So this is what Santa would look like @ the strip club...
Santa enjoying a "Holiday Taco"
Would u like some "Grey Poupon" with that, Santa?
Santa's "Groinal Massage"
Can I b next, Santa?
Jenny & Santa
It looks like Jenny has been a good girl, or has she?
Santa's "present"
I'm ready, Santa...
Santa's "Helper"
I wish I had help, like that...
--sky.com |
Canada- A 58-year-old Canadian pig farmer is facing life in prison after being convicted of murdering six women - a fraction of the total number he is thought to have killed.
Robert "Willie" Pickton was given an automatic life sentence when a jury in British Columbia found him guilty of murder.
He still faces murder charges for the deaths of 20 more women, most of them prostitutes and drug addicts from a seedy Vancouver neighborhood.
If convicted on all those charges, he would become Canada's most prolific serial killer.
Police are still investigating the cases of almost 40 other missing women.
The remains of the six women he was convicted of killing were found on Pickton's farm, but he denied he was responsible for their deaths.
Pickton listened to the verdict with his head bowed and later smirked at one point. He had been charged with first-degree murder in the six killings, but the jury convicted him on a lesser charge of second-degree murder, which means they did not believe the killings were planned.
Two sisters of victim Georgina Papin screamed "No!" when the jury foreman first got up and said "not guilty" on first-degree murder. But they later said they were pleased he was convicted on the second-degree charge.
Two jurors, both women, wiped tears from their eyes while the verdicts were read. The jury foreman glared at Pickton as the verdicts were read back by a court official.
During his trial, a prosecution witness, Andrew Bellwood, said Pickton told him how he strangled his victims and fed their remains to his pigs.
Health officials once issued a tainted meat warning to neighbours who might have bought pork from Pickton's farm, concerned the meat might have contained human remains.
The jury of seven men and five women took 10 days to reach a verdict.
Pickton was convicted of murdering Mona Wilson, Sereena Abotsway, Marnie Frey, Brenda Wolfe, Andrea Joesbury as well as Papin.
The victims all came from Vancouver's Eastside quarter, considered the worst ghetto in Canada. Drugs are sold openly, a short distance from the Vancouver police headquarters.
--Oregonlive.com |
Spokane, Washington- Newly released police investigative reports allege a state representative dressed up as a woman and engaged in an oral sex act at a Spokane Valley adult bookstore. He later rendezvoused at a downtown hotel for another sexual encounter with a man now under investigation for extortion, according to today's edition of The Spokesman-Review.
The suspect in the investigation, identified in police and court documents as 26-year-old Cody Michael Castagna, of Medical Lake, told detectives he was offered $1,000 to have unprotected sex with State Rep. Richard Curtis [pictured], a Republican from La Center, which is near Vancouver.
Castagna, a part-time porn model, has been featured in explicit photo shoots posted on some members-only gay Web sites.
Curtis, who was in Spokane for a leglislative trip, earlier spoke with an editor of The Columbian and denied having had sex with a man and said he was not gay.
According to court documents, Curtis and Castagna met shortly before 1 a.m. last Friday at Hollywood Erotic Boutique in Spokane Valley where Castagna was watching porn videos, police investigative reports say.
An employee at the porn store told detectives Curtis has been in the business three times in the last month and is called "the cross-dresser" by employees. The same employee said she was told by Curtis he is gay and likes to dress in women's underwear.
During questioning by Spokane Police detectives, Castagna said he saw a man later identified as Curtis in Hollywood Boutique early last Friday "wearing long red women's stockings and black sequined lingerie." Castagna later told detectives he saw a 40-ish man with a cane performing oral sex on the legislator, according to the police reports.
Later, the legislator gave his phone number to Castagna before leaving the adult bookstore at 9611 E. Sprague, the reports say.
Curtis then went to Northern Quest Casino in Airway Heights before getting a phone call from Castagna. The two agreed to meet at the Davenport Towers where the legislator, visiting Spokane on legislative business, had a room.
Once the two arrived in the legislator's hotel room, "Curtis gave the male $100,'' before the two engaged in sex acts, the police reports say.
Detectives seized pillowcases and bed sheets from the room and surveillance video from the hotel's lobby, the documents say.
--Times Picayune |
WASHINGTON -- Rekindling a scandal Sen. David Vitter hoped had faded, the attorney for the "D.C. Madam" asked Friday for a subpoena to force the Louisiana Republican to testify about his involvement in what prosecutors say was a high-priced prostitution ring.
