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STI gel to be coated on condoms
October 18, 2007
A
gel which helps block HIV and
herpes infections will be coated on condoms in a bid to beat the
emerging
epidemic of sexually-transmitted infections.
The lubricant developed by
Australian researchers will be added to condoms
under an agreement signed between Melbourne-based Starpharma and the
condom
company Durex.
The vaginal microbicide,
called VivaGel, has been found to prevent HIV and
genital herpes in scientific studies. The microbicide is dendrimer, a
molecule
which binds itself to the viruses and prevents them from infecting
healthy
cells. The gel also has been found to be a potent contraceptive.
VivaGel has undergone
testing in Australia,
the US and Kenya,
and is still in the clinical
trials stage of development.
Jackie Fairley of
Starpharma said microbicides were considered one of the
most attractive new prevention options for STIs. ‘It is a much-needed
option
for third world nations like sub-Saharan Africa
where HIV and genital herpes rates are the highest in the world,’ he
said.
Dannii's
Sexy Pics
August
22, 2007

Britains
Daily Star the gutter news
and
gossip tabloid has shamed lovely Danii Minogue by revealing a nightclub
romp she had with a
dancer that was recorded according to
AAP. Dannii bought the copyright of the pictures but they have now been
published without her consent.
The Daily Star is one of those newspapers
published by people that think sex, drugs and rock and roll is sinful
and they
seek to shame and vilify talented people that earn a living through
their art.
Dannii shouldn’t care about these pictures
at all because sex in all its glory is good fun and nothing at all to
be
ashamed of. We luv you Dannii.
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Sex
Lies and Prostitution
By Sam De Brito
11 08 07
Earlier
this year I visited a prostitute for one obvious, practical reason
and another less so: I'm sick of lying to women. Being single and in my
30s, I
find it increasingly difficult to justify the lies and manipulation
involved in
having a sexual relationship with women who I'm not in love with.
Call it a gift, but I can
tell within about two hours whether I could fall
for a girl. Through weary experience, I estimate she comes along about
every
two years - and wears cool shoes.
That leaves a lot of time
between drinks and 24-month bouts of celibacy
don't really appeal to me while I have a full head of hair and
abdominals.
The problem I, and I wager
many other single men, face nowadays is if you go
on more than a couple of dates with a woman, the majority want to know
where
the relationship is going. If you're blunt enough to say nowhere except
the
bedroom, feelings get hurt.
If you've had sex before
that conversation, it's often like you've reneged
on an unspoken emotional IOU guaranteeing continued involvement in the
partnership. You're a user. A player. A dog. I can show you the text
messages
if you don't believe me.
Having used prostitutes in
my 20s, it occurred to me recently that the
simplicity of a cash exchange would be a more honest, and I dare say,
moral
alternative to bullshitting women into bed.
Political correctness tells
me I should be ashamed of visiting a sex-worker
but I'm not.
Despite what some people
would have you believe, men do not control the
sexual spigot at my local pub.
Women are the guardians of
that flow and while they may torture and bankrupt
themselves with dieting, beauty regimes and cosmetic surgery to
maintain that
influence, men exhaust themselves accruing wealth and power with which
to
purchase their attraction in the marketplace known as matrimony.
Prostitution pares this
transaction back to its base elements. An estimated
one in six Australian men have at some point in their life visited a
sex
worker, according to the Australian Study of Health and Relationships
conducted
by La Trobe University.
But it is something blokes
will rarely admit to and this stigma radiates
directly from the prostitute, a woman whose career choice is sneered at
by most
and condescended to by the rest.
Critics of the sex
industry, such as the US conservative Hadley
Arkes, say
that prostitution "inescapably implies that the intimacy of sexual
intercourse need not be connected to any authentic sentiment of love
and that
it need not take place in a setting marked by the presence of
commitment.
"In that sense it might be
said that prostitution patronises the
corruption of physical love: it reduces physical love to the kind of
hydraulic
action that animals may share, and as it does that it detaches the act
of intercourse
from the kind of love that is distinctly human."
The obvious reply to this
is why does sex have to be so damn serious and why
do I have to be in love to indulge in it? That's the rub, I guess,
because
though meaningless sex can be good fun, it's transcendent when you're
in love.
The prostitute whom I
visited most recently told me her name was Shannon
and as she took her clothes off and I observed
her body language, we fell into dismal syncopation; when I saw she
didn't want
to be there, neither did I.
