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Phuket:
Porn director caught red-handed
A Kathu Police investigations
unit early Tuesday morning arrested an
Indonesian adult-film producer in his hotel room
after he was caught conducting a photo shoot
with one of his starlets - a Thai ladyboy. After
receiving a tip-off that a video shoot was
taking place police entered find it
had been converted into a makeshift
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Japan: How low can the pseudo pedo-porn go?
Japan's child cheesecake market is
thriving, but Spa! says the borderline kiddy porno
business is on the verge of belatedly being busted.
Scores, sometimes hundreds, flock daily to a store in
Tokyo's Akihabara district that deals exclusively in
products featuring models all aged under 15.
2-10-2007
Japan's porn clampdown
The man, a
staff member of a producer of adult videos (AVs),
relates to Weekly Playboy what befell his company August
23, when a 300-strong force from Tokyo Metropolitan
Police spread out to conduct raids on some 20 locations.
13-9-2007
Thailand: Pornography filmakers arrested
The Thai resort town Pattaya reported on
a serious case where Police Major Khunawut from
Banglamung Police station headed a Police task force in
the early hours of the morning on September 6 acting on
information that unusual activity was taking place near
the Jitapwan Temple Naklua.
13-9-2007
Shanghai show is all about sex
Sex, a
centuries-old taboo in China, created a whirlwind in
Shanghai, as an international metropolis in what is
still a largely conservative country. The fourth China
International Adult Toys and Reproductive Health
Exhibition, Asia's largest adult show, opened last week
at the Shanghai International Exhibition Center in
Changning District. 22-8-2007
Playboy Mansion opening in Macau
The
Chinese gaming resort of Macau will soon see
construction of a new Playboy Mansion, furthering
Playboy Enterprises' revival of its once booming club
arm. Macau is a 10 square-mile enclave with a population
of 500,000 that last year surpassed Las Vegas as the
highest-grossing gaming region in the world.
1-7-2007
Pakistan tops list of 'sex surfers'
Surfers in Pakistan search more for 'sex'
on Google than in any other country while those in the
Indian capital top the list of those hunting for the
three-letter word on the Internet.
1-7-2007
Iran: Pornography producers to get death penalty under new law
The culture committee of
the Iranian parliament approved on Monday a bill
sentencing to death producers of 'pornography', videos
and films deemed vulgar by the country's censorship.
12-5-2007
Israel: Consul worker moonlighted in porn
An employee at Israel's New York
consulate resigned recently after it came to light that
he had been moonlighting as a star in pornographic
films. 12-5-2007
21-year-old Chinese student arrested for operating porn web sites
Chinese police this
week said they had arrested a 21-year-old student
for running five pornographic Web sites with 210,000
registered users, amid a nationwide crackdown on online
pornography that authorities say is "perverting China's
young minds." 1-5-2007
Baidu web site with links to porn blocked
Baidu.com Inc., operator of China's
most-used Internet search engine, said its Japanese Web
site, which has links to pornography and critics of the
Chinese government, has been blocked in its home market.
21-4-2007
Japan: Ex-porn star wins 1.7 million yen for infringement of privacy by gossip
magazines
A former porn actress has won
compensation from a major publishing house after two of
its weekly magazines reported on her private life after
she retired. 21-4-2007
Malaysia movie pirates turn to porn
Malaysia's movie bootleggers are selling
more pornography to offset financial losses following a
government crackdown using two Labradors that have found
huge stashes of pirated DVDs.
21-4-2007
China announces new campaign against online porn, saying it has 'perverted'
young minds
The Chinese government is launching a
new crackdown on online pornography which it says has
"perverted China's young minds," a state news agency
said Friday. 14-4-2007
China threatens jail for cell-phone porn
Beijing police are threatening jail
and fines for people who transmit pornography via cell
phones after merchants were caught selling such movies
on phone memory chips, a report said last week.
14-4-2007
NEWS-COMMENTARY
Porn domain: Muddy waters
ICM Registry, the
company that wants to launch the .xxx internet domain
for pornography, is considering taking ICANN to court,
after the domain name system overseer rejected its
proposal. No matter what, court battles and lawsuits
seem to be the future of the .xxx domain.
