NPN’s Jendi Reiter reviews an essay by Andrea Dworkin, “Pornography, prostitution, and a beautiful and tragic recent story”. This essay is published in Christine Stark & Rebecca Whisnant, eds., Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography (North Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex Press, 2004, pp. 137-145).This is the third in a series of reviews of the […]
Impact of Porn
A Review of Gail Dines, “King Kong and the white woman: Hustler magazine and the demonization of black masculinity” (explicit language)
NPN’s Jendi Reiter reviews an essay by Gail Dines, “King Kong and the white woman: Hustler magazine and the demonization of black masculinity”. This essay is published in Christine Stark & Rebecca Whisnant, eds., Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography (North Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex Press, 2004, pp.89-101).This is the second in a series […]
Hustling the Left
Feminist Nikki Craft created this site to highlight the racism, sexism and human rights abuses endemic to the adult industry, and to challenge Leftists to include pornography in their critique of commercialism and corporate greed. Hustling the Left says liberals should not be taken in by Hustler publisher Larry Flynt’s self-presentation as a persecuted dissident.As […]
Letter to Gazette: “Porn does not represent real people and real love”
Today’s Gazette publishers a letter to the editor by Sarah Metcalf of Northampton: …I hear people describe porn as “sex”. But porn is not sex, if we understand sex as a relationship betwen live human beings, who usually feel for each other sparks of attraction and affection. Porn is the representation of sex in words, […]
A Review of Rebecca Whisnant, “Confronting pornography: Some conceptual basics”
NPN’s Jendi Reiter reviews an essay by Rebecca Whisnant, “Confronting pornography: Some conceptual basics”. This essay is published in Christine Stark & Rebecca Whisnant, eds., Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography (North Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex Press, 2004, pp.15-27).This is the first in a series of reviews of the essays in this book.In “Confronting […]
Giuliani Understood How “Small Things” Matter
Richard Morgan writes about Rudy Giuliani’s approach to adult use regulation for City Journal in “Free to Strip?”From the drumbeat of criticism, you’d think that something Orwellian had gripped Mayor Giuliani’s New York. “His vision is…authoritarian, repressive, and antithetical to our rich tradition of tolerance for the right to protest and dissent,” thunders New York […]
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 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 […]
A Response to “marriage is an outdated practice”
We recently had an exchange with “NOHO Resident” that we would like to highlight. NOHO Resident asserts that marriage “is becoming an outdated practice more and more day by day.” We replied: I’m so glad you raised the issue of marriage being obsolete. This would certainly be news to many children of divorce. Barbara Whitehead […]