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BSA report on “C” word & decision by Deputy Chief censor Nicola McCully on NZ Post award book – Into the River

October 4, 2013 by SPCS Leave a Comment

In its September 2013 BSA Report, 70% of adult respondents rated the C### word as the most unacceptable word “in relation to the scenario of a television drama shown after 8.30 pm.” (i.e. “adult” viewing time). The quantitative research, a national online survey with 1,500 randomly selected individuals aged 18 years and over, stratified by region, age group, gender and ethnicity, was carried out by Nielson research company for BSA “to provide a monitor of the acceptability of the use of swear words, blasphemies and other expletives in broadcasting over time.” Since 2005 the “C###” word has consistently topped the BSA reports as the most offensive word – (thereby injurious to the public good),

This same “C###” word was used NINE TIMES in a self-published book – Into the River by Ted Dawe – which recently won two categories in the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards: Margaret Mahy book of the year and young adult [ages 14-18] fiction award (announced on 24 June 2013). The Office of the Chief Censor of Film and Literature, Dr Andrew Jack, recently classified this book as “Unrestricted – Suitable for mature audiences 16 years of age and over”, after it was submitted for classification as a result of complaints raised by Family First NZ, a registered charity. The 13 page Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) decision on the book, signed by Deputy Chief Censor, Ms Nicola (Nic) McCully, stated FALSELY that the “C” word only appeared once in the book. The Office informed SPCS that it had been examined by a number of highly trained staff who had read it. The Decision (ref. no. 1300727.000) dated 11 September 2013 states on page 8:

“This book contains a limited amount of highly offensive language, …. The word ‘fu##’ and its derivatives are used occasionally and the word ‘cu##’ is seen once. The language is not likely to cause harm…. The highly offensive language has a relatively low impact due to the context.” [Note: Offensive words spelt in full in OFLC decision and BSA decision. Emphasis added in bold].

Why was the deputy chief censor Ms Nic McCully failed to ascertain that the most offensive word according to 70% of adult New Zealanders – the “C” word was actually used nine times in Ted Dawe’s highly controversial book? Why did she sign the OFLC decision which is based on false information? Has she become desensitised to the offensive nature of the “C” word and other obscene words due the length of time she has been in the job? What real qualifications does she have to make determinations on the appropriatness of language in children’s books? Is there a link between the sexual orientation of censors and the attitudes/judgment they display towards the excessive use of the “C” and “F” words in children’s literature” or elsewhere?

The Deputy Chief Censor Ms Nicola McCully was appointed by the Governor-General on the recommendation of the Minister of Internal Affairs.

“The reappointment of Ms McCully will retain her significant expertise in the area of censorship and will ensure the continued solid performance of the Office of Film and Literature Classification,” said Hon. Nathan Guy.

Ms McCully was originally appointed as Deputy Chief Censor on 17th September 2002 on the recommendation of a former Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. George Hawkins, with the concurrence of the Minister of Justice, Hon. Phil Goff, and the Minister of Womens Affairs, Hon. Laila Harre. She has been reappointed to successive three year terms of office, in 2002, 2005, 2008, and 2011. Her latest term expired on 2 August 2012. She has been viewing hardcore porn and objectionable content that degrades, demeans and dehumanises women in particular, as a deputy chief censor for over 11 years!

Prior to Ms McCully’s appointment, she had worked in the Classification Office for eight years which included her role as Classification Unit Manager and Senior Classification Officer. She was also previously an examiner for the Video Recordings Authority in 1994. Prior to that the only employment experience she had was working for one year with special needs children as a teacher aide, a job she got without any teacher qualifications (e.g. Dip. Tchg.) or specialist training certificate.

In total Ms Nicola McCully has been viewing hardcore porn and objectionable content as a censor for almost 20 years!

