Northampton’s Office of Planning and Development tells NPN that Capital Video still has not submitted their Planning Board Application as of today (August 23). If they don’t get it in by August 28, the application will be too late to be considered at the public planning meeting of September 28, and would slip to a […]
Continue reading Northampton Planning: Capital Video Still Sitting on Planning Board Application
August 22’s Gazette reports on the city’s efforts to include viewing booths in the purview of existing adult zoning regulations, and to regulate the signage of adult businesses. NPN provided details about this a few days ago.“They’re not trying to stop adult book stores or adult video stores, but how they present themselves to the […]
Continue reading Gazette: “City to consider new ‘adult’ rules”
NPN was pleased to see the August 21 Longmeadow Reminder give front-page coverage to our open letter to Barry and Annette Goldberg. The Goldbergs reside in Longmeadow and own 135 King Street, the site for Capital Video’s proposed porn shop.“We ask you to extend the same care to King Street that we’re sure you have […]
Continue reading Longmeadow Reminder: “Duo writes plea to Longmeadow couple”
Guardian Unlimited, 2001: Martin Amis reports from the high-risk, increasingly violent world of the pornography industry…“Answer me something…” I said to John Stagliano.”How do you account for the emphasis, not just in your…work but in the industry in general, how do you account for the truly incredible emphasis on anal sex?”After a minimal shrug and […]
Charles Foran writes in the Walrus (March 2006): Sex remains a moral issue for most adults, but not in the way it once was. The movement has been away from the morality of sex itself…to the issue of harm: people getting off on the acts of those who are themselves traumatized and are being traumatized […]
Continue reading “Damage on Parade: As We Shed Our Inhibitions, We’re Shedding Our Humanity”
Saturday’s Gazette has a front-page article on Capital Video Corporation and its owner, Kenneth Guarino:“…Attempts to talk with representatives from Capital Video Corp. about its operations and its plans for Northampton have been unsuccessful. According to undated material on Metro Global Media’s Web site, the company said it planned to open as many as 20 Amazing […]
Over at mopornnorthampton, we noticed someone asking, now that Capital Video has removed viewing booths from its proposal, how does someone distinguish it from a “sensuality store” like Oh My, which NPN has indicated it has no objection to.We agree this is a judgment call. As reported in a 2006 article in The Republican, “Oh […]
NoPornNorthampton presented 121 new petition signatures at the August 17 Northampton City Council meeting. NPN co-founder Adam Cohen urged city officials to help the owners of 135 King Street find a better tenant than a Capital Video porn shop. To date, NPN’s petition has been signed by 687 Northampton residents and 284 non-residents, or 971 […]
Continue reading City Council Meeting: Draft Ordinances Circulated
Gail Dines is a professor of American Studies at Wheelock College in Boston. She is helping to organize the National Feminist Antipornography Movement. In her essay with Robert Jensen, “Pornography Is A Left Issue”, she calls on members of the left to apply the same critical thinking to pornography and its impact as they do […]
Continue reading Gail Dines and Robert Jensen: “Pornography Is A Left Issue” (explicit language)
We’d like to highlight these excerpts from “Just a prude? Feminism, pornography, and men’s responsibility”…“Pornography’s opponents, we are told, are afraid of sex.“In one sense, that’s true. I am afraid of sex, of a certain kind. I’m afraid of much of the sex commonly presented in contemporary mass-marketed pornography. I am afraid of sex that […]