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            <title><![CDATA[Are Gigolos Real?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The reality show Gigolos, which chronicles the sexual exploits of male prostitutes with a women-only client base, is so fake it raises the question of whether the profession exists.
Gigolos, the Showtime reality show that purports to document the real...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Person Behind the Porn Wikileaks Website]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Porn Wikileaks is attempting to expose the identities-and STDs-of thousands of adult-film performers. Richard Abowitz talks to the vigilante who claims to be behind the effort.
Like many of the women who perform in porn for a couple of years, Monica...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Behind the Porn Piracy Crackdown]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The adult industry is cracking down on thousands who illegally download porn-and betting they'll pay up rather than have their smut-surfing habits exposed in court.
Mark A., 29, illegally downloads porn. A lot of porn. His favorite performer is...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Porn Stars Love Twitter]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The fantasy-based porn business was slow to embrace the real-life interactions of social media. But now hundreds of adult stars are on Twitter, talking to fans and receiving gifts. Plus, a gallery of 10 porn stars to follow.
While the porn business...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[At AVN Weekend with Porn's Top Talent Agent]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Adult-film stars have descended upon Las Vegas, hustling for gigs at the industry's biggest convention. Richard Abowitz shadows porn's top talent agent as he wheels and deals.
Mark Spiegler waddles, shifting his girth from one foot to the other,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Did Porn Star Derrick Burts Get HIV?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The straight man who sparked porn's HIV panic did gay scenes and had a male-escort ad. Richard Abowitz on how money woes are forcing guys to go "gay for pay"-and putting actors at risk.
Derrick Burts, a baby-faced 24 year old from suburban Los...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The HIV Porn Scare]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[An anonymous porn actor's positive HIV test is sending ripples of fear across the adult industry-and the tight-lipped reaction of the clinic that conducted the test isn't helping, porn performers tell Richard Abowitz.
When porn star Bobbi Starr...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Worst Strip Club in Vegas]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ That's the ignoble title bestowed upon Foxy Girls strip club by a new guide to Las Vegas. Richard Abowitz stops by to talk to the ladies and finds ugliness and charm in equal measure.
When most people think of a Las Vegas strip club, they think...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Samurai Porn Murder]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A porn star accused of hacking a colleague to death with a sword jumped to his death Saturday after a standoff with a Los Angeles SWAT team. He was reportedly holding a sword. Richard Abowitz reports on the gruesome crime and why it has some in the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Vegas' Mystery Sex Blog]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A Sin City prostitute is posting her sexploits on Twitter and her blog. Richard Abowitz talks to the anonymous woman who's inspired a city-wide guessing game. 
Here's what we can reveal about The Las Vegas Courtesan: She is about to turn 29, but looks...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Can Cirque du Soleil's New Show Save Vegas?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Cirque du Soleil's new show, the gaudy and fun Viva Elvis, opened Friday-and it's a sure hit. But Richard Abowitz says it won't save the depressed Vegas entertainment scene. 
The most surprising thing about Viva Elvis, Cirque du Soleil's latest...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Top 5 Reasons Porn-for-Profit Is Dying]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Why is the adult film business in dire straits? Sasha Grey and other stars answered The Daily Beast's question this weekend at the porn industry's annual convention in Las Vegas.
Every January, the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas is the biggest...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Men in the Mirror]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Before Michael Jackson's death, his impersonators' lives were, at best, uneventful. Now they're in high demand-and have strangers weeping in front of them.
Last week, Harry Connick Jr. made international news by shooting down a blackface parody of the...]]></description>
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