Three eighth-grade students have been expelled from their middle school for showing students a pornographic DVD in the classroom when their teacher wasn't watching. The Bay Minette Middle School students put the DVD into the player while their teacher was busy grading papers and working on a computer, said the assistant superintendent for Baldwin County Schools, Terry Knight.

Online photos intended to assist dermatologists may be attracting users who are more interested in pornography rather than clinical studies. Reuters reports Web site operators noticed a large increase in searches for images of genital areas. Because of this supposed misuse of the site, Dr. Christoph U. Lehmann and colleagues from Johns Hopkins University say in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology that, "anonymous misuse of collaborative archives must be anticipated, addressed and prevented to preserve their integrity and the integrity of the learning communities they support. "

An unusual tax workshop is being held at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center until the mid-April tax filing deadline where prostitutes gain help from the workers on hand to explain things like the earned-income-tax credit. The event was organized by a group called Prostitutes of New York, a support and advocacy group, and by a sex industry magazine called Spread. Prostitutes of New York advocate the legalization of prostitution and meets clandestinely to avoid the police and pimps.

The Italian government will tap into the porn industry lessen the deficit. The "porno-tax," would take 25 percent on all income from pornography. The proposal is contained in a package of amendments to the 2006 budget to presented in the Chamber of Deputies Tuesday or Wednesday, according to government sources speaking to Reuters.

For a country that is known for being on the bottom of the list for most sexually-active nations, it is no surprise that Singapore's media watchdogs would pull the nudity and sex toys out of public viewing for this year's Sexpo 2005. The exhibition, which prohibits anyone under the age of 21, is seen as a milestone for the tightly controlled city-state that bans pornography and has tight censorship laws that routinely cut nudity and sex scenes from movies.