Sexuality
Nothing inspires murderous mayhem in human beings more reliably than sexual repression. Denied food, water, or freedom of movement, people may lash out at what they perceive as the source of their problems, albeit in a weakened state. But if expression of sexuality is thwarted, the human psyche tends to grow twisted into grotesque, enraged perversions of desire.
Unfortunately, the distorted rage resulting from sexual repression rarely takes the form of rebellion against the people and institutions behind the repression. (If it did, perhaps we’d be reading of abused priests rather than priests as abusers.)
Instead, the rage is generally directed at helpless victims sacrificed to the sick gods of guilt, shame, and ignorant pride.
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Imagine you are a woman in your mid-twenties with the world at your feet. You believe that as a grown woman in Australia, you have the right to express yourself emotionally and sexually.
Now imagine that you are hounded and berated for your honesty. You’re constantly insulted for being yourself and standing on your own two feet. Your chosen career is the catalyst for threats and bullying; you are subjected to abuse and scathing remarks.
Whether you want to believe it or not, this is the reality many women - including those in the sex industry - face today. And sadly enough the attacks are not solely from men. A lot of the time they are from women - with most of it derived from outdated feminist views.
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Mel says:
It’s interesting that pro-pornography feminists are so against anti-porn feminists apparently making into women ‘victims’, yet that’s exactly how most pornographers present women in their material. Victims of sexual violence, victims of rape, victims of bondage, victims of S/M, victims of torture, victims of crime, victims of pedophiles etc. etc.… Read more »
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Tis A Pity says:
So many negative comments by people who very little about what they are commenting on.Thanks to those with positive comments who have given the issue some thought. And nearly all of you think that all sex workers are female. What about us guys who are sex workers, and how do… Read more »
Beware of Miley Cyrus. She might look oh-so-sweet with those dewy kewpie doll eyes blinking as she tries to come off as just another all-American girl - but don’t be fooled. She might only be 18 years old, but Miley represents a threat.
In only a couple of years, Cyrus has gone from Disney star and global tween phenomenon to wannabe adult strumpet. It’s been an uncomfortable ride. She has clumsily whipped out every cliché in the starlet playbook: the muscle-bound boyfriend, a handful of tatts, the occasional bout of cage-dancing and the odd photo scandal, while much of the world politely averted its eyes.
She has crudely tried to shape a grown-up persona that involves barely-there pants, all the while mimicking the strutting and thrusting and occasional girl-pashing of the Britneys and Christinas of this world.
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K says:
*Sighs dramatically* Read carefully - the topic is the image they project. Not their talent. Hows that for an installment! I know, a revelation that there was no actual back peddling, too! P.S. I qoute: “you’re a bigger idiot than your comment makes sound.” Now I assume you meant, “...your… Read more »
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Mileys not the devil says:
Nice try again K, but still failing… The only crap I got from your rebuttal is you think i called you a name. I didn’t. Also, the thing about back peddling on a blog is everyone can see ALL your comments.. First you said ‘Yes, Britney, Beyonce and Jessica did… Read more »
Should we allow the depiction of homosexuals in the media?
Well of course we should, shouldn’t we? The answer is pretty self evident. But then I have to ask – are depictions of homosexuals “sexier” than straight sex? You may have seen the news.com.au report that the Adshel company has pulled the “Rip and Roll” advertisements for HIV awareness for same-sex couples.
UPDATE: The CEO has just reinstated the advertisements, saying the company had been targeted by the Australian Christian Lobby’s orchestrated campaign, rather than a series of individual complaints as first thought.
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Joel says:
Perhaps in creating equity within society, rather than showing two gay men practicing safe sex, they should be accompanied by a straight couple and a lesbian couple who are portrayed to also practice safe sex. Straight and lesbian couples are just as prone to sexually transmitted infections and viruses as… Read more »
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Jay says:
Homosexuality is growing more and more acceptable within society as the years go on. Give it ten to twenty more years and it will be a social norm, just as normal as heterosexuality; no one will think twice about it. Also, is it just me or does Christianity seem to… Read more »
Same-sex parents are no different than other parents in wanting the very best for their children.
We know that removing legislative inequality is a very significant step in lessening the discrimination and social exclusion experienced by these parents and their children. All children, irrespective of the family units into which they are born or live, deserve the full protection of the law.
