Capital Video’s Amazing.net store in Northampton portrays itself as gay-friendly, but this is just a fig leaf over the true nature of the bulk of today’s porn industry: Adrienne Rich describes the reality in “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”, published in The Signs Reader: Women, Gender & Scholarship (The University of Chicago Press, 1983, page […]
Month: June 2009
Gazette: “Porn chain owes $261,486 in sales tax”
Today’s Gazette reports: Porn chain owes $261,486 in sales tax State revenue officials have slapped a hefty tax lien on the company that runs a King Street porn store for unpaid sales taxes, making the company one of the state’s top 100 sales tax delinquents. Capital Video Corp. owes the state Department of Revenue $261,486 […]
Not For Sale Media Project; Downloadable Posters
Artemis Fund is a non-profit organization in Western Massachusetts which works to promote the human rights of women and girls. They have kindly given us permission to reprint the following material. View the original page here. Click on the image of each poster to download a full-size PDF. Not For Sale Media Project The Not […]
Strip Clubs Included in Guide for Massachusetts Democratic Convention Delegates
Today in the Cries & Whispers column of the Sunday Republican: Democrats in Massachusetts are a liberal bunch, but did they go too far by listing two “adult entertainment” spots in downtown Springfield in their official “delegate guide” for the state Democratic convention held on June 6? The guide directed delegates to two strip clubs […]
Our Poster to the Valley Advocate: “Stand up for women! Drop your Massage/Escort ads”
This week NoPornNorthampton is distributing over 300 11×17 posters throughout Pioneer Valley in conjunction with Our Voices Matter. Contact incoming Daily Hampshire Gazette/Valley Advocate publisher Jim Foudy and let him know it’s time for the Advocate to exit the escort business. For a high-resolution PDF of the poster, download it here (480KB). See also: Prostitution: […]