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FinAlternatives reports:
A hedge fund dedicated to investing in the adult entertainment industry has struck a deal for iPorn, a mobile and SMS pornography provider in the works.
Beverly Hills, Calif.-based AdultVest, which claims its “online marketplace” now exceeds $7 billion in capital available for varied smutty investments, announced that its Priapus Investment Fund acquired iPorn yesterday.
I’ve no idea what the site really does (I’m not about the check it out from work!), but I’m wondering if Apple won’t sue. Wasn’t Apple planning to release the iPorn soon? I think they have it in development but have been stalled trying to get the “touch” screen to work.
(Some racy iPod gags if you search for iPorn in Google images.)
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According to everyone’s favorite semi-authoritative,mostly accurate source, Wikipedia:
In 2006, [Deepak] Chopra launched Virgin Comics LLC alongside his son, Gotham Chopra, and Richard Branson, famed entrepreneur and thrill-seeker. The aim of the company is to promote and examine South Asian themes and culture through the use of the traditional comic book medium. [9]
Well, since 2006 it looks like they have decided to broden their horizons a bit. According to the Virgin Comic website the goal of Virgin Comics is two fold:
1. The creation of original stories and character properties that tap into the vast libraries of mythology and re-invent the rich indigenous narratives of Asia in a unique, compelling and, and entertaining way.
2. Collaborating with creative talent from around the world - from filmmakers, to writers, to musicians, and other artists - to craft original stories and character properties initially in the form of comics and graphic novels subsequently to be developed into films, television, animation, gaming, wireless content, online, merchandise and more.
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Let the outing begin. We know who Client 9 is, and thanks to the Daily News we can now put a (hideous) face on Client 6 (editor’s note, original post had him labeled as Client 5, this was found to be incorrect). Ladies and gentlemen, I present for your viewing pleasure, The Duke of Westminster:
From the New York Daily News, we learn the world’s 46th richest person was not just a member of Emperors Club, he was also a client, having paid for the services of four hookers in 2006 and early 2007.
Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor apparently was tight fisted, as he had to haggle with the girls, this according to Lithuanian prostitute Zana Brazdek.
And it would appear Sir Beefcake liked to request “dangerous” services (i.e. - forgoing the glove).
Which leads me to mention this story I found in the San Jose Mercury News:
Study: 26 percent of female teens have a sexually transmitted disease
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I know we are a culture obsessed with fame. We look to celebrities constantly, trying to get the latest news and gossip about them. There are over a dozen magazines out there whose sole purpose is to keep us informed as to what celebrities are doing and not doing.
Which leads me to this one: When did it become newsworthy (or gossip worthy) to report about what celebrities are not doing? And I am not talking about drugs or who they are not sleeping with or no longer marrying, I am talking about the actual jobs of actors and actresses.
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How is it that a billboard, set for Time Square, featuring the bottoms of six ordinary folks (well, okay, they are probably models, but still…) advertising for a new toilet seat/bidet hybrid can be banned, but there is no problem with a billboard right down the block of porn star Jenna Jamison advertising for Vivid Videos and her website?
The New York Post reports that Toto, the maker of Washlet, was all set to post a new billboard in Time Square until the Time Square Church started to sue them to keep the billboard down. The judge has ruled that for the time being the billboard will not go up while Judge Friedman looks to see if there is any legal precedent for keeping it from going up and asked that the church front a $90,000 bond, so that if the lawsuit is not found to be jut Tto wil be able to recoup on lost revenue as well as legal costs.
At least Judge Marcy Friedman seems to be pretty level headed in looking into this. Toto defends their ad campaign saying: “We introduced this kind of lighthearted campaign to really get people to stop and think amount about something they take for granted and they may not have thought about for sometime.”
