Minneapolis city officials heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn, those who consume porn and those who produce it at a hearing of the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 13, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.161-165). Testimony of Cheryl Champion I have worked in the field […]
Impact of Porn
Testimony in Minneapolis: “Pornography is frequently stated as a hobby of the abuser”
Minneapolis city officials heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn, those who consume porn and those who produce it at a hearing of the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 13, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.152-153). Some of the testimony below describes sexually explicit events that […]
Victim’s “Precocious Knowledge of Sexuality” Blocks Child Rape Conviction
Northampton’s Daily Hampshire Gazette reports today that a Hampshire Superior Court jury has acquitted Hubert Jaundoo, a local man accused of raping his then-girlfriend’s seven-year-old daughter in 2001, after Jaundoo’s lawyer attacked the child’s credibility on the grounds that she was too sexually experienced: His defense lawyer, David Hoose, argued the girl’s precocious knowledge of sexuality created […]
Testimony in Minneapolis: “Pornography is probably the most extreme example of anti-women socialization that men receive in this society”
Minneapolis city officials heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn, those who consume porn and those who produce it at a hearing of the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 13, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.149-151). Testimony of Wanda Richardson, Harriet Tubman Women’s Shelter If you […]
Testimony in Minneapolis: Pornographic Materials Often Found in Homes with Child Sexual Abuse
Minneapolis city officials heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn, those who consume porn and those who produce it at a hearing of the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 13, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.143-145). [emphasis added] Testimony of Bill Neiman, Assistant County Attorney in […]
“Study: Rising number of kids exposed to online porn”
Today’s Gazette relays an AP story about children being exposed to porn online: Forty-two percent of Internet users aged 10 to 17 surveyed said they had seen online pornography in a recent 12-month span. Of those, 66 percent said they did not want to view the images and had not sought them out, University of […]
Exposure to Pornography as a Cause of Child Sexual Victimization
Professor Diana Russell has kindly permitted us to make this research paper available to the public as a free download. She co-authored it with Natalie Purcell. We made another work by Professor Russell, Against Pornography, available in an earlier post. This paper shows how child pornography and/or adult pornography can factor into pedophilia and child […]
Overcoming Porn Addiction: One Young Woman’s Story
Freelance writer Anne Jackson shared her struggle with porn addiction in a recent issue of Relevant, a magazine of spirituality and popular culture for Christians in their teens and twenties. In the article “Dirty Girls: The New Porn Addicts”, Jackson investigates her unexpected fascination with porn: Growing up the daughter of a Baptist preacher-man, I was […]
Testimony in Minneapolis: Secondary Effects Around Adult Theaters; Police Suggest that Concerned Citizens Move Away
Citizens gave testimony about their encounters with porn and those who consume porn to the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 12, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.124-129). Testimony of Shannon McCarthy BichaI am a resident of St. Paul, and I have been throughout the majority of […]
Testimony in Minneapolis: Porn and a Hostile Work Environment
Citizens gave testimony about their encounters with porn and those who consume porn to the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 12, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.121-124). Testimony of Ms. B I used to be a resident of Minneapolis. I am simply going to relate what […]