This “dirty job” (see quote below) that has commanded a gross salary of about $200,000 and which she apparently must enjoy so much, was described in an article available published on line by Sex Shops in New Zealand On Line (see below):

http://www.sexshops.co.nz/

In a typical working week, Nicola McCully might watch a couple of dozen people having sex. Sometimes they might be doing this in twos or threes; other times, there’ll be a roomful, going at it like rabbits. Sometimes they might be going at it with rabbits. And if it’s not sex, it’s violence. McCuly looks on as people are murdered, tortured and maimed. Soft human bodies are set on fire, exploded by bombs, cut up and eaten. McCully might crunch her way through a tangy apple as a young man is slowly and gleefully decapitated. Other times a cup of tea might wet the whistle during a gruelling group rape scene. A gingernut with that? Sure, why not? It’s all in a day’s work for McCully, as New Zealand’s deputy chief censor.

For the last 10 years or so, she has spent her working week viewing all manner of distressing and depraved things to decide whether we can watch them as well.

Censorship. It’s a dirty job, and somebody has to do it. But who? What could possibly drive someone to be a censor? Not the money, that’s for sure. The salary for an experienced classification officer is less than $60,000. So why would someone voluntarily sit in a darkened room for days, months, years of their life, watching acts of extreme cruelty, harrowing sexual violence and the more repulsive ends of the porn spectrum?

McCully began her censorship career in 1994. After working in special education in Christchurch, she applied for a job at the Video Recordings Authority, an organisation that was amalgamated into the Classification Office that same year. A compact, quick-witted woman with a habit of getting straight to the point, McCully’s career choice means she has seen things no-one should have to see. She acknowledges that some aspects of her job have taken their toll emotionally. Certainly, her ready laugh is at odds with her sad eyes.

“Some days this work really is the pits. You see some incredibly horrible things. If there’s a court case concerning the sexual exploitation of young children, we spend weeks dealing with images that are genuinely grotesque. We’ve had computer hard drives submitted to us containing entire libraries of child pornography, with thousands of images and movie files that have been indexed and arranged like photo albums.”

Fortunately, cases as grim as this are relatively rare. McCully estimates that about 80% of her team’s work is classifying the kind of sexually explicit DVDs that will end up in sex shops and the “adult” sections of video stores from North Cape to Bluff.

“Those tapes really are tedious,” she sighs. “You might have six hours of sex DVDs to classify, and you have to watch them from beginning to end. There’s no fast-forwarding, in case you miss a section where things are verbally or physically rough. The misogyny in these sex tapes is very depressing. There’s the underlying idea that women are only on this earth to satisfy men in whatever way those men want to be satisfied, no matter how painful or humiliating.”

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Returning to the September 2013 BSA report. It states:

31 words were presented to respondents, all of which are included in the 2010 survey

  • Respondents rated eight words as Totally or Fairly unacceptable in relation to the scenario of a television drama shown after 8.30pm: C### (70%), Ni##er (65%), Mother f##### (61%), J#### F###### C##### (61%), C###sucker (56%), Get f##### (54%), F### off (50%) and F### (50%). The least contentious words, rated as Totally or Fairly acceptable, were: Bloody (15%), Bollocks (13%) and Bugger (13%). The order of the words found to be the most offensive to the least offensive remains largely the same as found in 2010 and in 2005 [Note: Offensive words spelt in full in BSA report]

See: http://bsa.govt.nz/publications/research/123-2013/6367-what-not-to-swear-the-acceptability-of-words-in-broadcasting-2013

Words such as C###sucker, and “Fa##ot”” are of particular concern to GayNZ.com which states:

“Two homophobic slurs are among the top ten words New Zealanders find most offensive on radio or TV.

“C###sucker” is the word ranked fifth most unacceptable in an annual Broadcasting Standards Authority survey. “Fa##ot” ranks ninth.” [Words spelt in full in GayNZ report]

No mention is made by GayNZ.com staff of the “C” word in their erudite media release “Gay slurs not welcome on NZ radio or TV” which comes with a nifty warning note: “Content warning”

Other Sources:

1. Nathan Guy’s Media Release:http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/deputy+chief+censor+reappointed

2. Briefing for Incoming Minister Internal Affairs. Department of Internal Affairs June 2009, p. 58.

“An appointment process for the Deputy Chief Censor is underway and is in the final stages.”