That’s why I’m proud to have chaired a year-long Social Development Committee Inquiry into same sex parenting for the South Australian Parliament, and why I’m prouder still of the wide-ranging reforms aimed at providing greater legal protection for children of same-sex parents recommended to Parliament yesterday.
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David says:
@Robert Smissen As a guy who grew up in rural SA, your declaration of it being “God’s own country” is offensive to me. Read more »
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Linda says:
@fairsfair. Your comment is anything but fair. Who are you to dismiss my repeated miscarriages as not losing my babies? Read more »
Embrace your inner (or outer) slut, reclaim the word, reclaim the night, take to the streets. But watch out for the unintended consequences of the planned SlutWalk rallies.
Passionate protestors too often get caught up in their own hype and do themselves and their chosen issue an enormous disservice.
Last week a father who just wanted access to his children instead earned the wrath of a city after his one-man protest closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge and left irate drivers stuck in traffic for hours.
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Val says:
HaHaHa ... some of the comments on here have me laughing ... It all comes down to our traditions and beliefs and years of conditioning ... A man can walk around shirtless and in skimpy shorts and that is ok but a woman doing the same thing would be arrested… Read more »
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andy says:
@superd you seem to think all feminists are sexless! my experience is quite the opposite. lots of those feminists you deride are more sexually open than the men who stereotype them. Read more »
Hi, gay people! How’s it going? Don’t tell me… just super, right? That’s what you people say isn’t it? Not that I would know, not being gay and all.
I’m sorry if that sounded like an odd thing to say. I don’t normally declare my sexual persuasion so abruptly. But I’ve heard you like to convert normal people with your gay agendas and your corrupting lifestyle choices, and since I’m being so open and friendly I didn’t want you getting any funny ideas about recruiting me.
I also heard that gays are pretty upfront and brash most of the time, so I’m pretty sure you’ll appreciate the candour. Just so long as you promise not to get turned on by it. Unless of course you happen to be lesbians. But only the hot ones that look like normal women.
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Hayley says:
I actually quite enjoyed this piece. Though some people don’t seem to understand that it’s satire… Now we get to the topic of gay marriage, EVERYONE is entitled to their own view on this issue, but just keep in mind that not everyone is going to agree with your view,… Read more »
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Brah says:
SarahJaneJones - How do you find your way to work each day? You clearly are just guessing and are happy to think your guesses must be right. I refer to my other comments re decriminalise. Of course homosexual activity is legal. The issue is do with marriage. It is illegal… Read more »
“Homosexual tendencies (are) one of many conditions that beset fallen humanity.”
According to Exodus International’s policy statements, those who embrace “homosexual behaviours” have lives that are “sinful” and “destructive”.
Rather than simply condemn non-heterosexual desire, Exodus International (A Christian organisation that condemns homosexuality) adopts what they refer to as a ‘redemptive’ approach – seeking to ‘reorient’ the ‘fallen’.
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Anne Stocks says:
Senthorun Raj says… it is hardly a surprise that suicidal ideation and suicide is an endemic problem amongst same-sex attracted and gender diverse people….why do you think they suicide Senthorun because they feel happy and content or perhaps as you assume they agree with what others are saying about them… Read more »
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David says:
@Adam C I object to your assertion that Ex Gay therapy is no different from Tarot Card Reading or Aromatherapy. The first two harmless curiosities, but Ex Gay therapy is psychological abuse that fucks up peoples’ lives. Read more »
Oh god, it all could have been so different; for the 17-year-old girl; for the AFL; for the St Kilda footballers; for Ricky Nixon; for an enthralled, outraged public - if only she had known how to say one word- ‘no’.
Watching the AFL nude scandal girl’s 60 Minutes interview on Sunday it became startlingly clear that this whole sad affair could have been averted if she had known how to extricate herself from a footballer’s Sydney hotel room last year.
“I guess as soon as I walked into that hotel room I though ‘Oh no, this is bad, I don’t know how to get out of this situation’” she told an ever- nodding Liz Hayes.
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James Tiler says:
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An upstart Thai airline recently revealed that it had begun hiring “third sex” staff. By third sex, the airline means trannies. Pre-op, post-op, they don’t appear all that fussed; apparently they’re an inconclusive mob over there at PC Air.
