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Or else they’re making some obscure philosophical point about how a mere reflected copy of the boob isn’t as NSFW as the ideal form of the boob.

via Yahoo! News Sucks At Censorship [NSFW] [PIC].

It’s no secret that we love ourselves an NSFW tag at Styleite. From naked — albeit decidedly artful — photos of Kate Moss to Lea T’s arresting portrait in this month’s French Vogue, there’s no shortage of nudity on our site. But that’s fashion. (And if there’s one thing the fashion industry loves, it’s nipple.) But not everyone is a fan of bared anatomy parts, like the American Family Association, for example, who yesterday accused retail giant Sears of “selling smut.”

via Sears Sexy Posters – AFA Accuses Retailer Of ‘Selling Smut’ | Styleite.

On his usual appearances alongside Megyn Kelly, John Stossel limits his libertarian leanings to debating feudalism, showing off his mustache, and taking rides on his government-funded go-cart. For better or worse, today’s conversation took a turn for the awkward, with Stossel as a passionate defender of bad Showtime pseudo-porn against big government overreach.

via Megyn Kelly | Internet Porn | John Stossel | Mediaite.

WASHINGTON (July 29) — In courtroom 18 in the sterile D.C. federal courthouse, Justice Department prosecutors earlier this month tried nailing a major producer of adult pornography on obscenity charges.

via Will Failed DC Porn Case Dampen Prosecutors’ Zeal?.

The long message below and after the jump is from film director Tony Comstock, of Comstock Films and the Intent to Arouse site. His argument is about not governmental controls but what he sees as unaccountable private controls on expression by Internet companies, above all Google. He contends that, out of concern about being seen as pornography-mongers, they end up suppressing legitimate discussion of “sexuality, especially sexual dissent,” which is his field of work.

These are judgment calls that can never be made perfectly. It’s hard to look at today’s Internet and feel that it’s short on sexually explicit material. But Comstock’s case is worth considering, because of (a) his distinction between the “standard” porno that abounds online and what he presents as expressive speech worthy of notice and protection, and especially (b) his emphasis on the power of private as opposed to governmental info-czars. He begins by contrasting the “autofill” function that plays such a role in Google — an algorithm that guesses what you’re trying to find and gives you helpful hints — and the way it handles sexually freighted topics, including his company‘s name, versus typing in a politically controversial term like “stormfront,” for which autofill provides suggestions of a white-supremacist organization you could be looking for. (Not all content below intended for children, fyi.)

via A Different Aspect of the Internet-and-Freedom Story – Science and Tech – The Atlantic.

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JEFFERSON CITY | Sen. Matt Bartle’s eight-year quest to crack down on strip clubs and adult bookstores finally succeeded Thursday night.

The Missouri Senate voted 27-4 to ban full nudity and prohibit adult businesses from selling alcohol. The clubs also would have to close between midnight and 6 a.m.

“Most human beings understand that if you mix alcohol and women dancing in the nude, that’s a tough combo,” said Bartle, a Lee’s Summit Republican. “Bad things happen.”

via Missouri lawmakers crack down on porn industry – KansasCity.com.

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(News release: CANOGA PARK, CA ) – Would you steal from Ron Jeremy?

In two newly-released public service announcement videos, adult industry
trade association Free Speech Coalition appeals to consumers to
consider performers like Jeremy, as well as thousands of creative
professionals and workers — the people who suffer from the devastating
impact that illegal downloading has on the adult industry.

“Consumers don’t realize that the adult entertainment industry employs
thousands of people who work hard at building careers, from performers
to production personnel to business professionals. From retail store
owners to workers that stock the shelves in warehouses — working in
adult is their job,” FSC Membership Director Joanne Cachapero said. “And
as in other forms of mainstream entertainment, illegal downloading and
content theft have had a terrible effect on all people that work in the
industry.”

Available on YouTube, the two PSA videos deliver a serious, but
engaging, message — if you illegally download any type of entertainment
content, you help create an environment where people that produce and
sell content cannot make a living.

The first video, “FSC All-Star Anti-Piracy PSA,” features adult industry
performers including Lisa Ann (Hustler’s “Who’s Nailin’ Paylin”),
Wicked Pictures contract stars Alektra Blue and Kaylani Lei, AVN Best Actress of the Year 2010 Kimberly Kane,
Joanna Angel (BurningAngel.com ), Nicki Hunter (Playboy Radio),
Julie Meadows, Sinnamon
Love, Penthouse Pet Charlie Laine and adult industry icon Ron
Jeremy, as well as XXX directors Will Ryder (“Not the Brady’s XXX”), Axel Braun (“Batman
XXX: A Porn Parody”) and Cousin Stevie (Showtime’s “Family Business”).

The second video spot, “FSC ‘Turn a Frown Upside-Down’ PSA” highlights
Penthouse Pet and XXX performer Charlie Laine, and sends a humorous,
visual message to consumers about the evils of content theft.

“Though adult may be viewed by some as the illegitimate cousin of
mainstream entertainment,” Cachapero added, “it’s obvious that millions
of people enjoy watching adult material. But illegal downloading is
stealing product right out from under the people that produce it, no
matter what kind of entertainment it is.”

