Um…sorry? After sharing with readers (and Kate White) that two of Cosmopolitan's selections for its 50 Hottest Bachelors had posed naked for online porn sites, the editor-in-chief summarily revoked their invitations to Tuesday's party in New York City, which they were going to be flown in for.
"A 15-year-old Ohio girl was arrested on felony child pornography charges for allegedly sending nude cell phone pictures of herself to classmates. Authorities are considering charging some of the students who received the photos as well." [The Register]
From the Dept. of Not Terribly Surprising (and the Dept. of NSFW), at least two of Kate White's selections for Cosmopolitan's Hottest Bachelors have posed nekkid for Internet websites. Derek Hawkes of Maine appeared (solo) on gay porn site SeanCody.com, while West Virginia's Daniel Kirk undressed for Playgirl.com.
It was Larry Flynt that put out that ad on Craigslist looking for a Sarah Palin lookalike for a porn film. But the Hustler maven might be overpaying his lead, according to some candidates already in the profession.
Flynt promised one very lucky glasses wearing girl "$2000-3000…No anal required," which, according to one porn producer, "is remarkably fair. That would spoil the person. Six hundred is about the going rate."
The smut-slinger then added, ""Look, Palin's not that extraordinary looking. With a little make up and prosthetics anyone can look like Winnie the Pooh."
Yes, you can dress anyone up for your furry porn, but Flynt is probably using his several grand as bait to see if he can actually lure Tina Fey away from 30 Rock and onto the set of Dirty Cocks.
'Social networking sites are the hottest attraction on the Internet, dethroning pornography and highlighting a major change in how people communicate, according to a web guru.' [Reuters]
We have to admit, our gaydar went off as soon as we saw Todd Palin, husband of potential Republican vice-president Sarah Palin.
Perhaps Palin's not gay, but he bears a striking resemblance to gay porn star Vinnie D'Angelo.
Porn star and producer Michael Lucas has started a fashion blog. It features the (strict?) top wearing clothes you probably don't want to use in wiping the lube off your hand, and other body parts. [Lucas Fashion]
Playgirl magazine is folding, and will continue as a web-only operation. Because porn and the Internet is the most successful marriage ever. Though, that Playgirl's Wikipedia page has not yet been updated with this information can't be a good sign for a brand hoping to, uh, exist entirely online.
Sex kitten Rachel Kramer Bussel, who writes for publications with "Pent" and "house" in their titles, tried exploiting this whole web video thing everybody is talking about to promote the erotic book Spanked that she's editing. So she uploaded a promo teaser to four video sharing sites: Vimeo, Flickr, YouTube, and Blip. In the clip, Bussel shows you just what to expect inside the pages of Spanked, namely, spankings — with books, rulers, hands, frat paddles, and even a copy of Spanked. If the book doesn't move on Nielsen BookScan's charts, at least it'll be an example in the standards policies of each of the sites. CONTINUED »
Michael Verdugo just got a taste of reality.
The Floridian police officer, who also appeared on HGTV’s Design Star, has been put on administrative leave after colleagues discovered his porny past. Verdugo and his lawyer, however, say the 1996 skin flick has nothing to do with his current career. They also claim the officer faced anti-gay harassment after coming out:
"Kiwi fans of [rugby] were recently treated to four minutes of hardcore pornography in the middle of the afternoon show, Grassroots Rugby. A spokesman for the network, Prime Television, blamed the eye-popping segment on a mix-up in the TV distribution process, and apologized for offending viewers. The skin flick was supposed to appear on a pay-per-view adult network. Not surprisingly, other New Zealand networks jumped on the mistake and reported some viewers were 'shocked and disgusted.'" [Asylum]
Verne Troyer is now a mini litigant in a a $20 million lawsuit filed yesterday afternoon against TMZ, the often stupid but rarely wrong gossip site he claims violated his rights by publishing and airing portions of his sex tape.
You know who would've benefited from seeing this pair of creative ads for Porn Blocker software? Clinton Raymond McCowen, who's on trial in Florida for distributing porn that qualifies, prosecutors are arguing, as "obscene," that nasty over-the-line definition that means whatever the hell you're doing is not protected by the First Amendment.
