In an odd development in the progress of porn's assimilation into mainstream media, pornstars Aria Giovanni, Belladonna and Sasha Grey are planning to appear in a PG-rated series for Spike.com. The series, entitled "James Gunn's PG Porn" is billed as "porn for people who love everything about porn… except the sex," and the first of eight episodes airs October 8th, 2008.

A cartoonish depiction of Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder engaged in a bit of crotch-grabbing has been carved into a public art piece in the German town of Bodman-Ludwigshafen. While some find it humorous, local politicians are not as pleased with the relief, and some are calling for the piece to be removed.

A Democratic bar owner in Chicago has come up with a brilliant publicity stunt that has attracted record numbers of patrons to his North Side Old Town Ale House.

For many modern travelers, enjoying yourself in the nude is becoming an increasingly popular vacation activity. Whether it's a 'nude beach' or 'clothing optional' beach, destinations that offer visitors the ability to go out in the buff have been seeing a rise in popularity, and recent polls show that 10% of vacationers like the idea of going on vacation nude.

Dannii Minogue was once a 23 year old Australian Playboy centerfold who enjoyed and felt 'empowered' by her appearance in the popular men's magazine. Her decision to reappear in Playboy also stems from her desire to feel liberated and empowered, though this columnist thinks she's just setting a bad example for girls around the world.

Police in the UK are considering guidelines that spell out how they should treat couples having sex in public. While many admit that there should be laws restricting this kind of behavior, others still feel that turning a blind eye is a more appropriate response from law enforcement officials, provided the sex is occurring in semi-private places likes parks or public toilets.

A Russian-born pornstar who operates under the moniker of 'Katrina B.' dishes on the freedom and opportunity she's garnered by being a successful pornstar and nude model. Furthermore, she gives adult recruiting agencies a big tip-off in her assessment of Montreal as a hot-spot for finding willing models for possible porn engagements.

The Baby Dolls strip club outside of Orlando is the most recent strip club venue to be closed down on account of allowing dancers to perform nude on stage.

A college student in Cairns, Australia was disturbed to find that the mobile phone she had recently purchased from a Dick Smith Electronics store contained several pornographic images apparently taken by store employees. The phone itself was previously a 'demo phone' that had been borrowed by employees who forgot to wipe the memory when they returned the phone to the store.

The allure of a female vice-president that happens to have been a teen beauty queen is just too much for some opportunistic webmasters to ignore, and the Internet has recently been flooded with photoshopped images claiming to represent the aspiring veep in the buff. Even if these images are fake, they are still generating a ton of traffic to these sites.