6-4-2007
Korean ministry blocking porn sites
Internet pornography soon may be harder
to find for people living in South Korea. The Korean
Ministry of Information and Communication has decided to
block about 180 foreign pornography sites by the end of
May, South Korean officials confirmed.
6-4-2007
Porn industry is booming globally
Every 39 minutes a new pornographic
video is being produced in the United States. Every
second, 28,258 Internet users view pornography worldwide
and 372 Internet users are typing search keywords
looking for adult-oriented material.
16-3-2007
A not so intimate encounter with a Japanese love hotel
On the way back from
Naha one day, my friend and I noticed one of the love
motel billboards and it sparked an interesting
conversation. I always assumed love motels were for
those looking for extra-marital affairs because Japanese
men are famous for their mistresses in the city with
their wives holding the fort back home, wherever that
may be. 4-2-2007
Japanese porn director pushes the virtues of married women
Aspiring adult
moviemakers looking for the most intense sex should turn
toward married mothers.
4-2-2007
Sony refuses to help the porn industry with Blu Ray licenses
Sony declared
recently that it will not provide any help to the adult
film industry for their movies on its proprietary
Blu-ray disc format, but it will not try to stop them
completely. 23-1-2007
Indonesia's Muslims: Playboy "global icon of pornography"
The
editor-in-chief of Playboy Indonesia trial contnued this
week as he faces charges of publishing indecent
material. 16-12-2006
Japanese co-ed loses virginity on film
It seems that Friday got wind of the
upcoming December release of a new movie entitled "The
University of Tokyo Virgin Inspection: Painful Entry
through the 'Red Gate,'" from a distributor named
@JUNKIE. 9-12-2006
Pornography keeping Pakistan cinema alive
New chairman of the Pakistan Censor
Board, Ejaz Ilahi Paracha has been told by his country s
film distributors and exhibitors that screening of
pornographic films was keeping the dying cinema houses
in Pakistan alive. 21-8-2006
Thailand 'a world porn leader'
The
top official in the Ministry of Information and
Communications Technology claimed today that Thailand is
among the top 5 nations of the entire world in
pornographic websites.
16-8-2006
Anti-porn fight tests Muslim tolerance in Indonesia
A battle brewing over a draft anti-smut
law has laid bare deep divisions within Indonesia and,
say critics, threatens its traditionally tolerant
approach to Islam. 1-8-2006
Russian Deputies seek to limit sex on TV
Six United Russia deputies submitted
legislation to the State Duma on Monday that would
restrict erotic programming on television and ban
television ads for phone sex and sex-themed cell phone
messages. 5-7-2006
Porn CDs seized, Internet cafe owner held in India
In a shocking incident, the city
police found that a browsing centre operator was
allegedly videographing obscene pictures of young
college girls after giving them intoxicating substances.
28-6-2006
Japanese girls want their porn softcore
Picture the scene... A woman wearing a
floral micro miniskirt and white jacket enters a room
with her boyfriend. He gently sits her down on a chair
and approaches her from behind. He raises her arms and
wraps a blindfold around her. She seems worried as he
slides a hand into her underwear.
14-6-2006
Japan cracking down on love hotels
Romping rooms are poised to disappear
from Shibuya's renowned Love Hotel Hill as politicians
move toward cleaning up one of the favorite spots for
young Tokyoites, according to Weekly Playboy.
14-6-2006
Spring romance goes high tech with the latest condom goodies
Ah, spring! A time
for romance. And, judging from Japan's plummeting birth
rate, also the time for contraception --- the most
popular means of which is still the humble condom. It's
clear, nevertheless, that in Japan condoms owe their
long-standing popularity to ongoing technological
progress. 23-4-2006
Moving beyond the love hotel trade
They are sometimes regarded as seedy or
as eyesores, but Miro Mijatovic sees the love hotels
that dot Japan as a model for a new type of endeavor
that will give friends and families a place to entertain
themselves--at flexible rates.
