How does that song go? You can't keep a good arthropod down... something like that, anyway after the ludicrously over-stated hyperbolic Australian banning of The Human Centipede 2 AFTER being released with an R18+ rating no less, the film is back to shock and torment in equal measure! The official Monster Pictures press release just came through the pipeline and had this to say.

Monster Pictures are delighted to announce that THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2: FULL SEQUENCE has been resubmitted to the Australian Government Classification Board and has again been granted an R 18 + certificate with consumer advice that warns 'High impact themes, violence and sexual violence'.

The film has been modified by thirty seconds, these modifications were done with the utmost care so as to not damage the integrity of the film - we are absolutely confident that this is the case.

Monster Pictures feels that this decision highlights the absurdity of Classification Review Board's decision to ban the film in the first place.

That is certainly true, to put local distributors through such rigmarole can only do harm to our industry here, after this and A Serbian Film, which will NEVER be back, we can only hope the classification board have learned something. The press release continues...

Canberrans have some of the broadest sexual preferences in the country, a new survey has revealed.

Early results from the Great Australian Sex Census indicate Canberrans find all manner of professions ''sexy''.

Canberrans bucked the national trend of rating medical staff the sexiest profession, instead preferring a romp with those that work in the entertainment and sport sector (11.3 per cent).

The large number of universities in Canberra helped rank students as third-sexiest occupation (7.5per cent), equal with emergency services personnel.

In a coup for lab geeks, workers within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields are more likely to find love in the capital, polling 2.5 per cent - the highest of any jurisdiction in Australia.

Other standout areas for the ACT was support for gay marriage (65per cent).

Canberra men will be disappointed to learn they are the least endowed. But Australian Sex Party leader Fiona Patten defended the territory's manhood and put the figures down to integrity rather than deficiency.

''I think we have to say that Canberra men are more honest and don't exaggerate as much,'' Ms Patten said.

The government continues its policy that's demonstrably failed, ROSS FITZGERALD writes

One of the interesting side- effects of the Federal Parliament's obsession with immigration and taxation issues this year has been that serious discussion of social policy has been sadly neglected. Especially around drugs. It's been about 40 years since marijuana, LSD and heroin made their way into Australian society and about 30 years for cocaine and ecstasy. Methamphetamine has been with us for a little more than 15 years and in the past couple of years we've started to see the advent of synthetic analogue drugs such as Kronic.

Three inescapable facts arise from the most cursory review of Australian drug policy since the late 1960s. The first is that governments continue to rely almost exclusively on the ''tough on drugs'' strategy. Secondly, drug use continues to escalate despite the ''tough on drugs'' strategy - or rather, because of it. Thirdly, while tobacco and alcohol are demonstrably the most dangerous drugs, governments still treat them far more leniently than others.

None of this makes any sense at all. If the road toll continued to rise over 40 years despite new speed limits, more traffic cops and speed cameras, would legislators continue with the strategy? Not likely. But when it comes to drugs, Australian governments cannot look any further than the United States for inspiration. They send people to jail for possessing a box of marijuana or as many ecstasy tablets as would fit in a packet of aspirin. But in effect, ''tough on drugs'' means ''devoid of any new ideas''.

Investigating the trade in sex slaves is difficult, time consuming work that needs the support of multiple police forces, Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor says.

He was speaking after the ABC Four Corners program on Monday night revealed details of how criminal gangs lure women to Australia and then force them to work as sex slaves in legal brothels in Sydney and Melbourne.

"We know that the numbers of trafficking victims in Australia remains relatively low but more needs to be done," Mr O'Connor told ABC radio on Tuesday.

There have been just over 300 assessments or investigations by the Australian Federal Police since 2004, and from that just 39 cases were sent to prosecutors and only 13 convictions were achieved, he said.

"That turns on the lack of evidence," Mr O'Connor said.

Ansell's ad for its Zero condoms featuring a couple wearing only body paint appeared on Brisbane bus shelters.

A naked couple provocatively entwined next to a packet of condoms under the headline “zero or nothing” are at the centre of another Brisbane bus shelter condom-poster controversy, this time thanks to the ad's proximity to a Catholic primary school.

Australian Christian Lobby's Wendy Francis said she was prompted to contact outdoor advertisers AdShel after driving past St Ambrose's on Kelvin Grove Road, Newmarket and seeing the poster this morning (yesterday).

Ms Francis, who unsuccessfully campaigned to have a gay safe sex ad removed from Brisbane bus shelters earlier this year, said the new poster was sexually offensive and contained no positive message about safe sex, deeming its placement across the street from the school as inappropriate.

The ACL Queensland branch director said members of the school community were distressed by the poster, and that AdShel had promised to remove the poster within an hour of receiving her complaint today.

The company attracted a fierce backlash earlier this year when it agreed to remove the 'Rip and Roll' safe sex campaign from bus shelters and billboards. Adshel went on to reverse the decision.

Ms Francis said today she was "totally opposed to this pathetic advertising".

“I cannot see why you would place this ad outside a Catholic primary school, where school children catch their bus from," she said.

“I object to the highly sexual imagery in the ad, and the poster's message – 'zero or nothing' – it's pathetic, it doesn't even have safe-sex message, and all it does is show that money matters more than our children.”

Family Planning Queensland education officer Anthony Walsh said this time he had to agree with Ms Francis's point – to a degree.

He said FPQ was generally supportive of safe-sex advertising but the Ansell campaign was deliberately provocative, and contained confused messages about sexual health.

“I don't think that this campaign [promotes safe-sex] very well,” he said. “This ad would be better placed in, or near, an adult venue – its placement outside a Catholic school is unfortunate.”

But Mr Walsh said condom manufacturers struggled to capture the attention of their consumers, and often relied on sexy images to sell their products.

The couple in the ad appear to be naked, with clothes painted on.

Amid rising rates of sexually transmitted infections in Australia, Mr Walsh said it was important to judge campaigns for condoms on their individual merits.

Latest figures from the Department of Health and Ageing show chlamydia is the most frequently reported sexually transmitted infection reported in Australian, with rates rising among men and women in the four years to 2008 along with syphilis.

Ansell was also approached for comment.

The Greens push to legalise same-sex marriage is doomed, with Tony Abbott confirming he will deny Liberal Party MPs a conscience vote on the issue, even if Labor grants its MPs a free vote.

The Opposition Leader's position, confirmed yesterday, means there is no chance that the present parliament could amend the Marriage Act, even if most Labor MPs support the change.

This is because a significant number of MPs from the Labor Right strongly oppose same-sex marriage and, if given the freedom to vote according to their conscience, would side with the Coalition.

Labor is engaged in a tense internal debate about whether to change its platform at December's national conference to endorse same-sex marriage, with the Left convinced such a move would help regain the support of former ALP voters who have switched to the Greens.

But with much of the Labor Right opposed to the idea on moral grounds, faction leaders have been pressing for the issue to be declared a conscience vote.