Montgomery Sibley said he had asked the clerk of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to issue a subpoena to Vitter to testify at a Nov. 28 hearing that could spill salacious details of the scandal that has captivated the nation's capital for more than a year.
Judge Gladys Kessler ordered the hearing to determine whether Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 50, can proceed with her breach-of-contract lawsuit against a woman she once employed as an escort. Palfrey said she signed contracts with all her escorts promising they wouldn't do anything illegal and that Paula Neble broke it by engaging in prostitution.
Palfrey was indicted in March on federal racketeering and money-laundering charges and prosecutors say that her suit against Neble is meant to intimidate the former escort, one of several who are expected to testify in the criminal trial against the woman who has come to be known as the "D.C. Madam."
"The issue at the hearing is whether the lawsuit is legitimate or not," Sibley said in an interview. "Part of the proof will be whether the escort was breaking that contract. Only two people will know that answer: the escort and the customer."
In July, Vitter acknowledged being a customer of Pamela Martin & Assoc., the escort service Palfrey operated for 12 years in the Washington area. His phone number appeared six times between 1999 and 2001 on phone records for the service.
Vitter has said little about his use of the escort service except that he committed a "very serious sin," and sought forgiveness from God and his family. At a press conference this summer, he also apologized to his constituents. The scandal dogged him for months, but his steadfast refusal to discuss it has helped to push it out of the spotlight.
Vitter again declined Friday to answer questions about his involvement or what he plans to do with the Palfrey subpoena.
"Sen. Vitter has been very honest and straightforward about this issue from his past," spokesman Joel DiGrado said. "He's not going to be distracted from working on critical issues to Louisianians like overriding the Water Resources Development Act veto and fighting to solve the immigration problem."
Vitter is not the only former Palfrey client being summoned to court. Sibley also has sought a subpoena for the testimony of Harlan Ullman, a former policy expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the author of the "shock and awe" strategy of military warfare.
The subpoena puts Vitter, especially, in an awkward and politically damaging position. The Senate Republican caucus welcomed Vitter back into the fold after his public confession in July, but it remains to be seen how much patience Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., will show if Vitter's troubles remain in the news. McConnell acted swiftly to condemn Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, after it became public that he had pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges after being arrested in a gay-sex sting in a Minneapolis airport bathroom. Craig has faced intense pressure from his own caucus to resign from the Senate but has refused and has sought to withdraw the guilty plea.
Legal experts say Vitter has little grounds to avoid testifying, noting that the U.S. Supreme Court said former President Bill Clinton had to provide testimony in Paula Jones' civil lawsuit.
"He may also make some argument based on his being a member of Congress, but I doubt it will work," said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond (Va.)
Sibley said he expects Vitter will try to quash the subpoena on the grounds that his testimony would not add much to the legal issues at the hearing. But, he said, Vitter's public admission that he was a client, along with the phone records, could undercut that strategy.
"He has a problem because he went on TV and apologized," Sibley said.
In addition, Vitter may have been a client of Neble, the escort at the center of the lawsuit that is the subject of the hearing.
Neble's phone number appeared 1,590 times in records Palfrey has made public, an indication that she was a regular escort in the service Palfrey operated between 1994 and 2006. In one instance, her number shows up near Vitter's, which Palfrey has said could mean she arranged a date for the two.
Legal experts say it is possible Vitter will attempt to avoid discussing the details of his dealings with Palfrey's escorts by asserting his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. But that, too, carries a political risk.
"The thing can hardly be viewed as a joyful experience," said Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University. "If he pleads the Fifth, he'll put himself in the same category as mobsters and madams. If he testifies, he will create his own detailed record that can be used in his next campaign. Either way he is facing a serious problem."
Sibley said that if Vitter asserts his right against self-incrimination, he will ask the judge to grant the senator immunity from criminal prosecution. On the surface, Vitter would appear exempt from being charged. The statute of limitations on prostitution is three years and Vitter's last known interaction with the escort service was 2001.
The Vitter subpoena is not without its risks for Palfrey. Although unlikely because he might expose himself to legal liability, Vitter could testify that he paid to have sex with the escorts, an assertion that could undercut Palfrey's defense that she was running a legal escort service.
