Steve Crow and salacious, sordid, tawdry and boring porn sleaze (Erotica Expo) versus Triumphs of human imagination that "raise the human spirit" (World of Wearable Art).

Editorial: A sight to raise the human spirit (The Dominion Post Last 26/09/2009)

OPINION: Two impresarios featured in the news this week: [Stephen Peter Crow and Suzie Moncrieff] 

One panders to salacious instincts; the other lifts the human spirit. One is pornographer Steve Crow, the other is World of WearableArt founder Suzie Moncrieff. No prizes for guessing which is which.

Fortunately for Wellington, Mr Crow chose Auckland for his latest Boobs on Bikes parade a publicity stunt that no longer even has the virtue of being novel. Read more

ASB Showgrounds host Porn Promo Sleaze and Steve Crow’s Insolvent Erotica Expo

The Society has raised serious concerns directly with ASB Showgrounds CEO Mark Frankham and his management team over their decision to allow the venue to be hired by an insolvent hardcore porn promo company – Erotica Expo Ltd – that was placed into liquidation on 27 May 2009 under the name Malibu Media Ltd. In a hostile move designed to stiffle freedom of expression, its former director Porn King Steve Crow threatens to throw any person out of the porn sleaze ASB venue who dares to record any image using a camera, video or pxt phone; and threatens to strip them of any electronic device film/memory card, should such images be recorded. The Society’s letter has yet to be answered by the management board which the Society has been informed has met to consider its concerns and will do so again on Monday next week. Management will be aware that it is a serious breach of the Companies Act 1993 for a company director to attempt to carry on trading when his company is in liquidation and/or use the name of an unregistered company for the purposes of trading. The Society’s letter to ASB Showground management is set out below.

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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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Shameful Decision by Judge Kevin Phillips in Bondage/Sadomasochism Dungeon case involving the scarification of teenage girls by Mr "Dragon"

The Society is appalled that a Christchurch District Court Judge has only sentenced Richard Jeffrey Barker, 52, to nine months home detention and reparation payments, for scarring two teenage girls, aged 15 and 17, during bondage and discipline sessions involving “blood play” – staged in a specially built “bondage/sadomasochism” facility in a Linwood house. The girls wore leather bras and knickers and gothic-style dresses at the time of the offences and candles and horror movies were part of the dungeon scene. The judge found that the 17-year-old had taken party pills and nitrous oxide at the house.

On 25 November Barker was convicted by Judge Kevin Phillips of “wounding” both girls “with intent to injure” and was required to pay $5,000 to each of his victims by December 20, 2008. The court was told that the scarring by the use of a scalpel had had a serious impact on both victims and the reparation payments were to be made for the emotional harm caused to the children.  Barker says he met the girls through friends and daughters of friends in Christchurch’s bondage, discipline and sado-masochism scene (BDSM).

In one incident on January 2, 2007, a 15-year-old girl was chained with her arms outstretched while Barker used a scalpel to design a dragon cut into her shoulder.

In another incident on December 20, 2006, a 17-year old teenage girl in a leather corset was chained up while Barker, flogged her with a “cat of many tails” whip. According to the NZ Herald, she was “suspended” standing with her arms outstretched between two loops of rope while Barker cut the first lines of a “corset”, from her waist and up between the girl’s breasts. He then made cuts on the girl’s wrists and showed her how to smear the blood on a large mirror with her arms outstretched to create a “blood angel”, a gothic reflection of the snow angels children make on winter days.

Barker claimed all the scarification was strictly consensual, the practice was merely a “hobby” he engaged in and that he had no sexual contact with the girls. The police laid four charges for sexual indecencies against Barker but the Judge dismissed all of these. However, he did note that there had been offending by Barker for dishonesty in 1985, convictions for drug offences in 1995 and indecency convictions in 1996.

The Press reported that Barker’s “Lindwood house bondage playland” had several “themed rooms”, including a “medical” room with a surgeon’s table and dental chair and a “dungeon” with a rack for tying up people.

The Society is outraged at the failure of Judge Phillips to issue a sentence commensurate with the gravity of Barker’s offending and one that will send a much clearer signal that society will not tolerate or deal leniantly with adults who intentionally injure and wound our precious young persons, or who inflict emotional harm on them and morally corrupt them through any activities involving sexual perversions such as sadomasochism, etc. (It is noteworthy that our censorship laws recognise that children and young people, as well as adults, can suffer serious harm when exposed to publications containing sexual violence and other objectionable content).

In justifyng the sentencing he imposed on Barker, Judge Phillips stated:

“Young people need to be protected not only from themselves but from situations where someone of more maturity can take inappropriate decisions for them.”

The Society finds these PC-weasel words (“inappropriate decisions”) offensive, given the circumstances. It believes Judges have a statutory and moral duty to address the true nature of the crimes committed against young people by those who manipulate young people, wound them with the ntent to injure, and have a history of committing sexual indecencies against children.

