Order Sought to Halt Sale of Children’s Porn Game

Press Release 26 July 2005
Order Sought to Halt Sale of Children’s Porn Game

The Society has made an application for an interim restriction order to stop all further "supply" to the public of a controversial computer game that allows thousands of children to practice interactive pornography. The game which the society does not wish to identify by name (it does not wish to assist sales of state-sanctioned "smut") has been widely promoted and sold through leading retail stores in New Zealand. It teaches players to take on the persona of a well known promiscuous and geriatric male pornographer in order to set up a porn empire, by learning to recruit "sexy" women for nude centre-fold photo-shoots, arranging multiple "sexual" encounters in party environments where semi-nude female models and their clients get drunk, and selecting the locations where "sex" is to take place. The player can manipulate the environment to ensure that certain types of "sexual" encounters can take place.

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CleanFeed Child Porn Block Applauded

Press Release No 2: 25 July 2005
CleanFeed Child Porn Block Applauded

Society president Mike Petrus says "the Society is delighted to read a report that Internet industry groups are teaming up with the Government to test a system to filter online child pornography." The Censorship Compliance officials in the Department of Internal Affairs will be testing the British CleanFeed systems, which block access to sites that have been blacklisted for hosting such material. (DominionPost 25 July).

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Labour’s "glove puppet" & the objectionable stalking horse

The Society commends Stephen Franks, ACT MP, for raising serious concerns in parliament on the 15th of February 2005 over clauses in a Government Bill - the Films, Videos and Publications Classification Amendment Bill - during its crucial third reading stage. It commends him for submitting during the committee stages of the third reading, six key amendments seeking to: protect the right of free speech, prevent key findings in a unanimous decision of the Court of Appeal in the Living Word case being rendered obsolete, and safeguarding the real intent of the principal Act to only deal with material that the “overwhelming majority of the public” find offensive “by use of offensive expression,” rather than “by reason of disagreement with the subject matter or argument or propositions expressed.” (The Court’s decision in Living Word led to the un-banning of two Christian opinion-piece videos critical of the promiscuous homosexual lifestyle and the aggressive homosexual political agenda).

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Promoting "Buggery": Dire warnings of STD pestilence

Paying the due penalty for unnatural sex and indecent sex acts.

Rare STD on increase in Europe and USA

British health authorities have warned that the number of cases of a rare sexually transmitted disease (STD) that began showing up among homosexual men last year is growing in London’s homosexual and bisexual community.

Lymphogranuloma venereum, or LGV, began showing up a year ago in The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Sweden and the UK. In the Netherlands 92 cases of LGV had been uncovered by early November 2004, with cases dating back to 2003. It typically sees fewer than five cases per year. Now 24 cases of the disease have been confirmed in England, all in homosexual men or bisexuals. The disease is passed on via unprotected oral or anal sex.

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The link between porn and child abuse

Press Release: 11 February 2005
THE LINK BETWEEN PORN AND CHILD ABUSE

Ms Marie Dyhrberg, the lawyer acting for a Scout leader, Andrew John Pybus, 32, who was convicted of sexually abusing two boys, one under 12 and one under 16 years, is reported in the Dominion Post (9/2/05;NZPA report) as having stated outside the Court that "she did not believe there was a definite link between watching porn and child abuse," despite acknowledging that Pybus and fellow Scout leader, Nigel Richard Fenemor, 48, who was convicted of similar offences, "had watched porn before some of the offending." She added: "One can be interested in pornography and not necessarily act it out. It may be more likely that if one is acting it out, then one is also attracted to pornography." The Society finds these simplistic comments, that effectively downplay the well-established link between the use of pornography by child abusers and potential abusers, and its influence on their actual offending, demonstrate a lack of common sense and ignorance of the facts. A recent Department of Internal Affairs report shows that there is a very high correlation (link) between persons convicted of possession of child porn and their sexual offending against children (see internet link Reference 1).

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High Court Rules Against President of Board Re Irreversible

On 26 August 2004, in the Wellington High Court, the Society, represented by Wellington barrister Mr Lance Pratley, challenged the decision of the president of the Film and Literature Board of Review, Ms Claudia Esther Elliott, dated 17 August 2004, not to grant an interim restriction order against the French film “Irreversible” which features a nine minute anal rape scene of a woman by a drug-crazed homosexual. The plaintiff (the Society) submitted that the president’s decision contained five errors of law. In his judgment dated 27 August 2004 the Hon. Justice MacKenzie upheld two of the grounds advanced by the Society and ordered Ms Elliott (the first defendant to reconsider her decision in the light of the Court’s findings. To read the complete High Court judgment of A D MacKenzie J read on below.
In response to the High Court judgment made by A D MacKenzie J dated 27 August 2004, the president of the Film and Literature Board of Review, Ms Claudia Esther Elliott (the first defendant) issued a third decision dated 30 August 2004, relating to the interim restriction order sought by the Society with respect to the film “Irreversible”. Her decision delays the matter of resolving the application for an order yet further, by seeking submissions from the three parties to the High Court judicial review, with a deadline for submissions set at noon Wednesday 1 September 2004. The Society has communicated to the president its strong objections, through its solicitor, to the delaying tactics she has employed, and pointed out that there is no legal basis for her seeking yet further submissions from the parties. To see the president’s decision and our solicitor’s letter read below.

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A Curious Case of Censorship Collusion

The film "Baise-Moi" came to be classified prior to its mainstream cinema release in NZ by a route which suggests a "curious case of censorship collusion" involving the importer/ ‘distributor’, Chief Censor Mr Bill Hastings and the CEO of the FVLB Mr Bill Hood. This curious case of apparent collusion involving a NZ film distributor and the heads of two supposedly independent statutory censorship authorities - Mr Bill Hastings and Mr Bill Hood - raises serious questions about the robustness and independence of our NZ censorship system.

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The link between homosexuality and child sex abuse

"The link between homosexuality and child sex abuse" is the title of a report in the latest issue of LIGHT (August-October 2004) published by Festival of Light, Australia [see Special note below]. In answer to the question: "Is there any evidence that homosexuals have a greater risk of being a paedophile?" it states:

The risk is well-documented. The May 2004 report on child sex abuse in the Adelaide Anglican church by former SA Supreme Court judge Hon Trevor Olsson and child protection expert Dr Donna Chung noted that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys have been sexually abused - i.e. 60% of victims are girls [ref. 1].

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Government Censorship Bill on Objectionable Content Has Problems

Media Release 13 May 2004

The Society presented its concerns today to the Government and Administration Committee over the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Amendment Bill - a Government Bill. Society president Mike Petrus, who attended, says:

"The Society has consistently opposed moves to alter the Films, Videos and Publications Classification Act ("the Act") in any way that would allow so-called "hate speech" to be smuggled into censorship law as an additional jurisdictional "gateway" in s. 3(1) of the Act. We are concerned that this option, which is opposed by the Ministry of Justice, could open up the censorship laws as a potential vehicle to suppress the dissemination of information and opinion.

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Campaign to Change TV Adult Only "Watershed" to 9.30 p.m.

Press Release 5 August 2005

Campaign to Change TV Adult Only "Watershed" to 9.30 p.m.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0508/S00073.htm

The Society is supporting a national Campaign to have the "watershed" time for the broadcasting of Adults Only (AO) television programmes moved from 8.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. It is calling on the public to make this an election issue by contacting their local MPs and urging them to get their respective parties to make a public commitment to the time change, as part of their election policy.

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