3. Report of the Office of Film and Literature Classification for year ending 30 June 2008

Employee Remuneration p. 55. Also see Annual Report 2007, p. 70.

http://www.censorship.govt.nz/pdfword/Annual%20Report%202008.pdf

4. https://www.spcs.org.nz/2009/after-over-15-years-being-paid-big-bucks-by-the-tax-payer-to-watch-hardcore-adult-and-child-porn-and-sexual-violence-chief-censor-bill-hastings-and-his-deputy-nicola-mccully-want-a-further-3-years/

5. For more details on the OFLC classification of Ted Dawe’s book Into the River and the NZ Post Children’s Book Awards see pages 2-4 in the SPCS September 2013 Newsletter.

https://www.spcs.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/newsletters/SPCSNewsletterSept2013.pdf

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Filed Under: Broadcasting Standards Authority, Censorship, Obscenity Tagged With: BSA, censorship, Deputy Chief Censor, Dr Andrew Jack, Into the River, Margaret Mahy, Neilson research, Nic McCully, Nicola McCully, NZ Post Children's Book Awards, OFLC decision, Ted Dawe

Irreversible – Film Review – “the most homophobic film ever released” – Chris Banks – GayNZ

November 8, 2011 by SPCS Leave a Comment


Press Release: Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.

Report Published on Scoop News – See – http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0411/S00064.htm

8 November 2004

In his review of the film “Irreversible” published on GayNZ.com on 1 June 2003 and entitled “Homophobic disgust and horror,” Chris Banks described it as “the most homophobic film ever released”.

More recently GayNZ.com has accused John Laws “an Australian talk radio host” of a “barrage of homophobic abuse” and an “alleged [NZ] comedian Mike King and low-rating [Radio Pacific] talk radio host Mark Bennett” of “homophobic rants” of an “offensive nature”(6/11/04). Laws is reported to have defended his comments saying that they were just “a piece of satire”. A free to-air broadcaster of King’s comedy acts has formally defended his comments that have been the subject of formal complaints from the “gay” community, as merely examples of light-hearted satirical humour.

Chris Banks a regular contributor to GayNZ.com and a host of the soon-to-be dumped “Queer Nation” TV2 programme (it finishes next week) is one of many “gay” ‘rights’ activists who liberally uses the word “homophobic” as a term of abuse directed at those who oppose the Civil Union Bill and/or “gay” marriage in order to try and stigmatise them. He has also used the term with deadly seriousness and to attack a filmmaker’s work, which has, been praised by one of New Zealand’s leading film reviewers as well as by a number of overseas reviewers.

In his review of the film “Irreversible” published on GayNZ.com on 1 June 2003 and entitled “Homophobic disgust and horror,” Banks described it as “the most homophobic film ever released”, adding:

“Its art-house pretensions have fooled many reviewers, but director Gaspar Noe’s own words in interviews have revealed this picture for the provocative, dehumanising trash that it is.”

[ Interview with Gaspar Noe: http://www.indiewire.com/people/people_030311noe.html ]

In contrast, Peter Calder, film reviewer for the NZ Herald, who described it as “very good” and ending in a moment that “comes close to mastery”, gave it a four-star rating. He felt it was “interesting in a way that the miserably inept Baise-Moi was not” (11/8/04). [The classification of “Baise-Moi” is the subject of an appeal by the Society, which comes before the Court of Appeal on Thursday 18 November 2004].

See Peter Calder’s review: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/entertainmentstorydisplay.cfm?storyID=3582717&thesection=entertainment&thesubsection=film&thesecondsubsection=reviews

The Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC), headed by Chief Censor Bill Hastings, a homosexual, described the film in its classification decision dated 28 July 2004 as having “considerable artistic merit” and as having “some cultural merit and importance”.

Three months after the Society applied to the Film and Literature Board of Review for a reclassification of the French film “Irreversible” which features a brutal nine minute anal rape of a young pregnant woman by a homosexual man and extreme violence, it is still waiting for the Board’s decision. The Society wants the film classified “objectionable” (effectively banning it) or significantly cut.

