There’s a new book out now called “The Porning of America,” which argues that “porn culture” has become so pervasive in everyday life that it is inescapable. Even five-year olds can’t walk into a toy store without being confronted by it and in the words of the author, this means
Just when our heads are about to explode in the not-sexy way with Palin porn overload, there’s something comforting and even sane about Susie Bright’s take on why looking closely at Palin and sex actually matters. Oh, and we got a good giggle out of Bright’s reporting on the current
Trend story alert! Thanks to Bill Tancer’s new book “Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and Why It Matters,” news outlets everywhere have taken a break from talking about how pornography innovates and drives the internet and are now talking about how it’s being brutally smashed by social
A prominent member of Britain’s Conservative Party gave a speech earlier today lambasting lad mags for their evil assault on the culture, essentially blaming them for creating a nation of irresponsible deadbeat dads who objectify women and never call their mum. Pretty harsh stuff–but does that make us bad people
Apparently even porn-hating conservative types have to admit that the Child Online Protection Act is pretty stupid: after all, it’s never been enforced, it’s never going to be enforced, and it’s clearly unconstitutional. So maybe we should stop wasting everyone’s time by arguing about it and (gasp!) police ourselves? That’s
Since you were probably too busy last week driving across various state lines to procure semi-legal fireworks, you might have missed the rest of John Stagliano‘s debate with First Amendment scholar Barry McDonald. (Spoiler alert: They don’t agree!) It’s interesting and informative, but there’s not enough vicious name calling and
“Should there be an obscenity law that outlaws a product that is made with informed adult consent with no laws being broken, and that is increasingly distributed and consumed in complete privacy?” You can probably guess what our answer is to that question, but apparently some folks still think this
We’ve already gone into a fair amount of detail about why that promised iPhone 3G porn revolution certain big media outlets seem so obsessed with lately is just a load of hooey–but it never hurts to have a second opinion about these things. Even if we still seem to be
Some of you may recall that old lawsuit involving the game “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” and the “Hot Coffee” mod that allowed characters in it to have graphic sex. That’s disgusting, of course, so some lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit and forced a settlement that would allow any of
A group of bloggers and their commenters who normally write about things like capital gains taxes and the legal ramifications of wiretapping are in a bit of slap fight over a recent column by FoxNews.com “sexpert” Yvonne Fulbright. The column was about the warning signs of porn addiction (Sign #1:
As you may be aware, Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that is written and edited by nerds who do all the work for free in an attempt to gather all human knowledge into one comprehensive database. But according to the conservative bulldog World Net Daily, it is also a
According to some of the leading financial minds in the country, our current economic state is–what’s the technical term? Oh yeah … “not good.” Consumer confidence is down, debt is up, and China is slowly poisoning us with lead toys that you can get for a $1.50 at Wal-Mart even
We missed Diane Sawyer’s expose/Spitzermania cash-in “Prostitution in America” on 20/20, but apparently some people didn’t feel it was an even-handed and informative report—specifically, people who have actually been sex workers. You mean a TV news program broadcast something that might have been somewhat biased or misleading? Shocking! (abcnews.go.com +
While the world waits to see whether he’ll resign or not, media commentators, politicians, and even prostitutes are all theorizing, debating, and psychoanalyzing New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. The (formerly) rising political star with presidential ambitions has been identified as the target of a federal prostitution investigation that may leave
Maybe it’s a sign that we’re too dirty minded for our own good, but an article titled “Valentine’s Day and Porn” that opens with lines like “Valentine’s Day is about porn” and “I want everyone to vow: This year, I will have sex only with someone I love” comes off
Was Abby Winters’ white cotton invasion of the AVN Expo a telling sign that “real” porn content is overtaking the more polished (and expensive) brand we’re used to? Or does everyone just dig chicks with foreign accents? (wired.com)
So if everybody buys porn that means everybody likes porn, and if everybody likes porn … how come you can never find anyone that will admit to it? That $374 gajillion-per-year of revenue doesn’t grow on trees you know. (brockpress.com)
Worrywarts are up in arms over Mass Effect, the video game they say is filled with sex and alien nudity. Except it isn’t. But why let something like the actual content of game get in the way of a good TV argument. Oh, and if you can scare folks with
(See update below.) Fans of the Digg phenomenon know how valuable it is for any site to get a link featured on the social bookmarking behemoth. That’s why our fellow Gawker Media siblings are constantly sending out emails asking us to check out their Digged stories … emails that we
