LOS ANGELES — The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection has sent a letter to the U.S. Congress and the U.S. and state Attorneys General offering a counterpoint to the organized anti-porn phone-in and letter-writing campaign. The ASACP said the letter is in response to the so-called “War on Pornography” being waged by special interest groups demanding Internet censorship and Congressional interference with Constitutionally-protected speech. According to ASACP CEO Joan Irvine, proactive steps are needed to be taken to provide a balanced view of the complex issues and passionate debates surrounding the legitimate adult entertainment industry; the nebulous notion of “obscenity” and the need to keep children out of and away from adult-oriented materials. “I read in the Amarillo Globe-News that Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Reps. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., and Randy Forbes, R-Va., have drafted a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting that he begin vigorously prosecuting illegal adult pornography producers and distributors under existing obscenity laws,” Irvine stated. “In my email to Congressional legislators and Attorneys General, I informed them that ‘there is no need for this action, since the legal adult entertainment industry is not involved in obscenity.’ “ASACP can prove that the adult entertainment industry has taken steps to protect children from being in and viewing age-restricted content,” Irvine added. “The adult industry is just that — ‘by and for adults.’” Since 1996 ASACP has operated a child pornography reporting hotline. An analysis of data compiled from more than 400,000 reports of suspected child pornography received by its hotline during a five-year period provides a deeper understanding of the scope and context of online CP. ASACP launched the Restricted To Adults label in 2006. The success of this initiative shows that proactive steps taken by the adult entertainment industry, coupled with technology and parental supervision of children’s Internet and mobile use, is a highly effective means of keeping kids from age-restricted material. According to Tim Henning, ASACP’s vice president of technology and forensic research, more than 4.5 million adult websites currently use the RTA label, accounting for the bulk of professional sites. “There are more than 20 billion monthly hits to pages labeled with RTA,” Henning said. “The majority of sites have self-labeled with RTA including the 20 percent of adult sites that generate approximately 80 percent of all adult Internet traffic.” Henning noted that this rapid adoption of RTA stopped U.S. legislation for mandatory labeling, adding that “If parents have installed parental filtering software and/or setup the built-in features available in Microsoft and Apple operating systems, then RTA blocks children from viewing age-restricted content.” For its dedication and efforts, ASACP and its RTA labeling initiative have received widespread support from business leaders and trade associations, governments and civic organizations. At a recent Free Speech Coalition press conference, Pink Visual President Allison Vivas commented on the industry’s support for ASACP. “This is a group whose entire purpose is to help protect children and which has been recognized by the U.S. Congress.” FSC Executive Director Diane Duke praised the adult industry’s filtering system, which prevents children from accessing its content. Duke reinforced the timely message by blogging at XBIZ, “The adult entertainment industry has always supported efforts to improve child Internet safety, especially greater parental involvement in filtering and supervising their children’s use of the Internet.” These adult industry members referred to ASACP’s advanced online child protection technology and RTA. The website — RTALABEL.org — has recently been translated into French, German, and Spanish to address the needs of international consumers and website owners. “Thanks to the support of the industry, ASACP has been able to create a free and easy-to-use label to designate content for adults-only,” Irvine said. “The movie industry has MPAA, the video gaming industry has ESRB, and the adult industry has its own label with RTA.” The ASACP RTA program was also honored by the American Society of Association Executives by being named the overall winner of the 2008 Associations Make a Better World award. ASACP has received Certificates of Recognition from the U.S. House of Representatives, the California State Senate, California State Assembly, and the cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, among others, all of which acknowledged ASACP’s efforts to help parents prevent their children from viewing age-restricted content. The association educates the public through an ongoing series of Public Service Announcements, available on its YouTube channel. The most recent RTA PSA features star performers Riley Steele and Tori Black. “By bridging the needs of parents, industry, regulators and other stakeholders, ASACP strives to make a profound societal difference that protects children and underscores the legitimacy of the adult entertainment industry — and which lessens the need for governmental involvement,” Irvine said.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
ASACP Reaches Out to Congress, State, Federal Officials
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Tristan Taormino Talks About Rough Sex!
