Dr. Gail Dines: “Pornography Debases Men, Women & Culture” – Video

Dr. Gail Dines gives a 9-minute PornHarms.com briefing on “Pornography Debases Men, Women & Culture”. Dr. Dines just published PORNLAND: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality. See also: Gail Dines Presents: Pornography and Pop Culture (explicit) Gail Dines is Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Wheelock College in Boston. For 20 years she has lectured across the country […]

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First Things: “The Weight of Smut”

In the June/July issue of First Things, Mary Eberstadt discusses the latest scientific and psychological research on porn addiction and its social costs. While we don’t endorse this magazine’s conservative stance on gender roles and gay issues, we found this article valuable. The Weight of Smut As the impressively depressing cover story “America the Obese” […]

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The Rebecca Project: “Dear Craig”

The Rebecca Project For Human Rights appeals to Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster to close the Adult Services section of Craigslist. Download a high-resolution PDF of this letter.  Learn more.  See also: YouTube Video: “The Rebecca Project”   Yahoo! News: “Craigslist faces new prostitution investigation” (5/4/10) The unfathomably popular online classifieds (and everything else) site Craigslist is back in […]

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Demand Change Fact Sheet: “Prostitution: fact or fiction?”

OBJECT and Eaves in the UK have kindly given us permission to reprint this fact sheet on prostitution. Download the high-resolution PDF. See also: Examiner.com: “German’s legalized prostitution brought more exploitation than emancipation to women” (5/26/10) …sex trafficking has increased 11 percent from last year and 70% over [a] five-year period. While many advocates for legalized […]

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The Vice Guide to Becoming a Whore in 2004 (explicit language)

Vice magazine describes what it’s like to be a prostituted woman (April 2004 issue): …No matter what the empowered academics in San Francisco pretend to believe, whoring—in any form—is hell, and the only reason women do it is to get money for coke NOW! If you want to try it out, be prepared to have […]

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Springfield Republican: “Amazing.net, Springfield adult video store, closes”

Capital Video’s Amazing.net porn shop in Springfield, operating since 1993, has closed. The Springfield Republican reports today: Capital Video Corp., of Cranston, R.I., decided a few weeks ago to shut down the business, Amazing.net, at 496 Bridge St., said Lesley S. Rich, general counsel for the company. “There has been a downturn in the general economy and […]

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Springfield Republican: “Springfield accuses Amazing.net adult video store customers of ‘lewd and lascivious behavior'”

The Springfield Republican reports on April 2: The city [of Springfield], claiming knowledge of “lewd and lascivious behavior” in an adult video store on Bridge Street, recently ordered the business to remove the doors of all 13 video booths used by its customers, intending to stop the behavior. The door-removal requirement was among conditions of the […]

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Anti-Porn Feminists: “Dumb MRA says dumb MRA things”

The London-based Anti-Porn Feminists blog has kindly given us permission to reprint their February 9 article, “Dumb MRA says dumb MRA things”. It’s full of great rebuttals to common arguments raised by porn defenders. An MRA is a Men’s Rights Activist. Dumb MRA says dumb MRA thingsI know, complaining about dumb MRAs being dumb is like […]

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