A win for the rights of transgender and transsexual people the world over? Hmm. I’m 30. Not so young, but certainly so, so cynical.
I’m guessing that the airline name comes from the initials of the founder, Peter Chan, although in the West, PC has connotations centred on computers. And politics. The later, no doubt, underpins the temptation to rejoice.
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MK says:
Better a young happyy steward, tahn a grumpy old one, if niether of them provide good service, But more than often the virgin airlines do provide goodservice, I have had some qantas female stewards who may have been very exeperienced in this service industry but would have had no clue… Read more »
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Mike Ceighton says:
Erickk just get over it. You are a WASP. WASPs whinge about anything non-WASPish. They always have. We know that.. Stop boring us with this endless griping and self-obsession. Read more »
It’s common knowledge that men like to perve on women. But what about the reverse? Do chicks want man-p*rn to stick up in their workshops and ogle over with their mates during homoerotic poker games?
Do women like to watch?
The editor of a new mag offering photos of nude men and their dangly bits answers with a resounding “you bet”.
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AlenaD says:
Women don’t like looking at naked men because they’re too busy looking at the men’s wallets. They objectify men’s wealth the same way men objectify women’s bodies. Same thing different attribute. Read more »
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Mandy says:
We don’t often get the chance - in the Comedy show, “Balls of Steel” they have obscured the male genitalia, but incredibly have frequent full frontal female nudity. It is sexist and obviously a cheap and tacky shot at increasing ratings, but why the double standard? Why no Nude Man?… Read more »
Who would have thought that in the year 2010 a “good” school would try to enforce a “Ken and Barbie doll” image on its senior students? Don’t they watch Modern Family? Haven’t they tuned in to Glee?
I was shocked to see the story today about Hannah Williams and her girlfriend Savannah Supski. Hannah was banned from bringing her girlfriend Savannah to the school formal and was told that if she wanted to attend, it would have to be with a boy so they could get a nice gender balance.
It is just not a credible argument that if they allowed girls to invite anyone they wanted, they would all invite other girls. I suspect the Principal already regrets saying that.
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CD says:
Perhaps it should have been bring a friend. Leave the relationship issue until they leave school. Some kids at school don’t have nor are interested in relationships of the kind you are suggesting. They maybe interested in studying and having lessons on socialising regardless of what sex they are. Another… Read more »
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Louise says:
Yep, the girls were interviewed by Dolly magazines and said they don’t even consider themselves lesbians???? Hannah’s father went super crazy and when to the equal opportuities board- they said it wasn’t even discrimination. Read more »
Given Victoria’s November election and the Greens Party’s policy on sexual orientation and gender identity this week’s controversy about a girls’ school banning a student from taking her lesbian partner to the school social is timely.
If the Greens Party wins the balance of power in the upcoming state election and is able to implement its policy then there is every chance that Catholic schools will be forced to employ gay/lesbian teachers and promote the benefits of alternative sexuality and gender lifestyles to students.
Government and other faith-based schools will also be made to teach a curriculum that positively discriminates in favour of gays, lesbians, transgender and intersex persons.
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AB says:
Bearbrass asks “If Austalians are so overwhelmingly supportive of “Gay Marriage” as the homosexual lobby claims, then why are mainstream politicians so unsupportive of it?” Because most pollies, believe it or not are not as dumb as they look. They listen to the silent majority, and don’t believe that JJJ… Read more »
Three times a week I watch porn. I’m a man of routine, so the days are always the same - Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
It’s nothing too explicit – just stocking-clad women stripping off their clothes and shaking their breasts in my face as they rub up against other women, men, poles, or whatever else they can find nearby.
When it’s not lingerie models, it’s women in a nightclub, lying on the top of the bar, near naked, while groups of men pour alcohol over their glistening bodies, to the beat of the latest dance music sensation.
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Prompt, whom I can ask? Read more »
As football players and people go Jason Akermanis is a pretty interesting guy.
The fact that he was motivated to write his Herald Sun column today about gay AFL players, demonstrates a depth of thinking a step above the usual “why the boys will be sticking it to Carlton this week” kind of columns that most players usually muster.
But as far as Aker’s argument goes, that AFL players should stay firmly in the closet, I’m not sure that his logic adds up.