Being wanted is perhaps the
greatest turn-on in the bedroom, and though you
can buy a prostitute's body, you cannot purchase her desire.
I'd speculate this is part
of the attraction for many men who use sex
workers; the knowledge the woman is more than likely doing something
she'd
prefer not to, and an entire soundtrack of mumbled bedroom cliches
couldn't
convince me Shannon was excited about
our
coupling.
It was, in short, the
unsexiest experience I've had in about 10 years. But
when I woke alone the next day, my conscience was clear.
I knew there'd be no
midweek recriminations because I didn't want to see Shannon again.
Shannon
didn't want to see me again either;
in fact she'd probably forgotten me before I'd even reached the
staircase of
her Darlinghurst terrace.
In many ways she was the
female mirror of a man who tells beautiful lies to
bed a woman, then disappears before dawn. At least with Shannon,
we both understood the deception.
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'No' always means no, sex conference told
Jul 13,
2007
Delegates at a conference on
women's sexual health in Sydney
have heard that
when it comes to consent there is never an excuse for misunderstanding
the word
'no'.
Sexual Health and Family
Planning ACT spokeswoman Peta Cox was speaking at
the Let's Talk About Sex conference.
Ms Cox says there are a lot
of ways to determine consent, including body
language and behaviour, but the word 'no' always means no.
She says even in bondage,
dominatrix and sadomasochism sessions, when people
may pretend they are objecting, it is still clear.
"That's tentatively
negotiated within the BDSM community through safe
words or safe gestures - so a way of indicating almost real and false
'nos'," she said.
ABC
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The Party’s Over For Melbourne's Brothel Spies
<>July 4, 2007
Licensed
brothel owners in Melbourne
claim unlicensed city brothels will proliferate in Melbourne's city centre unless the
State
Government cracks down on operators.
Melbourne City Council last
night decided against continuing its policy of
paying private investigators to have sex in unlicensed brothels, to
gather
evidence of a breach of planning rules.
Instead, Lord Mayor John So
will join with the Municipal Association of Victoria
to pressure the State Government's Consumer Affairs Department on
unlicensed
brothels.
Planners say unlicensed
brothels in the city centre are increasing.
Under the 1994 Prostitution
Control Act, which legalised prostitution in Victoria, Consumer
Affairs Victoria is charged with enforcement action against unlicensed
operators. But critics say the department never takes action against
brothels.
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Ban Porn In ACT Too Say Christians
240607
The
head of the Australian
Christian Lobby, Jim Wallace, says a pornography
ban announced by the Federal Government for Indigenous communities in
the Northern Territory
should be extended to the ACT. If the Federal Government is serious
about the
problem, the ban should take place across both Territories.
The measure was announced
as part of a Commonwealth plan to tackle child
abuse in Indigenous communities.
"If
you're going to address this
problem you've got to stop pornography at its source - which is the
ACT."
He said.
The author of
three reports on child sexual abuse in Indigenous
communities says the Government's new plan to tackle the problem will
lead to
increased violence and suicide.
Professor Judy Atkinson
from Southern Cross University says she was stunned
to hear the plans to stop welfare payments and ban pornography and
alcohol from
Aboriginal communities in the Northern
Territory.
"Some of the things that I
know will happen in response to this- we
will have an increase of violence, we will have an increase of suicide
and
suicide attempts," she said.
"There will be greater
feelings of despair and we can't do it ourselves
in our communities."
Under the plan, the
Government will take over about 60 Indigenous
communities and implement alcohol bans, free compulsory medical
assessments for
all NT Indigenous children under 16, a ban on x-rated pornography, and
a boost
to police numbers.
John Howard described the
situation as a "national emergency" but
his plans have been greeted with anger and widespread scepticism today.
They have been condemned as
"racist" by ACT Chief Minister Jon
Stanhope.
"This is racist and I don't
believe that you can hope for long term
sustainable change by engaging in behaviour that impinges human rights,
that's
racist," he said.
Tony Fitzgerald says the
measures are quite simply discriminatory.
"The restrictions [are
being] imposed on Territorians because of their
race," he said.
"They're being treated less
favourably. The interesting thing under the
act and under the Federal act is that the motive for doing
discriminatory
things is irrelevant.
"So what the acts say are,
even if the Feds are sincere about
Indigenous welfare, the fact that they are unfair makes it
discriminatory.
