The world's largest porn search engine has compiled a breakdown of the world's top searches for adult content by country. We take a look at some of the eyebrow-raising highlights. More...

A document, the "Report on Eliminating Gender Stereotypes" includes a little clause that wants to ban access to adult content in the European Union. Controversial, and it's being debated on Tuesday. More...

Without warning, Apple removed the popular photo-sharing app, 500px, from the App Store. Why? Because users could potentially search for pictures of naked people. More...

A porn site recently studied who was viewing the raunchy material, from where, and when and compiled an interesting Infographic. The result? Washington, DC must sell a lot of tissues on December 27th. More...

New research shows that viewing pornography online negatively impacts our short term memories. While this is only one study, we... What were we going to say again? More...

Proposals to block web access to adult content in the UK, and force users to register with their ISP to view such material, have been rejected by Government ministers, but not everyone is happy. More...

Google has now confirmed that it has changed its search algorithms today so that from now on it will be harder to bring up pornographic images in regular search results. More...

Never do anything on Skype that you wouldn't do in front of your parents. That's the lesson one Utah man learned the hard way after having a sex session on Skype. More...

Egypt's state prosecutor has ordered a ban on internet pornography after a similar order was ignored by authorities. The ban would take away what some would argue is the raison d'etre of the web. More...

A federal court in Illinois has ordered a man to pay $1.5m in damages - the largest award of its kind - after evidence proved that he had illegally shared ten adult movies via BitTorrent. More...

Depending on your lifestyle, you might view the odd piece of adult material. Now, thanks to Internet Explorer getting rolled out to the Xbox 360, that material will be accessible on the console too. More...

Microsoft has stated flat out that its SkyDrive cloud service bans "nudity of any sort", which seems to be highly restrictive compared to what other cloud services allow. More...

In an unusual turn of events, the Pentagon has ordered Missile Defense Agency staff to stop watching porn at work, amid fears that employees are focusing too much time on the wrong kind of explosions. More...

According to Symantec's annual Internet Security Threat Report, religious websites on average have a much higher risk of containing malware than other websites, including porn websites. More...

As the debate rages on over the protection of children online, Google suggests that parents must take more responsibility, and not rely solely on the "blunt tool" of legislation. More...

Months after plans emerged to force internet service providers to block 'inappropriate' content and force users to opt in to viewing that content if desired, ISPs continue to resist the proposals. More...

The UK High Court has ordered an ISP to provide personal details for over 9,000 customers to a porn production company, which claims those users' IP addresses unlawfully downloaded its content. More...

Ultra-conservative politicians in Egypt take steps towards attempting a total ban on internet pornography in the country, in an apparent move to extend the influence of Sharia law on its citizens. More...

Digital Playground, one of the most popular pornography sites on the web, was hacked today. Over 40,000 credit card numbers and 72,000 usernames and passwords were stolen. More...

A Canadian developer has been sentenced to death in Iran's Revolutionary Court on charges of "designing and moderating adult content websites." This is the second high-profile ruling this month. More...

Web sites addresses with the .xxx domain went on sale to the public this week, but schools and businesses have been purchasing those names to avoid them being bought by the porn industry. More...

HTC has been served with a cease and desist letter by porn video company Vivid Entertainment, claiming HTC has violated Vivid's trademark with the name of the recent smartphone the HTC Vivid. More...

A web browser exploit that caused a flood of pornographic and violent images to be posted on the News Feeds of a number of Facebook users has now been stopped, according to the company. More...

Watch out if you're at work, as an outbreak of unwanted hardcore porn and gory imagery has spread throughout some users' Facebook feeds, caused by some sort of virus. Have you been affected? More...

Subscribers to the UK's top four internet service providers will soon be forced to opt-in if they wish to view explicit sexual content, as a new campaign seeks to protect children from internet porn. More...

Over a decade after it was first proposed, the Internet's 'red light district' has finally opened its doors, with companies and individuals invited to bid on the first .xxx domain names from today. More...

