Some people have suggested that porn shops are a safe place to help people relieve their impulses. Research suggests that, on the contrary, porn can “decrease sensitivity to the crime of rape” and “increase the acceptance of violence against women”. Here is information adapted from oneangrygirl.net. “The relationship between particularly sexually violent images in the […]
Impact of Porn
USA Today: “Sex shops infiltrate small towns”
Some people have wondered why Capital Video chose Northampton for a porn shop. A USA Today article from 2003 suggests a reason…Until the 61-foot-tall sign appeared one morning along Interstate 70, no one from Abilene, Kan., knew that the former Stuckey’s truck stop just outside of town had been remade into an “adult superstore” that […]
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What Lies Behind Capital Video’s Meriden Porn Shop
Capital Video’s outlet in Meriden, CT is called Amazing.net. It contains private viewing booths. NPN took a trip on July 9 and surveyed the public areas around this shop. We found numerous blue gloves on the ground behind the building. Here is a picture of the front of the shop, then some from the back: […]
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US Court of Appeals Upholds Minneapolis Regulation of Porn Viewing Booths
In 1990, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld “the constitutionality of a City of Minneapolis, Minnesota ordinance which: (1) prohibited the construction, use, design, or operation of a commercial building for the purpose of engaging in, or permitting persons to engage in, sexual activities which include high risk sexual conduct;[Footnote 3] […]
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Law Article: “Preventing the Secondary Effects of Adult Entertainment Establishments: Is Zoning the Solution?”
Dana M. Tucker makes health, safety and economic arguments for regulating adult entertainment establishments in “Preventing the Secondary Effects of Adult Entertainment Establishments: Is Zoning the Solution?”, 12 Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law 383 (1997). The bracketed numbers refer to footnotes.Health impact of porn shops with viewing booths (pages 414-417)One of the adverse […]
Lu Stone: “Porn shop will damage a good neighborhood”
Lu Stone has lived on Summer Street for 25 years. She wrote a history of the area, “A House. A Street. A City. The Story of 17 Summer Street”, and last Saturday she wrote to the Gazette to express her concerns about the porn shop proposed for 135 King Street: “I would like to invite […]
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What They’re Saying about Capital Video’s Kittery Store at Squirt.org (explicit)
Capital Video’s Amazing.net porn shop in Kittery, Maine has been a hot topic of conversion on squirt.org, “your neighborhood cruising guide”. Squirt’s profile of the site gives directions and “hours” of 10am – 1am. Who goes there? “Married guys looking for head and those who provide it.” Here are some (graphic) comments about the site […]
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Capital Video’s Porn Shops Get Many Comments from the “Cruisers” at Squirt.org
There are websites where men looking for anonymous sex make lists of good “cruising” spots across the USA. One example is squirt.org, “your neighborhood cruising guide”. On this site (which has explicit photos), we notice that the Amazing.net store is one of the two “cruising” locations listed for Kittery, Maine. This listing has 56 comments, […]
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Des Moines, WA: Adult Uses Cause Business Failures, Scare People Away
“Over the years, there has been a great deal of objection by Des Moines area residents to adult uses and the showing of adult movies in the community. The City has hundreds of letters and petition signatures on file objecting to these uses dated from 1974 to the present. These letters and petitions represent over […]
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Noted Feminist Andrea Dworkin on the Harm of Porn
Andrea Dworkin testified before the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography on January 22, 1986. She writes, Numerous civil liberties folks, including pro-pornography “feminists”, had already testified in other cities. I spoke to the Commission because my friends, feminists who work against pornography, asked me to. Every effort was made by the pro-pornography lobby to discredit […]
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