The court impact reports relating to the two victims revealed that one girl had been scarred physically, mentally and emotionally and suffered depression, anxiety, paranoia and panic attacks. The other suffered shame and fear and was on anti-psychotic medication.

Christchurch parents with young girls can sleep tight in the knowledge that Barker is not currently living at the house where the sick “bondage/sadomasochism” dungeon – now dismantled – was built. If they loitter in the streets near Barker’s present abode, they can be assured that he will not have exactly the same “playland” fitted out with chains and torture racks used in his recent offences, to lure them into. One hopes he is not busy building a new playland for sadomasochism for consenting adults while on home detention. In nine months time it could well be business as usual except that having learnt an important ‘lesson’ from the wise Judge Phillips – that his female clients will need to be 18 years of age or older and his racks a little longer to accomodate older and longer legged-clients.

One outspoken Member of Parliament for children’s ‘rights’ Green Party MP Sue Bradford would have no problems with this playland arrangement. She has stated:

“Personally, I have no problem with sadomasochism carried out between consenting adults using safe sex practices – what I do have a problem with is a legacy of hidden sexual violence practised on children and young people under a mantle of so-called discipline.”

http://www.greens.org.nz/searchdocs/speech10204.html

The Society would like to know why an MP would choose to publicly condone sadomasochism – a sexual perversion that fosters sexual gratification derived from so-called fantasy/horror violence and why Judge Kevin Phillips has issued such a shameful decision that fails to properly address the gravity of the offences committed by Barker.

It has been reported that Barker intends to appeal against Judge Phillip’s decision.

References:

Linwood house bondage playland

Ian Steward – The Press

Wednesday, 03 September 2008

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4678612a6009.html 

Man who cut girls denies guilt

The Press

Wednesday, 26 November 2008

http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4772632a6009.html

 

 

 

 

30 South Australian lesbian mums ‘impregnated by same man’

Adelaide Advertiser Story. October 08, 2008

by Tory Shepherd , Health Reporter

UNREGULATED sperm donation is leading to unusual situations in which the children of lesbians in Adelaide are mixing socially – creating a risk of incest.

One of South Australia’s foremost experts in reproductive technology – Reverend Dr Andrew Dutney – says that in one reported case, about 30 lesbians were impregnated by sperm from one man.

The mothers then organised picnics with all the children, raising the fear they might socialise with their half-siblings without realising they are related.

In another case, a man’s sperm was used to produce 29 children, most of whom are living in Adelaide. They do not know who their half-siblings are, raising concerns that in a “big country town” like Adelaide, they could accidentally commit incest.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24465265-5006301,00.html

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Judith A. Reisman Ph.D. challenges Alfred Kinsey’s research findings.

   

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 are included in Who’s Who in America, the directory The New York Times just recently hailed as “…that venerable guide to American achievement…” Once again, we’d like to congratulate you on your accomplishments.”  Who’s Who in America

Alfred Charles Kinsey (1894 – 1956), was an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology who in 1947 founded the Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University, now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. Kinsey’s research on human sexuality profoundly influenced social and cultural values in the United States and many other countries which went through the sexual revolution starting in the 1960s.

He is best known for his two controversial, very popular and widely influential publications Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948, reprinted 1998) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953, reprinted 1998).

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Documentary A Revealing Expose of the Adult Entertainment: on-line streaming video preview

Check 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 arousal tool for consenting adults? Should porn be used to treat sexual dysfunction? The film explores possible answers to these hard questions, providing an unexpected conclusion.” J.A. Reisman.

SYNOPSIS by Dr Judith A Reisman 

A fresh social and political look at the $57 billion-a-year Adult Entertainment Industry and its affects on 3 subjects who agree to view porn 1 hour a day for 30 days.

Shady strip club owners, angry strippers, crass porn stars, top-of-their-game experts and 3 unknowing subjects hammer out an uncomfortable look into the soul of the porn biz.  Director, Lance Tracy, IMDB (Best Director, NY International Film & Video Festival, 5-Telly winner) maturely balances humor, shocking honesty, science and entertainment.

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Large Increase in Porn DVD Sales Indicates Growing Pornography Addiction

By 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 reported a marked increase in sales of DVD’s for home adult entertainment. California-based Adult Video News predicted revenue of US$12.6-billion this year for the industry. Of that number, US$4.28-billion is predicted from sales and rentals of porn DVD’s, even though the price of a porn film has dropped 20% in the last year–to less than US$50.

The report offers no reason for the increase in sales and the growth of the industry overall, although some retailers of the products have suggested the increase is due to growing social acceptance of adult sexual entertainment.

That ’social acceptance’ is in fact a rapidly growing addiction to pornographic material within mainstream society, according to researchers and therapists who work in the field of sexual dysfunction.

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