An observation from The New York Times undercuts the oft-heard argument that if local people truly don’t want a porn shop, it will wither away: People do not, as a rule, buy pornography in their own neighborhoods. As a result, pornography and sex-aid stores tend to be near mass transit, ideally as near as possible, […]
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Peter Brooks from Talk Back Northampton asserted in a recent Northampton City Council meeting that the residents of Greenwich Village in New York coexist happily with their sex shops. The New York Times reports this isn’t completely true: At a recent community meeting in the Village, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was pelted for more than […]
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NPN’s Jendi Reiter reviews an essay by Christine Stark, “Girls to boyz: Sex radical women promoting pornography and prostitution”. This essay is published in Christine Stark & Rebecca Whisnant, eds., Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography (North Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex Press, 2004, pp. 278-91).This is the sixth in a series of reviews of […]
Today’s Republican reports that several ordinances strengthening Northampton’s adult-use regulation are on Thursday’s City Council agenda. These ordinances, all approved by Northampton’s Planning Board, will regulate the signage of adult businesses, restrict businesses with porn viewing booths to Northampton’s Highway Business Zone and at least 500 feet from homes and schools, and similarly restrict all large […]
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As reported in the Los Angeles Times, 1/12/03… [I]n studios in the San Fernando Valley…actors and actresses were working on movies. They put in long hours, commonly without meal breaks. They often worked without clean toilets, toilet paper, soap or water. More importantly, they were exposed to a host of infectious, and sometimes fatal, diseases…[A]ctors […]
[Updated June 25, 2007] The profits from porn movies and phone sex flow through several “blue-chip” American corporations. These include Holiday Inn, Marriott, AOL Time Warner, Comcast, EchoStar Communications, DirecTV, Adelphia, Cox Communications, Charter Communications, Cablevision Systems and AT&T. If you own shares in these companies, you might consider discussing the matter with their shareholder […]
If some people have a hard time applying New York City’s experience with adult businesses to Northampton, let’s consider a situation in Ypsilanti, Michigan, a college town with a population of 22,000. Don Herzog, a professor at The University of Michigan Law School, writes on the blog Left2Right, on April 14, 2005… A block and a […]
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NPN’s Jendi Reiter reviews an essay by Adriene Sere, “Sex and feminism: Who is being silenced?” This essay is published in Christine Stark & Rebecca Whisnant, eds., Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography (North Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex Press, 2004, pp. 269-274).This is the fifth in a series of reviews of the essays in […]
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CNN reports today…Country singer Sara Evans alleges in divorce papers that her husband [Craig Schelske] committed adultery, was verbally and emotionally abusive, drank excessively and frequently watched pornography in their home…The couple married in 1993 and have three children ages 7, 3 and 2…In the filing in state court in suburban Franklin, where the couple […]
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The New York Times writes about how porn workers are put at risk to satisfy consumer tastes in “Sex-Film Industry Threatened With Condom Requirement” (8/24/04)…While most people in the sex industry appear to agree in principle with the idea of consistent condom use, it has long been believed here that condoms are not sexy.“In any […]
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