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After eight years of refusing to help homosexuals find love, eHarmony.com will be providing matchmaking services to gays and lesbians starting in 2009. The new service will be called Compatible Partners.

This follows a legal battle between eHarmony and 46-year-old Eric McKinley. McKinley filed a discrimination suit against the company back in March 2005 when he was not allowed to post an ad.

"I heard their advertisement that winter and thought 'Hey, this could work for me," McKinley said. "So I went to their website but couldn't pass the initial screen. There was no option for man seeking man. It made me feel angry, mad, and sad. . . a whole range of emotions."

McKinley will receive $5,000 and a free membership for a year to the new service. The company will pay an additional fine of $50,000 to the New Jersey Attorney General's office for administrative expenses. An additional 10,000 people seeking same-sex partners will also be offered free six-month subscriptions.

Hooray, another dating site we have to pay for!

The Australian government is facing mounting opposition to their plan to censor what Australians can access over the Internet. The plan is to force all ISPs to filter the content their customers are looking at, giving adults more  (but still restricted) freedom than kids.

Michael Malone, boss of iiNet, an Australian ISP with 700,000 customers, said his firm would be happy to take part in the initial trial ... allowing him to prove the stupidity of the government's plan.

Malone told the Sydney Morning Herald: "They're not listening to the experts, they're not listening to the industry, they're not listening to consumers, so perhaps some hard numbers will actually help.

"Every time a kid manages to get through this filter, we'll be publicising it and every time it blocks legitimate content, we'll be publicising it."

The trial is due to start on Christmas Eve. Since when did the Grinch become Australia's Prime Minister?

US escorts will no longer be getting a free ride from popular classified ad site Craigslist. Forty states have convinced Craigslist to crack down on the activities of online prostitutes.

This means that anyone advertising in the "erotic services section" will have to pay for their post and provide a valid phone number, said Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.

"Prostitutes will hopefully stop using Craigslist to break the law, knowing that their posts could lead to arrest and conviction," he added.

"Requiring credit-card verification, and charging a fee to post in this category raises accountability to a point where we expect few illicit ads will remain," Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster said. "... more than ever, those who would misuse Craigslist to violate the law will find that Craigslist is a very inhospitable place."

May we suggest another way to solve the problem: legalize prostitution.

Athletic Model Guild (AMG) launched the AMG Podcast this week, available on iTunes, to help promote its gay videos to a larger audience. The podcast will offer trailers, some bonus footage, and star interviews, and can be found on the iTunes website by searching for “Athletic Model Guild” or “AMG Brasil.”

“We wanted to do something special for the release of ‘Rio’ because it’s a movie unlike any other produced by AMG. We figured this was the perfect opportunity to show that just because we’re an ‘old’ studio, doesn’t mean we can’t learn new tricks,” said Christopher Trout, AMG promotions manager.

"Rio," the company's latest release, is the first video being marketed this way. Fans will find nine “video teasers” and a hardcore trailer, plus interviews with the film’s cast.

"In their interviews, they were encouraged to be candid about their lives. I wanted them to be completely honest,” Company president Dennis Bell said.

Actor Rodolfo Guerra, for example, admitted, “I believe Brazilians, especially the Cariocas of Rio, are sex addicts by nature. So I really like raunchy sex and orgies. I like to fill my life with experience.”

“Our fans want to know these models, and because they are in Brazil, there is little access to them,” Bell suggested. “The interviews for ‘Rio’ will only make fans feel closer to the men they lust after.”

And any chance to hear those sexy Brazilian accents doesn't hurt, either.

You can check out some of the men from "Rio" after the jump ...

Living in Australia isn't going to be as much fun as it used to be. The government has introduced an Internet filtering system which will control all citizens' access to the Web.

Calling their initiative a Plan for Cyber-Safety, and costing the country $125.8 million, two blacklists  have been created. One list will block all material deemed inappropriate for children. The second list will keep “illegal material” out of everyone's hands. Australians can opt out of the first list, but everyone must have their online activity filtered through the second.

The Australian government will determine what will go on either list, and though porn is allowed (for now) other controversial issues from legalising drugs to abortion could be banned.

"The news for Australian Internet users just keeps getting worse," said Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) Board member Colin Jacobs. "We have legitimate concerns with the creeping scope of this unprecedented interference in our communications infrastructure. It's starting to look like nothing less than a comprehensive program of real-time Internet censorship."

Perhaps they can get some pointers from the Chinese.

Facebook has removed two pages from its site set up by the gay men's retailer Priape.

Priape's director of marketing and sales, Michael Ain, thinks his site is getting a bum rap for being queer focused.

"I've found sites for women in bondage, women in latex," he says. "Bondage, whips and chains training is on here. It's all women. I have to wonder if it's an antigay approach to the same stuff. I have to be curious as to what we're doing in the gay community as opposed to what other groups are doing."

There was no warning that Facebook was considering closing the Priape pages.

"Around late July they terminated the site without explanation," he says. "Once they shut down the Priape group we started a fan page. Within a week and a half we had 4,000 members. We were very closely following the Facebook terms of use.

"About a month into it, it was flushed without explanation."

"The content on the Page you created is prohibited," wrote Autumn of Facebook's customer operations. "We do not currently allow content referencing, facilitating or promoting adult toys, videos or other adult products. Unfortunately we cannot reinstate this Page and ask that you do not recreate this page in the future."

