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X-rated videos, such as Dungeon of Pain - "Journey into this kinky world of bondage and domination" - show our women being chained up.
Mr Berry: Whose women?
MR STEVENSON: In Australia and in Canberra they show women. It is our country, our city, Mr Berry. You might say our women and our children and our men and our boys. This is what they are shown doing. It is perfectly okay to show them being chained up. I see some people smiling at these things. Obviously, they are men and women who do not care about these depictions of women. They do not mind that these - - -
Mr Connolly: On a point of order, Madam Speaker: Mr Stevenson really must address the Chair, not the gallery.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Stevenson.
MR STEVENSON: I make the point that the debate should be addressed through the Chair. Where someone looks may be a slightly different matter.
What we have in this X-rated video is a so-called husband and wife and the husband is getting tired of plain old sex and he wants to do something else. He suggests to the actress, the wife, that they go to a dominatrix, and she says, "What is that?". He says, "It is some place you go to where you are dominated, where people are chained up and defecated upon". This is good, clean, non-violent erotica. This is what the Chief Censor passes in non-violent erotica - piss movies such as Golden Rain depicting good, clean, normal, loving sexual relationships, according to the Institute of Criminology. They show men urinating on women, men urinating in women's mouths - good, clean, non-violent erotica, normal, loving sexual relationships that do not influence anybody's behaviour.
They also show a lie in that they portray the idea that women are on heat all the time. They show that women are nothing more than animals that are on constant heat, ready to be used by men at their whim. This is supposedly not discrimination against women. We pass laws that forbid a calendar picture of a naked woman ending up on a factory wall, yet we allow so-called non-violent erotica that shows women being chained and whipped. This, of course, is non-violent whipping - flagellation. If you want to trivialise women and trivialise rape, keep allowing X-rated videos to be distributed throughout Australia.
At the University of Canada in Manitoba there were tests done. They took one group of people, men and women, and subjected this group to massive viewing of pornographic videos. Then they showed them a rape trial and asked them to give a verdict. They took another group whom they did not expose to massive non-violent erotic videos and asked them to hand down a verdict. In every case where this has been done, the group that were exposed to massive amounts of non-violent erotica, porn movies, gave half the sentence that the other group not so massively exposed gave. After all, it is just a rape; that is okay.
What is the massive exposure that this group was subjected to? The massive exposure was four hours 48 minutes of watching porn videos over a six-week period. I would normally make the point that we need to be concerned not about everybody being affected by videos but about those people who are loosely hinged, deranged, being affected. Yet what they showed is that not only the men
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