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A to V of a WikiLeak

December 12, 2010

By Charles Waterstreet

WHEN an alleged sex offender facing extradition quotes Rupert Murdoch in his defence and Jemima Khan offers herself as bail, then the world is surely changing. In 1958 young Rupert wrote, "In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win." One Aussie will always back another Aussie against the world. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi, Oi, Oi!

Julian Assange faces the strangest set of sex charges I have ever seen, and I have seen a few. When one thinks of Sweden, one thinks of tanned women frolicking in the pine forests, naked as babies, spraying Norsca under their blonde hairy arms and posing for Ingmar Bergman home movies – a twig breaks, a startled deer looks up. Another Australian hero, Geoffrey Robertson, QC, of Palm Beach and Balmain, drops his towel and daks in the sand, and rushes to London to assist Assange in answering non-hypothetical allegations of sexual assault. Oi, Oi, Oi.

As world powers gather in unison to put as many fingers as they can in the sprouting dykes that WikiLeaks has opened up on the information superhighways, it becomes clearer that Marshall McLuhan was absolutely correct when he wrote that "the medium is the message".

Assange writes that the site was designed from the start to draw down upon itself the entire wrath of the state to demonstrate in action the Mr Hyde behind the mask of servility. Julian A is really V, the character from the comic-book series and movie V for Vendetta, created by writers Alan Moore and David Lloyd, and The Matrix-making Wachowski brothers.

A as V is the mysterious anarchist, vigilante and freedom fighter, easily recognisable by the Guy Fawkes mask and dark clothing. V was designed to be both protagonist and antagonist, so that readers and viewers could decide for themselves whether he was a hero fighting for a cause or simply insane. In the movie he was played by another Australian hero, Hugo Weaving. Oi, Oi, Oi!

How did A, a nice boy from Rockhampton, find himself in the Old Bailey? They put Capone in Alcatraz for tax evasion in the US and now they are trying to put A in the slot for sex in Sweden.

Swedish sex laws are as complex as income-tax legislation. As Melbourne barrister James D. Catlin – who acted for A in London in October – writes, "You need a law degree to know whether you have been raped or not in Sweden."

The Swedes have created a man-eating legal plant, like the one in The Little Shop of Horrors, a Penis Fly-Trap, that has ensnared A's testicles in its desperate tentacles. Willing consent between adults is no defence to rape in Sweden.

Some laws passed in 1999 in Sweden have reversed years of civilisation. They criminalised the buying of sex and decriminalised the selling of sex. Prostitution is viewed as male violence against women. Be that as it may, the "victims" in Sweden, the small v's, Sophia Wilen and Anna Ardin, have worn their shoes out shopping from prosecutor to prosecutor to find someone to press charges. Sweden's public prosecution office announced and withdrew allegations on the same day. Three prosecutors later, they finally got it up.

There are four charges, including "ofredande", which is a peculiar Swedish charge of annoyance. The first charge is that A used his inconsiderable body weight to lie on one of the v's. He also "assaulted her sexual integrity" by having consensual sex but without a condom. A is further charged with pushing his morning glory into her back after they spent the night together. The final charge is having sex with a sleeping woman.

Both women apparently boasted of their respective celebrity conquests on the internet via mobile phones after the events and said that they would bring big A to his knees. Ardin hosted a celebrity party after the intimacy and tweeted that she was "with the world's coolest, smartest people, it's amazing". She has written a guide on how to get revenge on cheating boyfriends. They sought maximum exposure of their allegations in the Swedish newspaper, Expressen. They have WikiLeaked all over A.

In Sweden, when the tables are turned or when you are having sex, you must bear in mind that everything must go together like the Ikea instruction book.

When people come together in Sweden to make love, all the myriad acts that make it occur require a series of legal permissions for every movement. You need a border pass at every gate, let alone entry point. You need your permission passport stamped before and after any visit to any part of the body. You may even need a notary public to witness. It is little wonder the population there is so small because procreation is like making Ikea furniture, with an Allen key required at every turn of the screw.

