Pornography
« Previous EntriesPraise for Censor’s Ban on “Cradle of Filth” T-shirt
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008SPCS Press Release 1 July 2008
John Mills, President of the Society for Promotion of Community Standards Inc, (SPCS) has hailed as “bold, morally courageous and legally sound”, the classification decision issued to him today by the Chief Censor’s Office, that permanently bans a T-shirt he argued was “grossly objectionable due to its obscene content” and [...]
Detrimental impact of hardcore pornography on young people
Monday, December 24th, 2007LIVES CHANGED: The accessability of hardcore pornography is having a detrimental impact on the lives of young people in remote Australian towns and is seen as central to a sexual assault in Maningrida, east of Darwin.
AAP Friday, 21 December 2007
Posted: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4332725a12.html
Dr James Dobson Interviews Serial Rapist and Murderer Ted Bundy hours before he is executed by electrocution
Sunday, December 16th, 2007Ted Bundy explains step-by-step to clinical psychologist, Dr James Dobson, how his interest in soft-core porn led on to an addiction to hardcore porn and then on to a fascination for hard-core violent porn and how that helped fuel and crystallise his homicidal sexual fantasies leading to numerous horrific sex crimes and murders. Bundy explains [...]
Judith A. Reisman Ph.D. challenges Alfred Kinsey’s research findings.
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Dr. Reisman’s study supports the conclusion that Alfred Kinsey’s research was contrived, ideologically driven and misleading. Any judge, legislator or other public official who gives credence to that research is guilty of malpractice and dereliction of duty.” Charles E. Rice, Professor, Notre Dame Law School
“Dr. Reisman: You can be very proud that you [...]
Documentary A Revealing Expose of the Adult Entertainment: on-line streaming video preview
Saturday, December 15th, 2007Check out streaming video preview: http://www.1726entertainment.com/
A revealing documentary about the effects of porn on consumers. “An Accomplished Film” Sundance Film Festival.
“Is porn really addictive? Are children being sexually exploited? Who should teach sex education? How much of responsibility should the porn industry take to provide treatment for potentially addicted customers? Is porn a healthy sexual [...]
Large Increase in Porn DVD Sales Indicates Growing Pornography Addiction
Saturday, December 15th, 2007By Gudrun Schultz.
Researcher says porn "endogenous drug" that permanently restructures brain, mind, memory, conduct.
http://www.drjudithreisman.com/archives/2006/01/large_increase.html
UNITED STATES, December 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A significant rise in pornographic DVD sales and rentals within the United States points to a rapidly growing addiction to pornography that is going largely unacknowledged within society.
The United States’ massive porn industry has [...]
Pornography’s link to rape.
Saturday, December 15th, 2007By Dr Judith A. Reisman
http://www.drjudithreisman.com/archives/2006/09/pornographys_li.html
Would you try to put out a fire with gasoline?
No? Then you might disagree with an MSNBC online article, "Porn: Good for America !" by Glenn Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor. Reynolds suggests that pornography reduces rape!
As proof, Reynolds quotes a U.S. Department [...]
Pornography addiction and the impotence pandemic
Saturday, December 15th, 2007The Impotence Pandemic by Dr Judith A. Reisman
http://www.drjudithreisman.com/archives/2007/10/the_impotence_p_2.html
Sex therapists and pornographers have long prescribed pornography to correct male impotence and to “spice up” a couple’s sex life. However, the broader meaning of “potency” is “power, authority … a person or thing exerting power or influence.”
The proper contextual definition of modern impotence, then, is not the [...]
Chief Censor’s Annual Report on Hardcore Porn ‘Control’ Cause for Alarm
Thursday, November 15th, 2007Report 15/11/07
The latest Annual Report of the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) tabled in Parliament yesterday, raises serious issues about its use of tax-payer funds ($3,458,777 held at 30 June 2007) and its lack of disclosure regarding its classification processes, particularly in relation to its clearance of well over 1,000 degrading and gratuitous [...]
