I read an article this week about “virtual rape”. Yes, really. That would be virtual sexual assault on your virtual online character or persona. This is all coming out now because, I kid you not, someone from Second Life reported a virtual rape to the police in Brussels. And they are investigating it. Oh for pete’s sake, give me a break! How tenous a grasp on reality do these people have? And how the heck can there be “forced online sexual activity”? Isn’t that nearly an oxymoron?

A New York man who was fired from IBM for visiting sex-related sites on the Internet while at work has sued IBM, claiming that he has a sex addiction, and that his addiction entitles him to protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). James Pacenza, of Montgomery, New York, in a $5 million lawsuit against IBM, alleges that IBM improperly fired him, claiming that the firing was improper because his actions were the result of a sex addiction triggered, he says, by post-traumatic stress syndrome. 58-year old James Pacenza is a Vietnam war veteran, who says that seeing his fellow soldiers killed in action lead to a stress which in turn lead to his sex addiction.

Filehound is software that allows law enforcement officials to quickly scan a hard drive and determine the true nature of the contents of an image file that has been renamed to appear to be something else.

Google has been sued by New York politician Jeffrey Toback, who claims that Google intentionally provides and promotes – indeed that Google’s business plan includes – child pornography.

I’d like to talk about the other side of the email equation – what happens for legitimate senders, whose email is blocked as spam because an ISP decides that certain words in their email are not ok.

So this guy walks into the Quidnunc computer repair shop in Seattle, and says “my computer doesn’t work – I can’ t open certain image files; can you fix it?” The Quidnunc technician fixes it, and low and behold, he finds that those image files contain dozens of pictures of kiddie porn.

Downloading pornography can now get you charged with crime of creating pornography! Meaning that if you download it you are subject to the same laws and penalties as if you had made the pornography yourself, camera in hand.

Free Speech Coalition sues Utah over Child Protection Email Address Registry

Adult industry spokespersons indicate that they won’t offer video downloads aimed at the video iPod, but there are already sites offering free video downloads of that nature aimed squarely at the new video iPod.

We already have porncasts (podcasts of an adult nature). Is the new video iPod going to set off a storm of Podporn? Industry experts say “yes”.

Yusufali-A is a new trojan worm which censors web sites by minimizing your browser window and displaying a verse from the Koran which includes the phrase “Yusufali: Know, therefore, that there is no god but Allah, and ask forgiveness for they fault, and for the men and women who believe”

Rapex is a new anti-rape device which is worn like a diaphragm, only it has sharp teeth which clamp down on any foreign object.

Nintendog Hot Biscuit mod rumours are flying. Did someone really create a Hot Biscuit mod for the new Nintendogs, much like the Hot Coffee mod for GTA: SA? Or is it all just an elaborate spoof?

Playboy, the grandaddy of skin magazines, is offering Playboy magazine online. Forget about airbrushing; this version offers zoom!

The new proposed TLD (top level domain), .XXX, has run into fierce opposition from President Bush and his administration, along with conservative groups and even governments around the world. The .XXX top level domain, which has already been preliminarily approved by ICANN, is to be reserved for adult content, and…