Lesley Rich, general counsel for Capital Video, claims that their Amazing.net “stores are oriented more as a ‘sensuality’ style business, with a focus on couples and women in the adult market.” As Valentine’s Day approaches, let’s peel back the veneer of love at Amazing.net and examine the reality.Amazing.net is jealous of your human relationships.It wants […]
Impact of Porn
Influence of Porn on Sex Practices: Dispatches from the Field (explicit language)
Many of our opponents argue that porn has little influence on behavior. The blogger GruntDoc, for example, claims “these images are harmless. No image has ever gotten up off a page and caused harm to anyone.”Let’s check in with Jezebel on the subject. Jezebel is a busy website devoted to “Celebrity, Sex, Fashion. Without airbrushing”. […]
New Study: Men Still Outpace Women in Porn Consumption
A new study out of Brigham Young University finds that men still substantially outpace women in porn consumption. 86.1% of the male respondents said they had viewed porn in the past year, versus 31.0% of the women. Among the men, 21.3% said they viewed porn every day or almost every day, versus just 1.0% of the […]
Hugo Schwyzer Reviews “Getting Off” by Robert Jensen
Hugo Schwyzer has kindly given us permission to reprint Part One of his three-part review of Getting Off by Robert Jensen. You may read Part Two here and Part Three here. Part one of a series on “Getting Off”: masculinity, pornography, and the truth of what we don’t want to face …I started reading Robert Jensen’s Getting […]
Springfield Republican: “Cities challenged to fight AIDS”
Today is World AIDS Day. The Springfield Republican reports on how this disease remains an acute issue in the Pioneer Valley: As World AIDS Day is observed today, that reality has particular meaning in Springfield and Holyoke, which are both among the top four cities and towns in the state in the percentage of their citizens […]
S.M. Berg: “The Harms of Gay Male Pornography: A Sexual Equality Perspective” (explicit)
S.M. Berg is a radical feminist activist against pornography and prostitution. She runs Genderberg.com. She has kindly given us permission to reprint the following article, which also appears in Off Our Backs (July/August 2005) and the Against Pornography website.by S.M. BergA report on Christopher Kendall’s presentation at the 2005 Captive Daughters conference on pornography and […]
Full Text of Springfield’s Decision to Revoke Capital Video’s Viewing Booth Entertainment License
Here is the full text of Springfield’s Findings and Decision in its revocation of Capital Video’s viewing booth entertainment license. These Findings may also be downloaded as a PDF.The Findings constitute a case study in “secondary effects”: the crime, blight and prostitution known to atttend many adult enterprises. Here are excerpts from Springfield Mayor Charles V. Ryan’s […]
Springfield Republican: “Ryan shuts adult shop booths”
Capital Video must close the porn viewing booths at its Springfield store, Mayor Charles V. Ryan ruled on November 20. The store is located at Apremont Triangle. NoPornNorthampton mailed over 1,700 letters to this neighborhood on April 30. We asked residents to encourage the Mayor to address problems caused by this store.Northampton attorney Thomas Lesser tried […]
Evidence Assessment: The Role of Pornography in the Physical Abuse of Women
The UK Ministry of Justice recently released a comprehensive survey of research on the impact of porn, with a focus on “extreme pornographic material”. We would like to call particular attention to the section on “Studies of victimised women” (p.18-19): The majority of research on the effects of pornographic material depicting explicit serious sexual violence […]
AP: “U.S. sets record in sexual disease cases”
Much of today’s mainstream porn advocates practices favorable to the spread of disease. Common messages include: Have sex with lots of partners Have unprotected sex Have high-risk sex (e.g. “ass-to-mouth”; ejaculation in or around the eyes)STD rates among porn performers themselves are extraordinarily high.AP reports this week that rates for several sexually-transmitted diseases are rising […]