FIRST SEX PARTY
VOTING IN VICTORIA
08 12
2009
Australian Sex Party candidate
in the Higgins
byelection last Saturday, Fiona Patten, may lodge a complaint
with
the Australian Electoral Commission after she was detained by police
on the morning of the poll. She had a difficult time convincing police
that she was in fact a candidate in the election.
Her
vehicle
was
pulled over and she was detained for half an hour when starting her
rounds of the polling
booths early on Saturday morning after two complaints that the Sex
Party van she was travelling in along Toorak Road was offensive.
''I
explained that I was a candidate in the byelection,''
Patten said yesterday. ''But they didn't seem to be aware there was
one.''
Patten
received 3.27 per cent of the vote, an impressive start for the
fledgling party.
In
Bradfield, the party achieved a similar result - without police
intervention -
reporting that its candidate, pole dancer Marianne Leishman,
stage name Zahra
Stardust, was most popular in booths at Chatswood Public
School
and Lindfield, both of which accounted for 5 per cent of the party's
overall
vote in the seat.
Fiji
Regime Change & The Unsexy Alliance
Of Church & Police State
November
29, 2009
Story by Tony Max sources: Paul
McGeouh, Tania Lee and Peni Moore, Suva
Fiji's
regime is bringing the Fiji
Methodist Church under its military boot,
and a fundamentalist
rival church has joined forces with Fiji police to curb crime according
to news reports coming out of Suva.
Methodist sources say the phones of its church
leaders are tapped; their
emails are intercepted; and they are being followed by plainclothes
police officers as they
move around Suva
and the islands. Their passports have been confiscated and they are not
allowed
to meet with more than two people at any one time.
The ascent of Pastor
Vulaono's New Methodist Church
has coincided with calls for Fiji
to be declared a Christian state in which only ''good Christians'' can
be
appointed to government.
In April rank-and-file
police
and senior officers were taken aback when
ordered to attend a rally where a New Methodist preacher harangued them
on the
ways of Jesus Christ. Hindu and Muslim Indo-Fijians have also been made
to
attend and listen to the preacher using the indigenous Fijian language
in his implicit rejection of their faith and culture.
Police officers have
also been
ordered to attend New Methodist crusades
where they were made to sing and dance in police uniform on stage. (could be
sexy).
Some police have been
lecturing people at night clubs, urging them to repent
their sins. Couples frequenting Lovers' Land, on Suva's waterfront, have been ordered
not to
embrace in public and sent back to their respective homes.
Sex workers not heeding
police
warnings to get off the streets have been
abused by being taken to a bridge where they were made to make a splash
by taking a six-metre leap
into the water. But, according to several of the women, Christian
idealism sometimes
fell short when they were made to 'service' the arresting officers and
had their
purses and mobile phones stolen. They were warned that if they were
caught doing it
again they would be made to jump from a higher bridge.
Other sex workers have
had
their heads shaved. Some were made to run alongside police
vehicles in Suva's
streets. They also had to attend Vulaono's Sunday afternoon crusades
under
police escort. A human-rights activist said the Fiji
courts were pressuring women
who were victims of domestic violence to reconcile with their husbands.
Peni Moore, of the Fiji
Women's Action for Change lobby, said much of the
ill-treatment of sex workers stopped after she complained to Frank
Bainimarama about
the commissioner's "biblical bullshit".
Fiji's failing economy is
being blamed for a rise in the number of children becoming
involved in sex work. The child sex industry has boomed in Fiji
over the last five to six
years. Tania Lee spoke with a Fijian adult sex worker who did not wish
to be
named, who says children in their early teens are getting involved in
the sex
trade.
More
in-depth on Fiji
at:
http://www.solomontimes.com/news.aspx?nwID=2847
Sex
life of
politicians leaves
Nothing To Be Desired
Story By Tony Max
24 11 2010
What is it with politicians and
their attitudes towards sex? They seem
rooted in the middle ages with their shame and denial about their
sexual needs.
The latest gossip and teeny-play media beat-up centers on Mike Rann and
Michelle Chantelois who each claim they did or didn’t fuck each other.
It all
came
to light when a bloke assaulted Mike Rann, the
South Australian premier with a rolled-up magazine, beating him about
the head
at a public seminar. The bloke turned
out to be Chantelois’s husband whom Rann claims he didn’t know.
''I have not had sex
with
her,'' Mr Rann, said yesterday, stridently denying
''absolutely everything'' that Michelle Chantelois, a former parliament
house
hospitality worker, told Channel Seven and New Idea - for a fat
fee:
that she was his ''puppet''; that they had sex on the desk and floor in
his
parliamentary office; that they had more sex in her car, by the side of
a road
at a golf course. Whoopee do.
Historically, Australia's
media, unlike that of Britain
and the United
States,
has been notably blind about pollies private sex lives. Indeed, this
has been
the case for Mr Rann - until now. But sex sells and the climate of
discreet
media in Australia
is coming to an end.
Will voters judge
Premier Rann
on his randy pandy escapades as he attempts
to lead Labor into its third term? Well
it all depends on weather he is denying and lying and the degree of
South
Australians judgmental sexual neurosis.
Why doesn’t Rann just
say: ‘So
what? I banged her and she enjoyed it and now
she’s got her nose out joint because she’s not hob nobbing with the
rich and
powerful anymore. Now she’s seeking fame
and money through the media by taking a swipe at me because I’m a
virile bloke
and she feels scorned?’
But no, Rann can’t do
that. He wants
to follow in Bill Clinton’s footsteps, pussy footing around pretending
he has
no balls and he is as pure as a Catholic priest…. Er
no I mean a virgin soldier.
In fact this not about
sex at
all its about sexual neurosis, votes, money
and power.
Stefanie Gets Government Apology Over Wrong
Passport
October 31, 2009

Stefanie Imbruglia, 42 - a first cousin of the pop star
Natalie Imbruglia – who
underwent gender reassignment surgry in Thailand has won a written
apology
from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for the distress she
experienced as a result of having to travel on a passport that
identified her
as a male.
Ms Imbruglia had lived
for two
years as a woman before applying for a
passport, but the Howard government rescinded an established practice
of
issuing transexuals who were to travel abroad for surgery a one-year
limited
passport in their nominated gender.
Required to travel on a
passport that identified her as a male, Ms Imbruglia
said she was subjected to ridicule by an Australian passport officer
who
insisted on calling her ''sir'' even though she was dressed as a woman.
On arrival at Bangkok
airport, a passport control officer asked her to account for the
discrepancy
between her appearance and the gender on her passport by asking ''At the top of his voice in front of a hall
full of people, 'Male or female?' Everyone turned around. It was
scary.''
Ms Imbruglia said it was
dangerous for transexual women to have to travel
abroad on male passports as they could be subjected to intimidation,
violence,
and arrest. The one-year passports were instituted, she said, after an
Australian transexual, forced to travel on a passport that identified
her as
male, was arrested in Singapore.
''My greatest fear was
being
detained in a male prison,'' she said. ''The
danger the government put me in was huge.''
