New Site Provides Large Library of Information Against Porn
NoPornNorthampton | 16.05.2007 00:45 | Culture | Gender | Health
NoPornNorthampton.org launched in 2006 to raise awareness about how porn harms people and communities. It explores legal strategies that can be used to reduce the crime and blight that can stem from adult enterprises. We currently offer over 400 articles on porn and the porn industry. The site serves over 15,000 visitors per month.
NoPornNorthampton.org is a large new repository of information about how porn harms people and communities. Formed in 2006 by citizens of Northampton, Massachusetts, NoPornNorthampton serves over 15,000 visitors per month.
We aim to reduce the demand for porn by showing how it can addict viewers and damage their relationships. We show how porn is a factor in domestic abuse, sex crimes and child molestation. We also provide legal strategies that cities and towns can use to reduce the crime and blight that can stem from adult enterprises. These strategies include zoning adult businesses away from homes and regulating porn viewing booths to slow the spread of disease.
NoPornNorthampton respects the importance of free speech and does not call for increased government censorship of porn. We do believe, however, that porn workers should enjoy increased workplace protections, and that it should be illegal to pay people to perform certain unusually risky acts, such as "ass-to-mouth" porn.
NoPornNorthampton currently offers over 400 articles on porn and the porn industry. We provide overviews of important books and presentations in the field. Two of our newest offerings are overviews of these free video presentations:
Pornography and Pop Culture
http://nopornnorthampton.org/2007/05/05/2007-anti-pornography-slide-show-presented-by-gail-dines.aspx
A Content Analysis of 50 Top Selling Porn Films
http://nopornnorthampton.org/2007/05/13/presentation-content-analysis-bestselling-porn-films.aspx
We aim to reduce the demand for porn by showing how it can addict viewers and damage their relationships. We show how porn is a factor in domestic abuse, sex crimes and child molestation. We also provide legal strategies that cities and towns can use to reduce the crime and blight that can stem from adult enterprises. These strategies include zoning adult businesses away from homes and regulating porn viewing booths to slow the spread of disease.
NoPornNorthampton respects the importance of free speech and does not call for increased government censorship of porn. We do believe, however, that porn workers should enjoy increased workplace protections, and that it should be illegal to pay people to perform certain unusually risky acts, such as "ass-to-mouth" porn.
NoPornNorthampton currently offers over 400 articles on porn and the porn industry. We provide overviews of important books and presentations in the field. Two of our newest offerings are overviews of these free video presentations:
Pornography and Pop Culture
http://nopornnorthampton.org/2007/05/05/2007-anti-pornography-slide-show-presented-by-gail-dines.aspx A Content Analysis of 50 Top Selling Porn Films
http://nopornnorthampton.org/2007/05/13/presentation-content-analysis-bestselling-porn-films.aspx
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IUSW
16.05.2007 07:56
The The International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW) material is good: http://www.iusw.org/
See their political policy section:
Appendix 6
Common Arguments against Pornography
http://www.iusw.org/policy/16_app6_porn_arguments.html
Appendix 5 Pornography:
Trades & Professions within the sex industry (other than prostitution)
http://www.iusw.org/policy/15_app5_trades.html
Appendix 7
Pornography is beneficial in society
http://www.iusw.org/policy/17_app7_beneficial.html
http://www.iusw.org/ See their political policy section:
Appendix 6
Common Arguments against Pornography
http://www.iusw.org/policy/16_app6_porn_arguments.html Appendix 5 Pornography:
Trades & Professions within the sex industry (other than prostitution)
http://www.iusw.org/policy/15_app5_trades.html Appendix 7
Pornography is beneficial in society
http://www.iusw.org/policy/17_app7_beneficial.html
DD
religious, capitalist, republican, authoritarian
17.05.2007 13:36
thanks, but i looked at the website, below are some choice quotes
and these people have no place on indymedia
"According to a growing body of social-scientific evidence, children in families disrupted by divorce and out-of-wedlock birth do worse than children in intact families on several measures of well-being."