"Would the Government
consider compulsory medical tests for
non-indigenous kids who are allegedly victims of child abuse?
"I mean it happens in
non-Indigenous Australia
too. Are they doing that
for non-Indigenous kids?"
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Viewers Prefer Violence To Sex
On TV
17 06 07
In
the
first three months of 2007 Free TV Australia which represents
free-to-air commercial networks received 270 complaints about
classification
issues,10 per cent relating to violence and 21 per cent to foul
language. Sex and nudity accounted for 56 per cent of viewers
complaints yet prime time
television is awash with death and violence.
A recent study of evening
TV showed violence to be the main topic. A seven night
survey of Sydney's
five free-to-air channels done by a team from the Sun Hearld revealed a
catalogue of violent images across all stations and timeslots. The
researchers
counted 234 gun shots, 104 deaths, 142 cases of physical abuse, 85 car
crashes
and 350 other violent acts. They also counted four rapes but just 34
sex acts,
but it is the sex that worries viewers the most. Mmmmm.
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Experts urge mass circumcision in S Africa
13 06 07
By ABC Africa correspondent Andrew Geoghegan
Health
experts have called for a mass circumcision program
in South Africa
as a means of halting the HIV-AIDS pandemic.
Scientific
studies have shown that male circumcision can
reduce the rate of HIV infection by up to 60 per cent.
Experts
have told South
Africa's annual AIDS
conference that the procedure should be offered to all boys born in
public
hospitals in the country.
Other
southern African countries have already drawn up
plans for such a prevention program.
However,
some critics have warned that mass circumcision
does not help women and could encourage men to ignore the risks
associated with
contracting HIV-AIDS.
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Big
Brother Really Is Watching You
12 06
07
Big
Brother spies Message Labs and Surf
Control the companies that track what you are doing on your computer at work,
have been busy rating which nations download the most porn in the
workplace. The US rates highest with 19% followed by Britain (11%), Singapore
(10%), Australia
(8%) and Netherlands
(3%).
Global Tracking Strategy Chairman, Richard
Cullen is reported to have said ‘This highlights the importance of
applying a
consistent security strategy across all employees.’
Another study done at Queens Uni Belfast
reported one in 10 Aussies download porn.
Message Labs marketing director, Andrew
Antal, said the firm saw 16,000 emails a month sent from Australian
workplaces
that were "sexual in nature", and blocked 50,000 webpage requests of
"inappropriate content". Message Labs tracks the computers of 15,000
businesses worldwide. "It's essential that business understands that
while
the behaviour is not something one can change, the division between
work and
personal should be regulated to protect employees, aid enforcement of
acceptable use policies and safeguard regulatory compliance, corporate
reputation and productivity."
Australian government employees are rated
as the highest users of ‘inappropriate’ computer porn followed by the
petrochemical
and pharmaceutical industries. Australian bosses downloading porn was
not
reported on, but the research shows bosses are obsessed with their
employees downloading
sexual material but apparently are not so bothered about violence, news
and
current affairs and other Internet traffic all of which was not
reported on.
In another news report from David Dales of
The Sydney Morning Herald about television ratings this popped up, but
we don’t
know if he is joking:
How are
ratings measured? The People-meter system worked
well until
the late 1990s, when it became apparent that the Taminondas analysts
could not
reach enough households to offer a fair sampling of the community.
Technology
came to OzTAM's aid. Since 2001, every TV set sold in Australia
has
been fitted with a miniature camera/microphone that records everything
happening in front of the screen when the set is on. The device is
called
"Diary'' (acronym for Digital Investigation And Research Yield).
At 2am each
day, all Diary recordings
over the past 24 hours are sent to the central Taminondas computer,
from which
the ratings figures are calculated and sent to TV networks at 8am.
But
how do they know all those demographic details about viewers? The Diary footage is
analysed by experts who study viewer behaviour and estimate age, wealth
and
gender. In addition, networks that pay a premium (the so-called
"platinum
subscribers'') receive a daily disk of footage taken in homes across
the
nation, showing the most interesting things viewers have done in front
of their
TV sets. Some of it is disturbing, but most of it is useful in
determining
where and when to place commercials.
Enough
Said.
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Meddling
Monks Stop Adult Shop
10
06 07
The
Exclusive Brethren, a whacky group of Christian
blokes hell bent on playing politics are funding Lithgow Council to
block a
development application for an Adult shop.