Solo sex, a form of self-assembly, requires your own written consent in advance. The Meccano set is still very popular among children in Sweden, provided parents consent.


 



Kama Sutra Gets Modern Lift

October 25, 2010

    The Kama Sutra is getting a modern style, with the new edition set to be more of a lifestyle guide to love and relationships.

The erotic drawings and sexual illustrations that have accompanied various translations of the ancient Hindu text are gone from the new Kama Sutra published by Penguin, Britain's Sunday Telegraph reports.

Instead, the Kama Sutra will be a text-only, pocket-sized manual presented as a guide for men and women..

The Kama Sutra was presented as a '60s, hippie-influenced sex book but it was originally written as advice to a courtly gentleman on how to live a well-rounded life, not just a passionate life, according to Penguin Books.

The Kama Sutra is believed to have been written in the third century by Indian sage Vatsyayana.

Previous English versions of the Kama Sutra have been widely based on the 19th century translation by explorer and orientalist Sir Richard Francis Burton, often featuring erotic illustrations to accompany the old-fashioned English.

The new edition, written by A.N.D. Haksar, an Indian scholar and translator of Sanskrit texts, will include updated chapter headings such as Making A Pass, Why Women Get Turned Off, Girls To Avoid, Is He Worthwhile, Getting Rid of Him, Easy Women, Moves Towards Sex and Some Do's and Don'ts.

"The common perception of the Kama Sutra is that it is only about sex, but any honest reading of the book shows that it is about lifestyle and social relations between human beings," Haksar said.

"My effort with the new translation has been to stay as close as possible to the original text but to present it in a contemporary language which reflects the contemporary issues within the book."

The new edition will be published by Penguin in February next year.

AAP


Bonking Wheelies

5th September 2010
First Reported in The Age but edited for Sexyoz by Tony Max

 A couple bonking on Melbourne's 120 meter high Southern Star.

 "I suppose it had to happen," said the observation wheel's chairman, Fred Maybury. 

It the thrill of getting hot and high above the city made this couple horny. They found the view from the Southern Star so arousing they had to get it on.

Sunday Age photographer Ken Irwin was there to take this pervy shot.

A CCTV camera is also fitted in each capsule for the entertainment of the operating staff and for safety reasons.

The Southern Star's chairman Fred Maybury laughed when told of the incident. "I suppose it had to happen," he said.

When Britain's giant wheel, the London Eye, opened in January 2000 a pair of 17-year-olds were caught at it, creating the Mile Eye Club.

The Eye's operators immediately banned couples from taking trips by themselves, but Mr Maybury has ruled out such a ban on the Southern Star.

"There are definitely no plans to stop couples from enjoying flights together at this stage," he said.

"If you come early in the morning or late in the evening it's very quiet, with the wheel running well below capacity".



Poor Fred

September 3, 2010

 Fred Nile is seventy five and has been a Member of the NSW Legislative Council since 1981. He is an ordained Minister of religion and has been a thorn in the side of the gay and lesbian communities human rights challenges to the NSW government. So much so that his caricatured head was carried on a platter through the streets of Sydney in the gay and lesbian Mardi Gras. Now he is being scorned by disbelieving citizens over porn web site access from his three work computers.

But poor old Fred denies it.  It was his staff doing research for him he says. He also says he has never seen pornography in his whole life!

Debbie may have done Dallas, but Fred swears he never did. ''I've heard of the title, but I've never seen it,'' the Reverend Fred Nile vowed yesterday when asked if he had watched Debbie Does Dallas. (This is a amateurish sex film made in the USA in the 1970’s.  Debbie was a snake swallower who fired the imaginations of Americans and Australians who didn’t know trouser pythons could be swallowed. – Ed.)

In fact, he insisted, he had never seen a moment of hardcore porn in his life. And nor had his three staff spent any time ''sitting there perving'', although he had asked them to conduct research into the porn industry.

Fiona Patten, president of The Australian Sex Party thinks this is curious. She refers to Mr Nile's very successful tour in the mid-1980s when he and the British anti sex campaigner Mary Whitehouse lobbied the pollies to ban films with an X-classification. The media of the time reported them showing a sample of sex films to premiers and attorneys-general, Ms Patten said. Brian Burke, then West Australian premier, had complained it ''put him off his lunch''.