GASPAR NOE’S DEFENCE AGAINST ‘HOMOPHOBIA’

Gaspar Noe addressed the sort of accusations leveled, by inference, at him by the likes of “gay” ‘rights’ activist Chris Banks, in an interview with the indieWIRE contributor Erin Torneo at the Sundance Film Festival.

“Noe: I often get the question “Are you gay or a homophobe?” [laughs] For the record, I’m straight. Because a man can be anally raped, a woman can be anally raped, and you are more in the head of Monica [the anal rape victim] than the head of the rapist, most of the people who walk out of the theatre then are men. THE GAY AUDIENCE LIKED THE MOVIE MUCH MORE THAN THE STRAIGHT MALE AUDIENCE. MAYBE BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED PASSIVE ANAL SEX AND SO THEY HAVE FELT FEMINIZED.” [Emphasis added]

Noe argued that by personally taking part in the film as an actor and identifying himself with the promiscuous homosexuals portrayed in the S & M gay bondage bar called “Le Rectum”, he has addressed any criticisms that he might be “homophobic”. The “gays” he identifies with include subjects of bondage sessions calling out to be “fisted” by “gay” patrons, perverts who masturbate while watching a man brutally bludgeoned to death by a fire extinguisher and others engaging in sodomy and fellatio. Noe’s discrete “gay”-‘friendly’ appearance in the film was acknowledged in the interview in response to the question put to him: “Why did you put yourself in the film?”:

“Noe: Some people said to me, ‘You are going to get accused of being homophobic with the gay background.’ So I decided to pretend I was part of the club. I wanted to appear in the movie and it was easy to go back and match those shots. Also because I wanted an actor to appear with an erection and he didn’t want to so I said I’d do it. And so I started off with an erection and I WAS MASTURBATING but then all my crew – my cinematographer and assistant director – started laughing and so I couldn’t get an erection. IT’S JUST THERE FOR THE PLEASURE OF BEING ON SCREEN.”

A WOMAN PSYCHOLOGIST’S VIEW

Dr Meryl M McKay, Consultant Clinical Psychologist for the Hutt Valley District Health Board, was a consultant to the OFLC during the classification of “Irreversible” in 2003. In her report dated 18 March 2003, addressed to Jenny Matthews, of the OFLC, she raised concerns about the masturbation scene linked to violence.

She noted that the scenes in “The Rectum” sado-masochism (S&M) club link sex with violence – with a man shown in a bondage sling asking to be fisted [fisting involves the forcing of a fist up and inside a homosexual’s anus for ‘sexual pleasure’], along with scenes of sodomy, fellatio and masturbation. Marcus and Pierre maniacally yells at scores of tied-up S & M fetishists, demanding to know where the rapist is. Then Marcus has his arm broken by a club patron and is threatened with rape. During this scene, a man in the background appears to be masturbating as he observes the violence. The link between the extreme violence and the masturbation eroticises the violence – reinforcing such a link in the minds of susceptible members of the audience.

Dr McKay wrote:
“… the film aims to emotionally arouse the viewer and perhaps emotionally bind the
viewer to acts of dominance and violence

“The terminology used (e.g. Rectum Club, brown nose etc) is designed to further take the viewer on a journey that is likely to result in them experiencing an uncomfortable physiological state (e.g. emotional turmoil).

“Extreme violence – The violent scene in the Rectum Club …. gives the clear message that such acts are sexually stimulating. THIS IS EVIDENCED BY SOME OF THE ONLOOKERS MASTURBATING DURING THE VIOLENT BEHAVIOUR. There was little attempt to balance this with showing the consequences for the person when they behave in an antisocial and violent manner.” [Emphasis added]

CHRIS BANK’S WARNINGS OF “HOMOPHOBIA “

Chris Banks described the character of Marcus as “homophobic to the core” and warned readers of GayNZ.com not to attend “Irreversible” which he described as the “forbidden fruit”:

“This is a simple warning to anyone considering attending “Irreversible” at its once-only Wellington showing at the Becks Incredibly Strange Film Festival – don’t go.

