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Now-Grown 'Nirvana Baby' Gets Some Bad News

Judge rules that Spencer Elden's claims of Nevermind cover being child porn are baseless

(Newser) - Nirvana can officially breathe easy—at least when it comes to their legendary album cover. A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit from Spencer Elden, the now-adult who was the naked baby at the center of the band's 1991 Nevermind cover, ruling that the image doesn't...

Founder of Porn Empire That Recruited Teens Is Sentenced

Michael James Pratt, once on FBI's most-wanted list, pleaded guilty after being captured

(Newser) - The founder of a California-based porn empire that recruited women with false modeling offers was sentenced Monday to 27 years in federal prison, the AP reports. Michael James Pratt pleaded guilty in June in federal court in San Diego. Federal prosecutors said Pratt and his co-defendants used force, fraud, and...

Supreme Court Rules on Age Checks for Porn Sites

SCOTUS greenlights age verification for those under 18 in 6-3 decision

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law aimed at blocking children under 18 from seeing online pornography, reports the AP . Nearly half of all states have passed similar age verification laws, as smartphones and other devices make it easier to access online porn, including hardcore obscene material. The...

A Growing Problem With OnlyFans: Addiction
A Growing Problem
With OnlyFans: Addiction
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Apr 12, 2025 4:30 PM CDT

A Growing Problem With OnlyFans: Addiction

The Cut looks at the 'increasingly worrisome' issue among mostly male subscribers

(Newser) - Addiction to pornography has been studied for years now, but Carly Lewis writes about a relatively new facet of the problem—one embodied at OnlyFans—for the Cut . Her interviews with sex therapists suggest that addiction to the platform "has become increasingly worrisome." The issue isn't straight-up...

Chancellor Fired Over Porn Sues to Get Back in Classroom

Adult videos that Joe Gow and his wife made led to his dismissal

(Newser) - Former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow wants his tenured teaching back, and he's suing to that end. Gow was fired from his chancellorship in December 2023 after pornographic videos he had made with his wife came to light. The Board of Regents then unanimously voted in September...

SCOTUS Hearing Did Not Go Well for the Porn Industry

Justices appear likely to support Texas age-verification law

(Newser) - A Supreme Court hearing Wednesday on a Texas law designed to stop minors from accessing online pornography did not go well for the porn industry. In the court's first major First Amendment case involving pornography in more than 20 years, all six conservative justices and Justice Elena Kagan appeared...

Two More States Limit Online Porn Access

Florida and South Carolina join the growing list of states requiring age verification

(Newser) - The new year brings a new reality for much of the US South: It's tougher to access porn online. As Ars Technica reports, two more states—Florida and South Carolina—enacted laws requiring age verification to see explicit sites. They join 14 other states where such laws already have...

Mattel Sued Over X-Rated Misprint on Doll Packaging

URL on Wicked dolls just said 'wicked,' not 'wickedmovie,' which was a big problem

(Newser) - A South Carolina mom is suing Mattel over its very, very adult misprint on packaging for Wicked toys. Holly Ricketson says she purchased one of the dolls for her daughter, who visited the adult entertainment website that was accidentally printed on the box, Variety reports. She says her daughter immediately...

'Kinder, Nicer' OnlyFans Upends Ordinary Lives
'Kinder, Nicer' OnlyFans
Upends Ordinary Lives
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Oct 21, 2024 1:30 PM CDT

'Kinder, Nicer' OnlyFans Upends Ordinary Lives

A Reuters investigation digs into the 'collateral damage' of porn addiction and more

(Newser) - A series of Reuters investigations has been digging into the darker side of OnlyFans, and the latest focuses on what the outlet calls the "collateral damage" of the porn-centric site that has exploded in popularity. In one example, a husband became addicted to the site and secretly spent $135,...

Porn Actors Launch Election Ad Campaign

They're targeting Project 2025

(Newser) - Porn actors are fighting back against the Project 2025 conservative policy blueprint, which calls for pornography to be outlawed and producers imprisoned. Some 17 actors have launched a $100,000 ad campaign targeting visitors to porn websites in seven swing states, the New York Times reports. Polls show Donald Trump...

