| August 2, 2008 | -
Franz Kafka's secret porn stash was brought to light. “Animals committing fellatio and girl-on-girl action,” said researcher James Hawes. “It's quite unpleasant.”
| Source:
Times Online
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| May 2, 2008 | - A Japanese government employee was found to have viewed online pornography at work more than 780,000 times in nine months.
| Source:
BBC
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| June 21, 2007 | - The Australian government announced a ban on alcohol and pornography for Aborigines.
- The Australian government announced a ban on alcohol and pornography for Aborigines.
| Source:
Forbes
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| April 13, 2007 | - A leaked, X-rated DVD sent to parents of elementary school students in Illinois featured the principal having sex with a teacher on his desk, next to a pile of standardized tests.
| Source:
CBS2Chicago
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| April 5, 2007 | - XXXChurch.com, an online ministry, staged a “Porn and Pancakes” event for evangelicals in Morton, Illinois.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| February 7, 2007 | - Austrian federal
police uncovered a child pornography ring involving 2,360 suspects in more than 77 countries.
| Source:
BBC News
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| January 25, 2007 | - In Leisureville, a retirement community in Florida, a registered sex offender died of heart disease while looking at pornography on his computer while naked.
| Source:
Forida Sun-Sentinel
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| October 24, 2006 | - Actress Mary Carey, star of such films as Pussyman's Decadent Divas 29 and Tit Happens, dropped out of the California gubernatorial race to care for her mother, a schizophrenic, who was injured while jumping from a four-story building.
| Source:
Yahoo News and IMDB.com
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| August 23, 2006 | - A new survey concluded that half of all evangelical Christian men are addicted to pornography.
| Source:
ChristiaNet
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| August 23, 2006 | -
Chinese law enforcement officials cracked down on striptease performances at funerals in Jiangsu province, arresting five and setting up a hotline where people could report “funeral misdeeds.”
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo News
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| June 29, 2006 | - It was revealed that a Minnesota Timberwolves basketball player crashed his SUV into a parked car because he was drunk and masturbating to porn.
| Source:
wcco.com
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| June 8, 2006 | - A new Gallup poll found that Muslim women are generally happy with their lot and think that Western values lead to moral decay, pornography, and promiscuity.
| Source:
Washington Times
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| March 9, 2006 | - A sociology professor at Suffolk University, Boston, was suspended after being caught browsing Internet
porn sites while teaching a class; he was unaware that his computer was connected to a display behind him.
| Source:
7News Boston
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| February 17, 2006 | - Two Homeland Security guards in Bethesda, Maryland, were in trouble after they accused a man of using an Internet terminal in a public library to view pornography. An official said the guards had “overstepped their authority” and had subsequently been given other duties.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| December 14, 2005 | -
Police in New Windsor, New York, destroyed a snow penis.
| Source:
Record Online
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| December 2, 2005 | - An atheist student group at the University of Texas was handing out pornography to anyone who gave them a Bible as part of a “Smut for Smut” program. “We consider the Bible to be a very negative force in the history of the world,” said a student.
| Source:
XBiz [NSFW]
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| October 20, 2005 | - A Canadian named Gordon Chin was sentenced to 18 months probation for owning cartoon porn, including naked Pokemon images.
| Source:
XBiz News
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| September 28, 2005 | - The U.S. Army was looking into claims that its soldiers had traded digital pictures of burned and dismembered Iraqi and Afghani bodies in exchange for online access to amateur porn.
| Source:
BBC News
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| June 8, 2005 | -
Porn star and former California gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey attended a Republican fundraiser where George W. Bush was speaking. “I was told that they had people ready to tackle me if I tried to get up close to him,” she said. “I was getting propositioned to have threesomes with wives or mistresses. I was offered money from oil tycoons.” Carey also said that she would one day like to become president. “I'm very friendly,” she offered.
| Source 1:
Jossip.com
Source 2:
WorldNetDaily
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| May 23, 2005 | - In Britain, Ford Motor Company suspended seven workers when they were caught looking at woman-on-octopus pornography on company computers. “Management,” said an employee, “didn't see the funny side.”