“The story is a tale of seemingly innocuous decisions that lead to brutal consequences, but it is told backwards, starting with the cause and then showing us the effect. The philosophy of the film is stated by characters and in a title card at the end is “Time Destroys All Things”, an interesting truism, but an empty philosophy when taken in the context of what we are forced to see and hear.

“With the narrative unfolding in reverse, there are some details that we only become aware of later but they only serve to deepen the horror and disgust of what we have already witnessed.”

Banks then went on to highlight the “homophobic elements” from the Rectum S&M club scene:

“The film opens with two men being led from a club called “Rectum”. One is on a stretcher with his arm broken, the other seems OK but is handcuffed by police. A crowd of onlookers hurl a tirade of homophobic abuse at the two men.

“We then see what led to the event. Marcus and Pierre, the two men, force their way into the club in search of a man known as “The Tenia”, who we are later to learn has anally raped and beaten Marcus’s wife. This anal rape scene will be played out in a single nine-minute take later on in the film, and has been the source of most of the controversy surrounding “Irreversible”. The homophobic elements have been less widely publicised. It is pretty obvious that “Rectum” is a gay S&M venue, but it is portrayed as the scariest hell imaginable. All of the men portrayed in the club are engaged in various sex acts and reply to Marcus and Pierre’s requests for information on the whereabouts of “The Tenia” by begging to be #ucked.

“Marcus, in particular, gets more and more agitated when he can’t find “The Tenia” and starts to verbally abuse every man he comes across – “fag” and “faggot” are the only words used to describe gay men in this movie. When one man pushes the aggressive Marcus to the ground breaking his arm, Pierre steps in and knocks the man to the floor.

“As a crowd of men look on without interfering, Pierre takes a fire extinguisher from a wall and smashes Marcus’s assailant in the face with it. Repeatedly. In a single, unbroken take, Pierre continues to pummel the man until his skull cracks, his face is mashed and his brains leak out. Each onlooker then describes the scene as “awesome”. The character of Marcus is homophobic to the core. His entire motivation for the attack is homophobia – after a few unreliable tip-offs he seems content that he will find his girlfriend’s rapist in a gay sex club. Why? Because she was anally raped?”

Banks identifies Gaspar Noe as the ‘gay’ masturbator reveling in brutal violence.

“Renowned American director William Friedkin’s career was almost ruined when he released the 1980 picture “Cruising”, about a serial killer who preyed on gay men. Gay activists were up in arms about his portrayal of gays in the film, which was mostly set within the S&M underworld, despite Friedkin displaying a title card at the beginning of the film that stated that it was not intended to depict the everyday life of gays. NOE’S RESPONSE TO ACCUSATIONS OF HOMOPHOBIA IS LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT HE, A STRAIGHT MAN, IS ONE OF THE MASTURBATING BYSTANDERS WATCHING PIERRE SMASH A GAY MAN’S HEAD TO AN UNRECOGNISABLE PULP” [Emphasis added}.

One wonders whether others accused by Banks and “gay” rights activists of “homophobia” and who want to prove the charge false, should consider joining up to the local gay S & M club and advertise the fact to Banks!

As a “gay” man Banks is clearly sickened by the depiction of a happy “normal” (heterosexual) sex life when he wrote:

“The end of the film, chronologically the beginning, is even more sickening for the gay viewer, as it shows with pastoral beauty the happy “normal” sex life of Marcus and his wife before the irreversible events we have already witnessed. This is supposed to make the viewer simultaneously sad and touched, reveling in their happiness but unaware of the madness to come. By this stage, the last thing you care about is the shattered life of a straight couple, no matter how horrible the circumstances.”

One wonders whether this is an example of ‘heterophobia’ on Bank’s part!