"One by one,'' she said, ''the state premiers fell to the moralistic rhetoric and the sample films that Rev Nile showed them. Unless he turned his head away during the viewing, he has some explaining to do about this. Either he has lied about his claim to seeing X-rated material or he has banned a genre of films that he has not even had the courage to watch.''

Mr Nile, the Christian Democratic Party leader, did not respond to Ms Patten's remarks. But at his news conference yesterday he explained his need for the research. It was part of his campaign against pornography, which had included support for the federal Labor government's proposed internet filter.

Such a filter, he said, should be imposed on all computers at state parliament.

Paul McLeay, the Labor minister who resigned on Wednesday when he admitted accessing adult and gambling websites on his work computer was the fourth minister to resign under Kristina Keneally's premiership and the ninth resignation of the current government.

Fred’s term of service expires 55th Parliament 6th March 2015.

We don't think Fred or any minister should resign over wathching people make love on their computers. But maybe they need to go for being such inexperienced dick heads. - Ed.




Best People For The Job Not Wanted

Story By Tony Max Courtesy AAP and other sauces.
30th August 2010


    Sexy job applicant for Tourism Queensland's Best Job in the World, Julia Yalovitsyna, has been excluded from the selection process after posing in a sexy video on a public web site.

Ms Yalovitsyna was one of the short-listed Top 50 applicants for the job to caretake Hamilton Island from June 1 to December 31 but she is too hot for Queensland due to her sexy adventures as a model on the Internet.

    Her video entry for the job appearing on YouTube, which had received more than 150,000 views, is now listed as 'private' and cannot be viewed by the public – bad luck.

  Her background has been investigated by Tourism Queensland and its CEO Anthony Hayes said it had been investigating media allegations (British Gutter Press) that her husband was facing criminal charges in Russia. So now she has been culled from the job applicants for the Queensland job.

Meanwhile Paul Hogan, Australia’s funniest man, is languishing in Sydney after being prevented from going home to California over supposed tax evasion.

 It is well known that Paul – Crocodile Dundee – Hogan has made hundreds of millions for the Australian Government by appearing in government sponsored tourism advertising.  He has also made a packet for himself by making that iconic film. 

He asked Film Australia to share in the costs and profits of making Crocodile Dundee but they told him to suck a raw prawn.  He went ahead anyway and made the blockbuster that reaped a fortune.

Now the Tax Department want the dough.  Ho Ho Ho.

And guess what – they waited till Paul came home for Mum’s funeral to slap a travel ban on him. Ain’t that cute.


Sex Tourism Down In Bangkok

August 24 2010

    Bangkok's red light districts have been hit by a drop-off in sex tourism.

The go-go bars have no customers and sex workers are charging half rates as a blockade of the capital's airport stymies trade.

"It's high season, but now it's like low season," said Nan, a hostess at one deserted nightspot in the Thai capital's notorious Patpong area.

Outside the club beneath a pink fluro about 10 women in sexy dresses tried to drum up customers.

Although anti-government protesters have ended an eight-day siege of Bangkok's airports, the effect of Thailand's ongoing political chaos on the tourism industry is destroying it.

The district of Patpong depends on overseas visitors, many from Australia, to keep afloat, but as the 350,000 air travellers stranded by the airport closures rush to leave Thailand new customers are not travelling in.

"Now Thailand has a problem -- no customers," said Lam, a man who works for Nan's bar, luring tourists in off the streets by posing as a friendly Thai offering unsolicited travel advice on good places to go.

Lam is hopeful the trade will return to Patpong, a city strip of live shows and  nightlife.

The Tourism Authority of Thailand is not optimistic about the situation.

The group expects incoming travellers in 2009 to be half the 14.8 million the kingdom saw last year, with word of the protests causing tourists considering a trip to Thailand booking elsewhere.

The airport closures also hurt Bangkok's other entertainment options, such as the famous "ladyboy" cabaret shows.

