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Republicans almost want you to have cheaper Internet porn
California's Republicans are deliberating whether or not to tax your porn downloads. State Assemblyman Charles Calderon (D.-City of Industry) first proposed a tax on all online porn, estimated to bring in $500 million to offset Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget cuts, and now wants to levy a 25 percent tax on any adult businesses operating in California, and on consumer's purchases of porn, too. It's fiendishly clever. More »
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How Craigslist keeps you from getting syphilis
Should hookup sites come with warning labels? San Francisco and New York State public health officials have been monitoring a rise in syphilis. Their research teams believe it's connected with the popularity of social networking sites — by which they seem to mean anything with a profile page — where users can arrange casual sex. So do AOL and Craigslist bear any blame for spreading totally preventable infections? SF's Director of STD Prevention and Control, Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, says Craigslist is actually part of the solution. More »
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Congressman gets in on Second Life's "rape rooms"
Taking a page from Nebraska's Internet cops, U.S. Representative Mark Kirk (R.-Ill.) has created a fake teen of his own in order to protect real ones. While promoting a bill to restrict access to social networking sites in public schools and libraries, Kirk and Illinois law enforcement detailed the solicitations received by the imaginary 15-year-old female they played in Second Life — to enter "rape rooms," among others. Acknowledging that there were no known cases of sexual assault on underage users at Second Life, Rep. Kirk still called the site an "emerging danger." Now with the addition of his fictional sex-seeking teenage avatar, of course. (Photo by Daily Herald)
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Flyover-country cops want Yahoo to pay them to police its Internet "crack house"
There's money to be made in combating the sexual exploitation of children online, if not in the actual exploitation itself. Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning believes internet companies, not taxpayers, ought to be funding the fight. Bruning (pictured here with "Miss Heartland" Rachel Seidel) addressed the Nebraska Crime Commission this week, telling tales of how he created a fake teenage girl to solicit men on webcams to whip it out for an audience they never anticipated — state cops and senators. Says Bruning, "We had state senators about throwing up in their breakfasts, but we wanted to make a point and I think we did." But who will be picking up the check for his educational services? He wants Yahoo, among others, to do so: More »
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Craigslist CEO admits site used for date "transactions"
At last, some straight talk from Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster on his site's role in the "erotic services" business:Unlike the typical Internet site, just about every function on Craigslist, if you're successful in your transaction, is going to involve you meeting the other person in person; whether it's for a job interview, or to look at an apartment, or to buy a used sofa or to go out on a date.[Marketplace]
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Not even the French can ban access to Max Mosley's Nazi-inspired sex video
Max Mosley, head of Formula One motor racing, son of Nazi sympathizers, and now the unwitting star of a "sadomasochistic sex orgy" tape, has been denied his request to the French court to block access to the online video sites still showing it. Claiming that his right to privacy has been violated, but denying any fascist leanings played out by him and the five prostitutes hired to act out a light concentration-camp sex game, Mosley's lawyers wanted British tabloid News of the World, which released the tape, blocked from France — what for, as punishment? It's not like there aren't already all those other sites still offering the clip of Mosley in prison stripes being bossed around a beige-carpeted "dungeon."
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Twittering Valley escort tells all in 140 characters or less
Proving that shamelessly self-promotional behavior on Twitter isn't confined to the social media blowhardery, "international escort" and "teck geek" Fille deLoyer claims that though she uses the service to showcase her blog, she's not interested in having anyone from the Valley as a client. With no way to hire her via any of her online profiles, it almost makes sense — but who else could keep up with her constant updates?
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Amazon.com can't tell who's getting off on the Kindle
For the makers of e-book readers, the raincoater audience — the straightish men who frequent adult bookstores for the promise of a little action in the back — are an unlikely market. They're not even there to read, for starters. But for literate smut fans, who have been choosing Amazon.com from the first day they made erotic books available in discreet, brown-wrapped boxes? If they're turning to the Kindle to deliver their porn, Amazon's not telling. Not entirely. We've got numbers on how well the same books sell in print, but not for their Kindle counterparts. Better figures might be possible if everyone's who's spindled their Kindle dropped Amazon a line.
