After all the attention it got, I took the post I did on the newest Sex.com development (shooting of Mexican lawyer “The Toad”) and dug into the whole story, simply excited to get a chance to tell it featuring the bizarre details that I think make the saga so freakily fascinating. I was also thrilled…

* It’s really easy to get lulled into thinking the 2257 harassment and shakedowns of pornographers is over since it’s not in the news these days — not so. Even though porn is not illegal in the US and 2257 is For the Children, the laundry list of legitimate businesses on the receiving end of…

Sex.com isn’t the only bizarre porny business story on my radar; Joe Francis, the founder and director of the Girls Gone Wild video series is looking like another Hiassen character on the loose; he’s robbed at gunpoint and forced to perform in a bend-over-boyfriend extortion video, has been arrested on charges of racketeering and drugs,…

In a twist worthy of a James Ellroy novel, con man Stephen Cohen — who forged a letter convincing Network Solutions to give him possession of the URL sex.com (via VeriSign) and whose whereabouts are still unknown — can now add “gangland murder attempt” to the new chapter in his real-life, sex.com neo-noir crime drama.…

I’ve been watching the Google News headlines evolve over the past week about the gay porn star who murdered a wealthy Denver ‘benefactor’ in cold blood, but what I’m reading about the “Playgirl killer” murder case at Gay Porn Blog is equally chilling and fascinating. I knew, like many, that “Marcus Allen” was gay-for-pay, but…

* This story is fun for oh so many reasons, and not just because I already have *two* work uniforms if I needed a job in Arizona: Erotic eatery’s nurse uniforms criticized. Snip: “The Heart Attack Grill features flirtatious waitresses serving food in the skimpy uniforms, the Baltimore Sun reported. But the head of the…

I’ve been re-reading versions of this story all day long, I’m so fascinated by it, about people who can taste words. Synesthesia has always been dreamily romantic to me, but this form of it, “lexical-gustatory” synesthesia, seems particularly ripe for erotic fantasy (especially for a writer like me). Plus it’s perfect reading for food holiday…

* Aids pandemic gains renewed strength — “The spread of the HIV/Aids pandemic continues unabated, with the number of people infected rising once more in some countries which had been thought to be beating the disease, according to the UN.” (Guardian Unlimited) * Turning point for HIV infection rate in Africa — “Encouraging News On…

* Comic website Comic Book Resources has a scathing slap of a review for How to Make Money Like A Porn Star, the weird marketing spinoff graphic novel from ghostwriter #2 co-writer of Jenna Jameson’s How to Make Love Like a Porn Star and master chick picker upper Neil Strauss (with artist Bernard Chang). The…

This item caught my eye tonight in our Wet Spots over at Fleshbot, Feds’ Expert: 1 Percent of Web Is Porn. One is such a lonely number. I’m even more intrigued with the other numbers in the article, and what they mean for the US government’s approach on safeguarding against minors’ access to adult content,…