The adult industry has certainly peppered the American landscape with come-hither billboards, as they know well in Hartford, but apparently the other side has put up a few as well, a tiny step to balance a badly distorted national discourse. Here’s a quick tour: Anti-Porn Billboards Pop Up Around Jacksonville on Valentine’s DayBillboards around the […]
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King and Queen of MoPornNorthampton Savagery Do Freelance Work for Republican, MassLive (explicit language)
[Updated on June 11, 2007] As those who have visited opposition blog MoPornNorthampton are aware, Jeff Hobbs, Jennifer Ruggieri and their associates have engaged in savage personal attacks on Northampton anti-porn citizens for months. These self-styled heroes of free speech actually suppress it by fostering an atmosphere of fear and intimidation, inducing many citizens to […]
Visitors to NoPornNorthampton Website Outnumber Those of Local Newspaper Website
[Revised and updated on May 30, 2007] For the first time, an independent web measurement service estimates that NoPornNorthampton.org receives more monthly unique US visitors than GazetteNet.com, a website of Northampton’s local newspaper, the Daily Hampshire Gazette. (The Gazette also serves some visitors as DailyHampshireGazette.com.) Quantcast estimates that NoPornNorthampton is now receiving 12,629 monthly unique […]
Capital Video’s Springfield Porn Shop Repels Sought-After Businesses
Capital Video’s Springfield porn shop continues to be the WMass exemplar for secondary effects. In January we noted how the Springfield police have issues with drug sales and lewd activity around the premises. Now Valley Advocate blog Urban Compass reports that the shop repels businesses that developers are trying to bring to the area: Developer […]
Penn State Law Professors Trot Out ‘Female Porn Leaders’ to Whitewash Realities of Adult Industry (explicit language)
NPN’s Jendi Reiter critiques Clay Calvert and Robert D. Richards, “Porn in Their Words: Female Leaders in the Adult Entertainment Industry Address Free Speech, Censorship, Feminism, Culture and the Mainstreaming of Adult Content” (PDF), published last year in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law [9 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 255 (2006)].This article […]
A Review of Catharine MacKinnon’s Only Words
Only Words, a slim volume by University of Michigan law professor Catharine MacKinnon, published in 1993, might be considered the Bible of the radical feminist anti-pornography movement, providing a theoretical and legal framework to complement the more personal evidence presented in Andrea Dworkin‘s impassioned memoirs. MacKinnon’s intelligence and thirst for justice are undeniable, but some […]
Nature: Psychological attacks rank high on torture list (explicit language)
The journal Nature reports that the long-term mental suffering caused by psychological abuse is similar to that of physical abuse. To us, this further undercuts the notion that porn is just harmless fantasy. Many porn scenarios involve psychological abuse, as we will show below. But first, Nature: The long-term mental anguish caused by psychological torture […]
Anti-Porn Legend Gloria Steinem to Give 2007 Commencement Address at Smith College
We are excited to hear that Gloria Steinem, 1956 Smith graduate and feminist legend, will return to campus on May 20 to give the commencement address. Steinem’s early freelance work includes an undercover article for Show magazine on the working conditions of Playboy bunnies. Her stance against porn is clear: If you have two groups […]
People on the Left and the Right Share Blame for the Sexual Miseducation of Americans
A correspondent brought to our attention this insightful interview published on the Media Education Foundation website. Jackson Katz, Ed.M. is one of America’s leading anti-sexist male activists. He is the co-founder of the Mentors In Violence Prevention (MVP) program, the leading gender violence prevention initiative in college athletics. He is the director of the first […]
Time to Explore the Links Between Porn, Testosterone, Sexual Behavior and Violence
Not satisfied with the high degree of correlation between porn consumption and sexual callousness, our opponents keep pressing us to elaborate the mechanism that links porn and behavior. It looks like a clue lies in the role of testosterone. This hormone has many good qualities, but it is also linked with aggression and promiscuity. The […]