The
Brethren are a secretive bunch. They don’t
give interviews and avoid normal contact with the wider community
according to
stuff written about them on the net. Like
many paternalistic male chauvinists they want to force their own
shallow
interests on everyone else and so they have embarked on a scheme to
fund
actions against liberal minded people and others under the influence of
Satan.
They
have attacked the Greens and they target people that don’t agree with
their
views on sex and marriage. Christians
generally have a problem with sex believing it to be sick and unhealthy
that
will lead them to hell, rather healthy and fun. They
think sexual activity should be confined to
heterosexual marriage
and any play outside marriage is sinful. In
the past these attitudes led to epidemics of
neurosis built on guilt
and shame from which our society is just beginning to shake off.
The
adult industry spokespeople – Eros, are concerned about the group’s
activities
and believe councils should decline funding from private bodies like
The
Brethren which is used specifically to fund court challenges to stop
traders.
Adult
shops, like butchers are just businesses selling their goods. Adults can make a choice to go or not go into
those shops. We don’t need religious neurotics dictating what we can or
can’t
buy.
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Sex Workers Protest
At Opera House
03 06
07
Approximately 60 sex
industry workers and their supporters gathered under
red umbrellas at the Sydney Opera House today to mark the eleventh
anniversary
of the decriminalisation of prostitution in NSW.
The industry wants the NSW
government to introduce laws to protect
individual workers and businesses against discrimination.
"NSW is lagging behind in
providing anti-discrimination protection for
sex workers at a time when we have a decriminalisation industry,"
Australian Sex Workers Association manager Janelle Fawkes said.
"The next step is to
provide anti-discrimination legislation - there's
an urgent need."
At present, Queensland
and the ACT are the only states with anti-discrimination laws, Ms
Fawkes said.
She said that while workers
had been legitimate in the eyes of the law for
more than a decade, they were still discriminated against daily.
Newspapers charge sex
workers more than other advertisers and councils often
knock back development applications on moral rather than planning
grounds, she
argued.
The association is also
concerned that, while they say Australia led
the world in decriminalising sex work, there were signs some of those
gains
could soon be wound back.
"The agenda ... (includes)
councils being provided with greater powers
to close down suspected sex industry businesses with less proof," Ms
Fawkes said.
But although unhappy with
the government's stance, Ms Fawkes said the
public's reaction to today's protest was heartening.
"We got very good reactions
from the crowd with no objections,"
she said.
"That really questions this
idea that the general community are against
sex workers or the sex industry."
AAP
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Paparazzi
Booze Police
01 06 07
Over there in
Arniland where it's illegal to quaff a middi under the age of 21,
Hollywood papazzi are snapping starlettes partying in bars and using
the photos to dob them in to authorities for under age drinking.
The latest victim of the
paparazzi booze police is lovely 20 year old Lindsay
Lohan. She piled up her merc and like all smart Californian law
evading starlettes immediatley went into rehab. A few AA meetings
will probably do her the world of good. It's tough being a
starlette these days.
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Miss
Universe Beauty
29 05 07
AUSTRALIA'S
Miss Universe entrant Kimberley
Busteed and her controversial surf life-saving costume didn’t do it for
the
Miss Universe judges.
The18-year-old blonde beauty
and swimming champion
had an early night at the pageant, held in Mexico City today, failing to
make the
first round.
In the first half hour of the
show, when the top 15 list was announced, Kimberley was not among
them.
Kimberley, who hails from
Gladstone in Queensland appeared on stage in her red one-piece swimsuit
and
life-saver cap in the national costume section at the top of the show,
but it did
not impress the judges.
Last year’s Miss Universe
entrant, Erin McNaught, who was one of the
favourites also failed in the first round.
Jennifer Hawkins won the Miss
Universe crown in 2004.
The pageant continues, with
Misses USA, Japan, India
and Venezuela
the
favourites, all brunettes.
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Ralph TV To Be Less Sexy
27 05
07

Craig Lowe and "the
girls" from Ralph
TV, from right, Candice Manning, Angela Tsun and Brooke Sheehan.
According to Christine
Sams of the Sydney
Morning Herald female TV viewers might be offended by the launch of
raunch
television in Australia,
despite an "M" rating for Ralph TV.
