A Growing list of child homicides in New Zealand suggests that the repeal of section 59 of the Crimes Act 1961 has had no positive impact whatsoever on reducting the incidence of child abuse and child homicides in New Zealand. If anything the problem has become worse. The legislation, championed by Green MP Sue Bradford, that criminalises every parent that uses any form of force “for the purpose of correction” must be repealed. The latest shocking report of yet another child homicide must cause all decent-minded citizens to cry out “Enough is enough! We must fix this disasterous problem!” [Read more…]
Announcing Society’s 2009 Members’ AGM
The Society’s 2009 (Members Only) AGM will be held on Monday night from 6.45 pm to 7.20 pm 8th June 2009 at Connolly Hall, Guilford Tce, Thorndon. The Public Address commencing at 7.30 pm, following the AGM, will be given by John Terris, former Mayor of Lower Hutt, former Labour Party MP for Western Hutt, Former Acting Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and President of Media Matters. All members of the public are warmly invited to attend this lecture, the discussion that follows and the supper. The Lecture Topic is: “New Zealand’d Media Landscape – It’s like the Wild and Woolly West. (Our value-averse little country is fast becoming the Sleaze Capital of the Universe).” [Read more…]
Mother backs Bill Hastings paying her 14-year old son to watch rape
Mother backs TV Research Dominion Post 6/11/08 by Greer McDonald
The mother of a 14-year old who viewed footage of rape and domestic violence for research has defended the study and says children see worse on news broadcasts.
Dawn Bunker, of Wanganui, said she gave consent for her son to take part in the research and believed he didn’t see anything that wasn’t age-appropriate”.
“I feel it was well worthwhile and done professionally, and at no time felt he could not cope with what he was shown. As he himself put it – ‘You see worse on the TV news, Mum.'”
Mrs Bunker was offended by comments from Bob McCoskrie, of lobby group Family First, who said this week that the fact that parents had consented to their children taking part “says something about the parents”.
Mrs Bunker, a mother of three, said parents had to be censors in their own homes. “Some of the things you see on the news, I’ve kicked my kids out of the room – I’m censoring my children myself, I know what they can handle.”
She said chief censor Bill Hastings was doing a good job.
However, a community lobby group has called for he resignations of Mr Hastings and Dominic Sheehan, chief executive of the Broadcasting Standards Authority, for whose agencies the research was conducted.
John Mills, president of the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards, said Mr Hastings showed appalling judgment. “the society is outraged Mr Hastings has defended his breaking of the law by claiming that, because the younger participants gained parental permission before they they took part in the research, then that was okay.”
Should sentence for sadomasochist be longer?
NewstalkZB Interview
Podcast link: 26165204.mp3
A Christchurch judge has come under fire over the sentencing in a teenage-girl sadomasochism case. Executive Director at the Society for Promotion of Community Standards David Lane talks to Larry Williams.
France’s nudist [fundamentalist] mullahs ‘at war with swingers’
The French police are currently probing one of Europe’s most famous nudist colonies for fires blamed on naturist “hardliners” that have destroyed three nightclubs for ‘swingers’ at the normally peaceful Cap d’Agde – a mecca for nudists in the south of France. “Fundamentalist” hard-line naturists are suspected of harbouring a grudge against the eschangistes, or swingers, who are drawn to the town by the promise of free sex. A so-called boite eschangiste, or wife swapping club, called Glamour, where couples engage in group sex, was the first to be razed in April. The next to be torched was another orgy venue, Palme Re, followed by the Tantra club and Zen, its neighbouring bar.
The nudist colony has had a crime rate dominated by cases of sexual exhibitionism which has required the local gendarmerie (police) to deal with complaints leading to people being charged and convicted for lewd and improper behaviour. Naturists who believe that nudity is a healthy choice of lifestyle and nothing to do with sex, have clashed with the eschangistes, who are attracted to nudist camps by the prospect of multiple sexual partners.
Some in Cap d’Adge attribute the fires to fundamentalist “mullahs of chaste nudity”, as one magazine called them, who have often harangued holidaymakers venturing onto nudist beaches in bathing costumes. The intolerance of some naturists towards costume wearing holiday makers and those who believe in sexual permissive lifestyle, has shocked the community.
SPCS President John Mills says:
“The Kapiti Coast District Council, which has been harangued by fundamentalist so-called “naturists” demanding by-laws be created to establish their ‘rights’ to go nude on public beaches, should take note of the French d’Agde nudist colony disaster. The proliferation of offensive sexual exhibitionism, plethora of sexually transmitted diseases, problems with marrriages and relationship breakdown, pernicious sex crimes and public unrest, can all be traced in part to the negative impact of public nudity and gratuitous displays of lewd behaviour. Those wanting to live the nude lifestyle should join private clubs where they can ‘police’ themselves without inflicting costs on our tax-payer funded police force whose hard-working members have better things to do than chasing up exhibitionists on beaches who commit lewd acts and indulge in indecent exposure”.
See: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5213341.ece