"The shutdown of the airports seriously affected our business," said Nipon Boonmasuwaran, sales and marketing manager of the Calypso show in Bangkok, a club where flamboyant cross dressers mime and dance to famous songs.

"Our guests have dropped 90 percent -- we have less than 50 guests in our 350-seat theatre," Nipon said.

The Calypso also cancelled its second daily showing during the November 25-December 3 chaos, when images of frustrated tourists trying to flee Thailand from a military airbase beamed around the world.

"We handed out thousands of free tickets for the stranded hotel guests in order to entertain them and hope that they would buy drinks -- otherwise we will have no business," he said.

"Since re-opening of the airports business is trickling in but very slow," adding that guests normally came from Europe -- especially the Netherlands and Belgium -- and Asian countries such as South Korea, Japan and Singapore.

The blockade may have brought in some new tourists stranded by the cities unrest.

American tourists Lisa R, and Michael L, said they would never have come to Patpong had they not been stranded in Bangkok.

"Being stuck for an extra week convinced us to spend time and money on things we wouldn't have normally -- ping-pong shows for example," said Latham.

But he said that he felt for Thais whose livelihood was being hit by the unrest.

Thailand was, until 2005, the world's leading destination for sex tourists, when its crown was taken by Brazil, according to Interpol.

Although sex work is officially illegal in Thailand, estimates for the number of sex workers range from 80 000 to two million.

At her Patpong bar, Nan says she hopes the tourists return soon, as she sends the money she earns back to her family near the Cambodian border.

MAD MEN & BAD GIRLS

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/lifematters/mad-men-and-bad-girls-20100802-112ml.html


Gutter Press Slams Top Aussie Women

Story By Tony Max        21st April 2010

Hello Lara

    This is Lara Bingle, a beautiful Aussie model currently being persecuted in Australia's gutter press.

She is not alone. Nicole Kidman is also under fire for her dress sense and anything else the mogul print toads find to harp on about.

Kidman is one of the worlds finest female actors yet at home in Australia she gets hell in the press.

Back to Lara's misfortunes: The Aussie press has been singling her out for paparrazi torture over her relationship with with a cricketer and their subsequent break up.  Something the press probably contributed to by the stress they place on people they want to lampoon and abuse.

Kylie Minogue, another woman ignored and abused in the Aussie press whilst she was a soaring international star is a case to mention.  Sydney radio would not play her music for years after she beacme a recording star.  They demeaned her by calling her a singing budgie and generally gave her the cold shoulder.  Strangely, ordinary Australians went along with this until the gay community took her to heart and played her music non stop in the clubs and gay venues where it began to get an audience.  Aussies today are embarassed by the way they treated her and are belatedly realising what a great talent she is.

Lara on the other hand is young, 21, and starting out on her career.  Already, like Kylie she has had to move off shore to find work because of the abuse and indifference at home.

There is a sickness in Australia, the down under country, where everything is upside down.  Talent and beauty are regarded as sins, and fame with abuse.  This abuse has a name in Australia, it's called the tall poppy syndrome.  If you are unfortunate enough to be skillfull, smart, beautiful and talented watch out!  The bullying gutter press will stalk and abuse you and smear your reputation.



To Sexy Bloke George Michael

    Hello George and welcome to Australia.  As a pomey you have been getting a bad press in England and the USA but not to worry to you are welcome here.  You won't have to hang around toilets or worry about homophobic newpaper reporters. 

Australia has many gay clubs and friendly people.  Stay off the nose candy though it'll make your nose bleed.

Remember also that the grog here is stronger than English bitter.  It's made for real hard core Aussie alcoholics and best avoided.

Hope you have a happy holiday. Ed.

PS Always swim between the flags.


Sexy Teacher Pics Disgust QLD Schoolies & Newspapers

2nd April 2010

 

One of the pictures of Warwick High School teacher Helen Casey that appeared on Facebook.

Warwick Daily News:

WARWICK State High School students have said they were “disgusted” but not surprised when sexy photos of two teachers appeared on social networking site Facebook, while Education Queensland has told the pair to clean up their internet imagery while investigations continue.