Host of the Channel Nine
program, Craig
"Lowie" Lowe, said even though producers had reduced
its sexual content, the series
"needed to walk a tightrope between being sexy or sexist".
Based on Ralph magazine, the show combines beachy bikini babes with
blokes
lifestyle content. It comes on TV, on Thursday, June 7.
Lowe said rather than
being viewed as sex
objects, women on Ralph TV would be put on a "pedestal".
(Probably a phallic one – Ed.)
"It's such a fine line
that a lot of
men's magazines definitely screw up, especially recent ones, but Ralph
magazine doesn't in any way degrade women, which is a cool thing,"
said Lowe.
Lowe will be joined on
screen by a trio known
as "the girls of Ralph TV" - newcomers Brooke Sheehan, Candice
Manning and Angela Tsun.
"We still want females to
watch the show
and not feel alienated," said Lowe.
The series was created by
Endemol, makers of Big
Brother and Big Brother Uncut.
Source: The
Sun-Herald
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Ethics
of porn are in the eye of the beholder
Kath Albury
May 28, 2007
In her 1979
monograph The
Sadeian
Woman, the late British feminist author Angela Carter suggests that
the
moral pornographer "might use pornography as a critique of current
relations between the sexes".
Moral pornography, she argues, "might begin to penetrate to the heart
of
the contempt for women that distorts our culture". Relations between
men
and women have shifted since the 1970s, and contemporary pornography
reflects
those shifts.
My
interest in pornography is not so much moral, as ethical. Many requests
for
media comment from me and my colleagues on the Understanding
Pornography in Australia
project have come from male journalists who express ambivalence, if not
shame,
about their own pornography consumption. Like many men (and men are
still
pornography's primary audience), they are afraid that their use of
pornography
harms women. They worry about addiction, and are concerned that
increased
access to online pornography is impeding their ability to form
relationships.
At
some stage in the interview they ask me if I think pornography is
liberating or
demeaning for the women who make it. They also wonder if their own
consumption
is healthy or harmful. These are valid questions, but they seem to me
to be
based in a moral framework that seeks to define pornography as either
"all
good" or "all bad".
My
research suggests that, like other forms of popular media, pornography
is made
up of genres. Some are cheap and nasty in every sense of the term,
others
conform to high standards of ethics and aesthetics. Some pornography
workplaces
are unsafe and exploitative, others safeguard performers' physical and
emotional health and safety. Some pornography sets are not workplaces
at all,
but the domestic bedrooms and lounge rooms of amateur exhibitionists.
If
the conditions of production are diverse, the condition of consumers
can vary
just as much. There's no doubt the urge to collect pornographic images
for
masturbation can become painfully compulsive for some men. It can be
distressing to find oneself drawn to explicit images and stories that
provoke
as much shame and fear as they do arousal. Then there are the men and
women who
feel that any form of sexual fantasy or masturbation is wrong, and must
be
hidden at all costs.
Although
many men express concern that images of women in pornography perpetuate
negative stereotypes of female sexuality, few seem to feel any sense of
responsibility as consumers. Having studied the changing trends in
pornography
over the past 10 years or so, I'd observe that the producers have
responded to
consumer demands. Brutal images of "extreme" coerced or nonconsensual
sex may exist online, but the majority of images feature consensual
interactions. Pornography consumers get what they are willing to pay
for, and
it seems few want to see abuse, rape or bestiality.
My
suggestion to men who are worried about pornography is that they
consider
whether the images they choose are produced under ethical conditions.
Does the
web page or video suggest that sexually active women are stupid or
naive? Does
it imply that it's OK to trick or manipulate women into acts they don't
want to
perform, because, after all, they're "just dumb sluts"? Does the
plot-line or image suggest a disregard for the performer's health and
safety?
Does it place performers at clear risk of sexually transmissible
infections?
Are condoms used? Does the company that produces the pornography
subscribe to
the guidelines of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation
(www.aim-med.org)? If consumers are not sure of the answers to these
questions,
they should ask for more information. If that is not forthcoming, they
should
exercise their rights to seek out explicit material that meets their
ethical
standards.
Those
who believe that having sex for money is always wrong will not be
swayed by
these questions. Nor will those who believe that sex is inherently
private, and
voyeurs and exhibitionists are sick or misguided. My suggestions are
directed
at those who are not opposed to commercial sex, or public displays of
explicit
sexuality per se, but are troubled by guilt, sexual shame or political
concerns
about the conditions under which explicit images are produced. There is
plenty
of amateur and commercial pornography produced by men and women who
genuinely
enjoy sex, and seek audiences who enjoy it, too.
