Page 2776 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 21 November 1989
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type of behaviour that he outlined is available on X-rated videos. Such is not the case, and for Mr Stevenson to say that is the case is simply untrue. Those titles and those activities that you outlined, Mr Stevenson, are not available under X ratings. They are illegal classifications. They are just not available. This Bill does not cover those sorts of activities. X-rated videos are non-violent erotic films.
Mr Humphries: It does not make them right.
MR DUBY: Hold on. It also might bring things back to the truth of the matter in that the arguments that you also put up, Mr Humphries, do not apply to non-violent erotic films. You have listed all sorts of deviant behaviour and tried to imply that that is what the X-rated industry is all about.
Mr Humphries: X-rated videos degrade women. They all do. You cannot get away from that.
MR DUBY: I find this remarkable because this is the first time in this Assembly that I have ever heard any concern expressed by Mr Humphries about women or their rights. Once again, this is simply not the case. The ladies - the women who take - - -
Mr Humphries: They are not ladies.
MR DUBY: That may be your opinion, Mr Humphries. The women who take part in these films are very highly paid, willing, professional actresses.
Mr Humphries: Do you reckon?
MR DUBY: Well, have you any evidence to indicate anything to the contrary?
Mr Humphries: I think you are very naive, Mr Duby. You are very naive sometimes.
MR DUBY: Have you any evidence to indicate anything to the contrary? No. Once again all you have is smear - - -
Mr Humphries: They do it because they have to.
MR DUBY: All you have is smear and innuendo.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Humphries, address your questions through the Chair.
MR DUBY: I am quite capable of handling it, Mr Speaker. All you have is smear and innuendo. The implication is, of course, that these are victims of the white slave traffic, or something along those lines, and that if they want to get home to their family and friends they have to take part in these things. The simple fact is that they are not. They are professional, highly paid, willing actresses and actors.
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