--wsbtv.com |
Atlanta- A former wrestling star charged with forcing women into prostitution is representing himself in federal court.--Journal Online |
DAYTONA BEACH -- A former Daytona Beach city commissioner and a local high school teacher arrested Thursday during a sex sting at a Volusia mall bathroom were released from the Volusia County Brach Jail today, authorities said.
Former commissioner and mayoral candidate Mike Shallow [pictured] and David Behringer, an athletic trainer and teacher at Seabreeze High School, posted $1,000 bail today after midnight, a jail spokesman said.
Behringer resigned today, according to officials with the Volusia County School District.
Shallow and Behringer were among nine men charged with lewd and lascivious conduct and exposure of a sexual organ, both misdemeanors, police said.
"The reason that we did this sting is we all go to the mall; our kids go into the bathroom," Police Chief Mike Chitwood said. "That they could be susceptible to this kind of behavior is absolutely a disgrace."
Also arrested were registered sex offender Douglas Benson, 48, of Port Orange, who was previously caught masturbating in the restroom of a day care center; and Edgar Millard, 73, Daytona Beach, charged in 2006 with sexual misconduct at a beachside bathroom, police said.
Detectives received a tip from officials at the Sears department store that sexual misconduct was taking place in its second-floor men's restroom, Chitwood said.
Further investigation by police found that encounters at local places like Sears were advertised online on Web sites like Craigslist and one that provides links to other sexually explicit sites, Chitwood said.
"This is a clandestine, subculture event," Chitwood said at a Thursday night press conference. "There's a whole culture that runs under the radar doing their thing."
A team of six officers from the Police Department's criminal suppression team joined forces with undercover officers from Volusia County Beach Patrol to nab the offenders from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday. The Beach Patrol regularly deals with similar misconduct at public bathrooms near the beach, Chitwood said.
"Most everything that's occurring is nonverbal," said Sgt. Jeff Hoffman, supervisor of the criminal suppression team.
Offenders coughed or sneezed, tapped their feet, sometimes under the stall beside them, or made loud zipper noises to attract attention from others interested in engaging in sexual acts, Hoffman said.
"It's scumbags like this that erode the quality of life that we have here," Chitwood said. "What scares me is that these are people that we trust to be political leaders, these are people that we trust with our children."
Shallow, 57, served two terms as a city commissioner from 1999-2003 and ran for mayor unsuccessfully in 2003, 2005 and 2007, finishing a distant fourth in the last race Oct. 9.
The Realtor and real estate broker also served as chairman of the Main Street Redevelopment Board in 2004-2005, and was on the Downtown-Ballough Road Redevelopment Board while he was a commissioner.
Daytona Beach Mayor Glenn Ritchey said he was "disappointed and sad and sorry for him and his wife and family."
"There's nothing I can say. I've known him for a long time. I was shocked. It's such a sad thing," Ritchey said.
Neil Harrington, a personal friend of Shallow's, was shocked at the arrest.
"I just can't believe that; I have no indication that Mike would ever be involved in anything like that," Harrington said.
Others arrested in the sting include Sebastian Bach, 37, Panama City; Larry Brown, 42, DeBary; William Volage, 46, and Kenneth Halpin, 44, both of Ormond Beach; and Ransom Peterson, 73, Port Orange.
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Dr. Peter Kerndt: The Adult Film Industry:Needs State and Federal Legislation
Dr. Peter Kerndt, Director of the STD Program for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health writes the following on medicine.plosjournals.org:
The United States adult film industry produces 4,000–11,000 films and earns an estimated $9–$13 billion in gross revenues annually. An estimated 200 production companies employ 1,200–1,500 performers. Performers typically earn $400–$1,000 per shoot and are not compensated based on distribution or sales.
Los Angeles County is the largest center for adult film production worldwide. In 1988 the California Supreme Court, in People v. Freeman, found adult film production to be protected as free speech under the First Amendment, since such films were not considered obscene based on prevailing community standards.
Unlike other legal but highly regulated activities such as gambling and commercial sex work in Nevada, the adult film industry was legalized in California through case law, not by statute, and has for the most part escaped governmental oversight. Regulation of the industry has been limited to prevention of child pornography. Title 18, Section 2257 of the United States Code of Regulations explicitly prohibits performers under age 18 and provides for civil and criminal prosecutions for any violation. Adult film production companies are required to have a Custodian of Records to document and retain records of the age of all performers, to enforce the age entry restriction.