Please, we all know the people for Facebook are only doing it for our own good. Aren't they?

Google co-founder Sergey Brin went on record through his blog on Friday stating that his company does not support a ban on gay marriage. With the company's headquarters in California and nearly 20,000 employees, Brin sees gay marriage as an issue of equality.

"As an Internet company, Google is an active participant in policy debates surrounding information access, technology and energy. Because our company has a great diversity of people and opinions -- Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, all religions and no religion, straight and gay -- we do not generally take a position on issues outside of our field, especially not social issues. So when Proposition 8 appeared on the California ballot, it was an unlikely question for Google to take an official company position on.

"However, while there are many objections to this proposition -- further government encroachment on personal lives, ambiguously written text -- it is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8. While we respect the strongly-held beliefs that people have on both sides of this argument, we see this fundamentally as an issue of equality. We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposition 8 -- we should not eliminate anyone's fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love."

In May the California Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex marriages in the state, but opponents of gay lovin' have decided to bring it to the fore during the upcoming election. It will appear as a ballot question in California.

Whether or not Google will provide financial support against the initiative we do not know, but we're sure they can throw a few pennies towards stopping the forces of evil.

Although some of you would love to check out Barack Obama's moves in the bedroom -- different strokes and all that -- an e-mail that promises a naughty video of the Democrat's nominee for President is not all it's cracked up to be.

Not only is said e-mail spam (surprised? not!), but it is also carrying a nasty bit of malware.

Security company  Websense says the e-mail promises to show video of Obama having sex while visiting the Ukraine. Click the link and malicious applications are installed on the your machine, including a keystroke logger (which can capture your passwords). Another application allows remote access and control of your computer.

Penis enlargment ads are one thing, but using the lure of Obama porn? Hackers have gone too far!

Both Microsoft and Google understand that one of the biggest draws of the Internet is all that wonderful porn. With this in mind they have introduced a new feature on their browsers which allows users to visit websites without leaving any telltale signs of their surfing habits.

In Internet Explorer 8, now in beta, it's  called "InPrivate." Google's brand new Chrome browser calls it "Incognito." But most surfers will just call it  "Porn Mode."

Employers are concerned that porn mode will increase questionable activity during work time. But employees should not feel a false sense of privacy. In fact, the new feature will not stop a company's servers from logging your every move. 

WebSpy COO, Lagis Zavros told Market Watch,  "It should be emphasized that these new features are purely aimed at the home market. Most organizations will have web, proxy servers or firewalls all capable of capturing and logging traffic as it flows through the company ... employers will still be able to monitor sites visited."

In other words, while it's still not safe to jerk-off at work, it's now a lot easier to keep your home porn surfing to yourself.

His name is Jeff and he's managed to use his muscular body, handsome dick and sweet as cherry pie asshole (we're getting hungry just looking at it) to create a successful online porn career. And he's doing it all on his own; no major studio, no big contract.

"I have pretty much always been an exhibitionist," he admitted to us. "but I did not realize that I was going to take it a step further until the year 2000 when I found a site called Camarades. They had some cam software that allowed people to stream images and show off for others.

"It was so much fun and so addicting that I decided to start my own site. I figured that since I was straight and since I would be on cam that I would use the name "STR8cam.com".

And therein lies the rub: he's as straight as they cum, er, come. But he's winning over a lot of horny men, especially since posting a few sexy videos on XTube  ...

Titan Media has lost one of its copyright infringement cases after a federal judge dismissed their lawsuit against video sharing site Veoh.

Titan launched the suit in 2006 after ten of their videos were discovered on Veoh. Veoh argued it was unaware of the infringement and removed the material as quickly as possible.

However, Titan countered that Veoh failed to comply to their own rules concerning copyrighted material and did not adequately monitor users who repeatedly posted the illegal material.

The judge found in favor of Veoh. "The record presented demonstrates that, far from encouraging copyright infringement, Veoh has a strong DCMA policy, takes active steps to limit incidents of infringement on its website, and works diligently to keep unauthorized works off its website," wrote U.S. Magistrate Judge Howard Lloyd.

Can't win 'em all, Titan.

HornyBoy.com, whose claim to fame is self-suck videos, is being put up for sale. And according to company president Rob Rude it wasn't the easiest decision to make.

"We’ve been considering putting HornyBoy on the market for about a year now," he told BananaGuide, "but because of the time, energy, and care that we’ve put into it we hesitated to do so. However, we have now decided to exit the adult market as the regulations and expenses have just become too much for us.

"It takes a lot of money and expert human resources to compete in today’s adult market, and we just don’t have the resources to continue to do all that needs to be done."

Rob Rude has already invested over four years in the site and sees the sale as a chance for HornyBoy.com  to climb to the next level. "I’ve always believed it has tremendous potential as a brand, and its autofellatio niche is more popular and under explored than most people realize. There are some great gay companies out there like Channel 1 Releasing and BadPuppy and we would love to see someone like that take an interest in HornyBoy."

The sale will also free up time to explore other interests such as domain brokering, website design, and internet retail sales. "We will always be on the internet in one way or another," Rude admitted. Besides, "there will always be a place in my heart for HornyBoy. It was the launch pad for my company RudeBox Media, Inc. and the many other opportunities we have had as a result."

Now's your chance would-be pornographers. While one of  your biggest challenges will be finding models who can suck their own dicks, just imagine the fun you'll have trying!