On return to Australia
after surgery, Ms Imbruglia lodged complaints against the Department of
Foreign
Affairs and Trade with the Australian Human Rights Commission. She
claimed the
department had breached her civil and political rights by knowingly
placing her
in danger, and was guilty of sex discrimination. By this time, Labor
was in
power in Canberra.
After conciliation, the
department wrote to her saying it apologised ''for
any discomfort, distress or embarrassment as a result of your dealings
with the
Sydney Passport Office … Steps have been taken to ensure that this sort
of
incident does not occur again.''
Ms Imbruglia said the
department had agreed to restore the right of transexuals
travelling abroad for gender surgery to a passport in the appropriate
gender.
It has also agreed some people of diverse or indeterminate gender
identity who
may not be suitable for genital surgery should be able to get a
suitable
passport. Ms Imbruglia said she was delighted that common sense had
prevailed.
Original Story by Adele Horin, Sydney
Morning Herald
British Prime
Minister Apologises to Gay Hero
11th September 2009
Alan
Turing OBE ended his life in 1954 after being publicly shamed in the
press and prosecuted for his sexual preference and then forcibly made
to endure injections of female hormones to 'cure' his homosexulity.
10 Downing Street made a public apology to the
nations hero who was responsible for developing mathematics and a
computer to smash the German Enigma codes during WW2.
Alan Turing is the father of modern computers
developed binary mathematics into a form that could solve
problems. Alan beleived machines could think and set out to prove this
mathematically.
Read
the whole story here.
Appologies To
folliesbizarre
for doing a typo. The link is now working!
http://www.folliesbizarre.com
SEX SELLS
Story by
Stephen
Balls
05 09 09

The news has it that scandalous
brands using sexy advertising are set to hit
the streets on huge billboards after reacketeers, sorry that is a
mistake, it should read –
marketeers, have been given permission to use shock tactics to sell
stuff like
clothing, coffee, energy drinks and condoms.
Trade marks have been
approved
for Kunt, er sorry that should read - Knut clothing,
Hot Cock foods and Porn Star clothing, but the line has been drawn
using
religious terms and names according to
the Trade Marks Registrar.
An American energy
drink,
Cocaine, is being advertised on a billboard across Parramatta Road
in
the suburb of Strathfield, Sydney. It has already drawn complaints to
the
advertising watchdog, which said the ad might breach its code on health
and safety
grounds (but they didn’t mention it being too sexy). It does not of
course contain the drug cocaine but twits that buy it can pretend it
does.
The junk food industry
is
under pressure from a government-appointed health
task force recommending bans on junk food advertising on television
before 9pm
and stopping the promotion of grog in live sports.
Trade marks examiners
decide
if a name is likely to ''scandalise'' a
significant proportion of the target market, which could be quite wide
for
products like clothing and softies drinks, no, that should read soft
drinks. If
it does scandalise, then the application is rejected.
Calls for a clearer
definition of ‘shocking’ or ‘scandalous’ is needed
according to law firms working for the trade. And trade mark examiners
are
being asked to be more 'objective'.
Whacko Dating
Sites
Story By Tony Max 27th August 2009
There are 56 dating and contact
sites listed on Sexy Oz but one of the most wackiest (a.l.t. aside) is
Follies Bizarre.
Follies has the rare distinction of actually having real and genuine
contacts, people that actually do what they say in their ads according
to Follies Web Mistress . The site also sports thousands of erotic
pictures, the creme de la creme of the Internet porn filtered through
the erotic eye of Follies designer Kelly Kniskersdown.
Now you are probably thinking already that this is a spoof.
However, contrary to the wierd name of the site's founder, Follies does
actually seem to live up the marketing hype.
There is something else special about Follies and that is their
marketing strategy. They don't go about it like other dating sites.
Their approach is multi level marketing where the members themselves
sell Follies membership on the basis that the customer is satisfied
enough to tell others about it.
This is a bit like Amway or certain telephone companies that sell
through customers satisfaction and their willingness to get involved in
selling the company to increase their earnings.
Check it out
http://www.folliesbizarre.com
American
Underwear
Or American Porn?
Story By Tony Max 14th June 2009
The US
clothing retailer American Apparel is accused of using porno imagery in
its
advertising to sell women’s sporting and undergarments.
The company has come to
the
attention of porn hating lobbyists over ‘sexually
exploitative images’ on their
Australian website.
The website uses flash
slide
shows of women modelling sport and
underwear garments in, according to the Sydney Morning Herald and the
lobbyists, sexually charged poses that
look like they belong on the pages of a pornographic magazine and not
on a
website selling tank tops and socks.
Some of the provocative
images
have also been used in banner advertisements on several Australian
websites and
in street magazines.
The Australian website
has
pictures of a young woman it says is "Liz,
an American Apparel Melbourne retail employee". In one shot, the former
Melbourne
retail
assistant is pictured topless, in a short skirt, her long hair covering
just
one breast. In another, she is lying provocatively in a leotard, on an
unmade
bed.
The company has stores
in
Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. Its staff appear in advertising
campaigns that are sometimes shot by its LA-based founder,
Dov Charney, whom the press smears as a sexual predator following
failed
sexual harrassment proceedings.
Apparently, (pun
intended) the
company asks sales applicants to submit up to three photos of
themselves as part of the job application process.
Katrina George of
Women's
Forum Australia,
condemned the company's
use of "dangerous" and "pornographic" images.
"It goes without saying
that
most of the images of women on that
website are overtly sexualised and some of them you would have to call
pornographic. It's another example of the normalisation of pornography
in
popular culture."
Ms George said it was
also
concerning that the men on the site were not
sexualised in the same way women were.
The Australian
Advertising
Standards Bureau's chief and executive officer,
Fiona Jolly, was unavailable for comment but The Sun-Herald
says that it has not received any complaints about the pictures.
Ms George also raised
concerns
that young American Apparel staff might feel
"pressured" to appear in the company's provocative advertising
campaigns. However, a spokeswoman for American Apparel said
it only used staff who applied to take part.
"We very often
photograph
employees to
appear in ads and catalogues, on our website and in-store art," said
the
spokeswoman. "Employees and fans of the company apply to model for us
on a
daily basis, we also sometimes scout them on our own. Photo shoots are
often
done with members of our creative team or other employees, like in
Liz's
case."
Katrina
George does not appear to distinguish between semi-nude photography and
pornography. The pictures look like common mobile phone pics of
delicious babes seen everywhere on the net and the beach to us and
raises the question: Is beauty pornography in the minds of some people?
What do you think, here is the link to American Apparel:
http://www.americanapparel.net/gallery/photocollections/models/index.html
Brothel
Raids In Sydney
May
30,
2009
Police joined
Immigration officers and Council workers to target
brothels in the Liverpool area that
were operating
outside council approval and allegedly employing illegal immigrants.
Of the 11 brothels and
five
adult shops inspected, three premises were
operating illegally and were directed by council officials to close.
