In 1988 Ken Marcus was the Artist-In-Residence at the Yosemite National Park Museum. This once in a lifetime opportunity to combine his love of Yosemite’s incredible landscape with classical nude figure studies resulted in a series of images that have been exhibited and published worldwide.

Shortly after the museum presented Marcus‘ work in their gallery, a top official ordered their removal on grounds of obscenity. The public outcry and controversy that arose from that government censorship became front page news in over 1,400 newspapers and national television news coverage. Eventually, the official lost his job and the images continue to be a part of the museum’s permanent collection.

One in four women fantasize about starring in a porn film; the survey also revealed that one in five fantasize about lesbian sex, with Angelina Jolie heading the list.... via LifestyleExtra

The saucy findings - which will give hope to Lotharios the world over - were laid bare in a sex poll of more than 1,2000 readers of Glamour magazine.

More than one-in-eight of the women questioned (13 per cent) said they thought of their female friends during sex.

Being dominated by sexual partners also featured heavily in the questionnaire, with 30 per cent keen on the idea of being spanked. And a shocking 12 per cent fantasise about being kidnapped.

The case has cost millions of dollars, involved a trashed mansion, a phantom gunfight between bounty hunters, forgery and disappearing bank accounts.... via Times Online

In a few weeks’ time a thickset middle-aged man with a ready smile and the gift of the gab will walk into a courtroom in San Jose, capital of California’s “silicon valley” and try to plead poverty before the judge.

The lawyers he will be facing will not believe him, and with good reason: over the past decade Stephen Michael Cohen has made hundreds of millions of dollars as the self-styled king of internet porn, a business worth globally some $57 billion.