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EROS Magazine
Robbery SPECIAL REPORT:
Dealing With Robbery
in the Adult Retail Industry
By Robbie Swan
Internet Censorship
U.K. Internet Laws
Light Years Ahead of
Australia. Fiona Patten
The Eros Association Inc is
Australia's national adult retail and entertainment association. We
function in the same way as other peak industry groups like the
Pharmacy Guild or the Motor Traders Association in that we unify our
members, lobby government and run a professional and ongoing public
relations campaign.
Established in 1992, Eros is the longest serving adult industry group in Australia
and we have earned a reputation for integrity and professionalism in
our activities. We seek to bring logical and popular perspectives to
love and sex rather than moral or religious ones. 'Make love not war'
is the philosophy that we bring to our political debates.
Although issues of sex, morality and the law are found throughout the site, it
is not intended for titillation but rather for information and
education.
‘New No-Go Zones’ for Qld Sex Shops Ineffectual and Confused
New planning laws for Queensland’s 150 adult sex shops announced by Planning Minister Paul Lucas today were ineffectual and confused, the Eros Association said today.
Eros CEO Fiona Patten who represents Queensland adult retailers said that the legal stipulation to place adult sex shops 200 metres from schools and churches had missed the mark completely as to what the public wanted. “The Minister failed to define an adult shop in his statement so how can you apply this rule if you don’t know what it is you are trying to plan for’, she said. “How does the Minister categorise a shop selling condoms that can be sold in a chemist, lingerie that can be sold in a department store and adult magazines that can be had from a newsagent or bookshop”?
Fred Nile’s proposed ban on topless sunbathing will be referred to the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board by the Australian Sex Party. Party convenor, Fiona Patten, said that Fred Nile’s proposed legislation only applied to women and did not include men’s topless bathing. “This implies that there is something inherently offensive about the public display of women’s breasts on a beach while men’s breasts remain inoffensive”, she said. “Men’s breasts are basically the same as women’s. They both sit on the same part of the body, both have nipples and both sexes can get breast cancer. Women’s breasts are on average larger than men’s but by the time many men get to Fred Nile’s age ‘man boobs’ can be larger than many women’s”.
"Let us think of those children who are
victims of the industry of pornography and every other appalling form
of abuse, and thus are traumatised in the depths of their soul."
Pope Benedict, Xmas, 2008.
The Australian Sex Party has called on the Rudd government to
convene a Royal Commission into child sex abuse in religious
institutions as a priority during its first sitting of federal
Parliament in 2009. This follows Pope Benedict’s midnight mass Xmas
homily in which he accused the ‘pornography’ industry of abusing
children.
Party convenor, Fiona Patten said that the Pope’s call completely
ignored the widespread abuse of children in Catholic churches and was a
clear and transparent attempt to shift responsibility for the epidemic
to an innocent third party. “The Pope should look to clean up his own
backyard “, Ms Patten said. “Fifteen priests were charged with sexually
assaulting young children in Australia during 2008 – all of them
Catholic – and I believe that this is just the tip of the iceberg.” She
said that another four Catholic priests were before the courts or under
investigation with up to 100 individuals around the nation waiting for
their day in court. 2008 was also the year that the Roman Catholic
church finalised payments of $60million to people who had been abused
in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese.
Have
you noticed over the past decade that people seem to be more relaxed
about sex and morality than ever before? And then have you noticed that
most of the pronouncements about sex and morality from Australian
politicians seem to say the opposite? When was the last time you heard
a politician say they wanted to relax censorship laws rather than
‘crack down’ on them? When was the last time you heard a politician say
something positive about the expression of human sexuality?
We now have more censorship of sexual material than we did 20 years ago.
Joining
the Australian Sex Party gives you the opportunity to have a direct say
in how sex and gender laws are formulated in this country. As a member
of the Sex Party you are helping to elect legislators who like and
enjoy sex themselves and are not afraid to support others in their
quest for a fulfilling sex life. It says you’re serious about sex and
you want a new approach to sex and gender issues in the parliament.
The Australian Sex Party, a new political party officially launched last week by Australian adult trade group the Eros Association, reports that membership has reached more than 1,000.
"We have now had over 1,000 people signed up to the party and have just hit the 20,000 unique visitor mark on the site," Eros Association CEO Fiona Patten told XBIZ. "In fact before we had even launched, the Australian Christian Lobby had put out a media release condemning us. That is a good sign — they must be worried."
General elections in Australia are held at least once every three years, and Australia last had a national election on Nov. 24, 2007. "We now need to maintain the momentum for 18 months," Patten said. For more information, visit: www.sexparty.org.au
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