Two illegal immigrants
were
found out of more than 50 people who were
questioned.
The NSW Fire Brigade
Safety
Unit was also involved in the operation and
detected a number of fire code breaches.
In another incident
police
seized drugs and cash in a raid on a brothel in
inner-Sydney.
Police from Strike Force
Constance, set up in 2008 to investigate drug
supply from the brothel, searched the property on Darlinghurst Road, Kings Cross,
on
Friday.
A quantity of powder,
believed
to be heroin, drug paraphernalia and an
estimated $1 million in cash were seized, police said.
Power tools, computers,
clothing and other items suspected of being the
proceeds of crime were also seized.
A 47-year-old man was
arrested
at the scene and later charged with four
offences, to appear at Parramatta
Local Court on Saturday.
The brothel has been
closed
for 72 hours.
AAP
Brooke Shields Wishes She Had Sex Earlier
27 May 2009
Story By Tony Max

Asked about her one big regret
in life former child star Brooke Shields had
a surprising answer: she said she regretted not losing her virginity
sooner.
"I think I would have
had sex
a lot earlier," the actress told a health
magazine.
"I think I would have
been
much more in touch with myself."
Shields, 44, explained
that
losing her virginity sooner could have helped
her with her body image as a young adult.
"I think I wouldn't have
had
issues with weight - I carried this
protective 20 pounds (in college). It was all connected," she says.
"I think I would have
lost my
virginity earlier than I did at 22."
"The
older I get, the younger I feel," the actress
says. "Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and
was
in adult roles ... I always thought when you get older, you’ll want to
slow
down, but I want to do even more."
Brooke
Christa Shields was born on 3ist May 1965 in New York. She was introduced to
modeling by
her actor mother as a baby of eleven months for commercials. Later at
eleven she played a child sex worker along side Susan Sarandon, as her
mother, in Louis Malle’s Pretty Baby.
This caused a scandal and Brooke appeared
before a Congressional inquiry testifying that some of the most
titillating scenes
in the movie were in fact body doubles.
At age fifteen, another
scandal broke out when nude photos of Brooke aged
ten appeared in the press. Both Brooke and her mother tried to get them
suppressed but a court ruled the photos were art and the copyright
owners had a
binding legal contract.
Brooke Shields
seemed to
capture the essence of the virgin-whore yet she also appeared in
commercials
warning teen girls against the perils of having sex too early.
In
1980's Blue Lagoon, the
movie for which the teenage Shields is probably most famous, her hair
was
reportedly glued to her breasts to prevent them from showing. In her
autobiography, On My Own, written at sixteen, she said her
intention was
to abstain from premarital sex. Her contract with her publisher
reputedly required
her to remain a virgin for a specified number of years after
publication of the
book. She received a Golden Raspberry Award as Worst Actress for Blue
Lagoon
in 1980, and Speed Zone in 1989. She was also nominated for Endless
Love in 1981, and Sahara
in 1984.
Recently
Brooke has been described as a Roman Catholic . She
is married with two children.
China Demolishes Erotic Theme
Park
Monday, 18 May 2009
Story By Tony Max & Associated Press
A sex theme park that featured
explicit exhibits of genitalia and
sexual culture is being demolished before it can even open, a
government spokesman in southwestern China said today.
The park, called "Love
Land"
by its owners, went under
the wrecking ball over the weekend in the city of Chongqing, said the
spokesman, who like many Chinese bureaucrats would give only his
surname, Yang. The park was inspired by South Korea's Loveland on Jeju Island.
Yang refused to give the
reason for the demolition or other
details. However, photographs of the adult-only park had circulated
widely on the Internet over the weekend, prompting widespread mockery
and condemnation.
Exhibits had included
giant-sized reproductions of male and female
anatomy, dissertations on how the topic of sex is treated in various
cultures and what the official China Daily newspaper called "sex
technique workshops."
The demolition
highlights
conflicted views on sex in modern China,
where a prudish attitude toward discussion of sexuality is paired
with an almost clinical approach to its physical aspects.
Sex is not a topic for
open
discussion in China, where government
figures show only 7 percent of women and slightly over 8 percent of men
get immediate medical help for sexual problems.
While erotica is banned
and
sex education virtually non-existant,
shops selling sex toys and related items stand out prominently in
many neighbourhoods. Whilst extra marital sex is widely tolerated.
Prostitution, while technically illegal, is widespread and the
keeping of mistresses among prominent businessmen and Communist Party
officials is considered commonplace.
Such attitudes are
blamed in
part for risky sex and ignorance
about birth control among minors. With public discussion of sex so
limited, there is relatively little awareness of sexual harassment
and abuse and laws and regulations covering such matters are weaker
in China than in many countries.
Bum Bra Delight
Story
By
Tony Max
14th March 2009

The
Aussie press is buzzing with disgust and loathing at this new
body former.
It retails for 69 dollars and is designed
to
shape your peaches perfectly by lifting your buttocks and flatening the
stomach.
The
Double-O
Thong is a mix of cycling shorts, thongs and control pants. When
on, the elastic
straps (butt booster bands) at the top of each thigh pull in so your
bum is pulled higher and rounder.
The bum bra is snug and
comfortable to wear and whilst designed to wear underneath clothing it
has obvious fetish appeal. So what does the Aussie press think about it:
Sydney Morning Herald: ' Sounds good. Except look at it.
What woman
would be caught dead in this flesh-toned fetish gear?'
NineMSN: '..monstrously unattractive
contraptions..'
And WA Today: '.. find it hard to imagine anyone
actually buying this contraption. It not
only looks terrible - and terribly uncomfortable - but I can't see how
any woman's figure would be improved by wearing it.'
They hate it so
much it must be fantastic. I always have to pinch myself when reading
the Aussie press and remember everything is upside down in
Australia. The bum bras are made in the northern hemisphere.
Brisbane Sexpo Too Hot For
Queenslanders
Story by Tony Max
28 02 2009
Sexpo is currently
heating up Brisbane and its ads, featuring a Victoria Beckham lookalike
with
her hands over her tits, have made the moral minority red in the
face. So much so wierdo
moral's groups are whinging about this poster to the censor and Sexpo
has been forced to defend them at the
Advertising Standards Board according to the Eros Foundation.
Sexpo
is at
the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition
Centre, Glenelg and Merivale Streets, South
Brisbane
From February 26 to March 1, Entry is $23
More information www.sexpo.com.au

Nudists descend on NZ for naturist festival
23rd
Feb
2009
Mr Chute, 32, an air force
engineer, of Palmerston North, was among more
than 130 other naturists or nudists who descended on Te Marua, Upper
Hutt in New Zealand
for
the 57th national festival of the Naturist Federation.
The week-long event,
which
started on Sunday, has attracted sun-lovers from
as far away as Britain
and Germany to the
park-like camp at the foot of the Rimutaka Range.
Wellington Naturist Club
president Ken Mercer said the warm weather was
playing a big part in the success of the event, which includes team
games,
miniten a form of tennis and petanque. His wife, Judith, said many
non-nudists
had misconceptions about naturist camps. "They just don't know what to
expect."
