We would like to call your attention to a new documentary about the publisher of Hustler: “Larry Flynt: The Right To Be Left Alone”. Here is how Full Frame, a Durham, NC festival that premiered this film, describes it: This film celebrates and examines an unabashed vulgarian first known for Hustler magazine’s lack of restraint. […]
Abuse and Threats Drive Women Out of Online Participation (explicit language)
Without self-restraint, the First Amendment becomes a tragic document. Free speech degenerates into who has power, money and aggression. Many who are too kind or wise to return bile for bile retreat from public forums. Their contributions are lost. The April 30 Washington Post reports that threats and harassment are driving women out of Internet […]
Testimony in Massachusetts: The Lasting Impact of Growing Up in a Porn-Filled Home
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.421-423). Submission of Kathleen O’Neill Alexander, March 16, 1992, Boston MassachusettsI have been a rape crisis coordinator and counselor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. I […]
Testimony in Massachusetts: Porn and a Hostile Work Environment in Carpentry
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.420-421). Submission of Mary Ann Cloherty, March 12, 1992, Boston, Massachusetts Working as a woman in a non-traditional job (union carpentry) I have encountered many covert and […]
Testimony in Massachusetts: Johns who like porn are the “most dangerous and potentially violent” (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.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 […]
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 […]
Gazette: “Porn store opening delayed”
Today’s Gazette reports on the status of Capital Video’s planned porn shop at 135 King Street in Northampton, and comments on the issues surrounding Capital Video’s shop in Springfield at Apremont Triangle. The Northampton store will open in June or early July. Capital Video says construction issues have delayed them at their Northampton site. Meanwhile, […]
Video Presentation: A Content Analysis of 50 of Today’s Top Selling Porn Films (explicit language)
A number of porn defenders claim that anti-porn activists harp on unusual, violent, women-hating examples of porn, and unfairly downplay the existence of ‘artistic’ porn on sites like Suicide Girls. anthonyjk_6319 believes that porn sites like “Gag on My Cock” and “Anal Suffering” are the “exception”, and that the “overwhelming majority of porn (something like […]
Letter to the Gazette: “Addressing prostitution, promiscuity in war on AIDS”
Today’s Daily Hampshire Gazette publishes a letter from Jendi Reiter. Jendi is a co-founder of NoPornNorthampton. One can characterize prostitution and promiscuity as ‘personal choices’, but the problem of containing serious diseases remains. The fact that third parties, such as the spouses of men who frequent prostitutes, are affected by these diseases must also be […]