A quick search of Google reveals how numerous towns and cities across Massachusetts are using zoning to regulate adult businesses. These towns recognize the harmful “secondary effects” that adult businesses often impose on their surroundings. Here is a sample:Fitchburg (PDF)Section 181.6: “It is the purpose of this section to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to […]
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NPN took a walk around 135 King Street to see who will be next to Capital Video’s proposed porn shop. Directly across North Street is the Northampton School of Dance and ServiceNet. The latter provides mental health counseling. A little further down King Street, still within sight of the porn shop, is Saint Valentine’s Church, […]
National Obscenity Law Centerhttp://www.moralityinmedia.org/nolc/index.htm Key Court Cases and Land-Use Studies on the Secondary Effects of Adult Businesses http://www.ccv.org/SOB_Data/Key_Documents… Sample Petition to Regulate Strip Clubs and Adult Businesseshttp://www.ccv.org/CDA_Petition…pdf Testimony of Porn Victims, with Resources for Counselinghttp://www.victimsofpornography.org/
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From the Report of the Minnesota Attorney General’s Working Group on the Regulation of Sexually Oriented Businesses (1989): “The Working Group heard testimony that a concentration of sexually oriented businesses has serious impacts upon the surrounding neighborhood. The Working Group heard that pornographic materials are left in adjacent lots. One person reported to the police […]