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 [a co-owner of commercial property at 139 King St....

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, economic blight, harassment of residents, and prostit...

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 Capital Video a 2008 entertainment license for these bo...

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 begin to talk about what it is that we found aft...

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 Power A young athlete is taken advantage of by his own doctor! A per...

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 see it partner with one of the nation's premier s...

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, Providence Phoenix and Portland Phoenix. It is, they ...

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 Can Bring Problems Later (2/29/08) ...Straus, co-d...

Counter-protester holds up a sign near Amazing.net at 135 King Street, Northampton in 2006 Porn 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 time, prominently displays this graphic on its h...

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 sex with his brother's girlfriend while posing as...