Yesterday the Daily News revealed images on English department head Ann Kerr’s Facebook profile which depicted and named her and fellow English and IT teacher Helen Casey wearing mock school uniforms with fishnet stockings, perched on a bathroom vanity in sexually suggestive positions.

Ms Kerr’s suggestive profile picture was changed to a modest race-day shot yesterday morning and her raunchy album entitled ‘First day of school’ had been deleted, but one “friend” told the Daily News the racy shot still appeared for all her friends to see in her profile photos album.

A Year 12 WSHS student – who cannot be named – said all her friends used Facebook and were aware of the photos.

“I think it’s disgusting especially as they’re teachers. But I wasn’t surprised they had photos on there,” the 16-year-old said.

“They’re our teachers, they should have known better, but it’s still shocking.”

Another Year 12 WSHS student phoned the Daily News saying he was “embarrassed” by the teachers’ behaviour.

“It’s foul, a big turn-off,” he said.

“We don’t really know what’s going on. All the teachers have told us they can’t talk about it (the Facebook photo scandal); we were told to stay in the school grounds during the lunch break and not to talk to the media waiting outside.

“They (Ms Kerr and Ms Casey) have kids of their own; my mum doesn’t act like that.”

Warwick Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Strategy Group chair Bette Bonney said she was “disturbed” by the images.

“Whether it is women, men or teenagers they should be careful because if they’re willing to risk their dignity and respect, they’ve lost it to those who saw the pictures,” Ms Bonney said.

Warwick State High School Parents and Citizens Association president Glen Reid said the Facebook incident which involved the two teachers was “unfortunate” but the P&C “fully support the school”.

“From a P&C point of view, we have total faith in the school,” Mr Reid said.

“This issue is being dealt with by (Education Queensland Darling Downs and South West) regional director Greg Dickman.

“I’ve been a member of the P&C for seven years and president for six and it’s a fantastic high school. I had two children at the school for seven years and they are two wonderful, well-balanced young people.”

Southern Downs Regional Council mayor Ron Bellingham declined to comment on the incident, while Ms Kerr hung up when contacted by the Daily News via phone.

EQ Darling Downs and South West regional director Greg Dickman said the department was continuing its enquiries into the material posted on Facebook, with no suggestion the pair would be stood down in the meantime.

“In the interim, the regional office has advised two staff members to ensure their Facebook profiles are in line with the expectations of the department,” Mr Dickman said.

“Education Queensland takes a fair and balanced approach to performance management and conduct issues and all staff are given the opportunity to respond to matters raised in relation to their work performance and conduct.”

Sexy Editors note: 

Whilst the teachers being persued and lampooned in the newspaper are sexy the newspaper and the students are not.  In fact they seem to think teachers are not normal human beings that need a sex life. What is the Queensland education department doing in the banana state when their teenagers display this level neurosis about sexulaity that they need to phone up the papers to say how disgusted they are? 

This is just a cheap attempt by the sexually frustrated to censor the Internet and bully a teacher into self censorship if not out of her job.

This teacher could well be in the dressing room for the school play for all we know.
The Daily News took a poll that asked:  Should the teachers face disciplinary action after posting raunchy photos on Facebook?
And 76% responded:  No - what they do in their own private life is their business.  And we agree.

 




 

GRAND MARDI GRAS OPERA

    More than 5000 people gathered in front of the Sydney Opera House to be photographed by photographer Spencer Tunick's latest installation, Mardi Gras: The Base on Monday 28th Feb.

The first group took their place on the steps of the Opera House just after dawn. Mardi Gras festival executive producer Danielle Harvey said 5200 people - including sportspeople, doctors, teachers and retirees - had lined up to take part.

"We were expecting 2000 or so ... we're absolutely thrilled," Ms Harvey said.

Much of the photographer’s job during the hour-and-a-half shoot centred on crowd control.

The artist asked his subjects to pose with their hands by their sides, up high above their heads, and asked couples in the crowd to embrace, before moving everyone inside to pose in the theatre.

