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Bettie Page, the raven-haired pinup girl whose naughty-but-nice bondage and fetish adventures titillated a generation of young men in the 1950s has died at the age of 85.

Her career, that some have said laid the foundations for the sexual revolution that came to America in the 1960s, started almost by accident after she discovered that posing for amateur photographers in provocative poses and risqué attire made her more money than working as a secretary.

Ms Page’s fame was set after she was hired by Irving Klaw and his sister, Paula, who had a Manhattan film and p[hotographic mail order business selling cheese-cake photos and mild bondage films. The Klaws were prosecuted under strict American censorship laws that saw their business ruined and their photographic work destroyed in the McCarthist era.

Years later, Betty became one of the first models featured in Playboy as a centre-fold including one in 1955 with her winking under a Santa hat.

The magazine’s founder and friend of Betty in recent years, Hugh Hefner, said: “Bettie Page was one of Playboy magazine’s early Playmates, and she became an iconic figure, influencing notions of beauty and fashion. Her passing is very sad.”

Betty disappeared for decades, suffering broken marriages and, for many years, devoting herself to Christianity.

She continued, even in her later years to suffer bouts of depression and ill health but resurfaced in the late 1980s to make occasional public appearances to sign photographs of herself, as she was rediscovered by a new generation of fans.

To her own amazement, Ms Page has recently attained something close to cult status. Madonna, Uma Thurman and Demi Moore are among contemporary stars who have at some time adopted the Bettie Page look while in 2006 a feature film The Notorious Bettie Page was a hit at the box offices.

What The Jack Russell Saw

Police drew their guns when they suspected the 46 year old, was armed. (Australian police always think the worst).

Instead, they found him partially naked with his penis in a saucy jar, a police statement said. He attracted attention parked in a no-stopping zone before noon on October 26.

Police believed he was doing something with his hands in his lap and thought that he might have a weapon. When he saw the coppers he drove away, despite them flashing their lights.

It was reported the chase lasted five to 10 minutes, with a top speed of just 20 kmh, before the man stopped. He refused to leave the jar...er...no..car, yes car.

Four officers used batons and capsicum spray to remove him. (From the car not the jar).

They found a 750-millilitre gun ...no, thats jar, yea a 750 millilitre jar around his cock and noted that he attempted to continue "pleasuring himself in between bouts of wrestling".

A search of his car uncovered pornography, a home-made sex toy, women's stockings and a Jack Russell terrier. (We must start subscribing to the Newcastle Herald)

He pleaded guilty to offensive behaviour, resisting police and disobeying a police direction.

Magistrate Elaine Truscott asked the bloke, who represented himself, why he behaved the way he did. He said he resisted police because he was trying to make himself "decent".

He was fined $600 for offensive behaviour and convicted of the other two offences without further action taken.

Sex Party sets sights on Parliament

17 Nov 2008

"We are serious about sex" is the slogan of a new political party to be launched on Tuesday.

With 4 million Australians accessing pornography, The Australian Sex Party, says it has a real chance of winning seats in State and Federal parliaments.

Its platforms include a national sex education curriculum, reducing censorship, abolishing the Government's proposed internet filter and supporting gay marriage.

Party convener Fiona Patten says the internet filter would put the Australian sex industry out of business in five years.

"It's a real step backwards to where we've come. In fact it's far more censorial then we probably were 30 years ago," she told ABC Radio.

"Material that would be classified X-rated ... is considered illegal content and that is material that is currently available ... in newsagents.

The new party would advocate a national sex education curriculum, something other countries were developing, Ms Patten said.

"There's so much concern about the sexualisation of children, children being exposed to material. I would have thought our first action would be education."

Oral Sex On The Rise

The Australasian sexual health congress in Perth has been told oral sex, once the exclusive domain of sex workers, has now become a leading part in the sexual repertoire for straight and gay Australians.

"For young people it's an almost universal practice now, with 90 per cent trying it before the age of 30," said Basil Donovan, a professor of sexual health at the University of NSW.

"Among teenagers it's the new abstinence in the Clintonesque sense, because it's a way of having sex without having sex, and there are obvious contraceptive advantages too."

It also has been embraced as a way to better avoid the risks of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

Prof Donovan said the practice had become far more popular among heterosexual couples in long term relationships because they were having more sex now than in previous generations and were looking for more variety "to keep things interesting".