Adult film performers engage in prolonged and repeated sexual acts with multiple sexual partners over short periods of time, creating ideal conditions for transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). All the more concerning, high-risk practices are on the rise.
These practices include sex acts that involve simultaneous double penetration (double-anal and vaginal–anal intercourse) and repeated facial ejaculations. At the same time, condom use is reportedly low in heterosexual adult films—approximately 17% for adult performers. In 2004, only two of the 200 adult film companies required the use of condoms for all penile–anal and penile–vaginal penetration [2]. Performers report that they are required to work without condoms to maintain employment.
These practices lead to high transmission rates of STDs and occasionally HIV among performers. After four performers contracted HIV in 1998, Sharon Mitchell, a former adult film performer, founded Adult Industry Medical (http://www.aim-med.org), a clinic to counsel and screen performers monthly for HIV using a PCR test.
It was expanded later to include other STD testing. The testing program began as an effort to reduce transmission of infections through early diagnosis, treatment, and “quarantine” should a performer test positive for HIV. Performers are required in most cases to pay for all screening tests, and to sign a consent form that permits disclosure of their test results to other performers and producers before filming. Both of these practices are explicitly prohibited under California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal/OSHA) regulations.
HIV-positive female performers are permanently excluded from participating in adult films.
The current practice of periodic HIV and STD testing may detect some disease early, but often fails to prevent transmission. The most recent HIV outbreak occurred when three performers who had been compliant with monthly screening contracted HIV in April of 2004. At that time, a male performer who had tested HIV negative only three days earlier infected three of 14 female performers.
Other STDs are also highly prevalent in the industry. Among 825 performers screened in 2000–2001, 7.7% of females and 5.5% of males had chlamydia, and 2% overall had gonorrhea. These rates are much higher than in patients visiting family planning clinics, where chlamydia and gonorrhea rates were 4.0% and 0.7%, respectively. Some might argue that this program of STD testing keeps rates of HIV and other STDs lower than in other sex-related industries, and in fact, a recent study of prostitutes in San Francisco found 6.8% and 12.4% positivity rates for chlamydia and gonorrhea, higher than rates in the adult film industry.
Between January 2003 and March 2005, approximately 976 performers were reported with 1,153 positive STD test results. Of the 1,153 positive test results, 722 (62.6 %) were chlamydia, 355 (30.8%) were gonorrhea, and 126 (10.9%) were coinfections with chlamydia and gonorrhea. Less is known about the prevalence and risk of transmission of other STDs such as syphilis, herpes simplex virus, human papillomavirus, hepatitis B or C, trichomonal infection, or diseases transmitted through the fecal–oral route.
Efforts to reduce the risk of HIV and other STD transmission must include the use of condoms. Even with the PCR testing currently used within the industry, a recently infected performer can test negative during the window in which they are highly infectious and go on to transmit the virus to others. A meta-analysis suggests that condoms are 90%–95% effective in preventing HIV transmission.
Condoms are especially important given the high-risk sex acts increasingly being performed in the industry. When looking at HIV exposure risks by site, receptive anal sex has the highest risk at 80 instances of transmission per 10,000 exposures, higher than needle stick injuries (10–50 per 10,000) or receptive vaginal penetration (10 per 10,000. Pre-existing infection with other STDs also increases the risk of HIV transmission. One study showed that the relative risk of HIV acquisition in a vaginal receptive partner increases 2- to 4-fold when the receptive partner is infected with herpes simplex type 2.
Performers may also be exposed to HIV and other STDs outside the workplace. Performers may be engaged in commercial sex work through escort services or use intravenous drugs, risking HIV and hepatitis C infection. The use of condoms would prevent performers who had acquired HIV and STDs outside the workplace from transmitting these infections to other performers in the workplace. Additionally, condoms would help prevent unwanted pregnancy and the complications of STDs, which include ectopic pregnancy, pelvic inflammatory disease, and infertility. Little is currently known about the prevalence of these diseases in performers.
The portrayal of unsafe sex in adult films may also influence viewer behavior. In the same way that images of smoking in films romanticize tobacco use, viewers of these adult films may idealize unprotected sex [16]. The increasingly high-risk sexual behavior viewed by large audiences on television and the Internet could decrease condom use. Requiring condoms may influence viewers to see them as normative or even sexually appealing, and devalue unsafe sex. With the growing accessibility of adult film to mainstream America, portrayals of condom use onscreen could increase condom use among viewers, thereby promoting public health.
