in-depth analysis of the following:

-- How manufacturer emphasis on sensitivity and pleasure has fueled sales, and how merchandising of sexual aids in mainstream drug chains has helped fuel sales of condoms

-- The competitive context provided by advertising for oral prescription contraceptives and the use of OTC Plan B

-- How ambivalence toward pregnancy and decreased fear of STDs are negatively impacting sales

-- The dominance of drug stores in the market

-- Analysis of branding and advertisement from leading suppliers, including conventional outlets, promotions, and online positioning

-- Which condom lines are gaining and which are failing

-- Condom usage in the GBLT community and opportunities for advancing sales in this high-use demographic

-- New product development

There are 91 countries covered in this report.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/2ba8b2/contraceptives_in

AT ODDS WITH COUNTY: Adult club fights for its license

By David Kihara
ReviewJournal.com

It's not hard to see why the Libertine club in Las Vegas has been raising some eyebrows since it opened in February. It's an adult club that boasts, among other things, a bondage studio, various fetish nights and a boutique that sells toys hard to describe in detail in a mainstream newspaper.

The club's owner, Edward Hurt, said the club attracts hundreds of people who are interested in "alternative lifestyles." Hurt said he offers customers a safe haven where they can freely express their sexuality....read more

New Sex Toy Review Blog Launches

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The Medium

July 6, 2008
The New YorkTimes
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN

In 1996, as Hollywood was lionizing the pornographer Larry Flynt as the author of the real sexual revolution, the Internet was trying to decide what to do about porn.

It was not an either-or question. After all, data could instantly be conveyed at low cost across vast distances, from traceless studios to private lairs. Pornography was bound to ride this network. Observers accepted it as axiomatic: technology and pornography — from the printing press, to photography, magazines, film and videotape — always evolve in tandem. “Sometimes the erotic has been a force driving technological innovation,” John Tierney wrote in The Times in 1994. “Virtually always, from Stone Age sculpture to computer bulletin boards, it has been one of the first uses for a new medium.”...read more