"We have now had over 1,000 people signed up to the party and have just hit the 20,000 unique visitor mark on the site," Eros Association CEO Fiona Patten told XBIZ. "In fact before we had even launched, the Australian Christian Lobby had put out a media release condemning us."
Australia’s adult industry trade association has launched the party in response to the increasing influence of religious groups in Australia's politics and government.
A recent national opinion poll conducted in Australia by Newspoll on the sale of X-rated films suggests that state government bans on adult films are out of touch with the majority of Australians.
Organizers of this week's Sexpo health, sexuality and lifestyle exposition are offering half-price tickets to pilgrims who attended the Catholic World Youth Day gathering in Sydney last week.
Eros, Australia’s national adult retail association, has called the ban on hardcore porn enacted a year ago in the heavily-Aboriginal Northern Territories divisive.
One word you can’t use to describe the XBIZ Hollywood Conference’s Piracy Roundtable is “dull” — from the serious and engaging topic to the sometimes heated words exchanged between panelists and audience members, it was a seminar that will likely continue to inspire debate for some time to come.
Adult industry trade group The Eros Association has accused a conservative fundamentalist Christian group of offering to pay for legal challenges to stop an adult store in Lithgow, a city in New South Wales about 85 miles northwest of Sydney.