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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

NoPornNorthampton
- e-mail: info@nopornnorthampton.org
- Homepage: http://www.nopornnorthampton.org

Additions

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

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,"

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enough

16.05.2007 01:10

"and that it should be illegal to pay people to perform certain unusually risky acts, such as "ass-to-mouth" porn."

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

This was nearly as bad as that other "feminist against porn" type news post the other day.

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

god is quite right about ass (didn't they mean arse? it seems the Americans do not use proper spelling) to mouth porn causing disease. Unfortunately it does not cause Heresy or Homosexuality both of which I have been trying to promote to help preserve this Creation of Life from destruction. The Agents of Satan gather in Churches and batter me so severely with contradictory prayers that it is impossible to do the essential regular maintenance to control the Balance. Runaway genetic science is creating the monsters to fulfill Armageddon. And Religion induced overbreeding has raised the human population beyond verminous proportions into a cancer.

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

Thanks for posting this.
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.

Charliegrrl
mail e-mail: charliegrrl@gmail.com
- Homepage: http://www.charliegrrl.wordpress.com


thick or what

16.05.2007 22:21

Globalisation/capitalism causes poverty.
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