Maggie Hays at Against Pornography provides a wealth of valuable material at her website. Here she kindly permits us to reprint her report on conditions in the porn industry in France.Raffaëla Anderson and the French Porno IndustryRaffaëla Anderson [Wikipedia entry], whose ethnic background is partly Arab, is a former pornography performer, who has now become […]
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American Life in Poetry circulates poems for media to reprint. “Matinee” captures the heart of what a marriage can be… American Life in Poetry: Column 124BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006Here is a lovely poem about survival by Patrick Phillips of New York. People sometimes ask me “What are poems for?” and “Matinee” is […]
Cass Sunstein is a constitutional law scholar who teaches at the University of Chicago. He takes a strong interest in how debates are evolving in new media. He observes that people frequently separate themselves into distinct online camps, drive off people who don’t conform, and vilify the opposition. This is a poor way to achieve a […]
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Radical feminist Maggie Hays has launched a major new website to combat pornography, AgainstPornography.org. She has kindly permitted us to reprint this portion of her article, “My Story–From First Encountering Pornography to Becoming a Radical Feminist”. I was raised in a poor, working-class, Catholic, and rather dysfunctional family, living in a suburban house. I was […]
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Mike Kirby and Lu Stone are residents of Summer Street with a full-on view of Capital Video’s prospective King Street porn shop. In January they appealed the Northampton Planning Board’s approval of Capital Video’s site plan. While not a party to this appeal, NoPornNorthampton publicized it with a press release: The goal of the couple’s […]
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WFTV in Sarasota reports that “a disgruntled business man is displaying naked mannequins in his storefront window to protest against his city.” David Douthitt has been trying to open a hair salon where the staff wears bikinis. Neighbors object and the city has declined to issue the necessary permits. “One day, he’ll put the tops […]
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Marnia Robinson and Gary Wilson have kindly given us permission to reprint their advice to parents of boys on the threshold of being teenagers. Marnia and Gary run the website Reuniting: Healing with Sexual Relationships.Is There a Problem with Porn?by Marnia Robinson and Gary WilsonSuppose you’re really hungry, but it’s almost time to leave for your […]
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It has become a cliche in American culture, yet its truth still makes us laugh. Lucy offers Charlie Brown a football to kick. Charlie Brown knows that during virtually all previous attempts, Lucy has pulled the ball away at the last minute, causing him to go flying and land flat on his back. Nevertheless, Lucy knows […]
On July 1, the Pew Research Center released a detailed survey about American attitudes towards marriage and childraising. What particularly caught our eye was what the public believes is key to making a marriage work–faithfulness tops the charts, with over 90% saying it’s “very important to a successful marriage”. You won’t get that message from […]
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Most high school seniors value “having a good marriage and family life”, but for many, this does not become their reality. The odds can be improved by making the benefits of marriage more widely known, and by making more of an effort to share knowledge about how quality intimate relationships work. David Popenoe writes for […]