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 […]
Month: October 2006
The Republican: “City Council to weigh adult store ordinances”
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 […]
Los Angeles Times: “In California’s Unregulated Porn Film Industry, an Alarming Number of Performers Are Infected With HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases. And Nobody Seems to Care.”
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 […]
Major Corporations Profit from Porn
[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 […]
Local Businesses Say Porn Shop Hurts Downtown Ypsilanti
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 […]
A Review of Adriene Sere, “Sex and feminism: Who is being silenced?”
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 […]
CNN: “‘Dancing’ star Evans cites porn, adultery in divorce papers”
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 […]
Condom Use Below 20% in American Porn Movies
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 […]
A Review of D.A. Clarke, “Prostitution for everyone: Feminism, globalisation, and the sex industry”
NPN’s Jendi Reiter reviews an essay by D.A. Clarke, “Prostitution for everyone: Feminism, globalisation, and the sex industry”. 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. 149-205).This is the fourth in a series of reviews of the […]
Breaking News: Northampton Planning Board Approves Adult Use Size/Location Ordinance
After a long debate with citizens making arguments for and against adult use zoning, Northampton’s Planning Board approved an ordinance to regulate the location of large adult businesses. If a business has more than 1,000 square feet of adult material on display, it must be located in Northampton’s Highway Business Zone and be at least […]