(This is not to be confused with a similar obscenity trial underway in Los Angeles, where pornographer Ira Isaacs is defending his human-on-animal flicks, and where the Hon. Alex Kozinski recused himself after he was found out for posting some of his own borderline-acceptable porn on what he thought was a private web server.)
McCowen is on trial for producing group sex porn, raking in an estimated $1 million per year from 5,000 subscribers who pay $30/month for their orgy fix. (Also, prosecutors say paying the "actors" amounts to prostitution.)
What constitutes obscenity hinges on the Supreme Court's 1973 decision, which puts forth a 3-part test to determine if material is obscene based on "contemporary community standards"; that is, does the community think the material is obscene? And to argue that it's not, McCowen's attorney is turning to Google — and its cache of data on your search history. CONTINUED »
Mark Ronson, retelling an innocent childhood anecdote on Britain's The Sunday Night Project:
It's a weird story, but I didn't touch him. We (Ronson and Lennon) used to watch the porn channel because we were, like, 10 and, 'Oh my God, [boobs]!' So Michael was in bed. And me and Sean said, 'Michael, do you want to see something cool?' We turned the dial to the porn channel and there were strippers shaking their [boobs] around. We were like, 'Michael, Michael, how cool is this?' We turned around and he was cringing, saying, 'Ooh, stop it, stop it, ooh, it's so silly.' We were like, 'Michael, you have to look, maybe you're not seeing it right, it's naked girls!' He was not down with the program whatsoever! I think he had really strong feminist views on porn. [Popwrap]
The good news? The flick was of the adult — as in, not child – variety.
In relaying Time magazine's report about Japan's elder porn industry, we missed this item from yesterday, also from Time, about how the new 36 iPhone is going to be a hot bed for porn. The magazine reports an uptick in Google searches for "iPhone porn," even though Apple, officially, bans adult content from its offerings. So either: Time magazine really is on the cusp of cultural trends, or they're so desperate for newsstand readers and pageviews that they've resorted to the same link bait as most blogs.
Shigeo Tokuda is not the actual name of a certain 74-year-old man who has suffered three heart attacks, has a wife and daughter, and is one of Japan's biggest porn stars. It's his stage name, and he's appeared in over 350 films, unbeknownst to his family.
Yes, Japan is a breeding grown for elder porn, a niche that, thanks to the web, has become less stigmatized, if you also consider S&M porn to have become less stigmatized.
While Americans are excellent in churning out gay twink flicks and college-aged raunch, Japan's exceeding in the old folks market, where demand for elder porn has doubled in the past decade.
The same country that's built its economy on exporting electronics, then, is also propping up its $1 billion porn market with seniors. The growing niche, it appears, can be explained in this way: CONTINUED »
When Eliot Spitzer was New York's attorney general, he went after white collar crooks and prostitutes. Now that Andrew Cuomo has taken the helm, he's made turning the Internet into a safe playground for kids a top priority. First he went after Facebook, for allowing lax privacy policies that might let kids become the real-life victims of a To Catch a Predator episode. And now he's heavy handed Internet service providers including Verizon, Sprint, and Time Warner, to block websites that are known to traffic in kiddie porn.
That the online newsgroups where child porn pics and videos are traded are so widely known, and that these ISPs could pretty easily identify customers who visited them, is one thing. The other thing is how Atty. Gen. Cuomo described his relationship with kiddie porn: "You can’t help but look at this material and not be disturbed." Well, some folks can help to look at it, but that's just us.
At R. Kelly's child porn last month, jurors were treated to a special screening of the tape that allegedly depicts the rapper urinating on a 13-year-old girl and having sex with her.
But what if that's actually the better of the "porn at jury duty" scenarios? CONTINUED »
Teens are sending naughty camera phone pics of themselves to friends and crushes! And then, magically, those photos get forwarded around and posted online, bringing shame and depression to their creators! [AP] But if Pete Wentz can do it …
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