Anti-porn activist Estela López has taken on the unenviable job of surveying Adult Video News (AVN) for notable trends, developments, and innovations in the porn industry. She has kindly allowed us to share her latest survey with the public. Please note that the AVN website includes explicit photos...

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...

From the website of Chyng Sun: Dr. Chyng Sun is a Master Teacher of Media Studies at New York University. In addition to her scholarly research on gender, sexuality and race in the media, Dr. Sun is the creator of the documentaries Mickey Mouse Monopoly and Beyond Good and Evil. Her latest research ...

We welcome the launch of StopPornCulture!'s website at http://www.stoppornculture.org/. SPC is the newest evolution of a longstanding feminist movement against porn: ...With the explosion of technology and increased accessibility of pornography via the internet in the late 1990s and early 2000s, fem...

In Australia, a group of teenage boys recently made a DVD of their encounter with a 17-year-old girl by the Werribee River . As you read these excerpts from articles in The Age, ask yourself, where would teenagers get the idea to... Assault a girl sexually as a group, demanding oral sex Exploit a gi...

We are pleased to share this announcement: Gail Dines to Speak on Intimacy, Identity and Sex(ism) in Pornographic Culture April 3 On Thursday, April 3, at 7 p.m. in Stirn Auditorium at Amherst College, there will be a media presentation by Dr. Gail Dines, professor of sociology at Wheelock College. ...

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...

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 not like what choices people make, or what they sa...