NPN’s Jendi Reiter reviews T.M. Grundner, The Skinner Box Effect: Sexual Addiction and Online Pornography. This book was published by Writers Club Press of Lincoln, NE (2000). Dr. Grundner’s biographical note describes him as an early pioneer in the development of community-based computerized information services. A native of Clawson, Michigan (a small town north of […]
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Carolyn McKenzie: Undercover with the Viewing Booths; Disease, Intoxicants Prevalent Among Strip Dancers (explicit language)
One night in Memphis about 15 years ago, Carolyn McKenzie accompanied a vice cop on a tour of adult bookstores, strip clubs, and a “modeling studio”. This mother of four and former public-health nurse had organized protests and filed complaints with the district attorney’s office over the porn shops and strip clubs that dotted suburban […]
Raynham, MA Selectman: “If Northampton has done something, we will look at it”
One of our more prolific commenters says that raising awareness is overrated, and claims that “there are a lot of things you could be doing that would have a much greater impact than what you’re actually doing”. Another commenter questioned how much impact one blog in one small town can have. Don’t look now, but […]
Raynham, MA: “Shock, outrage over sex acts in store”
Raynham, MA (population 12,000) hosts a Video X-tra Adult Superstore. The Enterprise, a regional newspaper, reports today: The business–the town’s only adult video store featuring closet-sized video “preview viewing” rooms–has become an indoor meeting spot for men seeking sex with other men, a Sunday Enterprise investigation has shown… Larry Ravech of Stoughton, one of the […]
Springfield Citizens Beat Back an Expansion of Their Capital Video Porn Shop
Capital Video has had a porn shop at 486 Bridge Street in Springfield since 1990. Many citizens and local businesses were unhappy about it from the start. To protest the shop, residents Leslie Pasquini and her husband Ronald “helped garner 600 signatures sent to [District Attorney William M.] Bennett.” (Union-News, 1/24/92, p. 20)City Councilor William […]
Capital Video Added Viewing Booths to its Wethersfield Store Just Last Year
Some porn shop defenders have said that now that Capital Video dropped viewing booths from its Northampton plans, there’s nothing to get excited about. But plans can change.NPN visited Capital Video’s Wethersfield (CT) store in September. The clerk there said the store had been in operation for about 13 years. Only last year, however, did […]
The Republican: “Anti-porn plan advances”
Today’s Republican reports on progress in regulating adult businesses in Northampton: In what some called a first step in the fight to restrict pornography in Northampton, the Planning Board and the Ordinance Committee last night both approved bans against adult viewing booths in most sections of the city…The viewing-booth measure now goes to the City […]
Substantial Traffic at the Kittery Porn Shop
Earlier in July, NPN visited Kittery, Maine and spoke with the town manager and the police chief. Kittery (population 10,000) is smaller than Northampton (population 29,000). Its Capital Video porn shop, Amazing.net, is estimated to be about 4,000 square feet in size. It contains 16 viewing booths. The proposed site for Capital Video’s shop in […]
NPN Releases a Draft Adult-Use Zoning Law
NoPornNorthampton provides this draft zoning law for public comment. Its intent is to reduce the adverse secondary effects of certain sexually oriented businesses on health, neighborhoods and commerce while respecting civil liberties.The proposed zoning law draws on similar laws put in place elsewhere in the US. These have been upheld in court as serving important […]
NPN Releases a Draft Regulation for Health Inspector: Licenses for Viewing Booths in Adult Entertainment Establishments
NoPornNorthampton provides this draft health regulation for public comment. Its intent is to reduce high risk activity known to occur around porn shop viewing booths and combat diseases such as AIDS. It does not ban viewing booths, but only regulates them. This proposed regulation draws on similar regulations put in place elsewhere in the US. […]