Sex romp resort is ruining our image: nudists
KATE DENNEHY
Sex romps at a Queensland
resort are giving nudists a raw deal, say more serious naturists.
The White Cockatoo resort
at Mossman in north Queensland
hit the headlines last week with
reports of poolside sex and partner swapping, and that was from its
owners Tony
and Lenore Fox.
The timely free exposure
hasn’t hurt their advertising campaign aimed at
selling the resort for $1.5 million, with a flood of prospective
national and
international callers.
But more sedate nudists say
the reports give the wrong impression about the
nudist movement and will harm Queensland’s
bid for its first legal "clothing optional" beach.
President of Free Beaches Australia,
Traven Searle, said nudism was for families and couples who simply
wanted to
take their clothes off in a healthy environment.
"Nudism for us is a lifestyle
thing where we can socialise without any
sexual connotations," he said. "The whole thing up there (at The
White Cockatoo) is very negative because it promotes a very sexual
image."
He said his group and the
Australian Nudist Federation (ANF) hoped the
resort would become a non-nudist resort when sold as it was giving
nudism a bad
name.
"We are against adult only and
swingers’ resorts and prefer
family-friendly places where kids can go for fun," he said.
"All the negative publicity
will be brought up whenever we suggest a
clothing optional beach and definitely won’t help."
ANF president Werner Jacobs
said his group, with 3000 members, was
considering changing the group’s name to ‘naturist’ instead of ‘nudist’
because
of the bad publicity.
"It does tarnish our image but
I think the owners are just cashing in
on the publicity while we do it for the lifestyle," he said.
Mr Fox said the resort was not
"no holes barred" all year. Three
seasons catered for conventional (fully-clothed) families, more
"conventional" nudists and adults only.
"The prudie nudie season is
mainly for the 40 to 60 year olds, your
older club type," he said. "They’re the hang-over from the 60s with a
‘no sex please, we’re nudists’ attitude."
He said the fastest growing
season was from January to March, the adults
only/partner swapping time mainly for 25 to 45 year olds.
"The AO season is three times
as popular as the prudie nudie with a
much more liberated environment. Sex does happen in the pool or other
public
places between partners or with others," he said.
"We have close neighbours but
we have very high fences. There’s plenty
of shade so sunburn isn’t a problem."
James Bishop, owner of the
Pacific Sun Friends resort at Donnybrook, north
of Brisbane,
said "all that swinging and wife swapping" was immoral.
"We have a high moral standard
here and don’t accept sex in
public," he said. "Politicians and people that hear about what’s
happening up there will use it against the nude beach issue."
Whitsunday Regional Council
deputy mayor Rogin Taylor and his wife Linda run
the Taylorwood Nudist Resort at Conway,
near Airlie Beach
in north Queensland.
Mr Taylor agreed the publicity
was doing more harm than good to the nudism
industry.
"Saying people have sex in the
pool certainly doesn’t help our
image," he said. "Our resort doesn’t allow singles or kids and we
don’t have swingers under any circumstances. There is absolutely no sex
in
public here."
He said the only difference
between his resort and others was that people
wore fewer clothes.
Mr Fox said his critics were
suffering "penis envy".
"They fit my definition of
prudie nudie to a tee,’" he said.
"They are out of touch with what happens in the real world and are
jealous
that people just want to have a naked holiday instead of joining their
clubs."
Source:
The Sun-Herald
3D Porn Ain't All That Bad
January
13, 2010
Thank the Gods for the porn
industry a constant source of innovation and
social improvement.
On Monday the Sydney
Morning Herald
reported from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas where 3D porn was the hot
issue for
technology geeks this year. A porn actor, who had just starred in one
of the
industry's first 3D films, was quoted as being ''very excited'' to
pioneer this
new field. She should be. Once again, the porn industry turns out to be
a force
for innovation.
Schools will use new 3D
television techniques to teach. Imagine how
geography lessons will come alive if classes can virtually wander in
faraway
places using 3D glasses. Physics and chemistry experiments too
dangerous or
complicated for classrooms could also be shown on a 3D screen.
Should the parents of the
future wish to thank the brains behind these teaching
improvements, they should not be surprised. Far from being the result
of some
philanthropic engagement, the new technologies will have been conceived
not in
an ivory tower but as a by product of the sex industry.
Porn's track record has always
been at the forefront of technological
change. The development of video tapes and DVDs probably owes much to
the
demand for sex movies as it does to less raunchy sorts of entertainment.
The internet is another case
in point. With some justification, sexual needs
could be called the mother of the web's invention. Without streaming
videos of
sex movies, bandwidth would not have been added so fast to the global
net.
Online learning, iTunes and WebTV later benefited from an
infrastructure which
had been erected for something completely different.
Porn star Ron Jeremy caused a
stir in The Great Porn Debate at the Consumer
Electronics Show by saying that studies have found that "violent video
games
are a much bigger negative influence on kids".
The electronics show at the
Las Vegas Convention Centre coincides with the AVN Adult
Entertainment Expo at the Venetian hotel. In this case, Ron Jeremy was
also
promoting tools that help parents control their children's access to
undesirable content.
He said: "Because we make
porn, we are the bad guys.
We don't want kids to watch porn but yes we recognise that it happens.
We are
not in favour of that," reports BBC News.
ROXXXY’S COOL
GLENN CHAPMAN
January 11, 2010
Roxxxy with her inventor,
Douglas Hines. Photo: AFP
Roxxxy the sex robot had a
coming-out party in Sin City Las Vegas at the
weekend.
In what is billed as a world first, a life-size robotic girlfriend
complete
with artificial intelligence and flesh-like synthetic skin was
introduced to
adoring fans at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas on Saturday.
''She can't vacuum, she can't
cook, but she can do almost anything else if
you know what I mean,'' said her inventor, Douglas Hines, of the
company
TrueCompanion.
''She's a companion. She has a
personality. She hears you. She listens to
you. She speaks. She feels your touch. She goes to sleep. We are trying
to
replicate a personality of a person.''
At 170-centimetres tall and
54.43 kilograms, Roxxxy ''has a full C cup and
is ready for action'', said Hines, who was an artificial intelligence
engineer
at Bell Laboratories before he started up TrueCompanion.
The anatomically correct robot
has an articulated skeleton, which means it
can move like a person even though it cannot walk or move its limbs
independently.
Robotic movement is built into
''the three inputs'' and a mechanical heart
that powers a liquid cooling system.
Roxxxy comes with five
personalities. Wild Wendy is outgoing and
adventurous. Frigid Farrah is reserved and shy. There is a young and
naive
personality and a Mature Martha that Hines describes as having a
''matriarchal
kind of caring''. S&M Susan is geared for more adventurous types.
Aspiring partners can
customise such features as race, hair colour and
breast size. A male sex robot named Rocky is in development.
People ordering the robots
online at truecompanion.com detail their tastes
and interests to get the mechanical girlfriend in synch with her mate.
''She knows exactly what you
like,'' says Hines. ''If you like Porsches, she
likes Porsches. If you like soccer, she likes soccer.'' Roxxxy can chat
with
her flesh-and-blood mate, and touching her elicits a variety of
comments.
Inspiration for the sex robot
sprang from the September 11, 2001 attacks.
''I had a friend who passed away in 9/11,'' Hines said. ''I promised
myself I
would create a program to store his personality, and that became the
foundation
for Roxxxy True Companion.''
Hines sees the robot as a
recreational innovation and an outlet for the shy,
people with sexual dysfunction and those who want to experiment without
risk.
Roxxxy costs between $US7000
($7634) and $US9000 depending on features.
Agence France-Presse