He also theorised that improvements in cleanliness was the biggest driving factor in the popularity of oral sex.

"I can't prove it but my theory is that when people only had a bath on Saturday night oral sex was a less attractive prospect," Prof Donovan said. "The aesthetics changed when people started washing more often."

Another sexual health expert, Dr Juliet Richters, author of the book Doing it Down Under, said she believed the rise of feminism was the key to the trend, with women now happier to say what they wanted.

The dramatic shift has occurred in one generation, with people aged over 50 having had oral sex for the first time an average of eight years after they started having standard sex.

"Now it's a one year gap and in many groups the oral intercourse comes first, sometimes by a few years," Prof Donovan said.

"That's a major shift from 80 years ago when it was entirely the work of sex workers and men were never going to get it at home."

He said there were many advantages to the trend and only a couple of disadvantages - increased risk of gonorrhoea among gay men and the increase in genital herpes caused by type one herpes, which normally causes coldsores.

"That's a direct reflection of the fashionablity of oral sex and in that sense people need to be aware that a cold sore is more than just a cold sore."

BDSM Scientific Research Findings

Scientific sex research has found that Australians who participate in bondage and discipline are not damaged or dangerous, and might even be happier than those who practice "normal" sex.

The research showed two per cent of adult Australians regularly partake in sadomasochism and dominance and submission-type sexual role play.

Contrary to commonly-held stereotypes, they are not doing so in reaction to sexual abuse or because they are "sexually deficient" in some way, according the study of 20,000 Australians by public health researchers at the University of NSW.

"Our findings support the idea that bondage and discipline and sadomasochism (BDSM) is simply a sexual interest or subculture attractive to a minority," Associate Professor Juliet Richters and her colleagues wrote in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

The findings showed that BDSM play is more common among gay, lesbian and bisexual people, and that participants were more likely to have been more sexually adventurous in other ways.

"However, they were no more likely to have been coerced into sexual activity and were not significantly more likely to be unhappy or anxious," said Prof Richters, author of the book Doing It Down Under.

Men who take part in BDSM may be happier, with results showing they score significantly lower on a scale of psychological distress than other men.

The researchers did not study why this was, but suspect it might simply be that they're more in harmony with themselves because they're into something unusual and are comfortable with that.

"People with these sexual interests have long been seen by medicine and the law as, at best, damaged and in need of therapy and, at worst, dangerous and in need of legal regulation," she said.

There is also an assumption, mostly among the general public, that people involved in BDSM were sexually deficient in some way, "and need particularly strong stimuli such as being beaten or tied up to become aroused".

She said she hoped the results of this research will help change these stereotypes.

Australian Customs has seized more than 100 bottles containing illegal liquid steroids hidden inside sexual lubricant packaging. The bottles are said to contain prohibited performance and image enhancing drugs from Thailand.

Customs is investigating the sophisticated drug smuggling network after the bottles, labelled as "gay lube oil", were seized in five states since the start of the year.

Customs national manager of investigations Richard Janeczko said the so-called gay lube oil contained various active ingredients including testosterone and deca durabolin. He said these drugs could not be imported into Australia without a permit from the Therapeutic Goods Administration.

"Despite the professionalism of this smuggling operation, Customs officers were not fooled by the labelling and its misdescription,"

He said the detection was a reminder that the use of performance and image enhancing drugs was not confined to elite athletes.

The maximum penalty for smuggling such goods into Australia is five years in prison and a $110,000 fine.

Naked Chicken Protestors Arrested

Three animal rights activists have been arrested under new "annoyance" laws after a semi-naked protest at KFC in Sydney's CBD on 15th July.

The group PETA believes the trio are the first to be arrested under the powers of causing annoyance or inconvenience to World Youth Day pilgrims. However, a police spokesman said the arrest was due to offensive behaviour, an offence that existed prior to the new laws.

The three women, wearing only underwear and some tape to cover their nipples, were protesting inside a cage outside the KFC restaurant on George Street, at the corner of Bathurst Street. They had a banner that read: "Chicks agree, boycott KFC", PETA Asia-Pacific's director Jason Baker said.

Police arrested the women - aged 20, 22 and 31 - and placed them inside a paddy wagon, Mr Baker said.