June Campbell-Tong, of Whitby,
has been a passionate supporter of nudity for 45 years. "It's
beautiful,
it's wonderful," she said. "I can't wait to come out here it's a
stress release. People can come here and forget the outside world."
She said that, in
today's busy
world, people could forget to relax, and
becoming a naturist could help to solve a lot of the stress involved
with tough
economic times.
The
Lost
Art of Beachobatics

Steve Meacham
January 14, 2009
LONG before it
became the preserve of buffed
bodybuilders and flimsily clad beach volleyball players, the sands of
Bondi
played host to another sporting discipline that simply oozed sex:
"beachobatics".
For a few short years,
immediately before and during World War II, a group
of muscle men and agile young women would gather at the southern end of
the beach. There they'd strip off into the most daring costumes of the
day and
contort their sun-browned bodies into complex human pyramids. Everyday
thoughts of economic depression and global warfare were temporarily
suspended.
The exploits of these
Bondi
beachobats were lost to history until the discovery of a cardboard box
full of 290 medium-format negatives
taken
by a man now belatedly acknowledged as one of Australia's
most outstanding
photographers, George Caddy.
Caddy's talent itself
had been
forgotten until last year when Alan Davies,
curator of photography at the State Library of NSW, received an email
from
photographer Jon Lewis. "You've got to see these. They're of Bondi and
they're sensational. Do you know anything about this bloke George
Caddy?"
Davies, who prides
himself on
his encyclopedic knowledge of NSW photographers,
had never heard of him. "Nor had any of my colleagues. There were a lot
of
people taking photographs in the 1930s and '40s but very few taking
interesting
photographs. And still less taking pictures which transcended their
time."
Caddy, it later emerged,
had
been a well-known dancing champion, nicknamed
The Bondi Jitterbug, in the late 1930s. He was one of the first to
shock the
staid ballrooms of Sydney with the
unashamedly
erotic steps of the dance craze that had swept America
- a combination of charleston, lindy
hop and
truckin' whose origins lay in the jazz clubs of Harlem.
But Caddy, who had moved
with
his family to Sydney
from Melbourne
in 1929 when he was 15, also was a keen amateur photographer whose work
was
well-known within camera club circles. Like his professional
contemporary Max
Dupain, Caddy was influenced by the modernist style he'd seen in the
New York-based Popular Photography magazine.
And, from 1936 until
1941 when
he was enlisted in the Army, he spent most
weekends down at the beach, photographing his friends who were members
of a
local gym.
Davies, however, knew
none of
this. The only information on the negatives
were the dates each photograph had been taken.
Even Caddy's son, Paul,
who
had found the box when he was clearing out his
father's flat in Maroubra after George's death in 1983, had not
appreciated how
precious the photographs were. He'd taken them with him to Tasmania and
forgotten about them for two
decades. Davies could see that George Caddy had been an exceptional
photographer. But who were his subjects? Where had
they learned their acrobatic skills? What equipment had Caddy used? And
why was
there no record of any of Caddy's photographs after he went into the
Army?
For example, there's one
photograph showing two perfectly focused,
somersaulting gymnasts frozen mid-air, with grains of sand glistening
in the
sun. Even today, using digital cameras, automatic flash and auto speed,
it
would be difficult to replicate. So how did Caddy manage it on October
4, 1936?
Davies and his
colleagues
began searching, detective-like, for clues.
Fortunately the State Library was the best place to start.
Regina Sutton, the State
Librarian, says Caddy's short but brilliant burst
of creativity "would have remained unknown were it not for the
Library's
resources . . . Books, magazines, electoral rolls, telephone
directories and ouronline catalogue all contributed."
The first breakthrough
came
when Davies found one of Caddy's photographs - a
group tableau of seven men lifting five women - in the library's copy
of Health
And Physical Culture magazine..
It illustrated an
article by
Wal Balmus, a professional strongman and keen
beachobat. Balmus recommended sand gymnastics because it brings "young
couples together to enjoy each other's company . . . minus mock
modesty".
Crucially, it identified the people as members of the Graham Gymnasium.
Colleagues at Waverley
Library
soon established that "Graham Men's
Gymnastic Club" had been formed in Waverley
in 1921. A story in the local paper, appealing for more information,
struck
gold - a reader who had kept an album of Caddy's beachobatic pictures,
with the
names of the gymnasts on the back of one print.
Bit by bit, the story of
Caddy
and his extraordinary record of Bondi beach
life unfolded. A favourite subject was Valmae Maher, a North Bondi beauty who regularly appeared as a
pinup in Truth
magazine. On February 3, 1940 she posed provocatively for Caddy, lying
in the
sand wearing what locals called "a swoon suit" because of its
peek-a-boo cut and lace-up panels.
Davies points out the
swoon
suit was born of wartime necessity: rubberised
fabrics were scarce and rationed and the laces allowed one size to fit
most.
Another 1940 photograph
shows
Caddy posing with the camera he used to take
his beachobatic shots. To an expert like Davies, it's fascinating: a
Voigtlander Bergheil plate camera with a wire frame viewfinder,
flashlight
attachment and roll-film back, producing 6x6 centimetre negatives.
One of his finest
tableau
pictures, taken on October 8, 1939 just after the
outbreak of World War II, shows no less than eight members of the gym,
with the
white-capped Alf Stanbrough in the key position of bearer. At the apex
is
Charlie Lusty - the only member of the group still alive. Within two
years,
beachobatics had disappeared from Bondi. One by one, the men went off
to war -
except for Lusty, who was in a protected profession.
Caddy himself was
stationed
near Brisbane
as a gunner in an anti-aircraft battery. When he returned to civilian
life in
1946, he seems to have abandoned dancing and photography. The reasons
aren't
entirely clear, though he married Betty York in 1943, becoming a father
when
Paul was born the following year. "Home duties probably won out,"
Davies says.
As well, beachobatics -
influenced by the health and fitness philosophies of
pre-Nazi Germany
- had been born in a more carefree age. Of the seven men in the tableau
picture
who went to war, "two never came back", Davies says. "Others
came back completely shattered."
As for George Caddy, he
packed
away his cameras, stored his negatives in a
cardboard box and put his days as "The Bondi Jitterbug" behind him.
Fortunately, his
photographs
have survived.
Bondi Jitterbug:
George
Caddy And His Camera is open at the State
Library of NSW and runs until February 22.
For example, there's
one
photograph
showing two perfectly focused, somersaulting gymnasts frozen mid-air,
with
grains of sand glistening in the sun. Even today, using digital
cameras,
automatic flash and auto speed, it would be difficult to replicate. So
how did
Caddy manage it on October 4, 1936?
Davies and his
colleagues
began
searching, detective-like, for clues. Fortunately the State Library was
the
best place to start.
Regina Sutton, the
State
Librarian,
says Caddy's short but brilliant burst of creativity "would have
remained
unknown were it not for the Library's resources . . . Books, magazines,
electoral rolls, telephone directories and [our] online catalogue all
contributed."
