International Business News - Sex http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A Montana woman who lost a court battle with her former same-sex partner over parental rights filed an appeal Thursday with the state Supreme Court. District Judge Ed McLean of Missoula had ruled Monday against Barbara Maniaci, following what attorneys for both sides called Montana's first same-sex parental rights trial. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/mont-same-sex-parental-rights-ruling-appealed.htm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:41:33 EDT A teacher who disappeared after her then-husband killed her 18-year-old lover is living in Texas with her sons and another teenage man, according to testimony at a hearing Wednesday on who should get custody of the boys. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/tenn-teacher-in-texas-after-teen-lover-was-slain.htm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:27:56 EDT The one-time sex tycoon who would be governor wants to clean up this sprawling, gritty city where he grew rich overseeing an empire of flesh. But weeks of shaking hands and giving speeches have left him longing for the days of massage girls and hot tubs. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/143867-thailand-sex-tycoon-for-mayor.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/bangkoks-former-sex-tycoon-wants-to-be-mayor.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/bangkoks-former-sex-tycoon-wants-to-be-mayor.htm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:12:56 EDT A judge ruled in favor of a woman who sought parental rights to a boy and girl adopted by her former same-sex partner, a decision described as a first for Montana. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/mont-former-same-sex-partner-gets-parental-rights.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:13:49 EDT A former suburban police sergeant who is married to a New York City anchorwoman admitted in court Friday that he used his authority to have sexual contact with a 17-year-old girl. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/ny-policeman-admits-sexual-contact-with-teen.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:15:28 EDT A former state lawmaker who took three sex offenders into his home went to court to challenge zoning officials' decision to bar them. Tom Armstrong, a former tough-on-crime politician who has become interested in prisoners' rights, filed his appeal Sept. 11. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080923/ex-pa-lawmaker-takes-sex-offender-fight-to-court.htm Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:31:51 EDT The former personal assistant of a New York investment firm chief has withdrawn a sex harassment lawsuit against him. Her ex-boss said she had filed it to deflect attention after she embezzled from him. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/harass-suit-vs-ny-investment-chief-is-dropped.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:05:30 EDT City officials who suspect prostitution raided a suburban Dallas swingers club, the latest effort to shut it down. Authorities raided the Cherry Pit late Saturday night, confiscating cash and client lists and briefly detaining about 60 people, the club's attorney said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/officials-raid-suburban-dallas-swingers-club.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:09:34 EDT A former elementary school teacher charged with sexually exploiting some of his students pleaded guilty Friday to two federal child pornography charges that could send him to prison for at least 25 years. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080919/former-vermont-teacher-pleads-guilty-to-sex-crimes.htm Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:28:16 EDT Brazil's president has come out in favor of same-sex unions. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says that in Brazil, "there are men living with men, and women living with women" who "build a good life together." But a proposed law that would give all same-sex couples rights equal to those enjoyed by married heterosexuals has been stalled in Brazil's Congress for more than a decade. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080918/brazil-president-defends-same-sex-unions.htm Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:21:27 EDT Prosecutors sought a first-degree murder conviction and could have sent him away for life. Instead, a jury convicted the teacher's husband of reckless homicide, for fatally shooting his wife's student lover. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/128694-teacher-sex-slaying.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080912/man-reflects-on-verdict-death-of-ex-wifes-lover.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080912/man-reflects-on-verdict-death-of-ex-wifes-lover.htm Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:21:00 EDT At The Water Club, the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa's ultra-posh luxury hotel, you've got 60 seconds to decide if you're in the mood. If a package of adult personal care items including condoms and other intimate products called "The Passion Kit" isn't put back on the shelf by then, the hotel automatically charges you for it. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080912/in-room-sex-kits-a-hot-seller-at-the-water-club.htm Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:57:06 EDT A teacher's husband who was charged with murder in the death of his wife's student lover was found guilty Thursday of a lesser crime, which could mean little or no time in prison. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080911/tenn-teachers-husband-convicted-in-student-death.htm Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:03:56 EDT The advertisement seems innocuous enough: A pregnant woman's belly with a male symbol scrawled in ink to the right of her navel and a female symbol to the left. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080911/google-india-runs-ad-for-illegal-baby-sex-test-kit.htm Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:32:20 EDT A sex offender who posed as a 12-year-old boy to enroll in Arizona schools has pleaded guilty to seven criminal charges, two stemming from the charade he pulled for two years, and will go to prison for more than 70 years, a prosecutor said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/127646-sex-offender-ruse.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080911/sex-offender-who-posed-as-child-pleads-guilty.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080911/sex-offender-who-posed-as-child-pleads-guilty.htm Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:52:32 EDT A sex offender who posed as a 12-year-old boy to enroll in Arizona schools has pleaded guilty to seven criminal charges, two stemming from the charade he pulled for two years, and will go to prison for more than 70 years, a prosecutor said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/127367-sex-offender-ruse.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080910/sex-offender-who-posed-as-child-pleads-guilty.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080910/sex-offender-who-posed-as-child-pleads-guilty.htm Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:43:09 EDT A judge in Tennessee is refusing to throw out a first-degree murder charge against a man accused of killing his wife's student lover. A lawyer representing 33-year-old Eric McLean made the request Tuesday after prosecutors rested their case against the man accused of shooting of 18-year-old Sean Powell. Powell was the former student and lover of McLean's schoolteacher wife, Erin. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080909/tenn-judge-wont-eject-first-degree-murder-charge.htm Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:40:32 EDT A teacher's husband accused of killing his wife's teen lover told interrogators in a videotape that was played in court Monday that he had only a hazy recollection of killing the teen. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/126142-teacher-sex-slaying.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080908/officer-man-remembered-shooting-wifes-teen-lover.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080908/officer-man-remembered-shooting-wifes-teen-lover.htm Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:58:42 EDT A prosecutor described a schoolteacher's husband as a jealous, calculating killer as trial opened Friday on charges he murdered his wife's teenage lover. But a defense lawyer told the jury that the defendant was a victim himself of a spouse who flaunted her infidelity. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/124077-teacher-sex-slaying.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080905/murder-trial-opens-in-tenn-love-triangle-case.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080905/murder-trial-opens-in-tenn-love-triangle-case.htm Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:10:19 EDT People calling a federal phone number to order duck stamps are instead greeted by a phone-sex line, due to a printing error the government says would be too expensive to correct. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/122790-duck-stamps-sex-line.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080904/duck-stamp-error-sends-callers-to-sex-line.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080904/duck-stamp-error-sends-callers-to-sex-line.htm Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:24:32 EDT