In contrast to heterosexual adult films, homosexual-targeted productions more consistently require condoms. Due to the large number of HIV-positive performers, there is no requirement for HIV testing and condom use is the norm. Despite the ubiquitous use of condoms, homosexual adult movies are popular and profitable for production companies. In fact, there is some evidence that homosexual male audiences would not tolerate movies with unsafe sex, likely due to their proximity to many with HIV in the homosexual community. Some homosexual audiences regard watching sex without condoms as “watching death on the screen.
Legislators can look to Nevada for a model for the successful regulation of a legal sex-related industry. Since the institution of mandatory condoms in Nevada's brothels in 1988, not a single sex worker has contracted HIV. Workers must be repeatedly tested for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia to maintain a state health and work card.
There are numerous other international models for condom enforcement in sex work, from Mexico City to Amsterdam. While there is no clear model for mandatory condom use in adult film, Brazil boasts an 80% condom usage rate in their adult films, while still maintaining a large share of the international market as the world's second largest adult film industry [18]. This suggests that condom use in adult films does not have to erode profitability.
It is also possible to use filming techniques to reduce the visual effect of condoms, by using flesh tone–colored condoms or by digitally removing them post-production. Facial ejaculations could be simulated through the use of inert materials such as liquid antacids combined with filming techniques, which would eliminate any health risk to the performer.
Vivid Entertainment Group, one of the largest producers of adult film in the US, temporarily implemented a condom-only policy after the HIV outbreak in 2004 but has since reversed this company policy. Although some companies may voluntarily decide to be condom-only, it is unlikely that this industry will establish safer working conditions for employees without external regulation.
A state or national mandate would level the playing field for all companies and not give an unfair advantage to those who decide to produce films without condoms.
In California, every employer is required to ensure that employees have a safe working environment. In 1973, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act was enacted to assure “safe and healthful working conditions for all California working men and women by authorizing the enforcement of effective standards, assisting and encouraging employers to maintain safe and healthful working conditions, and by providing for research, information, education, training, and enforcement in the field of occupational safety and health.
Each employer must establish, implement, and maintain a written Injury and Illness Prevention Program according to Title 8 of the State Code of Regulations.
This includes components for training programs and disciplinary actions. Employers must protect employees from blood-borne pathogens and not discriminate against employees that complain about safety and health conditions. Companies are required to prevent workers from coming into contact with blood or other potentially infectious material, including semen and vaginal fluid, and to provide post-exposure prophylaxis. Universal precautions, which assume all material is potentially infectious, are part of the blood-borne pathogens standard.
In the health care setting, it is hard to imagine a clinic or hospital not providing and requiring its employees to wear gloves or other personal protective equipment. If a health care worker has a needle stick or other potentially infectious fluid exposure on the job, systems are in place to rapidly and effectively treat the employee to prevent transmission of HIV and other infectious diseases. Although a legal industry, adult film has allowed consistent exposure of its employees to HIV, hepatitis, human papillomavirus, herpes simplex virus, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and other diseases without liability or worker recourse.
Cal/OSHA has recently made recommendations specific to adult film to protect performers from acquiring sexually transmitted infections. This includes the use of personal protective equipment (condoms and dental dams) as barriers, simulation of sex acts post-production, and ejaculation outside the partner's body. In addition, post-exposure prophylaxis after possible exposure to pathogens such as hepatitis B and HIV would be required.
This would greatly reduce transmission of HIV and other STDs and would likely prevent transmission in cases where a screening test does not detect an infected performer. Cal/OSHA also requires a procedure for exposure incidents when an employee has contact with potentially infectious material. The employer must provide a medical evaluation and follow-up at no cost to the employee. The final component is a requirement that each employee receive training about blood-borne pathogens, including how they can protect themselves against infection and what to do if they are exposed.
Mandatory reporting in California is required for chlamydia, gonorrhea, HIV, syphilis, chancroid, non-chlamydial non-gonorrheal urethritis, and pelvic inflammatory disease. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has monitored the industry to assure that performers receive adequate treatment and follow-up for STDs and has endorsed external regulation of the industry that would require condom use, STD screening, and education to prevent STD transmission.
Recognizing that local regulations would have limited impact and seeking to establish existing standards for work health and safety in the industry, officials from the Los Angeles Department of Public Health requested an investigation of the April 2004 HIV outbreak. In September of 2004, Cal/OSHA fined the two production companies in the outbreak $30,560 each for failure to comply with blood-borne pathogen standards.