"Rudolph Giuliani came to the mayoralty understanding one very big thing that had eluded his immediate predecessors--that to reduce crime and reverse the infamous decline in the city's livability, little things counted."
"Wives have a right, indeed an obligation, to police their husbands from going into the gutter to get excitement."
"We believe many people consume porn because they are misguided as to what will make them happy"
"The harmlessness of marriage-free living would certainly be news to many children of divorce. "
"We are against mindless sex, abusive sex, sex without regard for issues like love, fidelity, commitment, pregnancy, disease and children."
"On the contrary, we want to see businesses thrive on King Street. One of our concerns about the porn shop is that it will scare pedestrians and shoppers away from surrounding businesses."
"As for our wars, securing the rights of women in Afghanistan and Iraq appears to be a point of pride for George Bush. He specifically criticizes the Taliban for "public whippings of women". Does this really sound so different from the Bondage, Domination and Gangbang categories at the Capital Video-affiliated site,"
"It is plausible to argue that the benefits of a Dunkin' Donuts or a Wal-Mart outweigh their problems."
"The interests at stake were to prevent crime, protect the city's retail trade, maintain property values, and preserve the city's general quality of life.
These are the same issues that concern NoPornNorthampton."
"While our spiritual beliefs inform our opinion that porn often promotes a degraded and commodified vision of intimate relationships,"
and these people have no place on indymedia
"According to a growing body of social-scientific evidence, children in families disrupted by divorce and out-of-wedlock birth do worse than children in intact families on several measures of well-being."
"Rudolph Giuliani came to the mayoralty understanding one very big thing that had eluded his immediate predecessors--that to reduce crime and reverse the infamous decline in the city's livability, little things counted."
"Wives have a right, indeed an obligation, to police their husbands from going into the gutter to get excitement."
"We believe many people consume porn because they are misguided as to what will make them happy"
"The harmlessness of marriage-free living would certainly be news to many children of divorce. "
"We are against mindless sex, abusive sex, sex without regard for issues like love, fidelity, commitment, pregnancy, disease and children."
"On the contrary, we want to see businesses thrive on King Street. One of our concerns about the porn shop is that it will scare pedestrians and shoppers away from surrounding businesses."
"As for our wars, securing the rights of women in Afghanistan and Iraq appears to be a point of pride for George Bush. He specifically criticizes the Taliban for "public whippings of women". Does this really sound so different from the Bondage, Domination and Gangbang categories at the Capital Video-affiliated site,"
"It is plausible to argue that the benefits of a Dunkin' Donuts or a Wal-Mart outweigh their problems."
"The interests at stake were to prevent crime, protect the city's retail trade, maintain property values, and preserve the city's general quality of life.
These are the same issues that concern NoPornNorthampton."
"While our spiritual beliefs inform our opinion that porn often promotes a degraded and commodified vision of intimate relationships,"
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enough
16.05.2007 01:10
couldnt agree more, any contact with another persons ass is highly dangerous and may lead to heresy, homosexuality, disease and corruption of da youth
or alternatively, we could get puritan homophobic shit like this off indymedia
god
What a load of old nonsense
16.05.2007 02:54
Get a fkin grip ffs
World is crumbling round our ears and your worried about men having the odd wank over a bit of porn.
No wonder the left struggles to harness mainstream support with drivel like this even being an issue.
Get with the real world and do something more important you clown.
Col
Restore Balance
16.05.2007 07:47
They took the right hand gift of anti-biotics, and refused the left hand gift of contraception. They destroy the Balance.
There is nothing homophobic about the article, it calls for better working conditions for sex workers without differentiating genders. It seems Indymedia Moderators have better sense than to hide it.
While I create many more homosexuals now in an effort to limit population growth, the root of evil, Money, has entered sex and is very corrupting. I cannot cope, I need a Union to help me re-Organise.
God
yay for anti-porn feminists
16.05.2007 18:33
It amazes me that so called anti-captialists can dismiss one of the biggest capitalist, exploitative industries in the world- that being the porn industry. Read the website, don't be so dismissive about the harm of pornography.
