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JOURNAL the new Adult’s Only Retailing in Australia erosISSUE 3 | 2016 How banks deal with the adult industry Inside Dr Paul Maginn University of WA Eros General Manager Putting adult businesses Rachel Payne on the map Wrapping Up The Year Victorian MP Eros Consultant and Author Fiona Patten Robbie Swan The Latest From Parliament Banking on Discrimination 2 the new eros journal contents 4 Sponsors 5 The Latest from the Eros Association 8 A Word from the President 10 How The Banks Discriminate Against The Adult Industry 14 Employment Contracts - Why Are They Necessary? 18 Victim Blaming 101 - Radical Feminists Say Pole Dancing “Normalises Violence” 22 Why I Like To Suck Cock - A Feminist Pornographers Perspective 24 Prop 60 Defeated 26 Dawn of the Sexbots 30 Wont Somebody Think of the Children? Gonzo Puts Teens in Conversation with Porn Stars 32 Vaping and Public Policy 34 Legislation Surrounding E-Cigarettes and Vaporisers 36 Become a Member of Eros Association 40 How To Make Social Media Work For Your Business 42 Porn Panic! Don’t Under Estimate It 46 The Most Explicit Book Ever Classified - Part 3 50 Geographies of Pornography 56 Online Security 62 Bodypolitics with Fiona Patten 66 Eros Designer Snapped Up By Big Business 68 Drug Testing Kits 70 Around The Traps Executive producer: Art Director: Contributing Editors: 74 Product Reviews The Eros Association Board Ilia Chidzey Nick Wallis Joel Murray Managing Editor: Editor: Cyndi Darnell Rachel Payne Robbie Swan Eva Sless For advertising and further information contact [email protected] Box 23237 Docklands VIC 8012 | www.eros.org.au ©Eros Association 2016 3 Sponsors Eros would like Platinum to thank all of the sponsors for their ongoing support, without which this Journal and the success of the Gold Association itself would not be possible. Silver com Bronze 4 the new eros journal The Latest from the Eros Association By Rachel Payne Can you believe the year It has also been humbling to receive to make this website work for you. international attention, with many is almost over? For some overseas contributors and manufacturers When it has come to campaigns, taking interest in the publication. This is we have had some movement of the of us, the end of this year the third edition and it continues to grow classification front; appearing before in popularity and substance with each cannot come fast enough a senate committee, media airplay, release. I think it is incredibly important and meeting with the Department of to have a professional publication and for others it has been Communications who were interested representing the industry and something in a less-adversarial approach by that we can all enjoy and benefit from. highly invigorating. Whatever working with the industry in reviewing position you take, it must The re-launch of the website has taken the X-classification. I recently appeared some time, however I feel the end on a C31 program ‘The Leak” to discuss be agreed that 2016 has result has been well worth it. Making the stifled and archaic state of the sure online resources are available to classification system as it stands. What definitely been an eventful members in an easy to follow format I find most interesting is when you start and retrieval has been the priority. The to relay the classification system to the year. aim was to keep the website clean and general public (and journalists for that concise, with key points of entry: the matter) there is an overwhelming sense directory, member’s services, media and of bemusement - that it is still illegal to To wrap up what we have accomplished advocacy and latest news. Content has sell X-Rated films: acts of consensual in 2016: been well thought out to accommodate non-violent erotica. I can almost see the On a tangible level, we have seen the the specific needs and requirements of penny drop - but it’s online? re-launch of both the publication and the members, and we continue to develop I feel that it is important to keep pushing website. more specific content based on member the envelope with the Department of feedback and queries received in the The New Eros Journal has been Communications in moving forward with office. The next development is to take extremely well received amongst industry the laws surrounding the X-classification, the website one step further and provide professionals and advocates alike. I especially when you consider the members with online training services, am so pleased to hear the positive emerging technologies and the and opportunities for engagement responses of members who have subsequent demands of consumers. In through online forums, both with other enjoyed the content and an opportunity the UK (where it is legal to sell X-Rated members and the Eros office. I welcome to see the latest products advertised. material) consumers are moving away your feedback on content, and how best from