A lone member of NPN decided to swing by 135 King Street late this afternoon to see if there was any activity there. We observed about eight pro-porn protesters. On seeing the member of NPN, some of these protesters began shouting “pedophile”! In this picture, the protesters appear to be interacting with a passerby in […]
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A Response to J. Wesley Boyd, “The sexism of porn critics”
J. Wesley Boyd manages to pack nearly every bad argument in defense of the King Street porn shop into his 10/4 Gazette guest column, “The sexism of porn critics”. He declines to engage with the evidence of secondary effects presented at NoPornNorthampton. He absurdly equates a porn shop with a supermarket. He ignores the actual […]
Mopornnorthampton Returns, Mocks King Street as “Unspoilt Jewel of the Northeast”
Mopornnorthampton, offline for weeks, returned to service in late September. This site, a creation of Jeff Hobbs, Jennifer Ruggieri, and perhaps others, tries to make the King Street porn shop issue a matter of “free speech” and “free trade” with arguments that we address in our FAQ (see on the left).Recently moporn decided to indulge […]
New York City Planners Document Secondary Effects of Adult Uses, Support Zoning
Porn defenders tend to dismiss the notion of secondary effects, that adult uses can reduce property values, create economic dead zones, heighten crime and change a neighborhood’s character. The fact is, however, that secondary effects have been extensively studied and documented. Here we make available a major Adult Entertainment Study published by New York City’s […]
NoPornNorthampton Mails Open Letter to Northampton and Longmeadow
On September 27, NoPornNorthampton mailed a version of its Open Letter to Barry G. and Annette E. Goldberg of Longmeadow, MA (PDF, explicit language) to virtually all the registered voters of Northampton and Longmeadow, over 29,000 people. The Goldbergs own property at 135 King Street in Northampton, and are in the process of leasing it […]
The Republican: “Anti-porn plan advances”
Today’s Republican reports on progress in regulating adult businesses in Northampton: In what some called a first step in the fight to restrict pornography in Northampton, the Planning Board and the Ordinance Committee last night both approved bans against adult viewing booths in most sections of the city…The viewing-booth measure now goes to the City […]
A Middle Way Between the Puritans and the Libertines
At Talk Back Northampton, Peter Brooks said he believes that the founders of NoPornNorthampton are “victims of the hysteria and fear that history shows can grip a community that is regarded as relatively educated.”We reply that if you want to see hysteria and fear, take a look at how porn films and magazines view women. […]
Valley Advocate: “Erotica: Eden’s Dark Side”
The September 28 Valley Advocate writes about how “Northampton’s understanding of its special local culture is headed for a test…” Northampton has a mix that includes not only mainstream adult consumers of porn, but students–young people discovering their sexuality and experimenting with materials to help them enhance it. It has gays and lesbians, who have […]
Letter to Gazette: “Restrictions can be placed on our constitutional rights”
Today’s Gazette publishes a letter to the editor from James J. Palermo of Florence. He writes,“Constitutionally protected rights are frequently regulated lawfully. For example, we have the right to bear arms, but we do not permit people to carry loaded guns within city limits, or to carry a handgun without a permit. While we have […]
Recap: How Things Stand, and What You Can Do
By popular request, we provide here a summary of the present situation and suggest what people can do to preserve the health of the area around 135 King Street. In late June, Capital Video Corporation, a major pornographic video retailer and producer, signaled that it wanted to open a “big-box” adult video store at 135 King Street […]