The first
breakthrough came
when
Davies found one of Caddy's photographs - a group tableau of seven men
lifting
five women - in the library's copy of Health And Physical Culture
magazine, published on February 1, 1939 (three years after Caddy had
taken it).
It illustrated an
article
by Wal
Balmus, a professional strongman and keen beachobat. Balmus recommended
sand
gymnastics because it brings "young couples together to enjoy each
other's
company . . . minus mock modesty". Crucially, it identified the people
as
members of the Graham Gymnasium.
Colleagues at
Waverley
Library soon
established that "Graham Men's Gymnastic Club" had been formed in
Waverley in 1921. A story in the local paper, appealing for more
information,
struck gold - a reader who had kept an album of Caddy's beachobatic
pictures,
with the names of the gymnasts on the back of one print.
Bit by bit, the story
of
Caddy and
his extraordinary record of Bondi beach life unfolded. A favourite
subject was
Valmae Maher, a North Bondi beauty who regularly appeared as a pinup in
Truth
magazine. On February 3, 1940 she posed provocatively for Caddy, lying
in the
sand wearing what locals called "a swoon suit" because of its
peek-a-boo cut and lace-up panels.
Another 1940
photograph
shows Caddy
posing with the camera he used to take his beachobatic shots. To an
expert like
Davies, it's fascinating: a Voigtlander Bergheil plate camera with a
wire frame
viewfinder, flashlight attachment and roll-film back, producing 6x6
centimetre
negatives.
Further research
revealed
details of
Caddy's life even his son didn't know. Born in Melbourne in 1914, he
was only
17 when his unemployed father walked out on his mother while they were
living
in Bennett Street, Bondi. In 1936, George found a job as a
paper-pattern cutter
for the Australian Home Journal, spending his spare time
dancing and
taking photographs.
One of his finest
tableau
pictures,
taken on October 8, 1939 just after the outbreak of World War II, shows
no less
than eight members of the gym, with the white-capped Alf Stanbrough in
the key
position of bearer. At the apex is Charlie Lusty - the only member of
the group
still alive. Within two years, beachobatics had disappeared from Bondi.
One by
one, the men went off to war - except for Lusty, who was in a protected
profession.
Caddy himself was
stationed
near
Brisbane as a gunner in an anti-aircraft battery. When he returned to
civilian
life in 1946, he seems to have abandoned dancing and photography. The
reasons
aren't entirely clear, though he married Betty York in 1943, becoming a
father
when Paul was born the following year. "Home duties probably won
out," Davies says.
As well, beachobatics
-
influenced
by the health and fitness philosophies of pre-Nazi Germany - had been
born in a
more carefree age. Of the seven men in the tableau picture who went to
war,
"two never came back", Davies says. "Others came back completely
shattered."
As for George Caddy,
he
packed away
his cameras, stored his negatives in a cardboard box and put his days
as
"The Bondi Jitterbug" behind him.
Fortunately, his
photographs have
survived.
Bondi Jitterbug:
George
Caddy And
His Camera opens today at the State Library of NSW and runs until
February 22.
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Topless Sunbathing Too Much For Fred
December 30, 2008
Upper house MP Reverend Fred
Nile, tit hater, says he will introduce a
private member's bill in parliament to outlaw topless sunbaking on the
NSW State's
beaches. Fred, as far as we can guess,
does not have a beautiful pair of breasts.
Mr Nile has gained some
support from both Labor and Liberal MPs, who are
also offended by women’s bodies, but will need support from both
parties for
his tit hate bill.
Carmel Tebbutt, acting
premier, who has a pair of breasts herself, says Topless
sunbathing on public beaches is a matter for local councils to consider
and
should not be banned by the state government,.
"I think that there is
community standards that operate here," Ms
Tebbutt told reporters in Sydney
on Tuesday.
"Government can
sometimes get
themselves into all sorts of trouble by
trying to stray into areas that are better left to individuals."
Ms Tebbutt said while
she
understood some people might be offended by
topless sunbathing, she personally was not affronted by it. After all, she sees them in the mirror every
day.
"It doesn't offend me
but I
know it does offend some people," she
said.
"But we have had topless
sunbathing on beaches in NSW for quite some
time now."
The real issue was
over-exposure to the sun, Ms Tebbutt said, and she urged
all beach-goers to cover up this summer.
"It is really an issue
about
danger and over-exposure to the sun and there
is no doubt that any sort of sunbathing, topless or otherwise, exposes
you to
an increased risk of melanoma," she said.
"So my clear message to
people
would be to slip, slop, slap and cover
up."
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I,
I, Wot's Goin' On 'Ere Then - Naughty Nudists ?
December
28, 2008
Nudist Gerald
Ganglbauer loves the freedom getting his gear off brings.
"Naturists are a good,
honest
crowd," he said. "Nobody hides
anything. I've never come across the bad behaviour or rudeness that
you sometimes get on clothed beaches. We love nature and the
freedom of just being yourself."
Gerald, 50, has enlisted
the
help of Sydney Lord Mayor
Clover Moore in his fight to make a secluded beach, Little
Congwong, "clothing-optional".
Cr Moore is Mr
Ganglbauer's
state MP. She has written to
Environment Minister and Deputy Premier Carmel Tebbutt asking her
to consider amending the Local Government Act.
Under the change, the
State
Government would have the power to
declare the beach, at La Perouse, an official "free" beach without
the backing of the council.
"Randwick Council has
refused
to listen to our concerns, so
we're now taking the matter to State Government level," said Mr
Ganglbauer, who convenes the Free Beach Action Group.
The approach to Cr Moore
is
his latest move after a series of
letters, emails and meetings with Randwick Council failed to have
the beach's classification changed.
"We first made contact
about
this issue back in 2005. But
council is very conservative. It's like talking to a brick wall,"
he said.
Little Congwong, which
has
been listed in NSW Government tourism
brochures as an "unofficial" nudist area, has been attracting
naturists for more than 40 years.
"It's a perfect spot -
there's
no neighbourhood and it's located
behind bushland, so nobody can access it accidentally," said Mr
Ganglbauer.
During the European
summer
Gerald who is resident of inner-city Ultimo
often returns to his native Austria, where nude bathing is widely
accepted.
In NSW fewer than a
dozen
beaches have been declared
clothing-optional. Despite its long tradition as a popular nudist
spot, being naked at Little Congwong is an offence. Signs at the
beach state that nude bathing is prohibited.
"In the past few months,
I'm
aware that two or three fines of
about $200 have been issued at the beach, which as far as I know
has never happened before," Mr Ganglbauer said.
Randwick Mayor Bruce
Notley-Smith was unimpressed.
"Gerald's conducted this
big,
orchestrated campaign to get his
views across," Cr Notley-Smith said. "My constituents have spoken
loud and clear: nude bathing at Little Congwong is not
appropriate."
Inspector Brad Hodder,
of
Maroubra police, said: "We'll be
actively patrolling the area this summer."
