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NoPornNorthampton aims to increase awareness about the impact of porn on people and communities. We support the reasonable regulation of sexually oriented businesses in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Adrienne Rich: "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence"
Capital Video's Amazing.net store in Northampton portrays itself as gay-friendly, but this is just a fig leaf over the true nature of the bulk of today's porn industry:Adrienne Rich describes the reality in "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Exi...
Gazette: "Porn chain owes $261,486 in sales tax"
Today's Gazette reports:Porn chain owes $261,486 in sales taxState revenue officials have slapped a hefty tax lien on the company that runs a King Street porn store for unpaid sales taxes, making the company one of the state's top 100 sales tax delin...
Porn and Escort Ads: An Exploitation Team (explicit language)
Porn and prostitution have long teamed up to exploit women. Porn tells men what to fantasize about. Some then go to prostituted women to act it out. For example, you can buy the following film today (number 3 in the top 100) from Amazing.net/GoFlix.c...
Gazette: "Year later, porn store brings scant change to neighborhood"
Today's Gazette assesses the impact of Capital Video's Amazing.net porn shop in Northampton. This shop, at 135 King Street, originally planned to contain 20 viewing booths. Year later, porn store brings scant change to neighborhood[Douglas A.] Kohl ...
Springfield Republican: "Springfield to continue fight against adult viewing booths"
We applaud Springfield officials for not giving up on Apremont Triangle. The Republican reports today that the city is still interested in closing the viewing booths at the Amazing.net porn shop there. The booths are associated with health risks, eco...
Hampden Superior Court Lets Capital Video Reopen Viewing Booths in Springfield; A Proposed Solution
Bad news for Springfield's Apremont Triangle last month. Hampden County Superior Court ruled that Capital Video's Amazing.net porn shop there can reopen its viewing booths. One of Charlie Ryan's last acts as the Mayor of Springfield was to deny Capit...
Making Today's Marriage Work: Smart Women and Egalitarian Relationships
For all its protestations about being liberatory, most of today's bestselling porn is atavistic and repressive. Women, goes the theme, should accept and enjoy abuse from men. In a recent study of 50 of the most popular hardcore films,"...I'm going to...
Hartford Pedophile: "Reardon has the potential to go down in the history of the United States of America as one of the biggest monsters in this genre" (explicit)
Porn merchants like Amazing.net/Goflix.com, and their business partners, find that it's stimulating, entertaining, and/or profitable to sell images of the abuse of the young and the weak. Movies sold at Goflix.com include:Abuse of PowerA young athlet...
The Elevens Parties with Amazing.net (explicit)
If you walk by Capital Video's Amazing.net porn shop at 135 King Street, you'll see this flyer on the front door:The Elevens says it is "the area's premier venue for independent, local, regional, national and underground performers". We are sorry to ...
The Phoenix Lauds Kenny Guarino; We Round Out the Picture
It can be fascinating to read a newspaper article on a subject you know something about. The spin, the omissions can be breathtaking. Take for example, The Phoenix and Kenneth Guarino. The Phoenix media group includes alt weeklies Boston Phoenix, Pro...
Childhood Spanking Linked to Coerced Sex and Risky Sex in Adulthood; Amazing.net Milks Pain for Profit (explicit)
Spanking children can affect their sex lives as adults, AP reports. Professor Murray Straus is a domestic abuse expert at the University of New Hampshire. He hopes his research findings will discourage the use of corporal punishment.Study: Spanking C...
Now on Sale at Amazing.net: The Swirlies (explicit)
Counter-protester holds up a sign near Amazing.net at 135 King Street, Northampton in 2006Porn defenders will claim that it's about love for women, an expression of art, not violence. TalkBackNorthampton, one of our more vigorous opponents for a...
Massachusetts Legislators Aim to Expand Rape to Include Forms of Deceit (explicit language)
The February 28 Republican reports on a bill just filed that aims to expand the state's rape law to include certain cases of fraud and deceit, not just physical force. Proponents said existing law must be tightened after a Westfield man allegedly had...
Now Showing at Amazing.net: The War on Privacy and Consent (explicit)
A major argument advanced by our opponents is that we have no right to criticize the actions of consenting adults. On 3/16/07, Activist Scott commented: I want consenting adults to be able to do, purchase, and view whatever material they want. I may ...
Amazing.net: Making Nazis Sexy (explicit)
Plenty of movies have been made about the Nazi regime, but only the porn industry expects you to orgasm to it. Now on sale at Amazing.net/Goflix.com, you'll find Nazi Torture Castle (explicit link). We blurred the genitalia on the woma...
Herbert, Brooks and Osayande on Misogyny, Money and Power; Amazing.net's War on Women and Blacks (explicit)
In 2008 America, where front-running presidential candidates include an African-American and a woman, it's hard to believe how ingrained misogyny and racism remain in our culture. Not only that, but pornographers are doing a thriving busine...
Now Showing at Amazing.net: The War on Relationships (explicit)
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 v...
Full Text of Springfield's Decision to Deny Capital Video's 2008 Viewing Booth Entertainment License
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 entertainme...
Springfield Republican: "Springfield mayor denies license for adult-themed store"
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 lice...
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:...
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.n...
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 ne...
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 ori...
Capital Video's King Street Porn Shop Set to Open Soon
The Republican reports yesterday that Capital Video's Amazing.net porn shop on King Street is set to open soon. Northampton Building Commissioner Anthony L. Patillo issued a certificate of occupancy. Patillo expects to return to the store this c...
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 r...
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 cri...
AP: "Widespread Teacher Sexual Misconduct Reported" (explicit language)
In October, The Associated Press announced it had "found more than 2,500 cases over five years in which educators were punished for actions from bizarre to sadistic." The actual incidence of abuse is likely to be much greater, as "most of the ab...
Local Buzz: "The sex talk"
This month's Local Buzz, a sister publication of The Republican, publishes "The sex talk: The Valley's struggle with porn, the left, elitism, and an industry leaning local". Reporter Bill Peters talks to various personalities around the valley about...
Rick Porras, Capital Video Executive, Would Rather You Not Know He Is a Pornographer (explicit language)
Rick Porras is Executive Director of Operations and Business Affairs at Met-Cap Management. Met-Cap is one of the several affiliates and aliases under which porn studio Metro and adult chain Capital Video conduct business. Here is how...
Letter to Gazette: "Porn store is going to have a bad effect on children"
Today's Gazette publishes a letter from Jessica Grant of Northampton: Driving my children down Summer Street to Market Street as I do several times a week I was disturbed to see a brightly colored sign adorned with stars on the soon-to-be-open porn s...
