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Sex sells. Already a ten-billion dollar business-and growing-most sex businesses require relatively low start-up costs and minimal equipment. No wonder retired porn stars, homemakers, college students, and entrepreneurs of every stripe are eager to jump on the smut band wagon. Following the money trail, or in this case, the telecom routes, the author reveals how some big phone companies are cashing in too. Obscene Profits offers a startling and entertaining new look at this very old business, and shows why pornography, in all of its variations--videos, magazines, phone-sex, spy cameras, etc.--

Approaching the risks for children on the Internet in a thought-provoking and intellectual manner, this study skillfully integrates contemporary news reports and disturbing legal cases to show how Facebook and other ready-made forums for information exchange are breaking down boundaries of privacy and facilitating a growing number of criminal convictions for cyberbullying, child pornography, hacking, and copyright infringement. Also included is a discussion of how the widespread use of camera phones, mobile tablets, and social media sites has given rise to a new and dangerous practice among te

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: "God Wants Me to Be President" -- Chapter One: Judicial Review: Putting the "Supreme" in Supreme Court -- Chapter Two: "In God We Trust": The Push to Declare America a Christian Nation -- Chapter Three: God's Farm Team: The Growing Evangelical Education System -- Chapter Four: Advice and Consent: The Cross-Examination of Supreme Court Nominees -- Chapter Five: The First Freedom: Separation of Church and State -- Chapter Six: Roy's Rock: The Battle over Public Display of Religious Symbols -- Chapter Seven: Of Pandas and Prayer: Religion in the Public Schools -- Chapter Eight: Cubicle Faith: Religion in the Workplace -- Chapter Nine: The Last Freedom: The Right to Privacy -- Chapter Ten: The Culture of Life: Three Pyrrhic Victories for the Religious Right -- Conclusion: Requiem for a Court? -- Acknowledgments.