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EROS Association
The Eros Association Inc is Australia's national adult retail and entertainment association. We function in the same way as other peak industry groups like the Pharmacy Guild or the Motor Traders Association in that we unify our members, lobby government and run a professional and ongoing public relations campaign.
Established in 1992, Eros is the longest serving adult industry group in Australia and we have earned a reputation for integrity and professionalism in our activities. We seek to bring logical and popular perspectives to love and sex rather than moral or religious ones. 'Make love not war' is the philosophy that we bring to our political debates.
Although issues of sex, morality and the law are found throughout the site, it is not intended for titillation but rather for information and education.
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Deception
At Federal, State and local government level, people with religious agendas are deceiving our politicians over the effects of sexually explicit material and sexual lifestyles. Whenever an adult bookshop makes an application to open in Australia, religious groups immediately lodge complaints about the negative effects this will cause to the community. They present no formal research, no scientific evidence and no facts to back their assertions. And yet time after time, local governments buckle to these fraudulent claims and either refuse a development application or force the applicants to disprove the assertions in costly legal proceedings.
And yet the real story of who it is in our community that is a danger to children and to the moral welfare of the state, reveals that it is none other than the ‘finger-pointers’ themselves. No other profession features in child sexual abuse statistics to anywhere near the extent that church clergy and their backers do. Their response to increasing criticism on the issue is to point the finger at the sex industry in an attempt to shift their guilt and shame
'Sex crimes and sexual depravity will naturally be found in an industry that deals in sex', they argue. So whenever prostitution or censorship law reform is on the agenda, Bishops, Cardinals, suburban and country priests all step forward to condemn those working in the sex industry as immoral and perverse. Politicians continue to bow to the church's so-called 'moral authority' and turn a blind eye to the real facts about child sexual abuse.
How strange it is then that not one adult bookshop owner, prostitute or so-called pornographer appears to have ever been convicted of a child sexual assault in Australia. Not even one. And yet church clergy are represented in the hundreds.
Clearly there is something about the nature of the sex industry that diminishes child sexual abuse and there is something about religious culture that encourages it.
The job ahead for our legislators and community leaders is to conduct a formal enquiry to determine just what this 'something' is. At an individual level, we all need to be aware of the deception that is put forward as fact and rebut it when we see it. This site is offered by the adult industry as an educational tool to achieve this.
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Community Action Against Homophobia
Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) organises a grass-roots movement to fight homophobia, transphobia gender oppression and other human rights abuses. CAAH helps change society for the better through organising rallies, petitions, stalls and other collective activity.
We need you to get involved! This society is homophobic and transphobic, and this makes things unpleasant for everyone. Youth suicides, work place discrimination, suffering hate-crimes on the streets, being relegated second-class citizens through homophobic laws, are reasons why people get involved with CAAH.
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Delayed Climax
Sex Ed with a difference. This blog aims to keep its readers informed about current news relating to Sexology. It is a way for professionals, students and the wider public to be up-to-date within 5 minutes.
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