| Source:
The Sun
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| May 6, 2005 | -
Turkey banned four porn channels from its satellite TV network.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 11, 2005 | -
Andrea
Dworkin died.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| April 4, 2005 | - Archaeologists in Germany uncovered a 7,200-year-old pornographic statue.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| March 29, 2005 | - The Boy Scouts' Director of Programming was arrested on child
pornography charges.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| February 2, 2005 | - Cable provider Adelphia entered the age of pornography.
| Source:
CNN Money
|
| November 19, 2004 | - Web publishers were upset with the White House for denying them the right to host a Christmastime video of Barney the dog; the White House insisted that the publishers link to the video instead of hosting it themselves. Last year's video, “Barney Reloaded,” which featured Karl Rove draped in Christmas lights, brought 24 million visitors to the White House website.
| Source:
News.com
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| September 11, 2004 | - A federal judge struck down Pennsylvania's Internet Child Pornography Act because it blocked more than one million legitimate sites in order to block 400 pornographers.
| Source: Washington Post
|
| August 24, 2004 | - A lawmaker in California threatened to require performers in pornographic films to wear condoms.
| Source: New York Times
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| June 29, 2004 | - The Supreme Court ruled that a federal law designed to shield children from Internet porn cannot be enforced, because it likely violates the First Amendment.
| Source: Associated Press
|
| May 13, 2004 | - The pornography industry lifted a moratorium on film shoots that was imposed after several actors tested positive for HIV.
| Source: Reuters
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| April 17, 2004 | - The U.S. porn industry was shut down after a performer tested positive for HIV.
| Source: New York Times
|
| August 20, 2003 | - Mary Carey, the porn actress who is running for governor in California, offered to go on a date with anyone who contributes $5,000 to her campaign.
| Source: Reuters
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| August 5, 2003 | -
Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and announced his candidacy for governor in the California recall election; other candidates include the former child-actor Gary Coleman, the pornographer Larry Flynt, a porn star named Mary Carey, and Arianna Huffington, a newspaper columnist.
“This is America,” said Carey.
“I am just as dignified as Arnold Schwarzenegger, and I can speak English.”
| Source: CNN.com
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| January 14, 2003 | -
Pete Townsend of The Who admitted that he once used his credit card to access a child pornography site “purely to see what was there” but denied being a pedophile, and claimed he was doing research for his autobiography.
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| April 23, 2002 | -
The Supreme Court overturned a ban on simulated child pornography.
| |
| July 24, 2001 | - An 18-year-old man attempted to rob a Eugene, Oregon, porn shop with his thumb and forefinger held in the shape of a gun.
| |
| June 26, 2001 | - Iain Duncan Smith, who hopes to become the leader of Britain's Conservative Party, has written a novel that includes descriptions of gay sex; according to his agent the book is “quite fruity, although not pornographic.”
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| June 26, 2001 | - Mayor Lito Atienza of Manila caught fire during a public burning of pornography and gambling machines.
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| June 19, 2001 | -
Porno magazines and a painted swastika were found behind a seat panel in the Queen of England's Jaguar automobile; a Jaguar employee resigned over the incident.
| |
| May 15, 2001 | - There were reports that President Bush's nominee to run the Securities and Exchange Commission once worked for a pornography company that owns websites peddling “Teen Sex Videos” and “Live Nude Amateurs.”
| |
| February 20, 2001 | - An admitted virgin who rarely watches R-rated movies was named Utah's new “pornography czar.” Czech officials arrested a Slovakian man who was attempting to smuggle 1,400 pairs of women's panties into the country.
| |
| December 26, 2000 | -
Congress passed the Children's
Internet Protection Act, which will require all schools and libraries that receive federal funds for Internet access to install filtering software; civil-liberties groups were concerned that this would prevent minors from accessing porn sites.
| |
| October 24, 2000 | - The Most Reverend John Ward, Archbishop of Cardiff, was being urged to resign by other British
Catholic officials for having ordained a known pedophile who subsequently abused at least two young boys. The priest, Joseph Jordan, was also accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice by hiding a computer containing child
pornography from investigators.
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| October 3, 2000 | - An Italian
television station broadcast selections from child
pornography videos after investigators, in an Internet sting operation, arrested eight Italian perverts.
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