Minneapolis city officials heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn, those who consume porn and those who produce it at a hearing of the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 13, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.143-145). [emphasis added] Testimony of Bill Neiman, Assistant County Attorney in […]
Month: February 2007
Testimony in Minneapolis: Likeness of TV Star “Rhoda” Misappropriated by Pornographers; Aspiring Actresses Vulnerable to Being Enticed into Porn
Minneapolis city officials heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn, those who consume porn and those who produce it at a hearing of the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 13, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.140-142). The following letter was submitted by Valerie Harper, star of […]
Ask Blue Razor to Decline Capital Video’s Website Registration Business (explicit language)
Blue Razor helps people register domain names on the Internet. They are the registrar for Amazing.net, one of Capital Video’s websites. We recently asked Blue Razor to decline Capital Video’s business, and we invite the pubic to contact Bob Parsons, the president of Blue Razor, and support our request. We wrote on January 31: Dear […]
“Study: Rising number of kids exposed to online porn”
Today’s Gazette relays an AP story about children being exposed to porn online: Forty-two percent of Internet users aged 10 to 17 surveyed said they had seen online pornography in a recent 12-month span. Of those, 66 percent said they did not want to view the images and had not sought them out, University of […]
Exposure to Pornography as a Cause of Child Sexual Victimization
Professor Diana Russell has kindly permitted us to make this research paper available to the public as a free download. She co-authored it with Natalie Purcell. We made another work by Professor Russell, Against Pornography, available in an earlier post. This paper shows how child pornography and/or adult pornography can factor into pedophilia and child […]
Overcoming Porn Addiction: One Young Woman’s Story
Freelance writer Anne Jackson shared her struggle with porn addiction in a recent issue of Relevant, a magazine of spirituality and popular culture for Christians in their teens and twenties. In the article “Dirty Girls: The New Porn Addicts”, Jackson investigates her unexpected fascination with porn: Growing up the daughter of a Baptist preacher-man, I was […]
Testimony in Minneapolis: Secondary Effects Around Adult Theaters; Police Suggest that Concerned Citizens Move Away
Citizens gave testimony about their encounters with porn and those who consume porn to the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 12, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.124-129). Testimony of Shannon McCarthy BichaI am a resident of St. Paul, and I have been throughout the majority of […]
Testimony in Minneapolis: Porn and a Hostile Work Environment
Citizens gave testimony about their encounters with porn and those who consume porn to the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 12, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.121-124). Testimony of Ms. B I used to be a resident of Minneapolis. I am simply going to relate what […]
Testimony in Minneapolis: Prostitutes and Porn (explicit language)
Citizens gave testimony about their encounters with porn and those who consume porn to the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 12, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.114-120). Portions of it have appeared in earlier posts.Testimony of T. S. I am speaking for a group of women. […]
Testimony in Minneapolis: Porn and the Death Spiral of a Marriage
Citizens gave testimony about their encounters with porn and those who consume porn to the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 12, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.110-114). Portions of it have appeared in earlier posts. Testimony of R. M. M. At that time [age 21], I […]