{"id":2028,"date":"2015-03-10T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyapolis.com\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2024-01-10T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T19:43:32","slug":"ferris-alexander-empire-smut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/2015\/03\/10\/ferris-alexander-empire-smut\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferris Alexander and his &#8220;empire of smut&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"author\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Published March 10, 2015 by <a href=\"http:\/\/historyapolis.com\/the-historyapolis-lab\/#kirsten\">Kirsten Delegard<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"lead-para\">Between 1970 and 1990, local businessman Ferris Alexander confounded city leaders, enraged neighborhood activists and infuriated feminist anti-pornography activists in Minneapolis. Alexander built a chain of movie houses and bookstores that specialized in pornographic materials, profiting from a burgeoning desire for semi-public sexual explorations. For two decades he monopolized the sale of pornography in Minnesota, seizing the opportunity created by the loosening of obscenity regulations. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincitiesnewstalk.com\/media\/podcast-the-jack-tomczak-podcast-jacktomczak\/porn-in-minneapolis-25822706\/\">In this hour-long podcast,<\/a> Historyapolis blogger Kevin Ehrman-Solberg narrates the story of the man who ruled an &#8220;empire of smut&#8221; in Minnesota until the rise of home video recorders made these venues obsolete.\u00a0It&#8217;s a rags to riches story with surprising twists and turns, unexpected alliances and lessons that policymakers and activists are still absorbing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published March 10, 2015 by Kirsten Delegard Between 1970 and 1990, local businessman Ferris Alexander confounded city leaders, enraged neighborhood activists and infuriated feminist anti-pornography activists in Minneapolis. Alexander built a chain of movie houses and bookstores that specialized in pornographic materials, profiting from a burgeoning desire for semi-public sexual explorations. For two decades he&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}