Latest child abuse book removed but others remain [trigger warning for survivors of child sexual assault] After a global protest and threats of boycott, on-line bookseller Amazon removed The Pedophile’s Guide to Love & Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct from its site yesterday. The book endorses sexual crimes against children. The E. book by […]
Save the alarm for the real sexualised and exploitative images of children Is this photo comparable to these? Last week I was asked to comment on photos of little boys, described as reminiscent of the Bill Henson exhibition which included naked young girls and attracted significant controversy in 2008. There was now a “row” over the […]
Transcript of ABC’s Q&A in which precious minutes are wasted as I try to explain the term ‘skanky hos’ Melinda Tankard Reist: What would have been controversial would have been if Tony Abbott had said: “I want my daughters to be skanky hos.” Then you might have had a controversy. Satyajit Das: Sorry, what is […]
It was a remarkable case of playing fast and loose with the truth – even by the standards of the Australian Sex Party (ASP). Kids Free 2B Kids expose on ‘pseudo’ child pornography flooding corner stores, milkbars and petrol stations (including 7-Eleven and McDonald’s-Fuelzone) was turned into a claim that Australia had banned small breasted women in pornography. This […]
Clive Hamilton has written a commendable piece about the way artistic men who commit sexual crimes are considered above the law and deserving of special treatment. I’ve been thinking a lot about this since a piece in The Australian last week defending Roman Polanski who was just so clever and such a wonderful person and […]
The Government announced this week plans to introduce legislation for mandatory filtering of the internet at Internet Service Provider (ISP level). This of course brought out all those who want no restrictions to the internet, arguing that the plans will mean we’ll end up living in a place like North Korea and controlled by the […]
