Sarah Jessica Parker Deemed Unfit for the Porn World
Today in show business news: Carrie Bradshaw is left on the cutting-room floor, Betty White gets another big birthday party, and USA wants its own Andy Cohen show.
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With every tech boom comes a tale not only of the nouveau riche using their disposable income to buy sex, but also about how the very technologies making these clients rich is changing the sex work industry.
Today in show business news: Carrie Bradshaw is left on the cutting-room floor, Betty White gets another big birthday party, and USA wants its own Andy Cohen show.
Vivid Entertainment is one of the biggest producers of pornography in the U.S., and most of their operations run out of California. They're mad about a new law requiring porn performers to wear condoms during scenes because, they say, it violates their freedom of expression.
Two officials from the Drug Enforcement Administration arranged for a Secret Service agent to solicit a Colombian prostitute — and tried to destroy the evidence — according to a letter delivered by the Justice Department to several Senators.
On Tuesday, California voters overwhelmingly approved two ballot initiatives that were sharply opposed by the very same "victims" they were allegedly designed to protect.
Fearful of a killer and police, women continue to struggle to make a living in their trade
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