Society Applauds DIA Trialling of Blocks on Child Porn by ISPs
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007Press Release 13 November
For a number of years the Society has been suggesting that all New Zealand ISPs (Internet Service Providers) to block ALL overseas based websites that host child pornography AND hard core pornography (NZ-based websites containing “objectionable content” including child porn are illegal under NZ censorship laws). Gay rights activists, paedophiles, homosexuals wanting [...]
HIV infections in gay ‘bareback’ porn shoots
Sunday, October 28th, 2007Media 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 [...]
AIDS/HIV crisis linked to “unsafe” gay porn: Censors attacked for “double standards”
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Press Release 26/10/07
A fierce debate is raging in the homosexual community over the impact of “unsafe sex” DVDs and videos on gay men’s sexual practices (sodomy), and the appropriate censorship of this ‘bareback porn’ material [featuring condomless anal sex] that some gay researchers cite as one of the factors helping to fuel the pandemic of [...]
Minister Hon. Rick Barker Fails to Replace Lame-Duck Board Censors
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007Media Release 24/10/07
The Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. Rick Barker, has failed to replace three members of the nine-member Film and Literature Board of Review (”the Board”), whose positions expired on 31 March 2007, almost seven months ago. The Society, which has raised numerous concerns with the Minister and his predecessor, the Hon. George [...]
Chief Censor Bill Hastings and Hardcore Pornographer Steve Crow
Monday, October 22nd, 2007In a press release issued last year to explain why his Office had banned the Otago University student magazine Critic, which featured a controversial essay on drug rape, Chief Censor William Kenneth (Bill) Hastings described a male pornographer whose profile was also featured in the magazine, as one “who makes a living by filming the [...]
Chief Censor hardly fussed if “his kids” were caught watching hard-core gay porn.
Monday, October 15th, 2007“MR CLEAN: Chief Censor Bill Hastings on freedom, family and the filthiest thing he’s ever seen”.
This was the front page headline of Canvas Magazine, an insert in this weekend’s NZ Herald Herald (13/10/07), advertising a three page Cover Story entitled “The Taste Master” by Derek Cheng on “a man who daily wades through horrific scenes [...]
Minister of Justice Hon Mark Burton On Objectionable Internet Content
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007Copy of Correspondence between Minister of Justice Hon. Mark Burton and Society
On 6 September 2007 the Minister replied to the Society’s email dated 1 June 2007 (copied below) requesting basic information on steps taken by the government to control the tidal wave of objectionable content (hard core pornography, gratuitous sexual violence and graphic violence etc.) [...]
How pornography is destroying marriages and families
Friday, June 1st, 2007
The Sydney Morning Herald spent two months charting a social phenomenon that is poisoning couples and destroying families. Adele Horin reports:
The internet has brought an explosion of pornography into the home and workplace of virtually every Australian. Just a mouse-click away are images that exceed the bounds of fantasy or imagination. In 1961 the introduction [...]
Censors and Banned Porn Imports
Friday, June 1st, 2007Media Report 7 June
The Society’s investigations have determined that over a two year period BEFORE a 49-year old prominent Wellington town planner, appeared on 22 March 2007 before Wellington District Court Judge Stephen Harrop to face charges over the importation of 11 "objectionable" publications; he had embarked on a hugely expensive exercise, aided by his [...]
Prosecuting Internet Porn Purchases
Thursday, May 31st, 2007Press Release 31 May
The Society commends Wellington District Court Judge Stephen Harrop for upholding the law by charging a “prominent Wellington town planner” Robert John Schofield, 49, for importing by post via the internet, DVDs that were classified “objectionable” (Dominion Post 31/05). That decision issued on 22 March was upheld in the High Court at [...]
Society Wants Obscene ‘Police Baton’ Sex Video Approved by Chief Censor, Banned
Sunday, March 11th, 2007‘Ban baton sex video’
Sunday Star-Times
11 March 2007, A4
A COMMUNITY standards lobby group is asking for a porn video featuring police batons used as “sex toys” to be banned in light of public outrage over historic allegations against police officers.
The Society for Promotion of Community Standards has applied for leave from the chief censor to have [...]