“One of the officers said: 'We have the new nuisance regulation this week for World Youth Day,' " he said.
"I said: 'Are you serious?' I thought it doesn't start until tomorrow, and was [being challenged in court] anyway."

However, a police spokesman indicated the women were arrested for protesting naked, "which is an offence".

"I don't think they were arrested under the new legislation, if that's what you are asking."
But Mr Baker said the group had conducted naked protests in the city before, and no members had been arrested.

"I'm shocked. We have protested many times in Sydney, and at this KFC before. We had 24 people naked in Pitt Street just six weeks ago ... we've never had problems."

The women have not been charged yet and are being questioned at a police station, the police spokesman said.

Failure to comply with the new WYD laws can attract a penalty of up to $5500.

Source: The Age

Pilgrim Sex Trade Boom
July 20, 2008

Business is booming in Sydney’s brothels now the pilgrims have hit the city according to sex workers.

Adult Business Association spokesman Chris Seage said the boom in business had taken brothel owners by surprise.

"The brothel owners are having to put on extra staff to meet the demand," he said.

"Business is up by around 20 per cent in brothels in the city, Surry Hills, Bondi and the lower North Shore. Brothel owners are saying they have not seen anything like it since the Olympics."

The 'pilgrim plague' has also hit gay venues around Sydney with cruise clubs seeing visitng overseas cherubs.

Too Beautiful To Be A Teacher

10th May 2008

The schools don’t like their teachers showing off their bodies and those that do are in breach of the code of conduct that says….. Teachers must act professionally by hiding their bodies because bodies are shameful things and must be hidden from children, or something along those lines. Ed.

Lynne Tziolas, 24, was called into her principal's office last Friday and told her year-long contract at the primary school was terminated.

"I was told … my actions had breached the code of conduct," said Mrs Tziolas, who appeared with her husband, Antonios, in a Cleo article about sex.

The article, headlined "Buck naked, where couples talk about their sex lives", included pictures of couples embracing.

During a meeting with the principal, Julie Organ (real name), and the local schools dictator er.. director, Mrs Tziolas was issued with a letter. "I refer to an article in the magazine Cleo in which your photograph appears accompanied by an article about your personal life," the letter said.

Mrs Tziolas said she had had no course for appeal before the decision to axe her. "It was almost like I was guilty until proven innocent." She said she was stunned by the school's response and said it could end her public school career. She was guilty because she has a beautiful body and showed it off.

Mr Tziolas, 45, also a teacher, is concerned the furore will affect his chances of getting a job in the NSW public education system. He said he and his wife did not regret the picture and would do the story again.

Sex - A Cure For The Blues?

Depressed women have more sex than those who are happier, regardless of whether they are in a relationship or not, a study of Australians has found.

A survey of Melbourne women presented at an international mental health conference has concluded that females who suffer from mild to moderate depression have a third more sexual activity than those who are not.

They also had more sexually liberated attitudes, a bigger variety of sexual experiences and, if single, were more likely to partake in casual sex, Dr Sabura Allen, a clinical psychologist at Monash University, said.

``It was more sex and more of everything from kissing to petting, foreplay and intercourse,'' said Dr Allen, who studied the recent sexual experiences of 107 depressed and non-depressed women who were in relationships.

``We knew this anecdotally from clinical samples but this is the first time it's been shown in research.''

She said depressed women were likely seeking out sexual intimacy more often to help feel more secure.

``When people are depressed they feel more insecure about their relationships and concerned that their partner may not care about them or find them valuable,'' Dr Allen said.

``Having sex helps them feel that closeness and security.''

Asked whether intercourse could be an effective balm for depression, the psychologist said ``we really don't know but we presume it helps as it gives these women opportunities to be close to their partner and loved.''

The team also is investigating depressed single women and has found a trend towards more casual sex than happier singles.

Dr Allen said Australian couples tend have sex between once and three times a week, with ``very much the majority in the once a week group''. Single women have it ``significantly less'', but the same is not necessarily true of single men.

The study, soon to be published in a British medical journal, was presented today at the International Congress on Women's Mental Health in Melbourne where the latest research in mental illness and hormone-related conditions is being showcased.