To his ‘credit’ Banks was sufficiently discerning to give balanced coverage to the overwhelmingly misogynistic and racist elements in the film and not allow his fixation with “homophobia” overshadow these concerns. (Actually, he devoted only one line to this aspect!). To his ‘credit’ he highlighted in his review the time-consuming efforts undertaken by the “gay” Chief Censor, Mr Bill Hastings, to get this “brutally homophobic film” with its “provocative, dehumanising trash” into a film festival following months of “extensive consultation” with experts like clinical psychologist Dr Meryl M McKay and Rape Crisis.

“The Chief Censor’s decision (a link for which is provided below) to limit the film to two theatrical showings only, and banning any home video release was made after extensive consultation with psychologists, film reviewers, Rape Crisis, and members of the public. It has taken into account the disturbing nature of this film, which is also relentless mysogynistic and racist.”

It is noteworthy that those “members of the public” (defined as a “focus group”) consulted by the Chief Censor’s Office are regularly required asked to disclose their sexual orientation. The Chief Censor’s Office summary and decision on “Irreversible”, supported Bank’s concern over “homophobic elements” when it stated:

“The club, the Rectum, presented ‘more like a homophobic nightmare of what a gay sex club might be like than a realistic portrait.’ The film presents homosexuality as deviant and associates homosexuals with violent actions such as the anal rape of Alex by a homosexual pimp”.

See: http://www.censorship.govt.nz/PDFWORD/irreversible.doc

Many normal people would in fact consider homosexual practise and its promiscuous lifestyle as deviant.

Banks was very wide of the mark when he predicted that “Irreversible” would “not get anywhere near the mainstream audience”.

“One can only imagine the outcry which accompanied “Cruising” has not been forthcoming for “Irreversible” because it will not get anywhere near the mainstream audience, and that most have recognised it as a shallow gimmick from a director who has proclaimed on numerous occasions that he won’t stop making films until he makes one that is banned.

“If you feel you want to taste this “forbidden fruit”, I urge you to read other material available online so you know exactly what you are in for.”

Perhaps in reading the indieWIRE interview with Gaspar Noe Banks missed the important point he made:

“THE GAY AUDIENCE LIKED THE MOVIE MUCH MORE THAN THE STRAIGHT MALE AUDIENCE. MAYBE BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED PASSIVE ANAL SEX AND SO THEY HAVE FELT FEMINIZED.”

The gay audience that has allowed this film to screen in New Zealand to those 18 years of age and older include Bill Hastings and his “gay” Deputy Chief Censor, Ms Nicola McCully. The R18 classification that was issued this year without further restrictions, means that any broadcaster can screen this film on late-night television. Bill Hasting’s Office wrote in its decision that “it is mindful of the need to preserve the widest possible availability of the film”. Having given careful consideration to the potential release of this film on television it was prepared to promote the film for mainstream theatrical release.

Appendix I:

Reviews of “Irreversible” cited by Banks include:

“It’s a blasphemy wrapped in an atrocity. It’s stupid.” Washington Post “…the most uncomfortable few minutes you’ll ever spend in a cinema.” BBC Films. “.. an exploitation movie with a gimmick, not to mention a vacuous philosophy.” The Village Voice. “…a very violent revenge fantasy… and the most pointlessly nasty film I have ever had to sit through.” The Daily Mail

More reviews: http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?irreversible

Appendix II

An interview with the writer/director includes: “A lot of the people who were in the movie were not actors at all, for example the two guys who say, “revenge is a human right.” Those were the guys doing security for my movie. It’s funny, you start talking with people and they find their own words in heir own ideas.” Gaspar Noe

http://www.indiewire.com/people/people_030311noe.html

The Society is seeking to overturn the classification decision issued by the OFLC on 28 July 2004 that granted it a general R18 theatrical release to “Irreversible” with a descriptive note: “Contains sexual violence, graphic violence and sex scenes”. It is upset that this “restricted classification” would allow the film to be screened on late night television without the broadcaster having to get permission from the Chief Censor and sends a clear signal to the public and the film’s distributor that any future non-theatrical release in this country, on video and/or DVD format, will be classified as acceptable for adult home-viewing. More importantly it argues that if the law had been applied correctly, the film, regardless of format, would have been classified “objectionable” or cut.

