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'Long Island Lolita' Does Another Porno

This time, Amy Fisher stars in an adult pay-per-view special

(Newser) - A porn movie featuring “Long Island Lolita” Amy Fisher is making the rounds again—but this time it’s her idea, the New York Daily News reports. Fisher, 34, fought the release of a sex tape leaked by her husband before relenting last year. Fisher, whose real claim to...

Porn Sucks Kissing Out of Intimacy
 Porn Sucks Kissing 
 Out of Intimacy 
OPINION
Jan 15, 2009 1:28 PM CST

Porn Sucks Kissing Out of Intimacy

Smut appears to be kiss of death for old-school practice

(Newser) - Pornography is changing our most intimate practices, Susan Walsh observes for Salon—and looks to have been the kiss of death for, well, kissing. “When I was growing up in the ‘70s, making out was an essential precursor to even the most casual sex,” she writes. Now,...

Dow and Dirty: Investor Pushes Porn Hedge Fund

AdultVest, claiming 50% growth, sinks money into porn for iPod, among other things

(Newser) - Looking for a conservative investment? Forget bonds and go for bondage—or, at least, that’s the pitch for AdultVest, a hedge fund its CEO tells the Atlantic is an adult-entertainment industry first. The spiel: AdultVest is up 50% in the past year (based on “very conservative” appraisals), and...

Porn Kings Want Federal Bailout

$5B sought to 'rejuvenate sexual appetite'

(Newser) - Recession depression has hampered America's sex drive, claim Larry Flynt (of Hustler fame) and Joe Francis (Girls Gone Wild). The adult-entertainment kings want a federal bailout for slumping DVD sales, down 22% in the past year. Placing themselves alongside Detroit’s automakers in national importance, the duo says Congress should...

Bad Porn Spurs Flynt V. Flynt
Bad Porn Spurs Flynt V. Flynt
Jan 7, 2009 2:50 AM CST

Bad Porn Spurs Flynt V. Flynt

Hustler mogul sues to block nephews' use of his name on 'knock-off' smut

(Newser) - Larry Flynt is taking his nephews to court to stop them from slapping the Flynt name on what he considers to be low-quality porn, reports the Los Angeles Times. The porn mogul accuses his kin of tarnishing his famous name with "inferior products" and "knock-off goods,"...

Hef's a Big (Movie) Lover
 Hef's a Big (Movie) Lover 
Interview
Jan 3, 2009 12:26 PM CST

Hef's a Big (Movie) Lover

A Playboy considers posterity

(Newser) - The bathrobed Casanova whose empire helped steam up the small screen is turning to the big, silver one as he considers his legacy, the Los Angeles Times reports. “Everything I learned about love, I learned from the movies," says Hugh Hefner, whose biopic is nearing production. "The...

Met Unveils X-Rated Renaissance

New exhibition includes 16th-century porn alongside masterpieces

(Newser) - Art and Love in Renaissance Italy, a new exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, comes with a warning to spectators: parental discretion advised. Mixed in with decorous portraits of noblemen are 16th-century pornographic images, dirty books, and other obscene artifacts. For Wall Street Journal critic James Gardner,...

70-Nation Kiddie Porn Ring Busted
70-Nation Kiddie Porn
Ring Busted
Dec 11, 2008 4:42 AM CST

70-Nation Kiddie Porn Ring Busted

Abusers targeted victims as young as 12 months old

(Newser) - Australian authorities have busted 19 men, including a retired cop, in a 70-nation kiddie porn ring that distributed at least 500,000  images and 15,000 videos of youngsters, reports the BBC. Some of the abuse victims were as young as 12 months old and some children were abused for...

Christie Hefner to Leave Playboy

Founder's daughter moving to non-profit ventures

(Newser) - Christie Hefner is stepping down as CEO of Playboy after 20 years at the helm of her father Hugh’s operation, she tells the Chicago Tribune. The company’s stock is down, and it has shuttered key divisions, but Hefner, 56, said her resignation was a personal choice. She intends...

Fritzl 'Forced Daughter to Reenact Porn'

Charges against incest dad detail how he broke daughter's will

(Newser) - The charges against Josef Fritzl reveal fresh details of the ordeal he put his imprisoned daughter through, including forcing her to watch pornographic films and reenact scenes with him, the Daily Telegraph reports. Fritzl also beat and kicked his daughter, Elisabeth, whom he imprisoned for 24 years in a cellar,...

