NPN’s Jendi Reiter reviews an essay by Rebecca Whisnant, “Confronting pornography: Some conceptual basics”. 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.15-27).This is the first in a series of reviews of the essays in this book.In “Confronting […]
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Richard Morgan writes about Rudy Giuliani’s approach to adult use regulation for City Journal in “Free to Strip?”From the drumbeat of criticism, you’d think that something Orwellian had gripped Mayor Giuliani’s New York. “His vision is…authoritarian, repressive, and antithetical to our rich tradition of tolerance for the right to protest and dissent,” thunders New York […]
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Porn advocates say it celebrates the beauty of the female form, that it is not violent or racist. Let us now celebrate women with a tour through Capital Video’s Wethersfield (CT) porn shop, where NPN bought a large batch of magazines in September.The pictures below are the first of a selection we present for you to […]
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Some porn shop defenders have said that now that Capital Video dropped viewing booths from its Northampton plans, there’s nothing to get excited about. But plans can change.NPN visited Capital Video’s Wethersfield (CT) store in September. The clerk there said the store had been in operation for about 13 years. Only last year, however, did […]
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A porn chain called VIP is trying to purchase a former Huffman Koos furniture store located at 717 Berlin Turnpike in Berlin, CT. The plan is to turn the site into a adult book store and novelty shop. VIP wants to devote over 14,000 square feet to adult DVDs, books, lingerie and other sexual-related items. Homes are located […]
Some people sling around the word “Puritan” as a shorthand for a prude who is anti-sex. I think the Puritans themselves would find this ironic. Finding Paradise (by Allison Lockwood, published by the Daily Hampshire Gazette, p. 12-13) tells us, Many [Northampton] Puritan couples were prolific. Elder John Strong fathered 17 children; one of his […]
David Russell owns a major commercial real estate magazine that serves Western Massachusetts, and another that serves Connecticut. He is sending this letter to Barry and Annette Goldberg, owners of 135 King Street, offering to help them find a more suitable tenant for their property than a large porn shop…Dear Mr. & Mrs. Goldberg:October 5, […]
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The Daily Hampshire Gazette has put up a special web page to monitor the “Northampton Porn Debate”, saying,“The announcement in June that Rhode Island-based Capital Video was planning to open a pornographic video and magazine shop on King Street has stirred some of the most vociferous debate seen on any issue in Northampton in recent years. […]
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NoPornNorthampton today submitted 201 new petition signatures to Mayor Higgins at the City Council meeting. The petition calls for Northampton to adopt adult-use zoning and viewing booth health regulations. This group of signatures was collected between August 18 and October 5. Northampton residents represent 167 of the signatures, with 34 more coming from non-residents.Since our petition […]
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It’s fascinating to see how the same event is reported by different people. Take our August 2 public meeting. NoPornNorthampton invited members of the community to meet with us and give us feedback.At the start of the meeting, we began videotaping. Our motivations were to keep a historical record and enable us to accurately review […]
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