Japan court OKs Mapplethorpe nude photos
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Japan's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a collection of erotic photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe does not violate obscenity laws, a decision that should allow the sale of the book for the first time in eight years.
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A picture taken by award-winning American photographer Nan Goldin has been pulled from a British gallery over concerns it amounted to child pornography, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
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BRATTLEBORO, Vermont  - A Vermont town that is gaining national attention for brash displays of nudity -- from teens in the buff to naked elderly people -- awoke on Wednesday to an emergency ban on nakedness in most public places.
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Japan's pre-eminent photographer of the postwar era is a master of a kind of redolent ambiguity that speaks both to his subject and to the nature of photography.
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The 6th Circuit tosses out federal law saying Americans taking naughty digital photos of themselves and a willing adult partner must make those images available for the attorney general's perusal -- or to go prison for up to five years.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil - The Supreme Court has quashed charges of obscene exposure levied last year against avant-garde theater director Gerald Thomas, who mooned an audience after an opera performance.    After an August 2003 performance of "Tristan and Isolde" at Rio de Janeiro's municipal theater, Thomas shocked audience members and much of the cast by pulling down his pants and displaying his buttocks in response to jeers at the curtain call...
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Jennifer Aniston and a photographer have settled a lawsuit regarding topless photos shot of the actress late last year.
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A group of âmersistersâ were thrust into a national spotlight when a New York photographer shot them underwater and in the nude.
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A congressional resolution on women forced into prostitution by the Japanese military highlights Tokyo's evasion
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The moving retrospective of the Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu at the Japan Society was among the highlights of the year.
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China has pulled Li Yuâs âLost in Beijing,â a movie whose sexually explicit scenes were already censored, from theaters and banned its producer from the film business for two years, The Associated Press reported. The ruling against âLost in Beijingâ accused the filmmakers of publishing unapproved pornographic scenes from the movie on the Internet and on DVDs, the official China News Service Web site reported. The filmâs producer, Fang Li, said he believed that Chinese officials faced political pressure to act amid the rapid spread of uncensored versions of âLost in Beijingâ and another sexually explicit film, Ang Leeâs âLust, Caution,â on the Internet and in pirated DVDs.
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SANTA MARIA, Calif.  - "Erotic material,"  including pictures of nude children, seized from Michael  Jackson's Neverland Valley Ranch, can be shown to jurors at the  pop star's upcoming child molestation case, a judge ruled on  Friday.
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An initiative has begun allowing for the shutdown or blocking of sites offering illicit images of minors, even where no criminal investigation is being conducted.
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MEXICO CITY - Alarmed by glimpses of sweaty citizens in the buff, the city council in the southeastern city of Villahermosa has adopted a law banning indoor nudity, officials confirmed Wednesday.  The regulation, which takes effect on Jan.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Convicted sex offenders in Sweden are free to read pornography in their cells following a court ruling that has angered the prison service.
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A photograph owned by Sir Elton John and seized from an exhibition as part of a child pornography inquiry has been judged not to be indecent, the Crown Prosecution Service said today.
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A trio of photographers accused of invading the privacy of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed are acquitted.