China to Declare 'Internet Addicts' Sick

Fervent web surfers face electro-shock treatments

(Newser) - China is about to become the first nation in the world to officially declare "internet addiction" a clinical disorder, reports the Guardian. Citizens hooked on the web may face treatment that includes military-style discipline, hypnosis, electro-shock therapy and drugs, reports the Guardian. The totalitarian Chinese authorities have repeatedly attempted...

Porn Stars Elbow Their Way Onto Big Screen

Adult films, sex tapes make culture more receptive to adult-film actors

(Newser) - Hollywood has some new crossover acts you couldn’t take home to mama, the Los Angeles Times reports. Porn stars are suddenly making it mainstream after years relegated to the cultural sidelines. Hardcore veteran Sasha Grey, for example, will headline Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming film The Girlfriend Experience, while Traci...

Director Smith: Friendship, not Sex, Is the Heart of Porno

Zack and Miri is a look at friendship, not sex, director says

(Newser) - Zack and Miri do indeed make a porno in Zack and Miri Make a Porno but the movie is about a lot more than just sex, director Kevin Smith tells Reuters. The story about a pair of cash-strapped pals entering the adult film biz is about love and friendship, Smith...

Shopping in the Online Meat Market

Adult FriendFinder, with seemingly 30:1 male-female ration, poor choice for women

(Newser) - Adult FriendFinder may have 30 million users, but that doesn't mean it's easy to find partners for sex, love, or anything else with a few clicks. The site claims to have an even split of men and women, but from posts and chat rooms, it looks more like 30:1....

Rock Opera Humanizes 'Deep Throat'

Bumpy life of Deep Throat star hits LA stage

(Newser) - Slut or victim? Porn star or feminist? A Los Angeles stage production tackles the contradictions of Linda Boreman—better known as Linda Lovelace, of 1970s hit Deep Throat, the Los Angeles Times reports. The creators of Lovelace: The Rock Opera “wanted to know Linda as a person, beyond the...

Teens Clueless About Risks of DIY Porn

Young people seek instant fame through sending sexual images of themselves

(Newser) - Young people like the Ohio teen facing child porn charges for sending nude photos of herself to classmates are often clueless as to the consequences of their actions, experts tell ABC News. Heavily influenced by a culture in which porn is readily available and increasingly acceptable, some teens seek a...

Paris Festival Unveils 'Feminist' Pornos

Intellectuals welcome back erotica

(Newser) - A group of French intellectuals is staging Paris’ first pornographic film festival in an attempt to integrate hardcore erotica into mainstream cinema, the Guardian reports. Many argue the "feminism-friendly" videos are revolutionary, despite names like Strap-on Motel and Post-Apocalyptic Cowgirls. "For women it can be a sort of...

Ex Blames Brinkley for Affair
 Ex Blames Brinkley for Affair 
Oct 8, 2008 3:03 PM CDT

Ex Blames Brinkley for Affair

Lack of emotional connection prompted cheating, Cook tells Walters

(Newser) - Christie Brinkley’s adulterous ex-husband said that he cheated on the former supermodel because she did not offer the emotional connection he needed, ABC News reports. In an interview to be broadcast Friday, Peter Cook told Barbara Walters that by 2005 he and Brinkley felt “more like we were...

Producer: Flynt Overpaid for 'Palin' Porn Pic

Hustler chief offered as much as five times going rate

(Newser) - An adult-entertainment producer says smut magnate Larry Flynt overpaid the Sarah Palin lookalike hired to star in an upcoming porn release, Lisa Derrick notes on Firedoglake. Flynt’s help wanted ad offered $2,000 to $3,000, with no expectation of more off-color sex acts, which producer Bill Margold called...

Flynt Flogs Quickie Porno Starring Palin Lookalike

Will release X-rated movie featuring Palin look alike

(Newser) - Tapping in to Sarah Palin mania, Hustler founder Larry Flynt is making an X-rated movie using an actress who resembles the VP nominee, the Daily News reports. Days after the Republican convention, Flynt's producers advertised a $3,000 gig on Craigslist "looking for a Sarah Palin look-alike for an...

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