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This week's round up is awfully dry…but educational! 

Four Teenagers Accused Of Forcing Other Teenagers Into Prostitution A detective who testified in the case said they operated "like selling cookies door to door." Um…what? Dude, you need to file a complaint against your local girl scout troop.

Strip Club That Hired 12 Year Old Surrenders License (for more, see this earlier story)

First Text-Based Obscenity Prosecution in 30 Years - The convicted woman had a subscriber base that's so small as to be almost non-existant (29 people) and the material she was convicted for was entirely fictional. 

Two very different takes on the same Supreme Court ruling, this time relating to the legality of promoting pornographic materials as involving children, even when they don't actually do so:  CNN and AVN. (PS - thanks for the radically misleading headline, CNN. Are you trying to become Fox News 2?) From one of dissenting justices:  "I believe that maintaining the First Amendment protection of expression we have previously held to cover fake child pornography requires a limit to the law's criminalization of pandering proposals."

An Interview With A Dominatrix on San Francisco clients  (Verdict: They're great!) 

NPR Takes On Prostitution (via Bound, Not Gagged) 

Quotes of the Day: "S&M is like the Hot Topic in the mall of sexuality. It's trying to be different, it's trying to freak you out, it's trying to piss off parents, but in the end, it's really kind of…normal."

*I know that men are sex workers. I know that transgendered people are sex workers. But I'm not sure if the language of the actual law acknowledges that. (The article certainly doesn't, as is in keeping with almost all mainstream media.)