Sharon A. Abbott is a social scientist who interviewed porn producers, directors, company owners, magazine editors, agents, makeup artists, camera operators, 19 actors and 31 actresses to understand why performers enter and stay in a porn career. Her analysis, “Motivations for Pursuing an Acting Career in Pornography”, appears in Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and […]
Continue reading Porn Actresses: Most Careers Are Short, Few Are Lucrative (explicit language)
Dr. Kevin B. Skinner is a licensed marriage and family therapist. He has worked with over 100 individuals and couples who are dealing with pornography-related problems. His website at www.treating-pornography-addiction.com discusses the nature and treatment of porn addiction, as does his book, Treating Pornography Addiction (2005). Dr. Skinner proposes the following as key elements in […]
Brian Flemming is a filmmaker in California. He observes that regulatory safeguards are numerous for mainstream films, and virtually non-existent for porn performers… Gee, who would have thought that having two strange men jam their un-condomed penises into a woman’s rectum at the same time might give her a whopping case of HIV? I mean, […]
Continue reading Porn Worker Conditions: “Who failed Lara Roxx?” (explicit language)
Capital Video general counsel Lesley Rich initially dismissed Northampton’s new adult-use zoning ordinances as “totally illegal”, but it now appears the company has decided to accept them. Wayne Feiden and Carolyn Misch from Northampton’s planning department have just received an email from Capital Video attorney Michael Pill stating that they “will comply with all legally […]
The movie Deep Throat was released in 1972. Produced for $22,500, members of the FBI estimate it has grossed anywhere from $100 million to $600 million. More than 10 million Americans have seen it. Wikipedia calls it “likely the most successful and influential pornographic film of all time.” Linda Lovelace starred in the movie. Later, […]
As Northampton’s Planning Board prepares for its December 14 public hearing with Capital Video (7:00pm, 212 Main Street), we’d like to revisit the issue of parking at 135 King Street, the proposed site for Capital Video’s 6,222-square-foot retail shop. We earlier raised the issue of parking in our October 29 post, which questioned whether a […]
Continue reading Parking May Not Be a Trivial Issue for Proposed King Street Porn Shop II
Twenty-two days after being asked the question, Andrew Shelffo has at last declared on his MassLive blog: “I’m not being paid by Capital Video.” We applaud Mr. Shelffo’s new found candor, if not his promptness in responding to a relevant citizen inquiry. The ethics of citizen journalism may be somewhat uncharted territory, but there are […]
Continue reading Andrew Shelffo Denies Being Paid by Capital Video
There is some disagreement in the Northampton blogosphere about the rules for citizen journalists. Bill Mitchell and Bob Steele suggest some guidelines in “Earn Your Own Trust, Roll Your Own Ethics: Transparency and Beyond” (2005). [Quoting blogger David Weinberger:] “We need professional journalists. But for most blogs, we want to know what the writer’s starting […]