Today’s Gazette relays an AP story about children being exposed to porn online: Forty-two percent of Internet users aged 10 to 17 surveyed said they had seen online pornography in a recent 12-month span. Of those, 66 percent said they did not want to view the images and had not sought them out, University of […]
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Professor Diana Russell has kindly permitted us to make this research paper available to the public as a free download. She co-authored it with Natalie Purcell. We made another work by Professor Russell, Against Pornography, available in an earlier post. This paper shows how child pornography and/or adult pornography can factor into pedophilia and child […]
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Freelance writer Anne Jackson shared her struggle with porn addiction in a recent issue of Relevant, a magazine of spirituality and popular culture for Christians in their teens and twenties. In the article “Dirty Girls: The New Porn Addicts”, Jackson investigates her unexpected fascination with porn: Growing up the daughter of a Baptist preacher-man, I was […]
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Citizens gave testimony about their encounters with porn and those who consume porn to the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 12, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.124-129). Testimony of Shannon McCarthy BichaI am a resident of St. Paul, and I have been throughout the majority of […]
Citizens gave testimony about their encounters with porn and those who consume porn to the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 12, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.121-124). Testimony of Ms. B I used to be a resident of Minneapolis. I am simply going to relate what […]
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Citizens gave testimony about their encounters with porn and those who consume porn to the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 12, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.114-120). Portions of it have appeared in earlier posts.Testimony of T. S. I am speaking for a group of women. […]
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Citizens gave testimony about their encounters with porn and those who consume porn to the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 12, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.110-114). Portions of it have appeared in earlier posts. Testimony of R. M. M. At that time [age 21], I […]
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Ward 4 City Councilor David J. Narkewicz announces that “The complete Code of the City of Northampton–which includes all of our ordinances, zoning regulations, special acts of the legislature, and the charter–is now available online via the City’s homepage or directly by going here. The up-to-date “E-Code” contains Northampton’s recently adopted adult-use zoning and signage […]
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Citizens gave testimony about their encounters with porn and those who consume porn to the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 12, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.107-108). Testimony of Mr. C Obscene is not the word for pornography. Pornography is dangerous. I was battered by my […]
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Amanda Marcotte reports on the feminist blog Pandagon how activists in Bloomington, IN successfully pressured a local bar to cancel a taping of the amateur-porn phenomenon “Girls Gone Wild”. This video series produced by Joe Francis follows a camera crew to party spots in various cities as they persuade attractive, usually drunk young women to strip […]