A Buffalo, NY man had a rude awakening one morning when federal officers broke down the door to his house, threw him down the stairs and aimed assault weapons at him while yelling, “Pedophile!” ... More...

Remember when defacing a website was the big news back in the day? Crackers would frequently put their logo or an amusing (or not so amusing) message on a site to gain "street cred" in... More...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given its final approval to create an Internet top-level domain specifically dedicated to pornography. According to the BBC, the decision ends 10 years of wrangling and... More...

Here is a sudden turn of events: porn stars are siding with those who are against the addition of the proposed .xxx top-level domain. In an effort to show their stance, the stars will be... More...

The web was all aflutter last week when Hugh Hefner himself tweeted that Playboy magazine would be coming to the iPad uncensored. It appears that this was a miscommunication – probably intentional – as Computerworld... More...

Blackberry has been forced to start blocking pornographic websites in Indonesia or possibly see its lucrative trading license retracted. The Canadian company was given until this Friday to comply. Indonesian users who try to access... More...

According to a post on twitter by Hugh Hefner himself, it seems that Playboy for the iPad will be re-launching in the next couple of months in an uncensored format. “Big news! Playboy--both old & new--will... More...

Earlier this week, it was reported the UK government is considering an opt-in option for accessing online porn. This plan will be discussed in January with the UK’s leading ISP’s including BT, Virgin Media, as... More...

All internet porn is to be blocked at the ISP level under a UK Government plan. According to a Sunday Times story being republished around the globe the plan, to be discussed next month with major... More...

Microsoft revealed the new policies for the Windows Phone Marketplace earlier today. As part of the policy (PDF) there's an interesting section headed Adult Related Content: Content not allowed: Sex / Nudity – Images that are suggestive... More...

Malusi Gigaba, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs has approached the South African Law Reform Commission in an attempt to completely ban all digitally distributed pornographic material. Has has also talked to the Justice Alliance for... More...

Children's charities in the UK have expressed what they call "serious concerns" that some Internet service providers have still not blocked websites showing child sex abuse. The British government asked ISPs to block child porn,... More...

Adult entertainment company Hustler is finding it hard to find users who are sharing their films or videos online, so they have gone to a third party to find the users sharing them... and that... More...

President Bush's economic stimulus plan, which involved sending out checks of up to $1,200 to every taxpayer, has provided a boom to the online porn industry, according to market research. Research by the Adult Internet... More...

Washington DC - 41 Washington DC workers have been fired or suspended after they accessed thousands of porn sites on city computers. Nine employees were fired while the other 32 were suspended. Both male and... More...

Facebook is suing a Toronto-based porn company and 17 people for allegedly trying to hack the social networking site for the personal information of its users. According to an amended statement of claim filed by... More...

Revenues from mobile 'adult services' are set to approach $3.5bn by 2010, according to a new report. Juniper Research said that growth will be fuelled by increasing adoption of streamed video and video chat, and... More...

Perhaps a more interesting — and more accurate — way to figure out where college students are going online is to assess which of the 172 web categories tracked by Hitwise get the most hits... More...

Earlier this month, Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced a multi-million dollar pornography filter along with several other measures to make the Internet safer for children and families, including an information and education campaign and... More...

David Leroy Knellinger Sr, 60, pleaded guilty before the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He admitted to using iMesh p2p software to obtain three videos depicting child pornography. US District Judge... More...

Apparently not content after losing legal battles with both Amazon's A9 and Google, soft-core porn site Perfect 10 filed last Tuesday in a California district court against Microsoft's MSN search engine, alleging that the engine... More...

Although it's hard to conjure up a simple explanation for why a substitute teacher would show middle-school students porn pop-ups on purpose, Julie Amero was prosecuted on the ground that she had done this intentionally.... More...

A Chinese campaign to clean up online pornography has reached college campuses with the Education Ministry lashing out at some school Web sites for making money from porn. "We strongly condemn Web site hosts for... More...

G8 ministers are urging the private sector, including Internet service providers, information technology professionals and financial institutions, to help combat child pornography on the Internet. "Because no child should be victimized in this horrific way,... More...