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Valley matchmaker charges high price for dates
Linx Dating, a Bay Area matchmaking service, isn't pimping anyone per se. They claim to connect San Francisco women with Silicon Valley guys. Why is this legal but being a madam of an outcall service isn't? Your explanations welcome in the comments. The pitch, below: More »
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Securing your escort to Web 2.0 Expo
Why don't they just call it Web 2.0 Hoi Polloi? The conference for the rest of us, Web 2.0 Expo, opens today at Moscone West. While its swankier cousin, the Web 2.0 Summit, takes place at the whore-friendly Palace Hotel in November, the Expo still gives license to more than enough guys to splurge on a temporary girlfriend at their paid-by-work hotel room. Quick-thinking procrastinators can still find some sweet lady to keep them warm this week. iPhone-length assistance below: More »
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Are any of the working girls on MySpace real? Yes, and here's how to hire them
Not content to pin the blame for Internet prostitution on usual suspect Craigslist, Kenneth Franzblau — New York State's director of Human Trafficking Prevention — cites MySpace as a hotspot of criminal sexual activity. Franzblau is an Eliot Spitzer appointee. You'd think maybe, prior to the former governor's departure in a prostitution scandal, he'd have briefed Franzblau on how to actually find hookers on the much-blinged social network. Could someone forward him a link to the following helpful tips? More »
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How software can save you from getting caught trolling for escorts
Searching for a working girl online? Common sense tells you to hide your trail. You could use someone else's computer — maybe not your tenant's, as one landlord tried to get away with — or you could take a few simple measures to minimize your trail and its impact. In the comments, hacker pervs will likely weigh in with technically impeccable suggestions, but I expect these aren't only easier, they'll help you get an appointment faster. More »
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Hookers to techies: "ur doin it rong"
Sex professionals, like every other contractor in the Valley, can and will turn down your propositions. I just did that to a married guy from Apple who thought he'd earned a freebie. At $250 a date, most women don't need to accept all takers. How do the n00bs flub a deal with a pro? More »
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San Francisco's escorts a relative bargain
Nobody loves a good bit of numberporn like "hobbyists," the industry term for the most avid whore obsessives. Some anonymous clients have created Sexec, a site to track the prices of male and female escorts in major U.S. markets, gathered from visitors who use their "Price Predictor" app. Unfortunately the whole thing is a browser-slowing morass. Here's what you'll really be looking for when you need to arrange your conference travel schedule: a city-by-city comparison infographic. The surprising result: While the price of housing, food, and almost everything else in this city sends the cost of living through the roof, the cost of fucking is just a bit above the U.S. average. More »
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Why one-click ordering for escorts can get your name in the papers
Over 100 escorts from one service are due to be outed this week in the trial of accused "DC Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey. Federal investigations won't kill escort agencies, but the rise of independent erotic service providers might. Agencies offer the kind of efficiency Valley men claim to prize in their lives: Just call and you get a girl. But many seasoned clients rely on the discretion of freelance working girls, even if it requires a bit more time. How many? We'll never know, but that's the whole idea: If you want to keep your name out of the public record, indie is the way to go. Here's how they do it. More »
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Sex conference brings bloggers together to Twitter about getting laid
ATLANTA, GA — The only unconference to open with a feminist pole-dance lesson, Sex 2.0 brought close to a hundred new-media sex nerds to Atlanta this weekend. The sessions dealt with how to get what you want on social dating sites, find people to swing with, and how to blog about your sexcapades while managing your reputation and privacy online. Daytime panels segued from theory to practice: strip clubs, sex parties and hookups. Here's what you can learn about sex from people who write about it for a living — especially the bits you'll never find field-tested in "sex" advice columns: More »
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