This Nation Is 'Most Targeted' Over Deepfake Porn

In South Korea, women's lives have been ruined by footage; gender divide there may deepen

(Newser) - Three years after a 30-year-old South Korean woman received a barrage of online fake images that depicted her nude, she's still being treated for trauma. She struggles to talk with men, and using a mobile phone brings back the nightmare. "It completely trampled me, even though it wasn'...

Supreme Court Delivers Bad News to Josh Duggar

Justices reject his appeal on his child pornography charges

(Newser) - It's been a busy day for news out of the Supreme Court, with the biggest development being the justices' decision to take up whether states can restrict transgender medical treatments for minors. Also, via the AP:
  • Josh Duggar: The court rejected an appeal from Josh Duggar, a former reality-television
...

Fan's Suit Rips Madonna for 'Pornography Without Warning'

Class-action complaint takes singer to task for 'sexual acts,' 'topless women' at concert

(Newser) - Filed today in the "did you know what concert you were going to see" category: A (former?) fan has sued Madonna and Live Nation for what he says was a concert filled with "pornography without warning," with half-naked women, "sexual acts" performed onstage, and uncomfortably warm...

Texas' Crackdown on Porn Has Officially Begun

Pornhub disables its site in Lone Star State over new legislation regarding age verification

(Newser) - An appeals court has cleared the way for Texas to enforce a law requiring age verification before someone can surf porn sites, and, not surprisingly, the porn sites aren't happy about it. In a 2-1 ruling on March 7 by the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit...

Porn Sites Don't Like 'Dangerous' Bill Requiring ID

To help protect kids, Ohio bill would require ID or age verification from users trying to see online porn

(Newser) - In Ohio, there's a bipartisan "double-teaming" under way to keep kids away from online pornography. News 5 reports that a bill introduced this week in the state's Senate by Sens. Stephanie Kunze, a Republican, and Bill DeMora, a Democrat, would require identification or some other type of...

A New Problem With AI: Deepfake Nude Photos of Girls

Police investigate distribution of faked images at high school in New Jersey

(Newser) - The sharing of explicit AI-generated images of high school students has triggered an uproar in an affluent New York City suburb and left the teens, parents, school, and police wondering how they can address the violations given what the Wall Street Journal describes as a "lack of clarity on...

Pornhub Has a Surprise for Utah
Pornhub Has a
Surprise for Utah
May 2, 2023 9:07 AM CDT

Pornhub Has a Surprise for Utah

All residents are blocked, in the porn site's protest of state's new age-verification law

(Newser) - On Wednesday, Utah's new age-verification law goes into effect, mandating that websites hosting adult content need to confirm users' ages before letting them browse. One company in particular isn't happy about the legislation: Pornhub, which shared a message Monday with anyone who tried to log on from the...

Porn Perusers in This State Now Have an Extra Step

New law in Louisiana mandates commercial porn sites in that state ask for ID showing age verification

(Newser) - A year ago, during an interview with radio host Howard Stern, singer Billie Eilish confessed to a pornography addiction that started at age 11, calling it a habit that "really destroyed my brain." Professional counselor and sex addiction therapist Laurie Schlegel, who also happens to be a Republican...

Porn Fugitive on FBI Most Wanted List Is Caught

Michael Pratt, accused of sex trafficking, was arrested in Spain

(Newser) - The founder of a California-based porn empire that coerced young women into filming adult videos has been arrested in Spain, three years after he fled while facing federal sex-trafficking charges, the FBI announced. Michael James Pratt was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, per the AP . Spanish National...

Astronomer's Meteor Video Was Way Too Sexy for Twitter

Mary McIntyre's account was locked for 3-plus months after automated tools flagged the clip

(Newser) - Astronomers think celestial bodies are sexy, so much so that they often post about them on social media. For one UK space scientist, however, her video of a Perseid fireball over the summer was deemed too sexy for Twitter, resulting in her getting locked out of her account for three-plus...

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