Having established that regulation does apply to the industry, enforcement of the workplace standards is now the issue. OSHA is limited by the number of enforcement officials and therefore will only act in response to a complaint. Workers may be unaware of their rights or reluctant to file a complaint for fear of loss of employment or employer retaliation.
Response from California legislators has been limited. In June of 2004, Assemblyman Paul Koretz, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment, organized an informational hearing in the San Fernando Valley to consider the feasibility and potential impact of mandating HIV/STD screening and condom use.
The hearing, entitled, “Worker Health and Safety in the Adult Film Industry,” drew together officials from Cal/OSHA, the Los Angeles Department of Public Health, the California Department of Health Services, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the industry trade organization, Free Speech Coalition. In response to the hearing, Assemblyman Koretz sent a letter to 185 adult film production companies urging them to adopt condoms or face legislative action.
Two years later, this letter has had little to no effect and the adult film industry continues to produce the great majority of films without condoms. In October of this year, a multi-stakeholder meeting was convened at the University of California to readdress the issue of worker safety. A group of 65 participants including performers, industry executives, state and local health officials, and legal representatives spent the day debating the controversies and difficulties of mandated STD screening and condom regulation.
Concerns were raised about the industry going underground or moving out of state should there be a state but no national requirement. Many present felt it would be difficult to regulate small production companies that distribute their films primarily via the Internet. There was an emphasis on the need for a multi-faceted solution that involves the extension of existing worker protection to this industry with better enforcement, the organization and potential unionization of performers, increased public awareness, and thoughtful legislation.
Potential Polic Changes:
* National legislation that includes regulation of internet-based adult films
* Mandatory condom use with condom seal of approval
* Film rating system based on set safety criteria
* Licensure of performers
* STD testing paid for by the industry
* Vaccinations against human papillomavirus and hepatitis B and post-exposure prophylaxis paid for by the industry
* Education and training of all workers and employees
* Legal age of performers raised from 18 to 21 years old
* Drug testing of performers
The Future
Lacking the will or ability to regulate itself, the adult film industry needs state and federal legislation to enforce health and safety standards for adult film performers. Local officials lack the authority to impose fines and Cal/OSHA's monitoring and enforcement capability is limited.
Short of legislation mandating performer protection, restricting distribution of adult movies to condom-only films may be the one way to have an impact on the industry.
If there were organized and truly effective advocacy for performers, then large hotel chains, video retailers, and cable networks could be pressured to purchase adult films under a condom-only “seal of approval.”
Alternatively and more effectively, legislation could require that the Custodian of Records (already required under Federal law) maintain documentation of screening tests and condom usage in a film's production. Distribution could be restricted to those films produced pursuant to the standard prior to any sale to cable companies or hotel chains, over the Internet, or in other markets.
While some argue that adult film will go underground if condoms become mandatory, it is hard to imagine that a legal multi-billion dollar industry would disappear.
Distributors and production companies have become so entrenched in Southern California that it seems unlikely that they would move to another location or go clandestine.
Adult film is now so accepted and widespread that it cannot easily escape regulation, especially now that is so readily accessible on the Internet, cable networks, and in most major hotels. Unfortunately, the growing popularity of adult film has not translated into safer working conditions for performers. It is unethical for industry executives, legislators, and consumers to continue to enjoy the profits, tax revenues, and gratification of adult film without ensuring the safety of performers.
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Because of what it is (porn), there will NEVER b any type of "worker safety" because the "powers that b" want this business 2 "go away."
But it NEVER WILL!
SO GET OVER IT!!
2 of Hef's old hoes| 10/20/2007 | 04:42 AM PST |
--Reportonbusiness.com |
Canada- Canada's hedge fund industry has its share of rogues, but few are as colourful as Paul Eustace.| 10/20/2007 | 05:41 AM PST |
--Monterey Herald |
King City, CA- A couple that checked into a King City motel in August and died within weeks of each other had ties to the adult film industry.
Speculation about how they died has been rampant on Internet blogs and among porn industry insiders since adult film actress Maryam Irene Haley — known in the porn industry as Haley Paige — died on Aug. 21 at Mee Memorial Hospital in King City. She was 25.