Is it realistic to expect that free content can be eliminated from the
Internet?

“Free content will continue to exist in some form,” Cachapero said.
“But, for example — when you get a free food sample at Costco, the idea
is that if you like it, you’ll buy more of the product to take home.
Tube sites and other sources of illegal content are like guys selling
product in a back alley; they profit from other people’s hard work.”
“The adult industry wants consumers to enjoy what we create; but when
revenue goes down because that product is being stolen, people lose
their jobs,” she added. “That affects families and communities, just as
it would in another type of business. If you created a product and sold
it to make a living, but it was stolen from you and distributed
illegally — that’s just wrong.”

YouTube links to PSA videos:

1) FSC Turn A Frown Upside-Down PSA (Charlie Laine): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE7xMI6vIV

2) FSC All-Star Anti-Piracy PSA – full (retail use) version with
text over picture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xNzsTHA1nI

For more info please visit freespeechcoalition.com

About The Free Speech Coalition
The Free Speech Coalition was founded in 1991 by a group of concerned industry
professionals in response to numerous government attacks against
producers and retailers of adult products. Its roots are embedded deep
within the birth and development of adult entertainment in the United
States, and the organization has continued to grow with the industry’s
own explosive growth, now representing all segments of adult
entertainment on a national level.

The concept of an organization as a rallying point for those who believe
in the free expression of adult-themed works began as early as 1970.
The first truly national group to emerge was the Adult Film Association of America (AFAA).
At the time, adult entertainment was only available in adult theaters
and bookstores, so early members were largely theatrical exhibitors.
With the advent of inexpensive home videos, the AFAA morphed into the
Adult Film and Video Association of America (AFVAA).

The next significant event that galvanized the AFVAA was the arrest of
Hal Freeman for pandering. Prosecutors wanted to establish once and for
all that paying performers to have sex in a film was an act of
prostitution. Freeman won that legal battle, which redefined the use of
the pandering laws relative to providers of adult product. As video
productions became the dominant factor in the marketplace, theatrical
exhibition diminished. Video chains and many independent stores in
suburbs and smaller cities started carrying adult fare. Overzealous law
enforcement officials subjected more and more retailers to “obscenity”
charges. In 1990, under the first Bush administration, the Federal
government attacked most of the major manufacturers of adult
video with a sting operation designed to destroy the industry. In
response, the Free Speech Legal Defense Fund (FSLDF) was formed by
industry leaders to protect the rights of members in all areas of adult
entertainment.

In 1992, as the government attack was blunted, the FSLDF decided to
select a name more reflective of its broadened role in the adult
community and the Free Speech Coalition (FSC) was born.

Free Speech Coalition Speaker Joann Cachapperro

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Lane Bryant sure has itself a tempest in an F-cup bra. A post on the company’s blog claimed that “ABC and Fox have made the decision to define beauty for you by denying our new, groundbreaking [lingerie] commercial from airing freely on their networks.” The post went on to attribute the alleged censorship to the buxom, plus-size models in the commercial: “The networks exclaimed, ‘She has … cleavage!’ Gasp!” Meanwhile, scantily clad models “are prancing around on major networks leaving little to the imagination” in Victoria’s Secret’s latest spot.

via Lane Bryant’s curvy models censored? – Broadsheet – Salon.com.

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Want to see the best in snowfall creations? Come to New Jersey, where we don’t merely make snowmen and igloos when faced with a foot of good packing snow. Uh uh. We get down and dirty. Or artistic. Depending on your point of view.

The latest (no, not the first) is the Venus de Milo in Rahway. (Or is it Jenna Jameson without limbs?) Either way you look at it, no one can say it’s not freaking good.

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There’s nothing quite like watching a big retailer try to tamp down our bottomless appetite for high jinx. Take, for example, the comedy of errors that’s been unfolding over the past several weeks, ever since Apple decided to rein in its more hot and bothered apps. Over 3 billion apps have been downloaded on iTunes since the App store debuted in July of 2008, and, human nature being what is, a fair number of those involve boobies. But in light of increasing consumer complaints from, as Apple’s head of worldwide product marketing, Philip W. Schiller, told the New York Times recently, “women who found the content getting too degrading and objectionable, as well as parents who were upset with what their kids were able to see,” the company began quietly removing content. In just one day in February, Apple purged over 4,000 apps. Arrivederci, Sexy Hangman. Sayonara, Strip Poker. Hasta la vista, Suicide Girls. In its zeal to ban booty, Apple even briefly 86′ed a benign bathing suit shopping app called Simply Beach.

But T&A fans don’t go down without a fight. Faced with the encroaching threat of having their girlie bits taken away, consumers started descending on the App Store like it was a Piggly Wiggly right before a snowmageddon. Let the stripper-app hoarding commence! And when a relatively tame, cleavage-based app called Tubes! somehow escaped the app-ocalypse, it saw its sales leap from a measly $30 a day to a frankly hilarious $10,000 in a single week. Stick it to the man, breast lovers.

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