ASB Showgrounds, Erotica Expo Ltd in Liquidation & Role of Porn King Steve Crow

The ASB Showgrounds in Auckland has allowed a failed hardcore porn company that has been declared insolvent and consequently placed into liquidation on 27 May 2009, to organise a three-day porn promotion sleaze event where all cameras, videos and ptx phones are banned.

(see: http://www.bvents.com/event/166191-erotica-lifestyles-expo ).

Any person[s] found within the venue taking video or still images will immediately be thrown out from the porn fest says big boss Porn King Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow) and all images recorded will be forcibly removed.

The Society is asking: Why has ASB Showgrounds management allowed a company in liquidation to enter into such an arrangement? Some media commentators predict it will attract no more than a few hundred people with a sexual dysfunction or those seeking titillation from porn sleaze and extravagantly priced sex toys or seeking AIDS for the impotent or promiscuous. 

Liquidator, Lloyd Hayward of Accountants Meltzer Mason and Heath, in his report dated 3 June 2009 and available on the Companies website, states that Malibu Media Ltd (In Liq) (formerly Erotica Expo Ltd) owes unsecured creditors and shareholders $145,665 and $18,649 to IRD. He reports that the company Steve Crow directed failed mainly because of very poor attendances at the most recent Erotica Lifestyles Expos held in Wellington and Christchurch (see Co. No. 1275425 www.companies.govt.nz). These debts together with those of three other porn companies that were directed by Steve Crow, all of which have been placed into liquidation, amount to over 1.3 million dollars. The Liquidator has confirmed that there is nothing left for creditors.

Currently there is no registered company by the name “Erotica Expo Ltd”. Crow changed the name of the company he directed – Erotica Expo Ltd (Co. No.1275425) – to Malibu Media Ltd, on 1 May 2009, one month before it was placed in liquidation; no doubt to try and hide the financial failure being linked to the brand name “Erotica Expo Ltd” which he continues to use in breach of the Companies Act 1993.

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HIV epidemic and NZAF – a flawed crock

Press Release 5/11/07

The Society is concerned that despite millions of dollars of taxpayer funds having been poured into the NZ AIDS Foundation (NZAF) each year, the numbers of new HIV infections diagnosed each year among “men-who-have-sex-with-men” (homosexuals and bisexuals) is continuing to rocket upwards, along with other nasty sexually transmitted diseases – syphilis, gonorrhoea, genital clamydia and genital herpes. It is highly critical of the way Ministry of Health officials and politicians have allowed this absolute crock – the tiny fringe self-serving gay lobby group NZAF – to have access to so much public money to run such a flawed and largely ineffective “men’s health programme”[1]. Read more

Society says HIV must be classified as "Notifiable Disease"

Media Report 31 October 2007

The Society belives that HIV (the ‘pre-cursor’ of the “scourge of AIDS”) should be classified as a “notifiable disease” under the Health (Infections and Notifiable Diseases) Regulations 1966. AIDS is currently a “notifiable disease” and the Society challenges the NZ Aids Foundation (NZAF) and Gay political lobby groups like GayNZ.com to support its call. Sadly, despite significant taxpayer funding, NZAF, which has been plagued by ongoing political, financial and leadership strife and instability, has failed to avert the rapid rise in HIV infections in New Zealand (infections are overwhelmingly among the homosexual community whose lifestyle it and GayNZ.com succour and champion). Read more

HIV infections in gay ‘bareback’ porn shoots

Media Release 29/10/07

The Society has highlighted criticisms of the Chief Censor’s Office by Steve Crow, the leading distributor of straight porn in New Zealand, regarding its “double standards” in the classification of hardcore gay porn compared to straight porn [1]. Why, asks Crow, has Chief Censor Bill Hastings, an “openly gay man,” gone so soft on gay porn – particularly so-called ‘bareback porn’ – that has been linked with the rise in HIV infection and STIs among the promiscuous homosexual community? The Society, a staunch opponent of Crow’s porn business, believes his concerns do deserve serious investigation by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. Rick Barker. Crow states that “perhaps this ["double-standards"] is a direct reflection of the personal attitudes of the Chief and Deputy Chief Censor [Ms Nicola McCully], both of whom are gay.” [2]

The proliferation of bareback DVDs and videos available for viewing in steamy gay bathhouses, saunas, cruise clubs and sordid S&M clubs, is of serious concern to health experts such as New Zealand AIDS Foundation’s National Campaign Co-ordinator Douglas Jenkin. He says ready access by promiscuous homosexuals to these publications – featuring high risk (condomless-bareback) explicit sex acts – is one of the many factors cited as a reason behind recent increases in HIV infection and the return of the STIs (e.g. syphilis, gonorrhoea) among the homosexual community. [3] Bill Hastings claims he shares these concerns but has done nothing.

According to a recent report [4] in UK magazine Boyz, three young male performers aged 18, 21 and 26, were infected with HIV whilst they were making a British bareback gay porn film. Read more