Her husband, X-rated movie director Inkyo Volt Hwang, known sometimes as "Chico" and also as "Wanker Wong," was found dead on Sept. 29 at a motel in Morgan Hill. He was 38.
Capt. Bruce Miller of the King City Police Department said Haley and Hwang checked into the Motel 6 in King City on Aug. 20. A clerk contacted at the motel on Friday had no recollection of the couple.
"My understanding is they were returning to the San Diego area and we were a stopover," said Miller.
About 2:30 p.m. Aug. 21, Miller said, his department responded to a call from the emergency room at Mee Memorial to investigate a suspicious death.
Miller said police had not made Haley's death public because, "it was just a suspicious death investigation.
Miller said Hwang, whom he called a person of interest in the investigation, was questioned at the time of Haley's death.
Miller said officers also searched the motel room where the couple was staying and that no drugs or weapons were recovered there.
He declined to say if any were found in the car Hwang and Haley were traveling in, but the vehicle was seized. It turned out the 2007 Toyota Corolla had been reported stolen on July 23 by Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Nevada after it was not returned, Miller said.
After the interview with police, Miller said Hwang was arrested and booked into Monterey County Jail on suspicion of possessing a stolen vehicle. He was also booked on suspicion of murder, but according to jail staff members, records show Hwang was released on Aug. 24 because no charges were filed against him within the required 48 hours.
"We have not determined if it was a homicide," Miller said, adding that the case remains open as they await a final autopsy report.
"After his release, I believe he returned south and contacted his relatives," said Miller.
Detective Gary Wheelus of the Monterey County Sheriff's Coroner Division said he was in the process of completing the report Friday. The cause of death will be listed as undetermined, he said.
"There is no way to guess," he said.
The examination showed no signs of trauma or injuries, he said, and toxicology reports showed Haley only had a minimal amount of methadone in her system. He declined to say exactly how much.
Miller said that during their investigation, they were told Haley had a heroin addiction, but because he was not the investigating officer, Miller said he could not say who had told them that or if it had been confirmed.
The primary investigator was not available to comment Friday, Miller said.
Wheelus said that depending on a person's prior history of drug use, even a small amount of methadone could be lethal.
"What will kill one person won't even hurt another," he said.
Wheelus said it was Hwang who took Haley to the hospital after he found her unresponsive in the motel room where they were staying.
Miller said Haley had no pulse and wasn't breathing when she arrived at the emergency room. The actress was later pronounced dead.
Haley got her start in the adult film industry in 2000 when she worked at a video rental store and answered a newspaper advertisement for a nude model.
In 2005 she was named the year's Unsung Siren by the X-Rated Critics Organization, according to her Web site.
She appeared in more than 300 adult movies, according to the Adult Video News Media Network.
Haley also directed a movie in 2006 and had aspirations of becoming a psychologist or sex therapist after her career in the adult movie business, her Web site states.
Less than three weeks before her death Haley and Hwang were married.
Susan Wohlbrandt, spokeswoman for the Clark County Recorder's Office in Nevada, said the ceremony took place on Aug. 2 at the Las Vegas Garden of Love.
On the marriage certificate, Hwang listed his residence in Canoga Park; Haley listed hers in Woodland Hills.
Police said they don't know why Hwang was in Morgan Hill.
Cmdr. Joe Sampson of the Morgan Hill Police Department said Hwang checked into a room at the Economy Inn on Sept. 28.
The next day, a manager knocked on the room door to ask Hwang if he wanted to stay another night, but after getting no response, the police were called, said Sampson.
When they went inside the room, they found Hwang's body.
"He was halfway in the bed halfway out sort of straddling it," said Sampson. "He was fully clothed."
Sampson said there were no signs of injuries or trauma and that Hwang's death did not appear to be suspicious.
He said it appeared Hwang had been alone in the room and that no drugs or weapons were recovered from the room.
The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner's Office on Friday said a determination of the cause of death was pending.
Miller said Hwang's death doesn't change their investigation into the death of Haley.
"It's still open until we get the test results from the coroner."
| 10/20/2007 | 13:34 PM PST |
--Gene Ross |
Wilmington, North Carolina- Pure Bliss store owner Greg Sakas was due in court twice this week in two different cases.| 10/16/2007 | 05:08 AM PST |
--AP |
LAS VEGAS — A fugitive accused of raping a 3-year-old girl on videotape was arrested quietly during a traffic stop, telling the officer, "I'm tired of running," police said.
