Pope Porn Gets Pulled

based Internet Entertainment Group, the most widely known purveyor of Internet porn, to dismantle a site that featured Pope John Paul II and sexually explicit photos of women. \n The site has been removed, though a hearing is scheduled this week to determine if the order will be made permanent. A spokesman for IEG said the company intends to fight the court order. \n Lawyers for the archdiocese said the IEG site is confusing to people seeking information about the pope's visit to St. Louis and infringed on the archdiocese's trademark. \n The pope is scheduled to visit the city Jan. 26-27, his only planned trip to the U.S. in 1999. The IEG Web site provided the pope's itinerary for the St. Louis trip, as well as links to St. Louis attractions, hotels and sporting events. \n At the bottom of each Web page, however, were erotic images, part of ads for IEG's best-known adult site, Clublove (www.clublove.com), which features images of nude women and other sexually explicit material. \n IEG is expected to argue that its papal porn site included a message in bold letters that advised parental discretion. It also contained a disclaimer which said that neither IEG nor the Web site is affiliated with the Catholic Church or the archdiocese. \n No matter, said Steve Mamanella, spokesman for the archdiocese. "It's inappropriate. It's degrading. It's deceptive and it's wrong." He charged that IEG is doing it for profit and to lure people into a pornographic Web site. \n Mamanella said he and others happened on the site completely by accident while conducting a search for key words. He said the archdiocese has had a number of calls from people who found the site in this manner. \n For IEG, the ruling was an unaccustomed court defeat. Last year, the company won judgments that allowed it to post nude photos of radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger and to show and sell honeymoon sex videos of Pamela Anderson Lee and Tommy Lee.