nudity

MTV's controversial new teen drama Skins won't set any of its young viewers on the road to ruin, and it isn't pornographic. It is in bad taste, and MTV must have known would offend some audiences. Still, with 3.26 million viewers for its debut, Viacom is getting exactly what it wanted from the show -- publicity and viewers.

Apple's unwavering stance against nudity on its iPads and iPhones has reached new levels of irony, thanks to its demands on Rob Berry and Josh Levitas's Ulysses Seen, a webcomic version of James Joyce's classic novel Ulysses.

Make love, not porn, because if you live in the Ukraine, you'll get fined and sent to jail. Tuesday, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed a bill into law, making the possession of pornography a criminal offense in the country. I first heard of the report while watching the Russian news...