This is Tunick's second shoot in Australia after staging an installation in Melbourne's Alexandra Gardens in 2001.

He has also photographed groups in New Mexico in the US, as well in Brazil, France, England and Austria.

The artist said the title of today's installation, Mardi Gras: The Base, referred to the sameness of individuals, regardless of their sexual preferences.

"Gay men and women lay naked next to their straight neighbours and this delivered a very strong message to the world that Australians embrace a free and equal society," Tunick said.

Tunick said he was delighted to be able to assemble the installation at the base of "one of the most beautiful architectural structures in the world".

He said the crowd warmed up as the shoot progressed.

"It was difficult to get the straight people to embrace the gay participants ... I was happy we got it in the second set-up," Tunick said.

The work was commissioned by the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

 AAP


Sex romp resort is ruining our image: nudists

KATE DENNEHY

January 17, 2010 - 11:40AM

Sex romps at a Queensland resort are giving nudists a raw deal, say more serious naturists.

The White Cockatoo resort at Mossman in north Queensland hit the headlines last week with reports of poolside sex and partner swapping, and that was from its owners Tony and Lenore Fox.

The timely free exposure hasn’t hurt their advertising campaign aimed at selling the resort for $1.5 million, with a flood of prospective national and international callers.

But more sedate nudists say the reports give the wrong impression about the nudist movement and will harm Queensland’s bid for its first legal "clothing optional" beach.

President of Free Beaches Australia, Traven Searle, said nudism was for families and couples who simply wanted to take their clothes off in a healthy environment.

"Nudism for us is a lifestyle thing where we can socialise without any sexual connotations," he said. "The whole thing up there (at The White Cockatoo) is very negative because it promotes a very sexual image."

He said his group and the Australian Nudist Federation (ANF) hoped the resort would become a non-nudist resort when sold as it was giving nudism a bad name.

"We are against adult only and swingers’ resorts and prefer family-friendly places where kids can go for fun," he said.

"All the negative publicity will be brought up whenever we suggest a clothing optional beach and definitely won’t help."

ANF president Werner Jacobs said his group, with 3000 members, was considering changing the group’s name to ‘naturist’ instead of ‘nudist’ because of the bad publicity.

"It does tarnish our image but I think the owners are just cashing in on the publicity while we do it for the lifestyle," he said.

Mr Fox said the resort was not "no holes barred" all year. Three seasons catered for conventional (fully-clothed) families, more "conventional" nudists and adults only.

"The prudie nudie season is mainly for the 40 to 60 year olds, your older club type," he said. "They’re the hang-over from the 60s with a ‘no sex please, we’re nudists’ attitude."

He said the fastest growing season was from January to March, the adults only/partner swapping time mainly for 25 to 45 year olds.

"The AO season is three times as popular as the prudie nudie with a much more liberated environment. Sex does happen in the pool or other public places between partners or with others," he said.

"We have close neighbours but we have very high fences. There’s plenty of shade so sunburn isn’t a problem."

James Bishop, owner of the Pacific Sun Friends resort at Donnybrook, north of Brisbane, said "all that swinging and wife swapping" was immoral.

"We have a high moral standard here and don’t accept sex in public," he said. "Politicians and people that hear about what’s happening up there will use it against the nude beach issue."

Whitsunday Regional Council deputy mayor Rogin Taylor and his wife Linda run the Taylorwood Nudist Resort at Conway, near Airlie Beach in north Queensland.

Mr Taylor agreed the publicity was doing more harm than good to the nudism industry.

"Saying people have sex in the pool certainly doesn’t help our image," he said. "Our resort doesn’t allow singles or kids and we don’t have swingers under any circumstances. There is absolutely no sex in public here."

He said the only difference between his resort and others was that people wore fewer clothes.

Mr Fox said his critics were suffering "penis envy".

"They fit my definition of prudie nudie to a tee,’" he said. "They are out of touch with what happens in the real world and are jealous that people just want to have a naked holiday instead of joining their clubs."
 

