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Tax Tips for Adult: 2

In part one, we began our look at tax issues and adult entertainment. In this conclusion, we'll look at deductions, the audit process and beyond:

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opinion

Tax Tips for Adult: 1

In March, the Internal Revenue Service reported that more than 1.2 million income tax returns had been audited in fiscal year 2005 in the U.S., a 21 percent increase from a year earlier.

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opinion

Adult Video Sharing

Adult webmasters are not the only people in cyberspace who benefit from adult entertainment; there are many mainstream webmasters who prosper from it as well.

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The Great Divide

On Jan. 18, Apple Computer announced the results for the fiscal quarter that ended on Dec. 31, 2005 — and the figures that the Northern California-based company reported included a net quarterly profit of $565 million, with shipments of more than 1.2 million Macintosh computers and more than 14 million iPods. That quarter was, according to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the best in Apple's history.

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Alternative Dating Sites

Internet dating has become a major industry, and a considerable amount of publicity has been given to Match.com, eHarmony.com and other mainstream dating websites. But not all dating sites have a mainstream or vanilla orientation, and for people with more exotic leanings, alternative dating sites have been filling an important need.

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opinion

The Video iPod Market: 2

In part one we looked at how the adult entertainment industry has a long history of being quick to embrace new technologies and profiting handsomely from them and how Apple's Video iPod is the latest platform for the industry to adopt. Today we'll wrap up with a look at what consumers think, and beyond...

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opinion

The Video iPod Market: 1

The adult entertainment industry has a long history of being quick to embrace new technologies and profiting handsomely from them. That was true with VCRs in the 1980s, the Internet in the 1990s and DVDs in the early 2000s. With the introduction of Apple's Video iPod — a new video equivalent of the popular audio iPod — the question on the minds of many adult-oriented entrepreneurs is: How much will this new mobile device benefit our industry?

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opinion

Religious Right Intrusions

Conservatism often is defined as a belief in smaller, more limited and less intrusive government, but the strident moralists of the Religious Right have no problem with government intrusiveness when it comes to sexual matters and have a long history of waging war on everything from adult entertainment to homosexuality to birth control. However, Religious Right activists — whose approach would be better classified as authoritarian rather than classically conservative — don't always practice what they preach. Below are 10 of the Religious Right's most blatant hypocrites.

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Hip-Hop and Adult

From Lil' Kim and Too Short to DJ Quik — from Ice-T to Luther Campbell and 2 Live Crew — hip-hop has long been known for its abundance of sexually explicit lyrics. Rappers were hardly the first recording artists to address sexuality; back in the 1920s and 1930s, blues lyrics also were full of sexual innuendoes and naughty, clever double-entendres. But rappers took sexually explicit songs to a whole new level in the 1980s and 1990s, and now, more and more MCs are allying themselves with the adult entertainment industry.

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