Tristan Taormino, renowned sex educator, author and director of “Rough Sex 3: Adrianna's Dangerous Mind” to appear on ‘Mou Knows Sex and Love’ with Moushumi Ghose on VoiceAmerica’s Radio Network, March 29 at 4 PM PT
Phoenix, AZ (PR-Inside) March 28, 2011 -- Voice America Talk Radio Network, Internet broadcasting pioneer, producing and syndicating online audio and video, today announced that nationally acclaimed sex educator, author and Award-nominated director Tristan Taormino will join Moushumi Ghose, host of Mou Knows Sex and Love radio program on the VoiceAmerica Variety Channel (www.voiceamericavariety.com) Tuesday, March 29, at 4 p.m. Pacific Time.
Tristan Taormino will discuss her new video, Rough Sex 3: Adrianna's Dangerous Mind, focusing on aggressive sex play which was released in stores Monday, March 14, 2011. Vivid sales director Hyland Church expressed high expectations for the reception of Rough Sex 3 as the “Rough Sex series got mainstream media coverage and been featured in several film festivals," he said. Rough Sex, Part 2, won this year's Bring It! award as the main attraction in the CineKink 2011 Adult Kink Awards.
Tristan is also the Anal Sex ‘It’ Girl, well known for breaking down the barriers of Anal Sex in her book The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, 2nd Edition (Cleis Press, 2006), as well as numerous presentations nationwide on the topic.
Tristan has been using her gifts to educate people about sex and demystify the variations of sex for over a decade. Tristan has been a guest on over three dozen radio shows including The Howard Stern Show, and Loveline with Dr. Drew & Adam Corolla. She hosted her own sex advice segment, "Down and Dirty Tuesdays with Tristan," on The Cara West Show (KOMP in Las Vegas) and was both a guest and a fill-in host on Playboy Radio's Night Calls on Sirius XM satellite radio.
Tristan speaks on various topics from sex education and GLBT issues to feminism and pornography on college campuses including Brown, Columbia, Harvard, NYU, Smith, University of North Carolina, Vassar, and Yale.
Tristan has written about a dozen books on the topic of sex and sexuality including Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships (Cleis Press, 2008) and the aforementioned The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, 2nd Edition (Cleis Press, 2006).
Tristan has made numerous TV appearances, including being the resident sexpert on the ninth season of Ricki Lake in 2003, a guest on Sunday Night on CNN, The Scarborough Report on MSNBC, The Howard Stern Show on E!, and many more.
Tristan now splits her time between doing all of the above and is an award nominated director at Vivid Entertainment and has directed numerous adult educational films including the Rough Sex series.
“Mou Knows Sex and Love” airs live on Tuesdays at 4 PM Pacific / 6 PM Central / 7 PM Eastern on The VoiceAmerica Variety Channel. To access the show, log on at www.voiceamericavariety.com. All shows will be available in Moushumi Ghose’s Content Library on The VoiceAmerica Variety Channel for on-demand and pod cast download, www.voiceamericavariety.com.
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Moushumi Ghose is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Sex Therapist in private practice in Los Angeles where she works with individuals and couples towards healthy, sex, love and relationships. (www.LASexTherapist.com) Mou is also the host of Sexy Saturdays a monthly sex therapy workshop at the Liberace Penthouse where she and her various guests educate on all things pertaining to sex and sexuality, rooftop and poolside. Moushumi Ghose currently contributes to various publications on the internet and in print.on the topics of sex and sexuality, including Goodtherapy.org, Yourtango.com, and American Curves.
