Sex Sells
POM Wonderful adds sex to its list of attributes
6:00PM 10/04/2010
POM Wonderful, the litigious juice maker pummeled by the FTC over allegedly touting its product as a remedy for erectile dysfunction among many other health issues, unveiled this week a star-studded national TV ad campaign soaked in erotic imagery.
The campaign, a highly stylized black-and-white...
Scoring deals at the supermarket, the new porn?
6:00PM 9/20/2010
If scoring a great deal at the grocery store makes your heart race, you're not alone. According to preliminary research conducted at the University of Westminster's business school in the U.K., it's not only shopaholics who get a thrill from bargain hunting.
UK-based publication, The Grocer,...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit that administers Internet domain names on behalf of the U.S. government, has approved the creation of a .xxx top-level domain (TLD) for adult websites.
The controversial move, which was announced at the organization's...
New York's attorney general has teamed with social networking giants Facebook and MySpace to work on removing illegal child pornography images using advanced digital technology.
The effort, which also includes Friendster, hi5 and Canada-based isoHunt, involves digitally comparing photos found on...
By Mike Schuster, Minyanville.com
Purveyor of sultry bedroom wear, finicky snap clasps and freakish angel-model hybrids, Victoria's Secret, has become a favorite among fashion-conscious women and preteen boys alike. So popular, in fact, that the 33-year-old company represents the chiefest segment...
Pay a hot chick to play video games? GameCrush says why not
1:00PM 4/01/2010
If you join me in thinking that $6.60 to play video games with a hottie via webcam for 10 minutes is crazy, then perhaps we do not understand the busy life of a male gamer.
A WalletPop visit to GameCrush, the new social networking site for gamer lads "low on free time" to meet women, revealed a...
Porn, not cartoons, appear on Kids on Demand preschool channels
3:00PM 3/17/2010
Some North Carolina toddlers whose parents subscribe to Time Warner Cable television got a surprise recently when they tuned in to the Kids On Demand Preschool channels. Instead of promos for SpongeBob SquarePants, they saw nude women from the Playboy Channel dishing dirt about sex.
The...
Paris Hilton's Brazilian beer ad too hot for the land of bikinis
1:30PM 2/26/2010
Brazil, home of the bikini and the wax, has a more prudish side, represented in the ad world by Conar, it's self-regulating taste police. When a Brazilian beer company hired the notoriously immodest Paris Hilton to film a spot promoting Devassa Bem Loura (very blond) beer, the regulators opened an...
Sex reduces heart disease. An inexpensive treatment option?
10:00AM 1/26/2010
Sex at least twice per week can reduce heart disease according to a new study at the New England Research Institute in Massachusetts. Researchers tracked the sexual activity of men between 40 and 70 years old who were taking part in a long-term project called the Massachusetts Male Ageing Study,...
Can't find work? Nevada brothel is hiring male prostitutes
3:00PM 1/08/2010
Bobbi Davis, owner of the Shady Lady Ranch located about 150 miles northwest of Las Vegas, has received approval from the local government to hire male prostitutes to work at her brothel.
Our readers who are unemployed -- or underemployed -- can log on to the Web site and apply online. There are...
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