The Gothamist Apparently bereft over the season end of Downton Abbey, American women have set their sights on an erotic British novel, Fifty Shades of Grey, about a naive college student’s seduction by a billionaire businessman and its accompanying graphic depictions of BDSM: “Uncoiling from the floor, rising lazily, like …
Reason.com It looks like U.S. District Judge Geoge H. King, who presided over the Ira Isaacs obscenity case in Los Angeles, may have been right to worry about jury nullification. “After less than three hours of deliberation” on Monday, AVN correspondent Mark Kernes reports, “one juror reportedly sent a note to Judge …
NY Daily News A former sex slave turned the tables on her tormentor in a Brooklyn court Monday, delivering a verbal lashing before a judge sentenced him to eight years in prison. “I walk around and carry the physical scars of the torture you put me through. The cigarette burns, …
Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The case of an adult film producer charged with violating federal obscenity laws by selling movies depicting bestiality and extreme fetishes ended in a mistrial Tuesday. Jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict against Ira Isaacs, voting 10-2 in favor of a conviction …
TechDirt We have become quite accustomed to Paypal arbitrarily deciding to shut down the payment services for a website with no warning and little recourse. Usually when it does so, it acts through its own volition. However, Paypal also has to deal with the whims of the credit card companies …
NCSF Press Release Everyone is talking about the run-away success of the novel Fifty Shades of Gray by E. L. James, the first book in a BDSM romance trilogy. On March 1st, 2012, the novel hit #1 on the Amazon ebook bestseller list in the genre, romance and erotica categories. …
Huffington Post By now you’ve heard of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy. You know, it’s the trio of erotic books by E.L. James that has swept into suburbia and cities across the globe, and adored by many (not just suburban moms). I am a fan. In the spirit of …
Westword ?A group of Denver kinksters staged a protest at the KinkForAllDenver conference last weekend. The demonstration was planned and executed amid accusations — prior to the event — that two KinkForAllDenver organizers censored presentations to discourage too much BDSM content and actively sought to exclude local kinksters. The event, …
Politico The Justice Department has dropped its effort to force a a writer for the online magazine Salon to testify at the obscenity trial beginning this week for a California-based pornographer, the writer said Tuesday. Salon writer Tracy Clark-Flory said in a story posted Tuesday that she was subpoenaed by …
A new book about sex games and a bondage-loving billionaire has NYC moms reading like never before The NY Post It wasn’t until this winter that the series cemented its Manhattan fan base. “We started to see activity in early January,” says Patricia Bostelman, vice president of marketing at Barnes …