Texas candidate was male escort
Politicians have been known to work all sorts of jobs. Ronald Reagan was an actor, Bill Clinton a lawyer and President George W. Bush an oilman. Few, however, have held jobs as surprising as political hopeful Tom Malin, who was exposed last week as a former prostitute.
Feds end inquiry into former Spokane mayor
Accused of offering young men that he met online jobs in exchange for sex, Jim West, the former mayor of Spokane, Wash., is finally in the clear. The U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday that it has ended its nine-month investigation of West, and will not file criminal charges against him.
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Policing porn not Homeland Security job
Patrons at a library in Bethesda, Md., were not planting bombs in books last week, nor were they reading about weapons of mass destruction. Still, they managed to attract the attention of two Homeland Security officers, who took it upon themselves to police the viewing of Internet pornography in public.
Size matters
With Valentine's Day safely over we can now admit that love doesn't have to be all flowers and chocolate -- sometimes it's just a big, thick cock! In fact, the 's' word -- size -- has been on many lips recently, including some at Slate and the Village Voice, both of which have published essays on the male member.
Condom bomber arraigned
Typically tools for safer sex, condoms proved dangerous for several Boston strip clubs last fall when an ex-waitress converted condoms into bombs. Known as the condom bomber, she sent several packages of explosive rubbers to area strip clubs and was finally arrested Friday night.
10 years of US Net censorship
While a Congressional committee is raking Yahoo! and Google over the coals for cooperating with Chinese censors, it's useful to remind ourselves that the US itself has been attempting to censor sexually explicit Internet content since the advent of the Web browser.
Tom Cruise is not gay -- again
Rumors have surrounded Tom Cruise's sexuality for years. And for years, Cruise has insisted that he's straight. But Cruise's promise hasn't satisfied famed biographer Andrew Morton's curiousity. He's hired former gay porn actor / director Paul Baressi to investigate Cruise's bedroom behavior, and the Hollywood heartthrob is fuming.
Clay Aiken outed by porn trick
Former American Idol star Gay, er, Clay Aiken insists he's straight. But if you ask Lucas Entertainment porn newbie John Paulus -- as Howard Stern did last week on his new satellite radio show -- Aiken is as gay as fellow Idol alumnus Ruben Studdard is large.
Spelling test: Grapefruits and Care Bears
When it comes to the Internet, one lil ol' spelling mistake can read "trouble" for innocent web crawlers. Case in point: Two websites are in the news this week for their spelling conundrums, called out separately for having confused grapefruits and Care Bears for pornography.
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Cover up! Now entering Oklahoma
The definition of "nude" might seem straightforward. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines it as "bare, naked, unclothed." An Oklahoma Republican, however, has coined a definition of her own, and she's using it to restrict free speech by sexually-oriented businesses on billboards along the state's highways.
Prudish politicians unplug safer sex site
A safe sex website that was designed for young people in Vermont will be back up this month thanks to the state Senate, which has ordered old farts in the governor's office to restore access to the site after they pulled its plug in December because it had a link to an adult website.
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February's top 10 celebrity list
Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Walker and Sean Faris (at right) may have survived last month's culling, but there are six hungry newcomers vying for the coveted number one spot in this edition of the Top 10 Celebrity List.
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