Massachusetts legislators heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn at a hearing on March 16, 1992. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.417-419). Written Submission of JW, Boston, MassachusettsThe following testimony contains descriptions of incidents which occurred over a period of eight years in which I worked as a […]
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Testimony from Northampton: Porn Inspired My Molestation
Massachusetts legislators heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn at a hearing on March 16, 1992. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.415). Testimony of D I live in Northampton. When I was a child, five or six years old, the boys in the neighborhood had pornography, and they […]
Testimony in Massachusetts: Porn Suggests Abusive Practices
Massachusetts legislators heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn at a hearing on March 16, 1992. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.414-415). Testimony of Jaye Morra …I’m a senior at Wheelock College in Boston… I was taking a class with Gail Dines, a professor at Wheelock College, who […]
Testimony in Massachusetts: Porn and a Hostile Living Environment at M.I.T.
Massachusetts legislators heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn at a hearing on March 16, 1992. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.412-413). Testimony of Jean M. Moran My name is Jean Moran. I’m currently a graduate student in nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During my […]
Testimony in Massachusetts: Porn and a Hostile Learning Environment at M.I.T.
Massachusetts legislators heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn at a hearing on March 16, 1992. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.408-411). Testimony of Ann Russo My name is Ann Russo, and I’ve been teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the last five years. I teach […]
Testimony from Northampton: Porn Entwined with Years of Domestic Abuse; Sex Ads in Alt Weeklies (explicit language)
Massachusetts legislators heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn at a hearing on March 16, 1992. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.406-407). Testimony of S I live in Northampton, Massachusetts. The first incident I’d like to talk about is representative of many incidents that I experienced by the […]
Testimony in Massachusetts: Porn Confuses Young Men about How to Behave
Massachusetts legislators heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn at a hearing on March 16, 1992. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.404-405). Testimony of Jackson Katz My name is Jackson Katz, and I’m the founder of a group called Real Men, which is an anti-sexist men’s group. The […]
Testimony from Northampton: “The murder of real women is being sold as sexual entertainment” (explicit language)
Massachusetts legislators heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn at a hearing on March 16, 1992. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.399-401). Testimony from Northampton Resident I live in Northampton and I do educational slide shows about pornography and violence against women. I want to talk first about […]
Testimony in Massachusetts: Porn, Prostitution and Abuse Blended Together in This Relationship (explicit)
Massachusetts legislators heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn at a hearing on March 16, 1992. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.381-382). Testimony of L. B. Once this videotape was on, he would make me submit to various sexual acts on the hardwood floors directly in front of […]
Testimony in Massachusetts: My Experiences with Men, Porn and Domestic Abuse (explicit)
Massachusetts legislators heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn at a hearing on March 16, 1992. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.372-378). Blanket statements that porn shops are about “romance” or that porn “enhances couples sex lives” are hard to credit in light of stories like the one […]