DVD’s to buying porn on a lockable 5 USB. Consider this, you go into your been rejected by professionals across The Eros Association is taking this matter local adult store and you can pick a almost all sectors, and rightly so, as very seriously and creating a positive number of titles from a viewing kiosk it has become understood that the and informative campaign around (much like what we see with movie very nature of porn stipulates consent counteracting these arguments. Watch kiosk in a shopping centre). With a between adults. This separation needs this space in 2017. simple transaction, you are provided to be clear if we are going to have with a lockable USB containing all of any meaningful discussion about your purchased titles. These number pornography and its place in society. Finally, I would like to congratulate Eros sequenced locks are something similar members and contributors who received to a bike lock. Simple, safe and secure. What is troubling however, awards at the Australian Adult Industry Although there is so much content Awards. Keith Boswell of Be Daring won online, there is still a demand for is the evidence used to best chain of adult retail stores, best content offline. Consumers like the idea adult podcast winners Eva Sless and of going and picking a title, not having emphasise what some Angelo D’Costa for LLF, and finally material on their computer drives or call the harmful effects Club X for best retail stores. It was a fun in their search history, and having night had by all and I was so happy to be something secure to reduce the risk of of pornography - that 88 there to wish you all my congratulations. minors getting into it. It also encourages ethical consumption of porn as the percent of porn depicts material would be classified, sold in I look forward to seeing member’s at an age-restricted premises, and the aggression, overwhelmingly the Member’s Meeting, hosted at Sexpo consumer is paying for it! Maybe one on Friday 25 November 2016, and for day this could become a reality here in towards women. These those who are unable to attend I will be Australia too. figures are undoubtedly recording the meeting for all of you to access. Speaking of porn, it has been getting some media attention yet again. damaging and outright Articles for and against are going viral incorrect, however continue Another year almost over and all the best online, Toowoomba is trying to ban it, for the new year. and conversations of ‘critical thinking’, to be used to substantiate ‘ethical porn’ and ‘feminist porn’ I look forward to working with you all in have become common rhetoric in the these fallacies. It has to be 2017 debate. questioned whether this I recently had the opportunity to be a panelist at a Q & A discussion on ‘the research is at all meaningful proliferation of porn’. Other panelists included ABC reporter Madeleine when you consider that out Morris, medical practitioner and of the plethora of evidence relationship therapist Dr Anita Elias, project coordinator of Reality & Risk: that has been collected over Pornography, young people and sexuality Maree Crabbe and RMIT the last 40 years, no figure University research fellow Anastasia Powell. The diversity of both the panel even close to this has been and the sell-out crowd of a hundred reported. Something that invited a lively debate, with questions and comments emphasising both should ring all the alarm the positive and negative nature of porn. One thing that we all agreed on bells is who is behind this however, was that porn is not going away. particular research - anti- Interesting was again the rhetoric that pornographers and religious is becoming commonplace in these discussions. Terms such as ‘revenge institutions. porn’ and ‘child pornography’ have 6 the new eros journal 7 The Land of the Free, of the Brave, and Trump Casinos, Are You Ready to Go Back in Time ? A Word from the President If you were to travel back in time to They felt they had a duty and a mandate Everyone had their turn. the 1980’s, and then again in the early to wind back the influence of what they This is one of the reasons why I 2000’s, you would find every adult considered the underbelly of American personally, have much respect for the industry supplier in the USA would have society. old-school industry guys & girls past somewhat of an unusual welcome for and present. People like Susan Colvin you at their offices or place of work. Yet these people, most of them that we know, were running legitimate (Calex Novelties), Ron Braveman (Doc And it’s not what you think…… businesses, employing thousands Johnson), Elliot Schwartz (Nasstoys) and Steve Orenstein (Wicked Pictures & A trophy cabinet? A fine piece of art? of Americans, paying their taxes Sensual Care Products) are just some of Their latest wiz-bang product or a and contributed positively to their the few that have survived and proud patriotic portrait of their beloved communities.