Why does Kevin Rudd continue to give sanctuary to the X rated, hard core pornographers in Canberra? It is illegal to sell, hire or display X rated videos/DVDs in any state in Australia. They are only available from the territories, mainly Canberra in the ACT.
Medicine, Mind and Adolescence in 2000 found pornography plays a determining role in causing sexual deviancy, trouble in intimate personal relationships, sexual assault and rape. Unlike someone's personal opinion, the scientific results are "clear and consistent" according to the peer-reviewed scientific journals.
The International Journal of Pediatrics (2006), Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (2007), ANNALS of the New York Academy of Sciences (2006), JOURNAL WATCH (2006) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (2006) along with any number of current empirical scientific journals all agree with Dr Claudio Violato from Universita Ambrosiana in Italy, that pornography "has an influence on violence and family functioning." Even the senior lecturer in psychology at Macquarie University, Prof R Power, says that if visual imagery had no impact on human attitude and behaviour we would not have advertising campaigns. We all know that's true.
Dr Don Thompson, the director of Forensic Psychology at Monash University in an address to the Victorian Criminal Justice Symposium reported that "pornography is causally related to sexually violent behaviour" and Crown Prosecutor Richard Read, QC, says "there definitely is a very clear link" between pornography and sex crimes.
The latest OECD figures show that Australia leads the developed world in rape and violent assault. The Home Office in London, the Japanese Foreign Ministry, the European Union, the Australian Institute of Criminology and even ABC TV have all reported that "Australia leads the developed world in rape". It is now proven that pornography contributes to this societal dysfunction and indeed even "causes" it.
Concerned Australians would do well to heed the scientific data instead of ill-informed, self styled 'experts' and demand that the Rudd government place the same simple restrictions on X rated porn in Canberra and the Northern Territory as already exists in all of our states.