Andrea Dworkin testified before the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography on January 22, 1986. She writes, Numerous civil liberties folks, including pro-pornography “feminists”, had already testified in other cities. I spoke to the Commission because my friends, feminists who work against pornography, asked me to. Every effort was made by the pro-pornography lobby to discredit […]
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From the report of the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography (1986). The bracketed numbers refer to footnotes in the report. Inside the booths the viewer may see approximately two minutes of the movie for twenty-five cents.[2159] As the number of sexually explicit scenes or diversity of sexual acts increase, the viewing time decreases.[2160] Tokens or […]
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From the report of the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography (1986): As part of the public hearings conducted in Houston, Texas, the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography toured three of the fifty “adults only” pornographic outlets operating in that city. The Commissioners were accompanied on this tour by several detectives from the Houston City Police […]
From the report of the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography (1986): …Increasingly, however, the peep show, often combined with an outlet for the sale of pornographic books and magazines, is a major form of meeting consumer demand. The typical peep show is located on the premises of an “adults only” establishment selling large numbers of […]
Although 135 King Street, the site of the proposed porn shop, is currently zoned for Highway Business, the reality is that it is next to densely populated “urban residential” zones and within a few blocks of the Central Business District. The proposed porn shop site is indicated by the yellow circle with a thumbtack in […]
This satellite photo from Google Earth shows numerous schools and churches within walking distance of the proposed porn shop at 135 King Street. These include: Clarke School for the DeafHelen Hills ChapelSaint John’s Episcopal ChurchSmith CollegeAcademy of MusicBridge Street School (elementary grades)Sacred Heart SchoolFirst Church United Church of ChristCollege ChurchValley Christian SchoolNew Directions School Please […]
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The proposed porn shop at 135 King Street is shown at the center of this satellite photograph from Google Earth. Note the dense residential neighborhoods to the East, West and South.
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A quick search of Google reveals how numerous towns and cities across Massachusetts are using zoning to regulate adult businesses. These towns recognize the harmful “secondary effects” that adult businesses often impose on their surroundings. Here is a sample:Fitchburg (PDF)Section 181.6: “It is the purpose of this section to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to […]
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Your Stories Northampton, a citizens’ journalism feature of MassLive, is devoting heavy coverage to the porn shop issue. Go there now.
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Springfield’s CBS affiliate interviewed residents on July 5 for their thoughts on the new porn shop. “…neighbors like Lu Stone – who wrote a book on the history of Summer St. – don’t want an adult store featured in the next chapter. ‘I hate to think that the last chapter of Summer St. be the […]
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