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Monday, March 28, 2011
FSC Launches Anti-.XXX Campaign
CANOGA PARK, Calif. — The Free Speech Coalition announced Friday that it is launching an anti-.XXX campaign and urging adult online businesses not to buy into the newly-approved .XXX sTLD. “Collectively, adult businesses understand that .ICM’s .XXX is bad for the adult entertainment industry. FSC is launching this campaign thus continuing its effort to rid the industry of this hazard. We are encouraging adult businesses to Just Say ‘NO’ to .XXX,” FSC Executive Director Diane Duke said. “But FSC acknowledges and respects that, when push comes to shove, businesses need to do what they think is best for their company,” Duke added. “That is why adult companies need to know the implications of purchasing .XXX domain names and why buying .XXX could be the worst investment they’ll ever make.” FSC has developed a list of bullet points highlighting what it views as some of the most serious issues for adult online businesses regarding .XXX sTLD, and why they should avoid .XXX altogether. According to the FSC: • .XXX costs at least 10 times what your .coms cost (recent numbers thrown out are $70-$75/per domain name). • Five days after .XXX passed, India blocked .XXX with the promise of more countries like Australia, Germany to follow — instantly de-valuing the .XXX domain names. • sTLDs have a proven history of failure — even ones that are not blocked by entire countries and have their industry’s support. • High traffic websites will be leery of linking to your site, fearful of themselves being blocked or having dead links in blocking countries. • All registrants of .XXX must agree to third-party automated monitoring of their sites for compliance of IFFOR policies — and you will have to purchase your domain name before you even know what those policies are. • Aliases (.XXX and .com going to the same site) require that related .coms adhere to IFFOR policies. • IFFOR Policies will be determined by a council hand-picked by a board chaired by ICM’s CEO Stuart Lawley-not the industry .XXX is supposed to represent. Moreover, ICM Registry has ultimate veto power over policy development. • Businesses who register with .XXX make their alias .coms an easier target for censorship and blocking — do you really want to put your .coms at risk? • Do the math — it doesn’t add up. Even if ICM’s claims of new consumers who “trust” .XXX ring true, for a company like Kink.com, which as approximately 10,000 domain names, it would have to bring in a three quarters of a million dollars in new revenues annually — just to break even. Regulatory organization ICANN approved ICM Registry’s application for the .XXX domain last Friday, despite protests from its own Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, and strong opposition from leading adult industry businesses. As the adult industry trade association, FSC says it will continue to support the better business interests of all adult businesses, and will lead the opposition to .XXX domains because it believes that buying into .XXX is harmful to the adult industry and for individual adult business. It further stated that the .XXX domain will serve "only to fragment the Internet, make adult online businesses an easy target for anti-adult filtering and censorship, and also make it easier for under-age users to access adult material online." 
Friday, March 25, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
8 Tips for Optimizing Your Landing Page
Increase Your Overall Conversion Rate With a Quality Landing Page. The quality of your landing page is one of the single most important factors dictating whether you’re able to convert one-time readers into prospective customers. Once a reader clicks a link in your Resource Box, they are showing trust in you that you’ll deliver additional quality information on the landing page. Unfortunately, if your landing page under-delivers on those expectations, you run the risk of losing that reader to another information source. So, when it comes to designing your landing page, your #1 concern should be the overall user experience. A Successful Landing Page: Delivering on these two items may seem simple, but they take time to develop and eventually perfect. In this video, I’ll share 8 tips to ensure that your potential customers land smoothly on your landing page and they’re ready to continue their business relationship with you. Downloadable Versions: Here’s a quick summary of the points from the video: Whether you’ve recently updated your landing page or not, evaluate and adjust your landing page with these eight points and you’ll be well on your way to increasing your rate of conversion. Feel free to share any of your own landing page optimization tips in the comment section below.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
SSSS Submission deadline is TOMORROW!
The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality SSSS Call for Presentations 2011 · Last Chance to submit your proposals! Deadline is Tuesday, March 22, 2011 2011 Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas · November 3-6, 2011 Hello, Thanks to those of who you have already submitted your abstracts. The deadline to submit is Tuesday, March 22, 2011– TOMORROW! Please get your proposals in! We will not extend the deadline after this date. Questions about the submission process or guidelines? Please contact Mandy Peters at (610) 443-3100 or email mlpeters@sexscience.org Click here for more details. Thank you, Craig, Lester, and Mandy -- Lester W. Wright, Jr., Ph.D. Department of Psychology Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49008 269 387-4472 office 2011 Annual Meeting - Houston, Texas November 3 - 6, 2011 - Intercontinental near the Galleria Call for Presentations is now posted online! www.sexscience.org Join Us * Renew * Connect The oldest professional society dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about sexuality.
SSSS Submission deadline is TOMORROW!
The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality SSSS Call for Presentations 2011 · Last Chance to submit your proposals! Deadline is Tuesday, March 22, 2011 2011 Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas · November 3-6, 2011 Hello, Thanks to those of who you have already submitted your abstracts. The deadline to submit is Tuesday, March 22, 2011– TOMORROW! Please get your proposals in! We will not extend the deadline after this date. Questions about the submission process or guidelines? Please contact Mandy Peters at (610) 443-3100 or email mlpeters@sexscience.org Click here for more details. Thank you, Craig, Lester, and Mandy -- Lester W. Wright, Jr., Ph.D. Department of Psychology Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49008 269 387-4472 office 2011 Annual Meeting - Houston, Texas November 3 - 6, 2011 - Intercontinental near the Galleria Call for Presentations is now posted online! www.sexscience.org Join Us * Renew * Connect The oldest professional society dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about sexuality.