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Actor tests HIV positive, porn filming suspended *
California's multibillion-dollar adult pornographic film industry ground to a virtual halt yesterday after a popular actor tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS. [More]

Boogie nights: Rock and Porn *
A special alchemy exists between the worlds of rock and pornography, as the infamous gain legitimacy and the famous get street credibility. [More]

Firms develop codes of conduct to curb porn surfing on Internet *
Ask for employee commitment to abstain... [More]

For your Valentine's (ahem) Honey *
Lots of sweet (and even risqué) gift ideas [More]

FromAphrodite dot com ****
Their sales director, Steven, told me: "Every effort has been made to keep the site people-friendly and inoffensive… I can honestly say that I don't mind showing the site to my mother!" [More]

Geneviève's naughty Kama Sutra chocolates ****
These exquisitely moulded chocolates are the ideal gift for lovers. [More]

Honey to Sweeten Your Valentine *
Honey Romantic Gifts on Cambie Street is gearing up for Valentine’s Day with sweet and spicy gifts for lovers. [More]

Lenny Bruce gets posthumous pardon *
Comedian Lenny Bruce was granted a posthumous pardon by Gov. George Pataki Tuesday for a 39-year-old obscenity conviction prompted by a foul-mouthed political commentary. [More]

Lynn Coady: If only this trash would take me out *
To be a fan of good television is to live in a perpetual state of anxiety. It's like dating the latest in a thrilling yet doomed series of superlative lovers. Someone new and intoxicating -- endlessly hot, endlessly fascinating. Yet the whole time you're with him, all you can think is, "Oh no, it's so good." You've been burned one time too many. [More]

Mark Morton: A scholar's linguistic history of smut *
Mark Morton spent nine months researching the origins of English words about sex, he tells MICHAEL POSNER, to come up with that rare kind of academic treatise that people might actually read. [More]

Paris Hilton Late Show...no-show *
Socialite Paris Hilton, star of an upcoming Fox reality series and an inadvertent Internet icon, is pulling out of her announced November 26 interview on David Letterman's Late Show. [More]

Paving the way for female Viagra *
A UBC researcher has boldly gone where no scientist has gone before -- and mapped the previously unidentified nerves that cause sexual pleasure in women. GWENDOLYN RICHARDS reports. [More]

Pill using spider venom would combat impotence *
Chilean researchers said yesterday they aimed to develop a new pill to combat impotence that would have the added bonus of being a male contraceptive, based on experiments with the venom of black-widow spiders. [More]

Stern airs frustration over Clear Channel ban *
A day after the nation's largest radio station chain suspended shock jock Howard Stern's show for alleged indecency, Stern vented on the air Thursday with uncharacteristic restraint. [More]

Sweet Sensations For Valentine's Day From Honey Gifts *
Visionary for Honey Gifts, Karyee Yip, has succeeded in establishing a unique, comfortable and luxurious store for adults. [More]

The Aristocrats (Madelyn Miller review) *** 1/2
Warning: Not exactly a movie spoiler, but this review contains words and describes situations that are strictly for adults. Reader discretion is advised! [More]

The Viagra effect: a rise in AIDS for the 50-plus set? *
It makes for an intriguing scenario, one worthy of a moralistic movie of the week: Aging Casanovas, powered by Viagra, cutting a swath across the retirement homes and brothels of the nation and coming face to face with the stark reality of sex in the post-AIDS world. [More]

Trailer trash: Oh FKUC -- The Boys are back *
The air may be thick with obscenities, but that hasn't stopped fans of TV's Trailer Park Boys, on both sides of the border, from making it a cult hit, SHAWNA RICHER writes. [More]

Trouble in the centrefold *
With Penthouse on its deathbed and Playboy possibly giving up nudity, the male rite of passage that was the dirty glossy magazine may not outlive Hugh Hefner. MICHAEL VALPY finds out what happened [More]

Wanna hear the F-word? Fuhgeddaboutit! *
A Republican congressman launches a bill to outlaw seven vulgarities from U.S. airwaves. [More]

Workers demand ban on hotel porn *
Angry hotel workers in Norway want to ban pay-TV pornography to stop naked porn-watching guests calling room service to lure female staff to their rooms. [More]

You don't have time for sex? Try 2:30 p.m. *
There's a brilliant New Yorker cartoon of a middle-aged couple in bed, with the woman turning her back on the man. "I can understand a sexless marriage," she says. "But we're having an affair!" [More]

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In a dumb America, even Playboy looks smart *
Playboy magazine's January issue, which is on sale now, is a special 50th-anniversary edition. In Toronto, the occasion means that we will be treated to a visit by the centrefold, Miss January, who will be signing copies of herself at a downtown newsstand at lunchtime tomorrow. [More]

In the Cut: Ladies play it down (Lacey Review) ** 1/2
MEG RYAN gets involved with a cop who may be a killer in director Jane Campion's hack job on a best-selling erotic novel. [More]

Pouting pinups push women off the screen *
Ay yi yi, have you seen this current film, The Girl Next Door? Its characters are high-school seniors on the cusp of graduation. [More]

Talks begin on Internet regulation *
International negotiations have begun on how and whether to manage the Internet, along with associated problems such as junk e-mail and pornography. [More]

The Everything To Do With Sex Show *
Author:Item courtesy of Geneviève Lemarchand
Naughty but nice, it is entertainment, education and fun in a non-threatening atmosphere...with more than 100 exhibitors, fashion shows, product demos, seminars, celebs and autographs, workshops, unique contests and live broadcasts. [More]

The Girl Next Door: Risqué, but also risk-free business ***
The mainstream prominence of pornography gets a shove forward with the teen comedy, The Girl Next Door, an improbably-not-terrible teen sex comedy. [More]

The porn queen's sad epiphany *
When Linda Lovelace, a woman best known for carnal abilities that rivalled Saracen the Sword Swallower's, published Ordeal, her third autobiography, in 1980, she triggered the coining of a phrase in porn circles known as "The Linda Syndrome." [More]

Try finding a greeting card for this occasion *
It says here (and I'm not making this up), that this is National Masturbation Month -- the observance of which is not entirely clear to me. [More]

Yoko Ono, Coppola defend Sook-Yin Lee *
The CBC is expected to decide today whether Sook-Yin Lee, host of Radio One's Definitely Not the Opera, will be able to bare all and star in an art-house film by acclaimed U.S. director John Cameron Mitchell. [More]