After an HIV scandal rocked the porn industry in 2004, California workplace regulators fined two adult film companies for safety violations, issuing this press release on 9/16/04: SAN FRANCISCO – Cal/OSHA, the state’s occupational safety and health program, yesterday issued its first-ever citations to employers in the adult film industry. Two employers, Evasive Angles and […]
Carol Queen: Time for the Porn Film Industry to Stop Being a Poster Child of Heterosexual HIV Transmission
Carol Queen is no anti-porn crusader. She’s the author of Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture. That doesn’t stop her from advocating for condom use in porn films in this 2004 article for the San Francisco Chronicle: As good a job as porn has tried to do in preventing its No. 1 occupational […]
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: “All are deeply destructive images that erode male respect for women”
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is a popular TV and radio personality who has authored 17 books, including Hating Women: America’s Hostile Campaign Against the Fairer Sex (2005). Rabbi Shmuley recently won the American Jewish Press Association’s highest award for excellence in commentary. In this article from 1/15/05, he takes a critical look at the impact of […]
Lizzy Borden: We don’t shoot “all the lovey-dovey stuff that there’s not a big market for” (explicit language)
Lizzy Borden, born Janet Romano, runs Extreme Associates with her husband Rob Black. This porn production company lives up to its name with films like “Forced Entry”, which, according to Salon is “the story of a serial killer and his gang who rape and murder a series of women–an 18-year-old virgin, a pregnant woman, etc.–before […]
Porn Actresses: Most Careers Are Short, Few Are Lucrative (explicit language)
Sharon A. Abbott is a social scientist who interviewed porn producers, directors, company owners, magazine editors, agents, makeup artists, camera operators, 19 actors and 31 actresses to understand why performers enter and stay in a porn career. Her analysis, “Motivations for Pursuing an Acting Career in Pornography”, appears in Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and […]
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The Creation of a Pornography Addiction
Dr. Kevin B. Skinner is a licensed marriage and family therapist. He has worked with over 100 individuals and couples who are dealing with pornography-related problems. His website at www.treating-pornography-addiction.com discusses the nature and treatment of porn addiction, as does his book, Treating Pornography Addiction (2005). Dr. Skinner proposes the following as key elements in […]
Porn Worker Conditions: “Who failed Lara Roxx?” (explicit language)
Brian Flemming is a filmmaker in California. He observes that regulatory safeguards are numerous for mainstream films, and virtually non-existent for porn performers… Gee, who would have thought that having two strange men jam their un-condomed penises into a woman’s rectum at the same time might give her a whopping case of HIV? I mean, […]
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Breaking News: Capital Video Capitulates to New Zoning, Revises Plans for 135 King Street
Capital Video general counsel Lesley Rich initially dismissed Northampton’s new adult-use zoning ordinances as “totally illegal”, but it now appears the company has decided to accept them. Wayne Feiden and Carolyn Misch from Northampton’s planning department have just received an email from Capital Video attorney Michael Pill stating that they “will comply with all legally […]
Linda Lovelace: When people see the movie Deep Throat, “they’re watching me being raped” (explicit language)
The movie Deep Throat was released in 1972. Produced for $22,500, members of the FBI estimate it has grossed anywhere from $100 million to $600 million. More than 10 million Americans have seen it. Wikipedia calls it “likely the most successful and influential pornographic film of all time.” Linda Lovelace starred in the movie. Later, […]
Parking May Not Be a Trivial Issue for Proposed King Street Porn Shop II
As Northampton’s Planning Board prepares for its December 14 public hearing with Capital Video (7:00pm, 212 Main Street), we’d like to revisit the issue of parking at 135 King Street, the proposed site for Capital Video’s 6,222-square-foot retail shop. We earlier raised the issue of parking in our October 29 post, which questioned whether a […]
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