Most Of The Story By Tom Nicol
Sydney Morning Herald
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Russian Beauty Crowned Miss World 2008
14 12 2008
Photo: AP
Kseniya
Sukhinova was crowned Miss World 2008 after beating
108 other international beauties in a glittering African extravaganza
held in
South Africa on Saturday.
The second runner up was
Gabrielle Walcott of Trinidad and Tobago
and the first runner up Parvathay Omanakuttan
of India.
The 21-year-old
blue-eyed
blonde stunner, who declared shortly before her
win was announced that being nervous made her "feel stronger", takes
over from Zhang Zi Lin of China to become the 58th Miss World.
Sukhinova becomes the second Miss Russia to go on and win the
global
event after Julia Kourochkina took the crown in 1992.
"I think I can help
people and
I want to help people and today if I
walk away with this crown I will do that," Sukhinova told judges
through a
translator after being asked why she should be crowned the winner.
Hailing from Nizhnevartovsk in the north
west of Siberia,
Sukhinova was dressed in a purple gown, with a decorative neckline and
flowing
skirt.
Kseniya is a student
pursuing
a science degree as an engineer of administration
from the Tyumen Oil and Gas
University.
Contestants, aged 17 to
25,
were dressed by South African and Jamaican
designers for the final show after a month of galas, rehearsals and a
safari adventure trip.
Beauties from 109
countries
were reduced to 15 semi-finalists, with India,
Russia,
Trinidad and Tobago,
Angola
and South Africa
among the five
finalists.
The winner of the event,
broadcast live to millions of viewers in 187
countries, has to espouse "beauty with a purpose", with charity being
one of the main focuses of the pageant.
"Over the years the
crown that
is worn by the winner is a symbol for
fund-raising. Miss World herself, this year the winner from China
raised over $US30 million [$45 million] in her year in office," Morley
said.
"So perhaps from
anything else
it does a lot of good things for needy
children and old people, which I think is important too."
The competition was
originally
scheduled for October 4 in Kiev,
but was delayed in September over security concerns due to the conflict
between
neighbours Russia
and Georgia.
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Goddess
Bettie Page Dies At 85
12
12 2008

Bettie Page,
the raven-haired pinup girl whose naughty-but-nice bondage and fetish
adventures titillated a generation of young men in the 1950s has
died at the age of 85.
She suffered a heart
attack
earlier this month, and died in a coma.
Her career, that some
have
said laid the foundations for the sexual
revolution that came to America in the 1960s, started almost by
accident after
she discovered that posing for amateur photographers in provocative
poses and
risqué attire made her more money than working as a secretary.
Ms Page’s fame was set
after
she was hired by Irving Klaw and his sister,
Paula, who had a Manhattan
film and p[hotographic mail order business selling cheese-cake photos
and mild bondage films. The Klaws were
prosecuted under strict American censorship laws that saw their
business ruined and their photographic work destroyed in the McCarthist
era.
Years later, Betty
became one
of the first models featured in Playboy as a centre-fold
including one in 1955 with her winking under a Santa hat.
The magazine’s founder
and
friend of Bettie in recent years, Hugh Hefner,
said: “Bettie Page was one of Playboy magazine’s early Playmates, and
she
became an iconic figure, influencing notions of beauty and fashion. Her
passing
is very sad.”
Bettie disappeared for
decades,
suffering broken marriages and, for
many years, devoting herself to Christianity.
She continued, even in
her
later years to suffer bouts of depression and ill
health but resurfaced in the late 1980s to make
occasional public appearances to sign photographs of herself, as she
was rediscovered by a
new generation of fans.
To her own amazement, Ms
Page
has recently attained something close to cult
status. Madonna, Uma Thurman and Demi Moore are among contemporary
stars who
have at some time adopted the Bettie Page look while in 2006 a feature
film The
Notorious Bettie Page was a hit at the box offices.

Betty Page Obituary
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What The Jack Russell Saw
Nov
20 2008
Police
nabbed a bloke near Nobbys Beach with his dick in a
pasta sauce jar. He led police on a 20 kmh car chase,
yep, that's twenty km, Newcastle
Local Court
heard yesterday.
(This is a true
story)
Police drew their guns
when
they suspected the 46 year old, was armed. (Australian police always think the worst).
Instead, they found him
partially naked with his penis in a saucy jar, a police statement
said. He attracted attention parked in a no-stopping zone before
noon on October 26.
Police believed he was
doing
something with his hands in his lap and thought that he might have a
weapon. When he saw the
coppers he drove away, despite them flashing their lights.
It was reported the
chase lasted five to 10 minutes, with a top speed of just 20 kmh,
before the man stopped. He refused
to leave the jar...er...no..car, yes
car.
Four officers used
batons and
capsicum spray to remove him. (From
the car not the jar).
They
found a 750-millilitre gun ...no,
thats jar, yea a 750
millilitre jar around his cock and noted that he
attempted to continue "pleasuring himself in between bouts of
wrestling".
A search of his car
uncovered
pornography, a home-made sex toy, women's stockings and a Jack Russell
terrier. (We must start subscribing
to the Newcastle Herald)
He pleaded guilty to
offensive
behaviour, resisting police and disobeying a police direction.
Magistrate Elaine
Truscott
asked the bloke, who represented himself, why he behaved the way he
did. He said he resisted police because he was trying to make
himself "decent".
He was fined $600 for
offensive behaviour and convicted of the other two offences without
further action taken.
Original Story By Stephen Ryan
Newcastle Herald.
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Sex Party sets sights on Parliament
17
Nov 2008
"We are
serious about sex" is
the slogan of a new political party to
be launched on Tuesday.
With 4 million
Australians accessing pornography, The Australian Sex
Party, says it has a real chance of winning seats in State and Federal
parliaments.
Its platforms include a
national sex education curriculum, reducing
censorship, abolishing the Government's proposed internet filter and
supporting
gay marriage.
Party convener Fiona
Patten
says the internet filter would put the
Australian sex industry out of business in five years.
"It's a real step
backwards to
where we've come. In fact it's far more
censorial then we probably were 30 years ago," she told ABC Radio.
"Material that would be
classified X-rated ... is considered illegal
content and that is material that is currently available ... in
newsagents.
"You will not be able to
opt
out of that block."
The new party would
advocate a
national sex education curriculum, something
other countries were developing, Ms Patten said.
"There's so much concern
about
the sexualisation of children, children being
exposed to material. I would have thought our first action would be
education."
The party will be
launched at
the Melbourne Sexpo.
AAP
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Oral Sex On The Rise
September 16, 2008
The Australasian sexual health congress in Perth has been told oral sex, once
the
exclusive domain of sex workers, has now become a leading part in the
sexual
repertoire for straight and gay Australians.
"For young people it's
an
almost universal practice now, with 90 per
cent trying it before the age of 30," said Basil Donovan, a professor
of
sexual health at the University
of NSW.