Kath
Albury is a co-author of The
Porn Book, with Alan McKee and Catharine
Lumby. It will be published by Melbourne University
Publishing in
October.
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Surprise
Surprise
1 In 3 Porn Viewers Are
Women
26
05 07
According to The
Sydney Morning Herald journalist Adele Horin research shows record
numbers of
Australians are visiting porn websites, including sexually explicit
dating
sites - and one in three of them is a woman.
More than one-third of internet users
visited an adult
website at least once in the first three months of this year. Almost one in five was under 18, and 5 per
cent were 65 or over.
The information provided by Nielsen Net
Ratings, a world
leader in internet analysis, reveals 4.3 million Australians viewed
porn or
visited a sex matchmaker site at least once in the quarter ending in
March.
This was 35 per cent of all those who used the internet in that period.
In March 2.7 million Australians went to
an adult website,
an increase of half a million in 18 months, or 23 per cent. The more
money
people had, the more likely they were to have clicked on porn.
Relationship counsellors say internet
pornography is a new
and growing cause of relationship breakdown as increasing numbers of
men become
obsessive compulsive users.
The Herald says it has uncovered
the destructive
impact obsessive pornography use can have on a couple's sex lives,
women's
self-esteem, and trust. Yet others warn against a moral panic, citing
research
that shows the majority of porn users say it is beneficial. Alan McKee,
of the
Queensland University of Technology did a survey of more than 1000
porno users,
said 58.8 per cent reported it had a positive effect on their attitudes
to sex
and only 6.8 per cent said it was negative.
"Aussies who use porn say it not only
gives them
pleasure but broadens their minds, by providing valuable sex
education,"
he said.
The "pornification" of society, as
described by US
author
Pamela Paul, has sparked a call for an inquiry.
The former head of the Office of
the Status of Women, Helen
L'Orange, wants a royal commission into the effects of the internet on
society
and relationships, with a focus on porn.
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VIBRATING APPLE
24 05 07
An
iPod sex toy has
Apple's legal team red faced and buzzing.
Ann Summers of The adult Store, marketeer of the
"iGasm" sex toy,
told the British News of the World that Apple's legal
team had
threatened legal action over its advertising posters.
"Go at it hard and fast with a
pounding drum and bass track or
chill with the ambient classics," reads the sales blurb for the
£30 ($72) iGasm, that plugs into any music player and
vibrates with the beat.
Apple are complaining that the iGasm ads are plagiarising
their iPod advertising.
"We hope this request to remove it, the ads immediately,
will
prevent us having to consider further action," News of the
World quoted a legal letter sent by Apple's lawyers.
It is not the first time Apple has confronted iPod
sex
toy makers - in November last year Apple torpedoed
a Japanese company's attempts to market a sex toy
called gPod. Apple said the gPod, which
has similar features to
the
iGasm, infringed its "pod" trademarks.
At least two other companies, both American, sell vibrating
iPod
sex toys - iBuzz and OhMiBod. Advertising
on the iBuzz website resembles that used for
iGasm.
Suki, founder of OhMiBod, worked at Apple for eight years
and
said that since starting her new company she has
tried to steer clear of Apple's trademarks.
http://www.ohmibod.com
"Some companies think that
the PR generated by this is funny and can drive sales," she
said. "We are happy to ride on the coat tails of
the iPods
success, like
many other iPod accessory companies, but do not feel that negative
PR for Apple brings us anything but 'badwill'."
OhMiBod has an online store
where it sells its
vibrator for $119. Justin
Lewis, the owner of the Australian store, said they
had
sold over 2000 units since the product launched here in November
last year. However,
devices that translate iPod
music into vibrators aren't the
only high-tech sex toys around.
Internet-connected sex toys are
called
"teledildonics" and are personalising cyber sex because they can be
remotely controlled by a computer. Teledildonics is a growing market in
the US but it has yet to
make a buzz in Australia.
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Eros calls for action
over
minors selling porn in WA.
23 05 07
Australia’s
national adult
retail association, the Eros Association says
W.A. is not
adopting the national censorship code to which it is a signatory and a large gap exists between
the way in which West Australians want to see adult material sold and
the way in which governments regulate it.
