June 11, 2005, as reported by WKYC, a Cleveland TV station: “Two years ago, unprotected male on male sex was running rampant in the back room video booths. “Channel 3 News was tipped off about the open sex by a local schoolteacher, who claimed her boyfriend told her he had unprotected sex with over 100 […]
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July 12: The Daily Hampshire Gazette reports, “A merchant’s attempt to run an adult video and magazine shop on Route 9 in the guise of an antique coin retailer has failed. “The venture was foiled by a town bylaw that prohibits adult stores from opening in the town’s commercial zone…. “‘I don’t think the town […]
Continue reading Gazette: “Hadley’s fortified zoning foils effort to reopen ‘adult’ shop”
Capital Video’s Amazing.net porn shop in Kittery, Maine has been a hot topic of conversion on squirt.org, “your neighborhood cruising guide”. Squirt’s profile of the site gives directions and “hours” of 10am – 1am. Who goes there? “Married guys looking for head and those who provide it.” Here are some (graphic) comments about the site […]
Continue reading What They’re Saying about Capital Video’s Kittery Store at Squirt.org (explicit)
There are websites where men looking for anonymous sex make lists of good “cruising” spots across the USA. One example is squirt.org, “your neighborhood cruising guide”. On this site (which has explicit photos), we notice that the Amazing.net store is one of the two “cruising” locations listed for Kittery, Maine. This listing has 56 comments, […]
Continue reading Capital Video’s Porn Shops Get Many Comments from the “Cruisers” at Squirt.org
July 12: Today’s Republican reports on NoPornNorthampton’s petition: “…Adam R. Cohen and Jendi Reiter, who live on North Street, have been organizing neighborhood opposition under the aegis of NoPornNorthampton. The organization has set up a Web site with information about Capital…. Cohen, who was in Kittery, Maine, yesterday to observe another adult store owned by […]
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July 11: The Daily Hampshire Gazette spoke with NPN about its campaign to regulate porn shops and viewing booths. “‘This really seems to be as bad a location for this business as one could possible imagine,’ said [NPN co-founder Adam] Cohen in a phone interview Monday.” See the complete profile (may require a paid subscription). […]
Continue reading Gazette: “Couple takes stand, launches web site on porn shop”
On July 10, NoPornNorthampton began to circulate a petition to local citizens. The goal of the petition was to keep our neighborhoods safe while respecting civil liberties. Since the Northampton City Council passed adult-use zoning measures on November 2, we are not soliciting more signatures at this time, but feel free to download the petition for your […]
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“Over the years, there has been a great deal of objection by Des Moines area residents to adult uses and the showing of adult movies in the community. The City has hundreds of letters and petition signatures on file objecting to these uses dated from 1974 to the present. These letters and petitions represent over […]
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Andrea Dworkin testified before the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography on January 22, 1986. She writes, Numerous civil liberties folks, including pro-pornography “feminists”, had already testified in other cities. I spoke to the Commission because my friends, feminists who work against pornography, asked me to. Every effort was made by the pro-pornography lobby to discredit […]
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From the report of the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography (1986). The bracketed numbers refer to footnotes in the report. Inside the booths the viewer may see approximately two minutes of the movie for twenty-five cents.[2159] As the number of sexually explicit scenes or diversity of sexual acts increase, the viewing time decreases.[2160] Tokens or […]
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