Many of our opponents argue that porn has little influence on behavior. The blogger GruntDoc, for example, claims “these images are harmless. No image has ever gotten up off a page and caused harm to anyone.”Let’s check in with Jezebel on the subject. Jezebel is a busy website devoted to “Celebrity, Sex, Fashion. Without airbrushing”. […]
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Today’s Gazette reports that Capital Video’s Amazing.net porn shop at 135 King Street will open on Monday. To conform with city ordinances, it will contain 998 square feet of “adult-themed items”, down from a potential 6,000+ square feet in their original plans in late June 2006.The store’s 20 proposed viewing booths were heaved over the side […]
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A new study out of Brigham Young University finds that men still substantially outpace women in porn consumption. 86.1% of the male respondents said they had viewed porn in the past year, versus 31.0% of the women. Among the men, 21.3% said they viewed porn every day or almost every day, versus just 1.0% of the […]
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Today’s Gazette reports that its parent company, Newspapers of New England, is acquiring the Valley Advocate. Now is a good time to ask NNE to start on the right foot and drop the Advocate’s sex ads. Here is a sample letter: Mr. Tom BrownPresident and CEONewspapers of New England, Inc.One Monitor DriveConcord, NH 03302Dear Mr. Brown:Congratulations on […]
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A porn shop like Amazing.net might promise to “excite your life”, but what are the real roots of happiness? David Bornstein explores the subject for World Ark, the magazine of Heifer International.From “Pursuing Happiness”, by David Bornstein: Americans enjoy an “inalienable right” to pursue happiness. But, according to studies, over the past half centruy, despite our […]
The Republican reports yesterday that Capital Video’s Amazing.net porn shop on King Street is set to open soon. Northampton Building Commissioner Anthony L. Patillo issued a certificate of occupancy. Patillo expects to return to the store this coming week to verify that its stock conforms to the city’s adult-use zoning laws. These laws specify that Capital […]
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Hugo Schwyzer has kindly given us permission to reprint Part One of his three-part review of Getting Off by Robert Jensen. You may read Part Two here and Part Three here. Part one of a series on “Getting Off”: masculinity, pornography, and the truth of what we don’t want to face …I started reading Robert Jensen’s Getting […]
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Voices of American Sexuality is a blog hosted by American Sexuality Magazine and the National Sexuality Resource Center. They noticed our November 25 press release, which mentions our concept of “green sexuality”: Before our loyal readers tear me apart, I think it’s worth exploring this concept a bit more in good faith. Here at American […]
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Today is World AIDS Day. The Springfield Republican reports on how this disease remains an acute issue in the Pioneer Valley: As World AIDS Day is observed today, that reality has particular meaning in Springfield and Holyoke, which are both among the top four cities and towns in the state in the percentage of their citizens […]
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S.M. Berg is a radical feminist activist against pornography and prostitution. She is not afraid to choose prostituted women over prostitute-using men, and is a big fan of the Swedish model–decriminalizing prostitutes but not pimps and johns. Berg runs Genderberg.com. She has kindly given us permission to reprint the following article, which also appears in […]
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