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SALEM — The Oregon Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional Thursday a state law against conducting live sex shows and a local ordinance regulating conduct of nude dancers. Both restrictions violate the Oregon Constitution's guarantees of free speech and free expression, the court said in a pair of 5-1 decisions. The free expression rulings continued the court's modern pattern of broadly interpreting state constitutional rights as forbidding virtually all regulation of obscenity. The court's decisions have given Oregon "one of the most protective approaches to the interests of freedom of expression," of any state, said Steven Green, a Willamette University...

THE PORNO-IZATION OF AMERICAN MEDIA AND MARKETINGHow Hard-Core Sex Stars are Penetrating Mainstream Culture January 26, 2004 QwikFIND ID: AAP30D By T.L. Stanley LOS ANGELES (Adage.com) -- Ron Jeremy, the legendary star of some 1,700 hard-core porn films over the last two decades, steeps in the hot tub of a sweeping hilltop Los Angeles mansion, glass of merlot in hand, flanked Declaring the ascendence of porn is a 48-foot-high billboard of porn queen Jenna Jameson in Time Square, the symbolic heart of the U.S. advertising industry. She is now courted by TV producers, book publishers and marketers as a cultural...