For further reading: See: High Court Rules Against President of Board Re “Irreversible”
Posted on Tuesday 31 August https://www.spcs.org.nz/article.php?sid=40

See: Society’s submission re Injunction against Rape Film “Irreversible” https://www.spcs.org.nz/article.php?sid=38

ENDS

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Filed Under: Homosexuality Tagged With: Bill Hastings, Chief Censor, Chris Banks, Gaspar Noe, GayNZ.com, homophobe, homophobia, homophobic abuse, homophobic film, Irreversible, Nicola McCully

Steve Crow, banned company director, promotes porn sleaze on city streets

August 6, 2010 by SPCS Leave a Comment

On Wednesday 11th August at 12.30 pm banned company director Steve Crow and Miss Erotica 2010 will be heading a parade of scorpion tanks, motorcycles with bare-breasted pillions and vehicles down Queen Street Auckland – in order to promote Crow’s failing hardcore pornography empire. Eden Digital Ltd directed by John Malcolm Carr, a San Antonio Texas based CPA, is the business entity linked to the parade of tawdry titillation that promotes a forthcoming three day event – Erotica Lifestyles Expo – featuring a collection of imported US-based porn stars, sex toys and lewd acts. On Thursday 12th August at 12.30 pm the same boringly predictable parade will head through Hamilton city streets.

Steve Crow is intending to hand out $250,000 worth of free vouchers to those attending the porn parades, so they can purchase hard core pornography DVDs marketed by his failing business Vixen Direct. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Pornography, Sexual Dysfunction Tagged With: 435 Devon Ltd, Auckland District Court, banned company director, Buildwise Ltd, Chief Censor, Crow brothers, CVC Group Ltd, David Bruce Crow, David Crow, Eden Digital Ltd, Erotica Lifestyles Expo, Financial Reporting Act 1993, Fitzroy, hardcore pornography, HWGA Co Ltd, HWGA Company Ltd, Inglewood, John M Carr, John Malcolm Carr, Leanne Marie Osborn, Leanne Osborn, liquidation, Miss Erotica 2010, New Plymouth, New Plymouth District Council, New Plymouth RSA, Nicola McCully, PMIT Nomineees Ltd, porn stars, San Antonio, Sidefx Ltd, Stephen Peter Crow, Steve Crow, Taranaki, Texas, Velocity Partners Ltd, Vixen Direct, Vixen Publications Ltd

Chief Censor’s Office refuses to ban Derty Sesh Video Clip in latest decision

June 21, 2010 by SPCS Leave a Comment

The Derty Desh rap music video “Let Me Introduce Myself/Forever” opens with “graphic violence” involving the depiction of “the frenzied murder and dismemberment of a young woman by the hooded figure of the rapper” (accompanied by the rap track “Let Me Introduce Myself” and “offensive language”). The rap track “Forever” follows, accompanied by “images that show a young woman stalked and the hooded man summarily disposed of. The terrified woman is taken to a shack in the woods and attacked by the same hooded man.” The frenzied sexual violation of the woman is implied in the images and by the music that tends to glamorise the attack. In a classification decision published on 15 June 2010 in the May List of Decisions, the Chief Censor’s Office has classified it R18. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Bill Hastings, Chief Censor, Deputy Chief Censor, Derty Sesh, Hon. Nathan Guy, Minister of Internal Affairs, music video, Nicola McCully, rap

$420,000+ p.a. (estimate) to fund salaries of Censors Bill Hastings and Nicola McCully for 2009/10

October 8, 2009 by SPCS Leave a Comment

After over 15 years being paid big bucks by the tax-payer to watch hardcore adult porn, the perversions of child sex offenders and rapists, and gratuitous violence, Chief Censor Bill Hastings and his deputy Nicola McCully – want a further 3 years in the “dirty job” watching more objectionable content, 80% of which is hardcore adult porn. What do these two censors have in common besides massive salaries ? [Read more…]

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