Auckland researchers have been awarded almost $800,000 to study pornography. The $790,000 study by Auckland University staff will look at how it affects viewers and its impact on society. The research will include studies on young men and women, an art exhibition, an interactive website and a public symposium. The project is one of 88 [...]
The Hamilton City Council has turned down an approach by the organisers of the Erotica Lifestyles Expo to hold the event at Claudelands next March. [The expo was to be run by Esprit Events Ltd, directed by John Malcolm Carr and owned by CVC Group Ltd - also owned by Mr John M Carr] . The Strategy [...]
There were 20,900 marriages in New Zealand last year, compared to 338 civil unions. According to Statistics New Zealand, 273 Kiwi couples legalised their relationship in a civil union, of which 73 per cent [199] were same-sex. A further 65 civil unions were registeted to overseas residents. The 199 same-sex civil unions entered into by [...]
Family First NZ, a registered charity with the Charities Commission, has issued a media release today, calling on Hamilton Councillors to refuse an application t0 stage a Sex Expo, promoting hardcore pornography, in council-owned buildings. Family First NZ Media Release 18 November: Hamilton Councillors Should Reject Sex Expo Family First NZ is calling on Hamilton Councillors [...]
by Tracey Cooper. Waikato Times 13 October 2011 Revelations that a New York artist is about to give birth in front of a live audience as part of her new installation The Birth of Baby X makes you wonder. The New York Post has dubbed Marni Kotak “the Preggo Performer”, but the performance artist hopes [...]
Child-sex offenders in spotlight as National focuses on law and order A SECOND-TERM National government will keep high-risk sex offenders behind bars indefinitely and may double the penalty for child-porn offences. Prime Minister John Key and Police and Corrections Minister Judith Collins announced the tough law-and-order policies in New Plymouth yesterday. Offenders who served their [...]
Paedophile may remain a risk The Crown is having second thoughts about its decision not to seek an open-ended preventive detention sentence for a 39-year old man [name removed] who disclosed more sex offences involving children, while he was undergoing treatment in prison. He disclosed 16 sex charges against eight young girls while doing the Kia Marama [...]
Parents have every right to be upset with the current sex education curriculum in our schools – most of it delivered by Government-funded groups. Judging by the results of the current approach, it has been an utter failure. New Zealand has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the OECD, our STD rates are [...]
Family First NZ. a registered charity with the Charities Commission, is calling on the NZ Commissioner of Police to ban a scheduled Auckland City “Boobs on Bikes” parade that promotes the hardcore pornography businesses owned by CVC Group Ltd and its daughter company Eden Digital Ltd, both directed by John M Carr CPA, a “business partner” of [...]
In its media release today, Family First NZ, a registered charity with the Charities Commission, is calling on Telecom NZ to donate its aborted “corny” rugby world cup promo abstinence campaign – to the New Zealand Family Planning Association Inc. (FPA) to be used in its nationwide school sex education programmes. The FPA was registered as a charity [...]
On 5 June 2011 the NZ Herald reported that banned company director Steve Crow – recently convicted and sentenced in the Auckland District Court for breaching his banning order - is now promoting a new web-based business: an escort agency (prostitution) - NZXescorts (Crow was sentenced and fined $5,000 plus court costs. He changed his plea to “guilty” after initially pleading “not guilty”). However, the [...]
NZ Escort Directory Launched Source: Story by Frances Morton. June 5, nzherald.co.nz One week after pleading guilty to directing a company while banned, porn magnate Steve Crow has announced a new business venture. [Crow is listed as a "disqualified director" on the Companies Office website www.companies.govt.nz - banned for four years under s. 385 of the Companies [...]
The Dominion Post reports today: “[Stephen Peter] Crow, who is desperate not to carry a conviction as it would bar him from entering the United States where much of his pornography is obtained: said “I plead not guilty” [before Judge Russell Johnson in the Auckland District Court yesterday]. Crow’s “not guilty” plea was entered in relation [...]
Pornography, Public Morality and Consitutional Rights: PUBLIC DISCOURSE
Pornography, Public Morality and Consitutional Rights An essay by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and editorial board member of Public Discourse This essay, published 17 October 2011, is adapted from remarks he delivered earlier this month at a conference honoring John Finnis at the University of Notre Dame. Copyright 2011 The Witherspoon [...]