Testimony in Minneapolis: “Pornography in the home is insidious. Girls pick up the message, they act it out, they don’t know why they feel suicidal and crazy.”

Minneapolis city officials heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn, those who consume porn and those who produce it at a hearing of the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 13, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.172-175). Testimony of Charlotte Kasl I am a therapist in private […]

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Testimony in Minneapolis: Prison Condones Porn by Selling It

Minneapolis city officials heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn, those who consume porn and those who produce it at a hearing of the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 13, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.171-172). Testimony of Richelle Lee I work with sex offenders. I […]

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Effects of Prolonged Consumption of Pornography on Family Values; Women’s Desire to Have Daughters Plummets

In 1988, Dolf Zillman (Indiana University) and Jennings Bryant (University of Alabama) published the following study in Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 9, No. 4, 518-544. Effects of Prolonged Consumption of Pornography on Family Values Abstract Male and female students and nonstudents were exposed to videotapes featuring common, nonviolent pornography or innocuous content. Exposure was […]

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Testimony in Minneapolis: Researcher sets out to prove angry fantasies are cathartic, finds the opposite

Minneapolis city officials heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn, those who consume porn and those who produce it at a hearing of the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 13, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.168-170). Testimony of Nancy Steele For twelve years, I have worked […]

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Testimony in Minneapolis: Ice cream man uses porn magazine to interest children in sex

Minneapolis city officials heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn, those who consume porn and those who produce it at a hearing of the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 13, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.165-168). Testimony of Gary Kaplan I am the Executive Director of […]

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Testimony in Minneapolis: “Prevalency of pornography amongst our offenders”

Minneapolis city officials heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn, those who consume porn and those who produce it at a hearing of the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 13, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.161-165). Testimony of Cheryl Champion I have worked in the field […]

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Connecticut: State, City and Citizens Cooperate to Combat Porn Shop Sited Next to Berlin Homes

Very Intimate Pleasures is trying to open up a large porn shop within 250 feet of a residential area in Berlin, CT. Citizens have protested, and the state has now joined city officials in efforts to get V.I.P. to comply with Berlin ordinances that forbid such a site to adult enterprises. Today’s Hartford Courant reports: […]

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Gazette: “60 days to porn on King? Permit in hand, shop eyes spring opening”

Today’s Gazette reports that Northampton has issued Capital Video a building permit (PDF) for a porn shop on 135 King Street [see a PDF of the floor plan]. Due to its proximity to homes, the store may have no more than 1,000 square feet of adult material on display. The Gazette notes that an appeal […]

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Testimony in Minneapolis: “Pornography is frequently stated as a hobby of the abuser”

Minneapolis city officials heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn, those who consume porn and those who produce it at a hearing of the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 13, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.152-153). Some of the testimony below describes sexually explicit events that […]

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