Today’s Gazette publishes a letter from Jessica Grant of Northampton: Driving my children down Summer Street to Market Street as I do several times a week I was disturbed to see a brightly colored sign adorned with stars on the soon-to-be-open porn store on King Street…At what age would a child be able to type […]
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Porn Star Melissa-Ashley: “I don’t wanna read a long, detailed email about how you wanna rape me” (explicit language)
Melissa-Ashley is a porn star with a blog on MySpace. In a post this spring, she comments about her fans… What I’m about to say has been goin’ on for a while now, but lately it’s been really bad and I can’t just hold my tongue about it any longer.Why the fuck do guys insist […]
SmarterTravel.com: Northampton one of “Five perfect college towns”
SmarterTravel.com recently praised Northampton as a tolerant town that’s fun to walk around in… The downtown area is filled with ma-and-pa-owned boutiques, coffee houses, hip restaurants, and theaters housed in historical buildings. Home to Smith College, the nation’s largest liberal arts college for women, this funky little town is well-known for its art–many galleries feature […]
2005: “No more hotel porn for Swedish government officials”
On 4/6/05, The Local, “Sweden’s News in English”, announced that Swedish civil servants, soldiers and politicians would be required to choose porn-free hotels whenever possible. “In the military, we have been working to curb attitudes that are degrading to women, which in no way can be accepted,” [Major General Åke Jansson] said.The initiative stemmed from […]
Hackers Crow about “Downing” Feminist Websites; Image Raeping (explicit language)
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 […]
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 […]