Capital Video’s outlet in Meriden, CT is called Amazing.net. It contains private viewing booths. NPN took a trip on July 9 and surveyed the public areas around this shop. We found numerous blue gloves on the ground behind the building. Here is a picture of the front of the shop, then some from the back: […]
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NPN Releases a Draft Adult-Use Zoning Law
NoPornNorthampton provides this draft zoning law for public comment. Its intent is to reduce the adverse secondary effects of certain sexually oriented businesses on health, neighborhoods and commerce while respecting civil liberties.The proposed zoning law draws on similar laws put in place elsewhere in the US. These have been upheld in court as serving important […]
NPN Releases a Draft Regulation for Health Inspector: Licenses for Viewing Booths in Adult Entertainment Establishments
NoPornNorthampton provides this draft health regulation for public comment. Its intent is to reduce high risk activity known to occur around porn shop viewing booths and combat diseases such as AIDS. It does not ban viewing booths, but only regulates them. This proposed regulation draws on similar regulations put in place elsewhere in the US. […]
US Court of Appeals Upholds Minneapolis Regulation of Porn Viewing Booths
In 1990, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld “the constitutionality of a City of Minneapolis, Minnesota ordinance which: (1) prohibited the construction, use, design, or operation of a commercial building for the purpose of engaging in, or permitting persons to engage in, sexual activities which include high risk sexual conduct;[Footnote 3] […]
Law Article: “Preventing the Secondary Effects of Adult Entertainment Establishments: Is Zoning the Solution?”
Dana M. Tucker makes health, safety and economic arguments for regulating adult entertainment establishments in “Preventing the Secondary Effects of Adult Entertainment Establishments: Is Zoning the Solution?”, 12 Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law 383 (1997). The bracketed numbers refer to footnotes.Health impact of porn shops with viewing booths (pages 414-417)One of the adverse […]
WWLP Springfield: “Hampshire County Residents Crusade to Combat Porn”
July 13: Springfield NBC affiliate WWLP interviewed NPN founders Jendi Reiter and Adam Cohen. “The duo says their goals aren’t to ban these kinds of stores, but to create and maintain a safe living environment.” See a summary and watch the video.
Lu Stone: “Porn shop will damage a good neighborhood”
Lu Stone has lived on Summer Street for 25 years. She wrote a history of the area, “A House. A Street. A City. The Story of 17 Summer Street”, and last Saturday she wrote to the Gazette to express her concerns about the porn shop proposed for 135 King Street: “I would like to invite […]
Cleveland: Cameras Put in Viewing Booths To Deter Sexual Activity
June 11, 2005, as reported by WKYC, a Cleveland TV station: “Two years ago, unprotected male on male sex was running rampant in the back room video booths. “Channel 3 News was tipped off about the open sex by a local schoolteacher, who claimed her boyfriend told her he had unprotected sex with over 100 […]
Gazette: “Hadley’s fortified zoning foils effort to reopen ‘adult’ shop”
July 12: The Daily Hampshire Gazette reports, “A merchant’s attempt to run an adult video and magazine shop on Route 9 in the guise of an antique coin retailer has failed. “The venture was foiled by a town bylaw that prohibits adult stores from opening in the town’s commercial zone…. “‘I don’t think the town […]
What They’re Saying about Capital Video’s Kittery Store at Squirt.org (explicit)
Capital Video’s Amazing.net porn shop in Kittery, Maine has been a hot topic of conversion on squirt.org, “your neighborhood cruising guide”. Squirt’s profile of the site gives directions and “hours” of 10am – 1am. Who goes there? “Married guys looking for head and those who provide it.” Here are some (graphic) comments about the site […]