Source: The Sun-Herald 


3D Porn Ain't All That Bad

January 13, 2010

Thank the Gods for the porn industry a constant source of innovation and social improvement.

On Monday the Sydney Morning Herald reported from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas where 3D porn was the hot issue for technology geeks this year. A porn actor, who had just starred in one of the industry's first 3D films, was quoted as being ''very excited'' to pioneer this new field. She should be. Once again, the porn industry turns out to be a force for innovation.

Schools will use new 3D television techniques to teach. Imagine how geography lessons will come alive if classes can virtually wander in faraway places using 3D glasses. Physics and chemistry experiments too dangerous or complicated for classrooms could also be shown on a 3D screen.

Should the parents of the future wish to thank the brains behind these teaching improvements, they should not be surprised. Far from being the result of some philanthropic engagement, the new technologies will have been conceived not in an ivory tower but as a by product of the sex industry.

Porn's track record has always been at the forefront of technological change. The development of video tapes and DVDs probably owes much to the demand for sex movies as it does to less raunchy sorts of entertainment.

The internet is another case in point. With some justification, sexual needs could be called the mother of the web's invention. Without streaming videos of sex movies, bandwidth would not have been added so fast to the global net. Online learning, iTunes and WebTV later benefited from an infrastructure which had been erected for something completely different.

Porn star Ron Jeremy caused a stir in The Great Porn Debate at the Consumer Electronics Show by saying that studies have found that "violent video games are a much bigger negative influence on kids".

The electronics show at the Las Vegas Convention Centre coincides with the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo at the Venetian hotel. In this case, Ron Jeremy was also promoting tools that help parents control their children's access to undesirable content.

He said: "Because we make porn, we are the bad guys. We don't want kids to watch porn but yes we recognise that it happens. We are not in favour of that," reports BBC News.



ROXXXY’S COOL

GLENN CHAPMAN

January 11, 2010

 

Roxxxy with her inventor, Douglas Hines. Photo: AFP

Roxxxy the sex robot had a coming-out party in Sin City Las Vegas at the weekend.
In what is billed as a world first, a life-size robotic girlfriend complete with artificial intelligence and flesh-like synthetic skin was introduced to adoring fans at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas on Saturday.

''She can't vacuum, she can't cook, but she can do almost anything else if you know what I mean,'' said her inventor, Douglas Hines, of the company TrueCompanion.

''She's a companion. She has a personality. She hears you. She listens to you. She speaks. She feels your touch. She goes to sleep. We are trying to replicate a personality of a person.''

At 170-centimetres tall and 54.43 kilograms, Roxxxy ''has a full C cup and is ready for action'', said Hines, who was an artificial intelligence engineer at Bell Laboratories before he started up TrueCompanion.

The anatomically correct robot has an articulated skeleton, which means it can move like a person even though it cannot walk or move its limbs independently.

Robotic movement is built into ''the three inputs'' and a mechanical heart that powers a liquid cooling system.

Roxxxy comes with five personalities. Wild Wendy is outgoing and adventurous. Frigid Farrah is reserved and shy. There is a young and naive personality and a Mature Martha that Hines describes as having a ''matriarchal kind of caring''. S&M Susan is geared for more adventurous types.

Aspiring partners can customise such features as race, hair colour and breast size. A male sex robot named Rocky is in development.

People ordering the robots online at truecompanion.com detail their tastes and interests to get the mechanical girlfriend in synch with her mate.

''She knows exactly what you like,'' says Hines. ''If you like Porsches, she likes Porsches. If you like soccer, she likes soccer.'' Roxxxy can chat with her flesh-and-blood mate, and touching her elicits a variety of comments.

Inspiration for the sex robot sprang from the September 11, 2001 attacks. ''I had a friend who passed away in 9/11,'' Hines said. ''I promised myself I would create a program to store his personality, and that became the foundation for Roxxxy True Companion.''

Hines sees the robot as a recreational innovation and an outlet for the shy, people with sexual dysfunction and those who want to experiment without risk.

Roxxxy costs between $US7000 ($7634) and $US9000 depending on features.

Agence France-Presse