Here is the full text of Springfield Mayor Charles Ryan’s Findings and Decision as transmitted on January 4 to Thomas Lesser, attorney for Capital Video. Mr. Lesser, based in Northampton, is trying to help Capital Video obtain a 2008 entertainment license for the porn viewing booths in its Springfield store, called Amazing.net. Last year he tried to […]
Springfield Republican: “Springfield mayor denies license for adult-themed store”
[Updated on 1/5/08]Just hitting the wires now from The Republican: Springfield Mayor Charles Ryan says Amazing.net’s viewing booths must stay shut in 2008: Springfield Mayor Charles Ryan has rejected an adult-oriented store’s request to reinstate its entertainment license for 2008…Ryan’s decision Friday came after police reported patrons were still being allowed to use the booths, […]
Springfield Republican: “Police report continued use of booths at adult store”
MassLive, the website of The Republican, reports today that viewing booths are still in use at the Amazing.net porn shop in Springfield even though Mayor Charles Ryan ordered them closed in November due to lewd activity and crime: A police sergeant said in a public hearing today that patrons were using video booths at the Amazing.net adult-themed store on […]
Employee Arrested for Selling Poppers at Amazing.net in Boston
WBZ, the CBS affiliate in Boston, reported on December 28: …Dwan Hammond’s arrest stems from a complaint police received from an unidentified person. This tipster told police that “poppers” — an illegal inhalant — were being sold at the Amazing.net Adult Video Store on Stuart Street.Police say they sent undercover officers into the store to […]
Rhode Island’s Top Newspaper Runs Display Ads for Amazing.net (explicit language)
Adult industry advertising isn’t limited to alternative weeklies like the Valley Advocate. Amazing.net, the porn chain operated by Capital Video, just placed display ads in the December 26 and 28 editions of The Providence Journal. This is the “#1 newspaper” in its market.The ad promotes Amazing.net’s locations in Providence (3), East Providence, Johnston, North Kingstown, […]
Harvard Public Heath Review: Many sex trafficking victims contract HIV and radiate the infection
“Around the world, an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked for labor or sexual exploitation every year, according to the U.S. Department of State. About 80 percent of victims are women and girls.” Harvard School of Public Health researchers, working with organizations like Maiti Nepal and Rescue Foundation of Mumbai, are publicizing the brutal […]
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”. […]
Gazette: “King Street porn store to open Monday”
Today’s Gazette reports that Capital Video’s Amazing.net porn shop at 135 King Street will open on Monday. To conform with city ordinances, it will contain 998 square feet of “adult-themed items”, down from a potential 6,000+ square feet in their original plans in late June 2006.The store’s 20 proposed viewing booths were heaved over the side […]
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 […]
Call to Action: Ask the Valley Advocate’s New Owner to Drop the Sex Ads
Today’s Gazette reports that its parent company, Newspapers of New England, is acquiring the Valley Advocate. Now is a good time to ask NNE to start on the right foot and drop the Advocate’s sex ads. Here is a sample letter: Mr. Tom BrownPresident and CEONewspapers of New England, Inc.One Monitor DriveConcord, NH 03302Dear Mr. Brown:Congratulations on […]