For years, Dr. Laura Schessinger preached the gospel of old fashioned morality to an estimated 18 million listeners daily on her national radio talk show. Now those same listeners, along with anyone else with access to the Internet, can see more of Dr. Laura than ever before. \n There are 12 nude pictures of her posted at www.clublove.com, a Web site operated by the Seattle based Internet Entertainment Group. \n Dr. Laura, 51, went to considerable lengths to halt the posting of the shots, taken about 25 years ago by a boyfriend at a time when she was married to her first husband. She got a temporary emergency injunction that required IEG to take the pictures off the Web site after they had been up for about eight hours and received an estimated 14,000 hits. \n A few days later, though, the injunction was lifted and federal judge Dean Pregerson ruled IEG has the right to put the photos, referred to as "the dirty dozen," back on the Web. \n The judge said he "did not feel it was productive" to continue the injunction because "this matter has been spattered on the Internet already." \n IEG got the photos from Bill Ballance, an 80 year old Southern California radio talk show host. He said Dr. Laura voluntarily posed for them more than two decades ago when they were having an affair. Reportedly, he received $50,000 for the shots. \n For Ballance, probably more than money was involved in the transaction. He was among the first to talk about sex issues on radio and Dr. Laura was his protégé. He has taken a dim view of her judgmental stance in recent years and, in one interview, referred to her as "this monster I've created." \n For her part, Dr. Laura, author of "Ten Stupid Things Women Do To Mess Up Their Lives" and a new book, "The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life," has said nothing publicly about the photos. Up until the most recent ruling, she kept mum on her radio show, issued no press statements and, through her lawyer, turned away all interview requests. \n Dr. Laura is known for her outspoken stances against divorce and adultery and in favor of abstinence before marriage and taking responsibility for one's actions. She has offered listeners the software program WebChaperone to help them avoid sexually explicit material on the Internet. \n In her request for an injunction, Dr. Laura claimed copyright violations, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. IEG lawyer Derek Newman argued that the photos were newsworthy and that the company legally obtained the copyright to them from Ballance. \n Seth Warshavsky, IEG president, called it ironic "that this woman has set herself up as a paradigm of morality when she has posed for very sexy photos taken by a lover while still married." \n Those who wish to see Dr. Laura's pictures can do so for free by providing information requested to obtain a week's trial membership at Clublove. Regular memberships at the Web site cost $24.95 a month. \n IEG has been best known as the distributor of the Pamela Anderson Lee honeymoon sex tapes. Coincidentally, the same day that Judge Pregerson ruled against Dr. Laura, he also ruled against a suit by Pamela and Tommy Lee. He said the two stars of the best selling adult video of all time had no legitimate claim against IEG, which purchased rights to the video.
All models were at least 18 years old at the time of their performance. 18 U.S.C. 2257 Record-Keeping Requirements Compliance Statement.
