Dana M. Tucker makes health, safety and economic arguments for regulating adult entertainment establishments in “Preventing the Secondary Effects of Adult Entertainment Establishments: Is Zoning the Solution?”, 12 Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law 383 (1997). The bracketed numbers refer to footnotes.Health impact of porn shops with viewing booths (pages 414-417)One of the adverse […]
WWLP Springfield: “Hampshire County Residents Crusade to Combat Porn”
July 13: Springfield NBC affiliate WWLP interviewed NPN founders Jendi Reiter and Adam Cohen. “The duo says their goals aren’t to ban these kinds of stores, but to create and maintain a safe living environment.” See a summary and watch the video.
Lu Stone: “Porn shop will damage a good neighborhood”
Lu Stone has lived on Summer Street for 25 years. She wrote a history of the area, “A House. A Street. A City. The Story of 17 Summer Street”, and last Saturday she wrote to the Gazette to express her concerns about the porn shop proposed for 135 King Street: “I would like to invite […]
Cleveland: Cameras Put in Viewing Booths To Deter Sexual Activity
June 11, 2005, as reported by WKYC, a Cleveland TV station: “Two years ago, unprotected male on male sex was running rampant in the back room video booths. “Channel 3 News was tipped off about the open sex by a local schoolteacher, who claimed her boyfriend told her he had unprotected sex with over 100 […]
Gazette: “Hadley’s fortified zoning foils effort to reopen ‘adult’ shop”
July 12: The Daily Hampshire Gazette reports, “A merchant’s attempt to run an adult video and magazine shop on Route 9 in the guise of an antique coin retailer has failed. “The venture was foiled by a town bylaw that prohibits adult stores from opening in the town’s commercial zone…. “‘I don’t think the town […]
What They’re Saying about Capital Video’s Kittery Store at Squirt.org (explicit)
Capital Video’s Amazing.net porn shop in Kittery, Maine has been a hot topic of conversion on squirt.org, “your neighborhood cruising guide”. Squirt’s profile of the site gives directions and “hours” of 10am – 1am. Who goes there? “Married guys looking for head and those who provide it.” Here are some (graphic) comments about the site […]
Capital Video’s Porn Shops Get Many Comments from the “Cruisers” at Squirt.org
There are websites where men looking for anonymous sex make lists of good “cruising” spots across the USA. One example is squirt.org, “your neighborhood cruising guide”. On this site (which has explicit photos), we notice that the Amazing.net store is one of the two “cruising” locations listed for Kittery, Maine. This listing has 56 comments, […]
The Republican: “Residents fight adult-store plan”
July 12: Today’s Republican reports on NoPornNorthampton’s petition: “…Adam R. Cohen and Jendi Reiter, who live on North Street, have been organizing neighborhood opposition under the aegis of NoPornNorthampton. The organization has set up a Web site with information about Capital…. Cohen, who was in Kittery, Maine, yesterday to observe another adult store owned by […]
Gazette: “Couple takes stand, launches web site on porn shop”
July 11: The Daily Hampshire Gazette spoke with NPN about its campaign to regulate porn shops and viewing booths. “‘This really seems to be as bad a location for this business as one could possible imagine,’ said [NPN co-founder Adam] Cohen in a phone interview Monday.” See the complete profile (may require a paid subscription). […]
NoPornNorthampton Petition Ready for Circulation
On July 10, NoPornNorthampton began to circulate a petition to local citizens. The goal of the petition was to keep our neighborhoods safe while respecting civil liberties. Since the Northampton City Council passed adult-use zoning measures on November 2, we are not soliciting more signatures at this time, but feel free to download the petition for your […]