It's still not clear whether this means that the classified ads site has taken down the section, something that 17 attorneys general recently demanded in an open letter. They said that Craigslist could not adequately block potentially illegal ads promoting prostitution ...

The sex workers were recruited in Brazil, with their travel costs to Spain initially covered by the trafficking network’ organizers in return for a pledge to work subsequently for them, according to a police statement. Most of the recruits, however, expected to work as models or nightclub dancers, although some ...

MARSHALL, Texas—InMotion Imagery Technologies is trying to take a second big bite out of the alleged patent infringement apple, Acacia-style. The Texas-based owner of patents for a picture-based video indexing system filed a lawsuit earlier this month against 14 studios it claims are infringing the patents. As with the previous lawsuit filed in March of this year, some heavy hitters in adult and mainstream are named as defendants.

The lawsuit was filed ...

6/18/2010 Newsweek

Some signs this week that the issue of human sex trafficking is gaining long-overdue recognition within the U.S.

In New York, convicted prostitutes who are victims of commercial sex trafficking will have their criminal records wiped clean. New York Governor David Paterson is expected to sign the bill soon.

This follows the release Wednesday of the State Department’s annual “Trafficking in Persons” report which, for the first time, assessed trafficking in the U.S. and acknowledged its status ...

Montana Fishburne claims she got screwed by her sex tape partner ... over footage of some eXXXtra-curricular work they did on the side -- and now she's hired some lawyers to clean up the mess.



TMZ has obtained several letters that Fishburne's legal team fired off to a porn star named Brian Pumper ...

The pre-teen, who lost her mother at a very young age and only saw her father on holidays, said she desperately craved a father figure. All she ever wanted was to be loved, she said, and she thought she found that in the man who patrolled up and down her street wooing her. ...

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. —During a Thursday teleconference, the board of directors for the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers resolved to allow ICM Registry’s application to establish and administer the dot-xxx adult-content-specific sponsored Top Level Domain to move forward toward approval.

In its entirety, the resolution reads:

Whereas, ICANN’s General Counsel has completed the expedited due diligence regarding ICM Registry, as directed by the Board, and has concluded that ICM has represented that its Application ...

By Steve Turnham and Amber Lyon, CNN Special Investigations Unit

Editor's note: Watch a full investigation into Craigslist's adult services section on AC360 tonight at 10 p.m. ET.

Laurel, Maryland (CNN) -- On a late afternoon in early June, undercover police officers circled a one-story highway motel north of Washington. Inside was a 12-year-old girl who told ...

Contact: Robert Peters, Morality in Media, 212-870-3210

NEW YORK, Aug. 4 /Christian Newswire/ -- On Monday, Attorney General Holder announced the "first-ever National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction." The Release said the strategy "also provides the first-ever comprehensive threat assessment of the dangers facing children from child pornography, online enticement, child sex tourism, commercial sexual exploitation...and outlines a blueprint to strengthen the fight against these crimes."

MIM President Robert Peters commented:

Strangely missing from Attorney General Holder's "comprehensive threat assessment of dangers facing children" online is the proliferation ...

News from Florida!

Orlando unfunded human trafficking working group/task force had it's first successful Domestic Trafficking prosecution using Florida Human Trafficking State Law. Currently they are working on other open investigations regarding sex trafficking and labor trafficking cases in Orlando.

Here is the highlights of the case:

MBI and the Osceola County Investigative Bureau conducted a joint prostitution/escort detail in Orlando. They called out an escort advertising on either craigslist or backpage and made a prostitution case on her. During the interview with her, she told them she had borrowed some money from a ...

XBIZ, a magazine covering the adult film industry turns down AHF’s ‘open letter’ advertisement to the adult film community about its ‘condoms in porn’ effort; rival industry publication ‘Adult Video News’ (AVN) will run print ad in August issue

By: AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Los Angeles, CA - July 30, 2010

While the multi-billion dollar adult film industry tries to head off a growing effort to require condom use in all adult film productions by wrapping themselves in first amendment and free speech arguments, XBIZ, a leading publication serving the adult film industry has rejected a ...