Eros
CEO Fiona Patten said that under a State and Commonwealth arrangement,
all states in Australia agreed to adopt the National Classification
Code but W.A. had refused to do this and adopted the position that
people living in Western Australia had a different sexual morality from
other Australians.
Ms Patten said that West Australians had demonstrated their
willingness to buy non violent erotic X rated films that had been
classified as acceptable to the ‘reasonable (Australian) adult’ but WA
State governments had continued to prohibit that sale. The W.A.
Attorney General had signed off on a joint State/Commonwealth document
in 2002 to create a new set of Guidelines for the X category but then
refused to have it in WA. This was hypocritical and confusing to people
in W.A. It also strengthened the argument that W.A. politicians see
their constituents as having a different morality from others in the Commonwealth.
Ms Patten said that the inability of W.A.
governments to understand public opinion on
sexual morality and censorship was at the basis of their misguided
beliefs that minors in W.A. still had a
right to sell hardcore pornography through newsagents and other family outlets. “ We estimate that there are some 300 children
legally selling X rated magazines (called
Category 2 Restricted) to adults from family businesses in W.A. who
should not be handling this material”, she
said. “The ridiculous situation is that the government says its OK for minors to handle X rated material in book
form but bans the sale of this
material to adults on video or DVD. This is not in line with community opinion”.
Adultshop.com CEO, Malcolm Day, said “Per capita, West
Australians purchase nearly four times as many X rated films from
Adultshop's web site than any other state. The effect of this on a
Perth-based company is to force revenue out of WA while causing
customers and shareholders alike to develop a disdain for the state’s
censorship laws and for the governments who implemented it.”
Eros supplied these facts on WA:
- 350,000 adults in WA regularly watch
X non violent erotic films (La Trobe University 2002)
- In WA a magazine depicting adult
sexual intercourse is legal but a film of the same sexual intercourse
is X rated and illegal.
- 70% of West Australians believe that
X rated non-violent erotic films should be available from WA adult
shops (Newspoll 2003)
- In
WA it is legal to purchase and possess an X rated non violent erotic
film but selling one can attract a fine of $15,000 and 12 months jail.
- 42% of Western Australian households
have at least one vibrator (Durex 2004)
- Over 10,000 adult films are made each
year around the world.
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BONDAGE CENTRE
BLAZE
23 05 07
A Fire,
thought to be caused by a
candle, whipped through a room in a bondage and discipline
centre in Fitzsroy, causing about $100,000 damage.
Metropolitan Fire Brigade crews were
called to The Correction
Centre at 10.15pm yesterday. No one was injured but much of the upper
level was damaged by
heat and smoke.
AAP
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Thought
Police Strike Again
11/05/07
Second Life, an Internat based virtual world game is being used
by players to simulate underage sex play according to Sydney Morning
Journalist Chris Johnson. Johnson writes that German prosecutors
are looking for players who bought virtual sex with other players
posing as children in Second Life's virtual world. Virtual child porn
is illegal in Germany, though not in the USA. It is in a gray area in
Australia where it is yet to be tested in the courts.
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More
Censorship
11/05/07
The
Australian Federal Government is
making it harder for children to get adult material via their mobile
phones and the Internet. Age restrictions are being extended for
sexually explicit material beyond TV, film, print and the internet to
include live streaming to phones and web broadcasts.
The laws give the Australian
Communications and Media Authority the power to have content providers
remove any sexual material they find offensive.
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Topless
Car Wash Given Green Light
10/05/07
A
topless car wash in Brisbane has been given the green light
after authorities found no laws or water restrictions were being
broken.
Strip
club entrepreneur Warren Armstrong has started Bubbles 'n'
Babes at Albion in the city's inner north. The
business offers a $55 car wash by a topless chick, and a
$100 wash by a nude stripper - which includes an
X-rated show.
A police spokeswoman said today no complaints had been
received.
She
said the business was run in a closed shed out of the public
view and there had been no indication of wilful exposure, which is
a criminal offence in Brisbane.
Acting
Premier Anna
Bligh said her concerns regarding public
decency had been quelled after advice from police.The
operation is
running on recycled water and therefore
did not break current level five restrictions, she said."This
is one of those extreme examples of people wanting to make
a buck - I think it'll have a pretty limited market," Ms Bligh
said.