20-4-2006
Hungry housewives make a bit on the side through amateur porn
Japan's literally
desperate housewives are finding the close relationship
between the Internet and adult entertainment can help
them pick up a handy profit, according to Shukan Post.
5-4-2006
Philippines: Pornography leads to addiction to sex, perversion
Citing the need for parents
and the government to guard children on the dangers of
pornography, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel
Jr. called on the youth to resist the evil attraction of
pornography. 29-3-2006
The wacky world of love hotels
Love hotels are big business in Japan.
The economy would probably collapse without them, says
love hotel industry "consultant" Vitamin Miura. Miura,
who runs the Miura Love Hotel Total Research Office,
reports that there are 37,000 love hotels in Japan and
that nearly 500 million couples visit them each year.
25-3-2006
Porn bill meets opposition in Bali
Hundreds of people on Indonesia's
resort island of Bali Friday expressed their opposition
to the pornography bill being deliberated in the House
of Representativesin Jakarta.
25-3-2006
Foreigners in China face deportation for texting porn
China's new Law on Public Security
Administrative Penalties took effect last week, creating
165 new offenses and setting maximum penalties ranging
from 200 yuan ($25 US) to 15 days detention for Chinese
citizens all the way to deportation for foreigners.
25-3-2006
China: Internet regulations to cut pornography
China's Internet media and content
providers have pledged to protect cyberspace from
pornography, gambling and other "unhealthy content"
through self-regulation and legal measures.
27-2-2006
Indonesia: Condemning pornography easier than dealing with corruption
The House of
Representatives might want to consider this saying as a
House special committee deliberates the controversial
pornography bill. 19-2-2006
War on web porn heats up in Thailand
The Information and Communication
Technology Ministry (ICT) is taking another crack at
banishing pornography from the country, this time by
using hundreds of cyber watchers and closed-circuit
television (CCTV) in post
offices. 8-2-2006
Dangers of porn in Karachi
With
Muharram approaching, the carnal desire of people in
Karachi has come under constraint as the local
cable-wallahs have stopped showing porn films. But,
those addicted to it thought that they could satiate
their appetite for blue films by watching them at a
local cinema hall. 8-2-2006
Japanese sex industry 'king' laundered huge funds
A high-school dropout who became the
"king of the sex industry" in Tokyo's Kabukicho
entertainment district laundered his enormous profits
through dummy companies and offers of hush money, police
sources said. 8-2-2006
China: Sex culture museum earns first profit
Thanks to a new location and a growing
openness to sex, the city's sex culture exhibition hall
earned a profit last year for the first time ever.
8-2-2006
Erotic bloggers strip porn stars of hard-earned living in Japan
In a stark contrast to
the '90s when payouts were bigger the closer women got
to being starkers, Noughties Japan now pays more to gals
who wear clothes, albeit not too many, where once they
would have bared their souls and more.
2-1-2006
India: 'Playboy is no fun without nude bunnies'
A toned-down Indian cousin of the
"infamous" Playboy is expected to hit stands next year.
It'll be a Playboy sans nudity. Now what would that be
like? Though according to the magazine chief in the US,
Christie Hefner, "The Indian version won't contain
nudity," to which male celebrities echo in unison - "if
it doesn't have nudity, it's not Playboy."
2-1-2006
China says winning war on Internet pornography
China is winning the war on Internet
pornography but it will be hard to eradicate entirely as
many Web sites are based outside of the country.
2-1-2006
Condoms fine, but is India ready for sex toys?
A recent survey confirms the fact that
there has been a growing awareness among Indians about
their sexual life and ways to break the monotony. The
usage of sex toys is one among them.
29-12-2005
Blues for Japan's blue film industry
Japan's Adult Video (AV) world suffered a
tragedy last week when innovative indies director
Hajime, of Hajime Planning, died suddenly.
24-12-2005
Cyber porn: Net cafe owners steer clear in India
Owners of internet cafes now have
something new to grapple with, after State home minister
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