"Among teenagers it's
the new
abstinence in the Clintonesque sense,
because it's a way of having sex without having sex, and there are
obvious
contraceptive advantages too."
It also has been
embraced as a
way to better avoid the risks of HIV and
other sexually transmitted infections.
Prof Donovan said the
practice
had become far more popular among
heterosexual couples in long term relationships because they were
having more
sex now than in previous generations and were looking for more variety
"to
keep things interesting".
He also theorised that
improvements in cleanliness was the biggest driving
factor in the popularity of oral sex.
"I can't prove it but my
theory is that when people only had a bath on
Saturday night oral sex was a less attractive prospect," Prof Donovan
said. "The aesthetics changed when people started washing more
often."
Another sexual health
expert,
Dr Juliet
Richters, author of the book Doing it Down Under, said she
believed the
rise of feminism was the key to the trend, with women now happier to
say what
they wanted.
The dramatic shift has
occurred in one generation, with people aged over 50
having had oral sex for the first time an average of eight years after
they
started having standard sex.
"Now it's a one year gap
and
in many groups the oral intercourse comes
first, sometimes by a few years," Prof Donovan said.
"That's a major shift
from 80
years ago when it was entirely the work
of sex workers and men were never going to get it at home."
He said there were many
advantages to the trend and only a couple of disadvantages
- increased risk of gonorrhoea among gay men and the increase in
genital herpes
caused by type one herpes, which normally causes coldsores.
"That's a direct
reflection of
the fashionablity of oral sex and in
that sense people need to be aware that a cold sore is more than just a
cold
sore."
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BDSM Scientific Research Findings
August
25,
2008
Scientific sex research has
found that
Australians who participate in bondage and discipline are not damaged
or
dangerous, and might even be happier than those who practice "normal"
sex.
The research showed two
per
cent of adult Australians regularly partake in
sadomasochism and dominance and submission-type sexual role play.
Contrary to
commonly-held
stereotypes, they are not doing so in reaction to
sexual abuse or because they are "sexually deficient" in some way,
according the study of 20,000 Australians by public health researchers
at the University
of NSW.
"Our findings support
the idea
that bondage and discipline and
sadomasochism (BDSM) is simply a sexual interest or subculture
attractive to a
minority," Associate Professor Juliet
Richters and her colleagues wrote in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
The findings showed that
BDSM
play is more common among gay, lesbian and
bisexual people, and that participants were more likely to have been
more
sexually adventurous in other ways.
"However, they were no
more
likely to have been coerced into sexual activity
and were not significantly more likely to be unhappy or anxious," said
Prof Richters, author of the book Doing It Down Under.
Men who take part in
BDSM may
be happier, with results showing they score
significantly lower on a scale of psychological distress than other men.
The researchers did not
study
why this was, but suspect it might simply be
that they're more in harmony with themselves because they're into
something
unusual and are comfortable with that.
Prof Richters says the
findings go against professional views of BDSM.
"People with these
sexual
interests have long been seen by medicine and
the law as, at best, damaged and in need of therapy and, at worst,
dangerous
and in need of legal regulation," she said.
There is also an
assumption,
mostly among the general public, that people
involved in BDSM were sexually deficient in some way, "and need
particularly strong stimuli such as being beaten or tied up to become
aroused".
She said she hoped the
results
of this research will help change these
stereotypes.
AAP
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HOT LUBE
29 07 2008
Australian
Customs has seized more than 100 bottles containing illegal
liquid steroids hidden inside sexual lubricant packaging. The bottles
are said to contain
prohibited performance and image enhancing drugs from Thailand.
Customs is investigating
the
sophisticated drug smuggling network after the
bottles, labelled as "gay lube oil", were seized in five states since
the start of the year.
Customs national manager
of
investigations Richard Janeczko said the
so-called gay lube oil contained various active ingredients including
testosterone and deca durabolin. He said these drugs could not be
imported into Australia
without a permit from the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
"Despite the
professionalism
of this smuggling operation, Customs
officers were not fooled by the labelling and its misdescription,"
He said the detection
was a
reminder that the use of performance and image
enhancing drugs was not confined to elite athletes.
"These substances have
the
potential to cause serious health
risks," he said.
<>Customs has
executed
search and seizure warrants on premises throughout Australia.
and number of prosecutions are expected.
The maximum penalty for
smuggling such goods into Australia is five years in
prison
and a $110,000 fine.
AAP
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Naked Chicken Protestors Arrested
21 July
2008

Three
animal rights activists have been
arrested under new "annoyance" laws after a semi-naked protest at KFC
in Sydney's
CBD on 15th July.
The group PETA believes the trio are the first to be arrested under the
powers
of causing annoyance or inconvenience to World Youth Day pilgrims.
However, a
police spokesman said the arrest was due to offensive behaviour, an
offence
that existed prior to the new laws.
The three women, wearing only underwear and some tape to cover their
nipples,
were protesting inside a cage outside the KFC restaurant on George Street,
at the corner of Bathurst
Street. They
had a banner that read: "Chicks agree, boycott KFC", PETA
Asia-Pacific's director Jason Baker said.
Police arrested the women - aged 20, 22
and 31 - and placed them inside a paddy wagon, Mr Baker said.
“One of the officers said: 'We have the new nuisance regulation this
week for
World Youth Day,' " he said.
"I said: 'Are you serious?' I thought it doesn't start until tomorrow,
and
was [being challenged in court] anyway."
However, a police spokesman indicated the women were arrested for
protesting naked,
"which is an offence".
"I don't think they were arrested under the new legislation, if that's
what you are asking."
But Mr Baker said the group had conducted naked protests in the city
before,
and no members had been arrested.
"I'm shocked. We have protested many times in Sydney, and at this KFC before. We
had 24
people naked in Pitt
Street
just six weeks ago ... we've never had problems."
The women have not been charged yet and are being questioned at a
police
station, the police spokesman said.
Failure to comply with the new WYD laws can attract a penalty of up to
$5500.
Source: The Age
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Pilgrim Sex Trade Boom
July
20, 2008
Business
is booming in Sydney’s
brothels now the pilgrims have hit the city according to sex workers.
Adult Business
Association
spokesman Chris Seage said the boom in business
had taken brothel owners by surprise.
"The brothel owners are
having
to put on extra staff to meet the
demand," he said.
"Business is up by
around 20
per cent in brothels in the city, Surry
Hills, Bondi and the lower North Shore.
Brothel owners are
saying they have not seen anything like it since the Olympics."
The 'pilgrim plague' has
also
hit gay venues around Sydney with cruise clubs seeing visitng overseas
cherubs.
Visiting media and
support
staff were adding to the trade.
Source - SMH and Gay beautiful.
Too
Beautiful To Be A Teacher
10th May 2008

T
hat is the fate
of Lynne Tziolas who appeared nude with her husband
Antonius in Cleo woman’s magazine. When the Department of Education
found this out
they gave her the boot from her primary teaching job. But Lynne isn’t
going to take
it. She is fighting back by taking legal
action against the Department for wrongful dismissal.
