First Amendment or no, it is remarkable how often porn defenders and anti-feminists leap to disrupt and suppress speech they don’t like. August has seen a wave of hacker action against feminist websites, as documented by Encyclopedia Dramatica, a kind of wikipedia for hackers. You may want to use a proxy service when visiting this […]
Month: August 2007
Wall Street Journal: “What’s at the Heart of Happiness?”
Sunday’s online edition of The Wall Street Journal summarizes current research into happiness: Studies have found that married folks are happier than those who are single.“Marriage provides two sources of happiness,” says Andrew Oswald, an economics professor at England’s Warwick University. “One is sex and the other is friendship. Marriage has one of the largest […]
Top 100 Anti-Porn Videos as Compiled by Anti-Pornography Activist Blog
Anti-Pornography Activist Blog has brought together 100 anti-porn videos and more for your convenient reference.“Playlist categories include documentaries, porn star interviews, anti-pornography conference videos, porn addiction/obsession videos, CP80 Internet porn solution videos, anti-porn book author interviews, videos of criminals influenced by porn, debates and panel discussions about pornography, anti-pornography activist videos, Girls Gone Wild and […]
Capital Video Founder Bankrolls Strongheart Pictures, Whitewashes Porn Background
Kenneth Guarino founded Capital Video in 1979. The company claims it is “the largest adult retail chain in the nation.” While Guarino presumably still enjoys the profits from his porn shops and adult movie studio (Metro), exploiting women and men sexually and blighting communities appear to have become boring. Even as early as 1994, Guarino told The […]
The Republican: “Adult video shop advances”
The Republican checked in with Capital Video on the status of their porn shop at 135 King Street, still undergoing renovations. The newspaper reports today: Lesley S. Rich, a lawyer for the video store, said there “was a lot of utility work on the building” that contractors needed permits for. “It’s a little slow,” he said. […]
Georgia Porn Merchant: “I chew up and spit out local municipalities like Popeye chewed spinach”
Most businesses give at least lip service to the idea of respecting the communities in which they operate and the citizens who live there, particularly when they’re trying to get permits to operate. Time and again, however, examples keep popping up of adult businessmen who can’t even muster this minimal level of politeness.John Cornetta recently opened the Love […]
Media Influence: The Case of ADHD Drugs
An argument frequently employed by our detractors is that people are not affected by the media they consume (example: Bastante Already). A good example of just how influential media can be is provided by the American experience with ADHD drugs. Usage in this decade has soared along with advertising. And once again we see lawyers […]
Children for Sale on Craigslist
Far from being a relic of a barbarous past, slavery is big business in the present day. Not For Sale estimates that 27 million people are enslaved. Slave traders and sex businesses realize greater profits when they can use the media to recruit “personnel” and makes sales, and numerous outlets oblige them. In February, Not For […]
Hampshire College Thesis Explores Northampton Porn Debate; Our Comments
The past year’s Porn Wars can be seen as part of a longer struggle over sexuality in Northampton and elsewhere. This struggle has resulted in greater acceptance for gay people, which we think is good. Among “third-wave” feminists, it has also blunted concern about porn. That’s unfortunate, a misunderstanding of what sexual liberation should be about.Hampshire […]
Infidelity: A Widespread Practice with Lasting Harm; Promoted by Adult Enterprises
Today’s Republican publishes “INFIDELITY brings everlasting pain” by Chris Bynum. The full text of the article, syndicated by Newhouse News Service, can be found online at The Times-Picayune. Contrary to the impression you might get from porn, cheating in a marriage is no joke. The pain can go on a lot longer than the pleasure. […]