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The Big Kahuna says:
Not sure if you noticed Rich, but AKER raised the issue in HIS article. Maybe he saw those same posters at Sydney Uni and was so upset, like your good self, and decided he had to write the article? Read more »
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Andrew (Queensland) says:
Apparently, homosexual footballers should not come out due to the homophobia of other players, for their own sake and the sake of the other players. What if it wasn’t someone’s sexual orientation, but their religion, should Muslim players stay “ín the closet” for fear of offending or scaring other players,… Read more »
It’s the time of year to make the claim that Jesus is gay. It seems to happen semi-annually. A few years back, a Queensland academic made the claim that Jesus had sex with his male disciples and a special relationship with ‘the beloved’ disciple, John.
This year it was the turn of another John, Elton John, to raise the topic of Jesus’ sexuality, adding the new element that Jesus was a “super-intelligent” gay man.
The famous singer’s admiration of Jesus extends beyond his claim that Jesus was gay and smart: Elton admires Jesus’ compassion, naming the forgiveness of sins that Christ achieved on the cross as a key element of the Christian message, and something worthy of emulation.
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Daddio D says:
I haven’t checked in on this debate in a while, pardon me. Heather might like to look at the links I’ve posted for the answers she asks for. I didn’t produce them btw. Read more »
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omegaman says:
News flash to gays: Not everyone centres their existence around whatever it takes to achieve orgasm. Jesus’ message is clear, we are not animals and can transcend our carnal bodies if we use our brains. How do you extrapolate that this means he got off on gay sex? Gay people… Read more »
The new Mardi Gras Parade Entry Kit carries a great number of warnings, the most important of which is “never to go backwards.”
But back-pedalling at a great rate was the order of the day when the Mardi Gras management committee heard that The Punch was chasing a story on discriminatory behaviour towards Mardi Gras stalwarts Gretal Pininger, aka Madam Lash, and Scott Ashton.
The parade veterans were advised that their entry to take part in the parade – entitled ‘Art Attack’ - was unsuccessful because the pair were not gay enough.
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TYVM you’ve solved all my prboelms Read more »
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Vicki says:
Nick, Mardi Gras is many things to many people, as Ian Roberts once said. I will never forget my first Mardi Gras. The sense of freedom, of for once, being accepted, was something I never knew I missed, until I experienced such things. I do not get this freedom in… Read more »
The twin debates currently underway over marriage in Australia have at their core an arrogant and probably homophobic presumption that a miserable heterosexual marriage trumps a spectacularly happy fruity one.
Those who advocate the sanctity of marriage are unwittingly undermining the institution by arguing, on the one hand, that it should be harder for desperately unhappy couples to end their marriage, while also denying the wishes of couples who would be at their happiest if they were allowed to get married.
As a married person of some years, the whole issue leaves me cold, as marriage is the best example of an intensely private arrangement which is subjected to a raft of presumptuous external rules.
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handy says:
we are gay couple, we happy with our lives, but we want equality, because one of us passed away, how abour property, superannuation, and others, we cant pass to the surviver, because some one will contest the will, so we wanrt gay marriege Read more »
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Joey says:
It shouldn’t matter who you marry. So they are female so are you, who cares????? Love is Love. I have 2 older siblings who are different. My sister is transgender. My brother is gay. When i look at them, I see that they are happy. I’m proud to have them… Read more »
My name is Tracey and I am not a lesbian. Well, except for 15 minutes in 1987. At university. Does that count?
Everyone is at risk of being ‘outed’ these days, as tabloid media organizations eat their own to get the next exclusive story.
Last week, journalists were salivating at the mouth at the prospect of using the name ‘Tracy Grimshaw’ and ‘lesbian’ in the same sentence, following Gordon Ramsay’s outburst.
Tracy has publicly denied the allegation, but she will be forever haunted by a claim that, until now, was only whispered by carpet-strollers in TV corridors.
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Liz says:
Get a grip Jack, You talk about homosexuality like it an inner city trend or ‘lifestyle’ How can something as meaninful as a persons sexual preference be likened to a soy latte or a haloumi sandwhich? Sure, the majortity of people may not be gay but that doesn’t mean that… Read more »
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Jack Thomas says:
Build a bridge Nancy and friends. Why does Alan Jones work so hard stifling the book Jonestown and mention of his arrest in London for leed behaviour in a public toilet, when at the same time he can rip into anyone else on radio? Why was Gordon Ramsay’s arrest for… Read more »
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