3 posts and columns on red light district

Sexually Frustrated? There’s an App for That [UPDATED]

in News on June 25, 2009 at 8:04 am PT

The parental controls included in iPhone 3.0 have opened up a a rich and fertile frontier in Apple’s App Store: Porn. An app called “Hottest Girls,” which previously featured pictures of women in their skivvies, this week began featuring ones of ladies wearing quite a bit less.
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Craigslist Gives Its Red Light District the Times Square Treatment

in Media on May 13, 2009 at 9:32 am PT

The online classifieds Web site is shutting down its “Erotic Services” section under pressure from state and local officials from around the country. In its place, Craigslist will open an “adult” category. It promises to keep said area cleaner by having employees sweep it periodically for ads that are obviously soliciting prostitution, etc. It won’t keep Craigslist free of bad stuff, but it may make it harder to find.
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Idiot: World of Warcraft Is the "Crack Cocaine of the Computer Game World"

in News on February 27, 2009 at 2:28 pm PT

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no more than one to two hours of online gaming per day, so warnings that obsessive gaming might be detrimental to one’s health are not without some merit. But the suggestion that World of Warcraft is the cocaine of the gaming world and its players by extension, a legion of slathering crackheads, well, that’s going a bit far, isn’t it?
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