    The best sex should last between three and seven minutes American experts have concluded. But Australian sex therapists commenting on the findings say most Ozi men want it to last considerably longer while Ozi Sheilas were not bothered if it was over in a tick.
   The study is the first to review the length of time people fuck. A random sample of Americans and Canadians do penitrative sex from seven to 13 minutes. Fucking lasting 3 to 7 minutes was deemed to be too short and over 13 minutes too long. The study published in The International Journal of Sex Medicine is designed to allay the unrealistic anxieties of couples about the length of time they are fucking.
A researcher said that in the male fantasy of male sexuality men have large penises, rock hard errections and can go for it all night long. Many people have this fantasy.
    The results of this study provides a realistic and not a fantasy model of fucking which is useful for treating people with sex problems and may prevent problems arising from unrealistic expectations. Little research is available about Australians ideas about fucking, though its probably similar to Americans and Canadians.
AAP

   A German tourist operator is offering German Ossis an opportunity to fly nude. The German Ossis are East Germans who, under communist rule, were free to practice public nudism at holiday destinations and it was a very popular activity.
    "In the former East Germany, naturist holidays were a much loved way of spending the best weeks of the year," said the founder of OssiUrlaub De, Enrico Hess.
    The hour long flight will take the nude tourists to nudist holiday destinations in Erfurt in the southeast of the country and Usedom, a Baltic Sea island surrounded by white sandy beaches.
    There will be 50 seats on the jet and it costs E499 (AUD$838). All passengers will fly in their birthday suits but the cabin crew will be dressed for the occasion.
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Lubricated Abroad

    Aussies have a reputation abroad as piss pots, they can't relax without ethanol and other mind reducing drugs shrinking their cerebral cortexes. Recent tourist articles extolling the delights of exotic destinations where Australians let down their hair like this one on Mexico where - 'waitresses go around asking tables if they want shots during their meal. If you order one she blows a whistle and the entire place cheers for you as she performs a whole routine before giving you the shot which includes pinching your nipples.' Just shows what sexy - hic - fun Aussies are sampling.
    "We went to a club called Senor Frogs which opens as a restaurant then turns into a club (like most places in Cancun). They have an MC all night who gets people to come up on stage in between songs for competitions such as who can scull a beer the quickest or who can strip the quickest. The loser of every competition has to go down the waterslide which is inside the club and takes you out into the lagoon." Presumably where you drown.
    Other destinations of lubrication include Thailand where drinks are cheap, Ibiza and Paris where the stars go to party. Don't forget London where the beer is warm and the pick pockets are legendary around drunks lubricated to the eyeballs and ready for the pickin'.
    In Hanoi where the clubs only sell spirits the patrons literally melt off their stools. They are surrounded by waiters pressing more lubrication down the throats of their customers.
    A vietnamese girl recently told me about her experience with Aussies in Vietnam. She works in a restaurant in Hanoi where Americans, French English and Australian tourists eat. The Americans and Australians are the worst, she said. The Americans are loud drunks whereas the Australians are quieter. 'Our Aussie friend always came around to our place and hung out with us students at the coffee shop but he never asked any of us girls out. He was always drunk and told us several times he was going off for sex with the local sex workers in the afternoons. He was nice but there was something wrong.'
    Yes it's called alcoholism. Very unsexy.
    Facts tourists should know: (a) Alcohol shrinks the testes and causes brewers droop. (a) Alcohol is used by smart operators to comatose tourists into spending all their dough and by robbers to carry out their trade. (a) Alcohol and other drugs is best avoided when traveling abroad. You won't read this in the Sydney Morning herald or glossy tourist brochures - only on Sexy Oz where the men are are stiff and sober. Wowsers! Us!!

STI gel to be coated on condoms

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.

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

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.

'No' always means no, sex conference told

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.

The Party’s Over For Melbourne's Brothel Spies

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.

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.

Ban Porn In ACT Too Say Christians

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.

"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.

"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.

Experts urge mass circumcision in S Africa

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.

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.

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.

Sex Workers Protest At Opera House

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.

"That really questions this idea that the general community are against sex workers or the sex industry."

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.

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.

The pageant continues, with Misses USA, Japan, India and Venezuela the favourites, all brunettes.

Ralph TV To Be Less Sexy

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.

The series was created by Endemol, makers of Big Brother and Big Brother Uncut.

Ethics of porn are in the eye of the beholder

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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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.

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.

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'."

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.”

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.

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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    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."

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

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. _____________________________________________________________

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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