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it is the most expensive medium is that it works. The advertisers know that their non-violent images get people to do things. They get them to buy. They also know that if you throw a girl in with a power drill set you are likely to sell a few more power drills. They understand well - and we all know it - the effect of sex, and that is not pornography; that is a billion miles from what we have.
I will make a few more important points. The story goes on. I can read studies from James Check and the Davis Brock report of the late 1970s. They show that non-violent "erotica", not violent pornography, has a definite causal link with rape.
I will not read the quote, but J. Edgar Hoover said that an overwhelming number of sex crimes are linked with pornography. He ran the FBI, so he should know. Some people have suggested that they are good for sexual hang-ups; it is great to have X-rated videos. What do you want them to learn? Do you want them to learn to have incest with their kids? Do you want them to learn to have sex with the milkman? Do you want them to learn to go out and commit adultery and some of the other things that you know are contained in them?
A number of members were at a meeting at Tuggeranong recently. We were talking about youth problems, and a young lady said that parents provide the role model. If we as parents and members of this Assembly do not take action, who will and who can? Every State in Australia banned X-rated videos. The Select Committee on Video Material said in 1988 that X-rated videos should be banned. Why are these things glossed over with very poorly researched arguments? What is the motive behind people who do not properly look at the evidence?
The people who do not support the banning of X-rated videos come in two categories - those who make money out of them and those who believe genuinely that there should be no censorship. But every time one of them rings me I ask, "Do you believe that child porn, rape, et cetera, on video should be legalised?". They inevitably say no, they do not. Then they change their minds and realise that it is not about whether we have censorship; it is about what we censor. When they find out that they do not know what is in X-rated videos, about 80 to 90 per cent of the few people who have spoken to me, who are in agreement with it, have changed their minds. I welcome them. If someone rings and leaves a message with a phone number, I can absolutely guarantee that I will keep trying until I get back to that person. I have done it a few times.
Make no mistake whatsoever - they will be banned. If they are not banned tonight - - -
Mr Berry: Never.
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