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thick or what
16.05.2007 22:21
Poverty leads to loss of power.
Those without power are easily exploited.
Pornography is exploitation.
The attitude of the people who think this anti porn site is wrong is that of stupid school boys - ohhh there talkng about sex, lets laugh at them and hope they'll shut up.
beck
this reality
17.05.2007 07:19
www.sfimc.org
UFOs VISIT FOUR LARGE CITIES IN AUSTRALIA
Australia's ongoing UFO flap shows no sign of dying down. Sightings were reported all over the continent on Sunday and Monday, November 24 and 25.
On Sunday night, November 24, 1996, residents of Perth, capital of Western Australia spotted "a large bright cigar- shaped object traveling from north to south." At arm's length, the object was estimated to be one inch long and 1/8 of an inch wide, "about 55 degrees in the sky and 20-plus miles away."
Early Monday morning, November 25, at 1:25 a.m., people spied "a number of white balls of light" speeding through the sky in a southeasterly direction over the city of Adelaide, in South Australia. Suddenly, they changed direction, shooting off to the west. Within seconds, they altered course again, flying away to the northwest.
At 10:30 p.m. Monday evening, November 25, people saw a flight of "intense bright orange fireball lights" speeding through the sky over Canberra, the nation's capital. The UFOs rocketed away toward the northwest.
Forty-five minutes later, at 11:15 p.m., Monday, November 25, four "intensely bright orange fireball lights" appeared over Alice Springs, just north of the Queensland/South Australia border. The UFOs flew off to the west. An on-duty police officer was a witness and submitted a report to the IPP.
(Many thanks to Ross Dowe of Australia's National UFO Hotline for these reports.)
also;
The Abductee Support Network,
Angie
as an abductee my self and head of our local abductee support network, I am working to foster a comunity acceptance of those who have experienced the trama of being a UFO abductee. we deal with the rejection of the non-abductes every day. those who just cannot believe.
Clark
more nonsense
21.05.2007 01:21
Your cause is BS and your energy would be best spent elsewhere.
Instead of focusing on issues that most other women themselves couldn't give a monkeys fuck about, get your asses involved in some constructive action for a worthy cause instead of wasting your life with this shit.
The only females who give a toss about all this anti porn nonsense are probably those who are not getting any.
You say that it is exploitative of women, but the reality of the porn industry means that it is largely the men being exploited and I don't hear them whining about it.
Little wonder i don't bother my arse much in going to any of the social centres now, it's full of fkin puritan sanctimonious, self righteous, condescending, plastic idiots like those spearheading this shit. People who have done little to energise the movement for true lasting social change. Indeed you have driven away the average man in the street with this sort of holier than thou shit crusade.
So do yourself a favour and get yourself a good gigolo you dryed up old hack and when your finished, get up of your arse and do something about confronting the many problems facing us and our planet before it's too late.
Col
Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone?
21.05.2007 07:14
The Right to Be Left Alone? Out Official Website
Larry Flynt: The Right to be Left Alone? Our Myspace Website
Hope it will work to post html on this page.the right to be left alone
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Why are my posts hidden again
21.05.2007 10:58
You people are a fucking joke, your not assisting in the struggle for change any more, you are impeding and obstructing it.
It really is time to reclaim the media, you jokers have had your chance.
Are any propa anarchos up for starting a new media project free of the censorship and bullshit that permeates Indymedia.
I've been around since it's conception and have supported Indymedia in one way or another over the years but I am truly disgusted with the people who are in the hotseat.
Do you think as adults, we can't handle a bit of argy bargy and heated discussion on subjects posted on the wire, why does any post( and I mean any post) have to be hidden on what was a free platform for news and views on left issues.
We are all big boys and girls and don't need censorship of material simply because it contravenes the editors beliefset.
How can we learn from others views, even if in opposition to our own if we can't even have the courtesy of it being left on the wire to be discussed.
Get your pseudo marxist faker libertarian arses out of the hot seat, you are not advocates of free speech and are becoming the enemy yourselves.
Reclaim the Media, Reclaim Indymedia
Col
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