9th Circuit: Nevada has right to restrict brothel advertising
Coyote Publishing, Inc. v. Miller, No. 07-16633 (9th Cir. March 11, 2010)
At issue in this case is whether Nevada’s “restrictions on advertising by legal brothels” violate the First Amendment.
2nd Circuit: Courts must consider “adequacy of alternative sites” at time of challenge to SOB ordinance
TJS of New York, Inc. v. Town of Smithtown, No. 08-2789-cv (2nd Cir. March 10, 2010)
2nd Circuit: When evaluating First Amendment challenges to a zoning ordinance, a court must consider the adequacy of alternatives at the time the ordinance is challenged.
Rebecca Hagelin: Web 2.0 runs wild
Rebecca Hagelin writing in the Washington Times: “Your child no longer has to be ‘bound’ at a desk in front of a computer screen to have the world — and everyone in it — at his or her fingertips. Every day, children who visit interactive sites interact with strangers. And, more and more often, homespun Internet porn has been appearing everywhere from the school bus to the back seat of Mom’s minivan.”
Teenage boys watching hours of internet pornography every week are treating their girlfriends like sex objects
Daily Mail: “‘Boys just want us to do all the stuff they see the porn stars do,’ one 16-year-old girl told me. ‘It’s as if we have to pretend we are in a movie’ . . . Latest figures suggest that boys spend as much as three hours a week gazing at porn; absorbing unrealistic images of aesthetically enhanced people, many of whom are engaged in multi-partner, violent and perverted sex acts.”
Law Review: Madisonian Pornography Or, The Importance of Jeffrey Sherman
“I will begin with the fundamentals of free speech theory. Why is there free speech protection at all? I will describe the classic answer to this question developed by James Madison. Then I will rebut the narrow construction of Madison’s argument that was once proffered by Robert Bork. I will show why Madison’s argument reaches toward, but does not fully defend, a right to pornography. Then I will show why Sherman’s work completes the Madisonian argument.”
Pamela Paul: The cost of growing up on porn
Pamela Paul, author of Porn Generation, writing at the Washington Post: “An entire generation is being kept in the dark about pornography’s effects because previous generations can’t grapple with the new reality. Whether by approaching me (at the risk of peer scorn) after I’ve spoken at a university or via anonymous e-mails, young people continue to pass along an unpopular message: Growing up on porn is terrible. One 17-year-old who had given up his habit told me that reading about porn addicts ‘was like reading a horrifying old diary, symptoms, downward spirals, guilt, hypocrisy, lack of control, and the constant question of to what degree fantasy is really so different from reality. I felt like a criminal, or at the very least, a person who would objectively disgust me.’”
OH: Mansfield Council passes rules for sex-related businesses
Mansfield News Journal: “Two ordinances regulating sexually oriented businesses in Mansfield were approved by council Tuesday night in a 7-1 vote.”
WI: Adult entertainment district designated in Spooner
Washburn County Register: “The city ordinance prevents liquor-licensed establishments, with the exception of performance arts centers, from having nudity or acts simulating sex, citing potential secondary effects such as prostitution and crime. Olson was told this prohibited his establishment, Moe’s Place, from having topless dancers, so he began having dancers wearing bikinis instead.”
WA: Oak Harbor moves to regulate nude dancing
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: “The Governmental Services Committee will review the ordinance in draft form Monday, March 9 at 8 a.m. in the City Hall Conference Room, 865 SE Barrington Dr., before it goes to the full council later this month.”
Janice Shaw Crouse: What’s wrong with legalizing prostitution?
Janice Shaw Crouse writing at The American Thinker: “Any discussion of prostitution must center on a basic fact: Control and exploitation of another person is slavery. Pimps control 80%-95% of all forms of prostitution. Nearly 70% of those in prostitution entered before age 16. In the U.S., the average age of entry is 12. Twelve!”
