Gazette Supports “Regulating porn stores”

The lead editorial in today’s Daily Hampshire Gazette throws its support behind recent efforts to regulate adult businesses in Northampton: Northampton is on the right track in using its zoning authority to discourage a proposed pornography shop from opening on King Street, but more work has to be done to ensure the city’s actions can […]

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The Science Behind Pornography Addiction

Dr. Mary Anne Layden gave this testimony at a US Senate Science, Technology, and Space Hearing in 2004. Dr. Layden is Co-Director, Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program, Center for Cognitive Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania… Pornography, by its very nature, is an equal opportunity toxin. It damages the viewer, the performer, and the spouses and […]

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A Feminism that Looks Out for Women

Not all of today’s young feminists accept the message that porn, prostitution and stripping are “liberating” for women. In this article from the Bucknell University student magazine The Counterweight, first-year student Lee Markison shares her disappointment that a university women’s group invited local “sex workers” to put on a sexually explicit show on campus: Nipple […]

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Boston Globe: “Adult video store plan divides Northampton”

Today’s Boston Globe prominently features an article about the porn shop debate in Northampton. Jendi Reiter and Adam Cohen have been called busybodies, Bible-pushers, and Communists since they started fighting to stop an adult video store from opening near their home on the edge of Northampton’s cafe-studded downtown.The couple laughs off most of the name-calling, […]

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WWLP Springfield: “Northampton Residents Address Several Issues”

At the scene of Thursday’s city council meeting, Springfield’s NBC affiliate WWLP briefly interviewed Adam Cohen from NoPornNorthampton. “…Northampton residents…came to tell the mayor they support a proposed ordinance to create a combat zone for adult-type businesses, away from schools, homes, and churches. Mayor Clare Higgins supports the creation of an adult business zone, but […]

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Gazette: “New voice joins ‘adult’ debate”

Today’s Gazette reports on the launch of Talk Back Northampton, a site that claims that zoning adult businesses is “actual and real censorship”. Here are some of our responses to this claim:We are not advocating censorship, but mindfulness about porn and a few modest zoning and health regulations to address local residents’ legimate, well-documented concerns. These […]

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A Response to First Amendment Concerns

We would like to highlight an exchange of comments we had on 9/20 with “AC”. The points raised are substantially similar to those that appear in a 9/23 Gazette letter to the editor submitted by Peter Brooks.AC wrote:Your point of view, Nopornnorthampton, may be right in many respects. But pornographic material does make a social statement that […]

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