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...computer-hip magazine Wired, "is a heat-seeking missile that forever seeks out the newest medium for its transmission." He cites the spread of printed smut in post-Gutenberg Europe, pornographic pictures in the age of photolithography, X-rated tapes in the video stores and dial-a-porn services on the 900 telephone lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orgies On-Line | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

...night's Seinfeld or the latest Spielberg. They are exploring the market for addictive video games and trying to figure out how much they can charge for each minute of play. It won't be long before someone begins using video phones for the multimedia equivalent of "dial-a-porn" telephone-sex lines. All these services can be delivered easily and efficiently by the information highway, and they can be backed up by a threat with real teeth. As TCI chairman John Malone puts it, "If you don't pay your bill, we'll turn off your television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take A Trip into the Future on the Electronic Superhighway | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...among pedophiles is rapidly becoming more popular than smutty magazines. The ring, based in Denmark, charged its members about $80 a year and used computers and telephone lines to transmit explicit photos of children ages 5 to 12. Customs officials say this is the first time a high-tech porn ring of this kind has been broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computer Porn | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...late a certain desperation has entered Koons' output -- or so one might judge from a series of paintings and sculptures titled Made in Heaven. They depict Koons having various forms of sex with his wife Ilona Staller, the Italian porn star-politician who rose to fame under the name Cicciolina. The results range in size from small glass figurines to a photo-based mural. The centerpiece is an over-life-size carving of Cicciolina and her swain in rapture, like Adam and Eve, with a giant python curled around their plinth. As pornography, these works are inefficiently winsome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Princeling Of Kitsch | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

...season for tolerance, and thus such atrocities as Leverett House's "Secret Winter Snow Friend." This sounds like a porn film. Other campus organizations fare no better with "Secret Holiday Pal," which evokes images of an old man sitting on a park bench playing the "shiny quarter in my pocket" trick on unsuspecting eight-year-olds...

Author: By Eric R. Columbus, | Title: My Santa's No Secret | 12/11/1992 | See Source »

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