She
said the government fleet would not be using the car
wash. "I'm
sure there'll be a lot of people who've got strong views
about this sort of thing and there's always be a market for it but
it seems to me a pretty weird and wacky way to get your car
washed," she said.
"I
don't think I'll be feeling the need to have my car washed at
this particular service."
Brisbane
professional car wash services are doing a roaring
trade as residents face a ban on doing their own car washing under
strict water restrictions.
AAP
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Sexy
Miners Fired
23 11 06
Rio Tinto the
multi national coal and metals mining company sacked staff for
having erotica at work. This was in response to an employee
taking a nude photo of himself on his mobile phone at the Bengalla Mine
in NSW. They also fired 21 Queenslanders at three of their other
sites
for having erotica on their computers. According to the Sydney
Morning Herald the employees were not given any warning.
Penguins
Astound Science
02
02 06
Doctor Fiona
Hunter from the department of Zoology at Cambridge University has
observed evidence of the oldest profession in the penguin world.
Yep! it's not just humans and chimpanzees who have been negotiating the
price of pussy. Female penguins in Antarctica have been spotted trading
sex for stones that they need to build nests in the snow. The
females target single males and trick them into thinking a long term
relationship could be on the cards before stealing from the male's
collection of stones and doing a runner. Hmmm
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Snooty Shock Jock
24/12/05
It's
silly season in Oz and we came across this radio interview about
Melborne's Grubby Bus. The snooty and righteous tone of the
interviwer is loud and clear and shows what is wrong with attitudes
towards sex and the demeaning and bullying tone many radio interviewers
use. We remind 3AW sex is natural and normal and the interviewer
would not exist without it.
The Grubby Bus Radio Interview
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Bananas Navy
29/11/05
An Aussie
Naval commander involved
in a sexual harrasment case, denied in a Melbourne court he couldn't
stand the
sight of bananas because he found them too much of a turn on. He
is reported to have banned his sexy blonde female officers from eating
carrots and bananas in his office to reduce the sexual tension.
One of those sailors has resigned and is suing the navy.
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Cobblers
It's The Coppers
26/11/05
Our
readers inform us that police are charging nude bathers at Little
Congwong Beach. Police are also scouring the bush around Cobblers
for
people having sex.in the bushes. There must be a crime drought
in Sydney.
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SEX SURVEY
13/11/05
When it cums to sex Aussies are not
the best according to the Burnet Institute's 2004/5
Global Internet Sex Survey which places Greeks at the top as having sex
the most times each year at 138 bonks. This is well above the global
average of 103. Australians have 108 bonks and 44% say they can't
get enough. The global average for first time sex is 17.7 years and
Australians rate average. Aussies vote Angelina Jollie and Brad Pitt
the sexiest celebrities. Few Australians rate their own celebrities as
sexy. 61% of Australians have unprotected sex placing them in the
higher range of risk countries. When it cums to having orgasms
Aussies rate poorly with only 33% getting satisfied. Italians
have the most orgasms.
Aussies spend less time on foreplay, 19 minutes,
than the Brits and Germans who spend 22 minutes. Aussies have lots of
sexual partners at an average of 12.4. Three per cent of Australians
have an unplanned pregnancy under the age of 16. These survey
results might indicate Australians have unsatisfactory sex lives going
from one partner to another seeking satisfaction, not caring about safe
sex or unwanted pregancy. Read the survey here.
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Nudists Knocked Back
28
10 05
The
naturists of Warringah in northern Sydney are looking for a suitable
location for the areas first nudist beach. Warringah council have
already knocked back an application for part of Dee Why and Curl Curl
beaches to be made nudist friendly. The council refused to allow
nudist bathing because of the offense swaying genitalia might cause to
other
beach users, a spokesman said. Sylvia Else of the NSW Naturist
Party said about half of Warringah residents are in favour of nudism.
NSW Naturist Party
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SEXYOZ GOES ON-LINE
13/10/05
Wacko
the didlio sexyoz is here. There is something for everyone over
the age of 18 on this web site. Sexyoz aims to be the most
informative sex site for Australians and is packed with
information useful to everyone. Sexyoz contains classified
advertising for the sex industry, sexual health, adult news, beach
information, erotic artists, where to find erotic photographers and
models,
Australian adult magazines, and lots of links to everything and
anything sexy.
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BUSINESS
AS USUAL
Australia’s adult goods and services industry turns over $1.5 billion
per
year.