The
schools don’t like their teachers showing off their bodies and those
that do are in breach of the code of conduct that says….. Teachers must act
professionally by hiding their bodies because bodies are shameful
things and
must be hidden from children, or something
along those lines. Ed.
Lynne
Tziolas, 24, was called into her principal's office last Friday and
told her year-long contract at the
primary school was
terminated.
"I
was told … my actions had breached the code of conduct," said
Mrs Tziolas, who appeared with her husband, Antonios, in a Cleo article
about
sex.
The
article, headlined "Buck naked, where couples talk about their sex
lives", included pictures of couples embracing.
During
a meeting with the principal, Julie
Organ (real name), and the
local schools dictator er..
director, Mrs Tziolas was issued with a
letter. "I
refer to an article in the magazine Cleo in which your photograph
appears
accompanied by an article about your personal life," the letter said.
Mrs
Tziolas said she had had no course for appeal before the decision to
axe her.
"It was almost like I was guilty until proven innocent." She said she
was stunned by the school's response and said it could end her public
school
career. She was guilty because she
has a beautiful body and showed it off.
Mr
Tziolas, 45, also a teacher, is concerned the furore will affect his
chances of getting a job in the NSW public education system. He said he
and his
wife did not regret the picture and would do the story again.
The
Department of Education said it would investigate.
AAP
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Sex - A Cure For The Blues?
21 03 08
Depressed
women have more sex than those who are happier, regardless of whether
they are
in a relationship or not, a study of Australians has found.
A survey of Melbourne
women presented at an international mental health conference has
concluded that
females who suffer from mild to moderate depression have a third more
sexual
activity than those who are not.
They also had more sexually liberated attitudes, a bigger variety of
sexual
experiences and, if single, were more likely to partake in casual sex,
Dr
Sabura Allen, a clinical psychologist at Monash University,
said.
``It was more sex and more of everything from kissing to petting,
foreplay and
intercourse,'' said Dr Allen, who studied the recent sexual experiences
of 107
depressed and non-depressed women who were in relationships.
``We knew this anecdotally from clinical samples but this is the first
time
it's been shown in research.''
She said depressed women were likely seeking out sexual intimacy more
often to
help feel more secure.
``When people are depressed they feel more insecure about their
relationships
and concerned that their partner may not care about them or find them
valuable,'' Dr Allen said.
``Having sex helps them feel that closeness and security.''
Asked whether intercourse could be an effective balm for depression,
the
psychologist said ``we really don't know but we presume it helps as it
gives
these women opportunities to be close to their partner and loved.''
The team also is investigating depressed single women and has found a
trend
towards more casual sex than happier singles.
Dr Allen said Australian couples tend have sex between once and three
times a
week, with ``very much the majority in the once a week group''. Single
women
have it ``significantly less'', but the same is not necessarily true of
single
men.
The study, soon to be published in a British medical journal, was
presented
today at the International Congress on Women's Mental Health in Melbourne where
the
latest research in mental illness and hormone-related conditions is
being
showcased.
AAP
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CLOCKS
TICKING ON SEX - 3 MINUTES
06 03 08
The
best sex should last between three and
seven minutes American experts have concluded. But Australian sex
therapists commenting on the findings say most Ozi men want it to last
considerably longer while Ozi Sheilas were not bothered if it was over
in a tick.
The study is the first to review the length of time people
fuck. A random sample of Americans and Canadians do penitrative
sex from seven to 13 minutes. Fucking lasting 3 to 7 minutes was
deemed to be too short and over 13 minutes too long. The study
published in The International Journal of Sex Medicine is designed to
allay the unrealistic anxieties of couples about the length of time
they are fucking.
A researcher said that in the male fantasy of male sexuality men
have large penises, rock hard errections and can go for it all night
long. Many people have this fantasy.
The results of this study provides a realistic and
not a fantasy model of fucking which is useful for treating people with
sex problems and may prevent problems arising from unrealistic
expectations. Little research is available about Australians
ideas about fucking, though its probably similar to Americans and
Canadians.
AAP
ACHTUNG!
GERMANS FLYING HIGH
30 01 08
A
German
tourist operator is offering German Ossis an opportunity to fly nude.
The German Ossis are East Germans who, under communist rule, were free
to practice public nudism at holiday destinations and it was a very
popular activity.
"In the former East Germany, naturist holidays were
a much loved way of spending the best weeks of the year," said the
founder of OssiUrlaub De, Enrico Hess.
The hour long flight will take the nude tourists to
nudist holiday destinations in Erfurt in the southeast of the country
and Usedom, a Baltic Sea island surrounded by white sandy beaches.
There will be 50 seats on the jet and it costs E499
(AUD$838). All passengers will fly in their birthday suits but
the cabin crew will be dressed for the occasion.
AFP
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6th January 2008
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Cheers Ed.
Lubricated Abroad
6th January 2008
Aussies
have a reputation
abroad as piss pots, they can't relax without ethanol and other mind
reducing drugs shrinking their cerebral cortexes. Recent tourist
articles extolling the delights of exotic destinations where
Australians let down their hair like this one on Mexico where -
'waitresses go around
asking tables if they want shots during their meal. If you order
one she blows a whistle and the entire place cheers for you as she
performs a whole routine before giving you the shot which includes
pinching your nipples.' Just shows what sexy - hic - fun Aussies are
sampling.
"We went to a club called Senor Frogs which
opens as a restaurant then turns into a club (like most places in
Cancun). They have an MC all night who gets people to come up on
stage in between songs for competitions such as who can scull a
beer the quickest or who can strip the quickest. The loser of every
competition has to go down the waterslide which is inside the club
and takes you out into the lagoon." Presumably where you drown.
Other destinations of lubrication include Thailand
where drinks are cheap, Ibiza and Paris where the stars go to party.
Don't forget London where the beer is warm and the pick pockets are
legendary around drunks lubricated to the eyeballs and ready for the
pickin'.
In Hanoi where the clubs
only sell spirits the patrons literally melt off their stools. They are
surrounded
by waiters pressing more lubrication down the
throats of their customers.
A vietnamese girl recently told me about her
experience with Aussies in Vietnam. She works in a restaurant in
Hanoi where Americans, French English and Australian tourists
eat. The Americans and Australians are the worst, she said.
The Americans are loud drunks whereas the Australians are
quieter. 'Our Aussie friend always came around to our place and
hung out with us students at the coffee shop but he never asked any of
us girls out. He was always drunk and told us several times he
was going off for sex with the local sex workers in the
afternoons. He was nice but there was something wrong.'
Yes it's called alcoholism. Very unsexy.
Facts tourists should know: (a) Alcohol shrinks the
testes and causes brewers droop. (a) Alcohol is used by smart operators
to comatose tourists into spending all their dough and by robbers to
carry
out their trade. (b) Alcohol and other drugs is best
avoided when traveling abroad. You won't read this in the Sydney
Morning herald or glossy tourist brochures - only on Sexy Oz where the
men are are stiff and sober. Wowsers! Us!!