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A new DVD created by attorney Dan Pepper, a well respected and experienced adult media trial lawyer, spells out all the basics one should understand before starting an adult entertainment business. The instructional DVDs cover topics ranging from corporate formation, to taxes and liabilities, to record keeping, and more.

The Missouri Board of Corrections is soliciting bids to build a 116 room sex offender treatment program aimed at rehabilitating sex offenders so they can be more safely reintroduced to the public. Statistics demonstrate that the likeliness of repeat offense drops from 25% to just 2% for offenders who successfully complete such programs.

The adult industry is claiming victory today as the California Assembly committee thwarted attempts by Assemblyman Charles Calderon, a democrat from Whittier, to impose special taxes on adult related entertainment. While the bill could have created additional funds for various health and public safety programs, opponents contend that singling out sexual material violates freedom of speech.

To give you an idea of how much money top pornstars can make, Janine Lindemulder failed to report over $200,000 in taxes to the IRS and subsequently faces a $100,000 fine and up to a year in prison. Just goes to show not only how much money these girls can make, but also how poorly some of them are at managing it.

There's been plenty of rumors about the stimulus package giving the adult industry a boost. When in fact, AIMRCo’s study doesn't have an accurate basis of its data to prove their theory.

The Marriage Education Movement was established in 1996 with the help of federal funding, and according to the owner, a simple 8 hour class can improve the success rate of marriages by 50%. Considering that 50% of US marriages have been failing year after year, is it really a government issue that needs to be addressed with taxpayer money?

The controversial Bush Tax Rebate program seems to have an unintended benefit for the porn industry, as thousands of Americans across the country rushed out to spend their government stimulus checks on porn sites. According to reports, adult website subscriptions jumped 20-30% when rebate checks were mailed in mid-May 2008, which is typically a slow period of the year for the porn business.

While the topic of prostitution has been in the headlines recently due to political scandals and discussions of 'porn' and 'pole' taxes in Texas, California, and Pennsylvania, this article insightfully points out that criminalizing the sale of sex for money is inherently stupid in the first place.

On the very day that laws requiring retailers of adult material to pay registration fees went into effect, an Indiana judge stepped up to throw out the legislation, claiming that it imposed too much of a burden to justify its effect on free speech. The ruling comes as a sigh of relief for the adult industry in Indiana and surrounding areas.

Brothels located over 30 minutes from a major city often rely on trucker traffic in order to sustain healthy profit margins.