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Australia's adult entertainment chain Sexyland set to move into traditional retail space. Sexyland owner Angelo Abela is in discussions with major shopping centre owners to bring his range of adult products to a broader market.  Abela said:

We would do it very tastefully and we would look very carefully at what we could put into shopping centres,

We're mindful of what we can show, what we sell in the premises as such and we would concentrate mainly on product which isn't restricted to adult premises. We would never go into it if it wasn't accepted by consumers.

In the face of increased online competition, Abela says the chain has focused on products other than porn:

We've concentrated more on lingerie, shoes, novelties and toys rather than the DVD section.

Abela says his company is focusing only on Victorian shopping centres for now and he expects an outcome by Christmas.

Comment: And Mediasnoops have kindly been following the inevitable nutter opposition...

26th September 2013. Thanks to Dan

See Sex Shops In Shopping Centres? from mediasnoops2.wordpress.com

Six pornography traders in western Japan have been arrested after mailing their catalogues to the head of Osaka Police Department by mistake, according to local media.

Police last week arrested Toshiharu Hidaka and five other men on suspicion of possessing supposedly obscene material with the intent to sell it in Osaka.

The suspects had been sending catalogues of illegal porn DVDs to random male customers by mail.

Police then raided Hidaka's office in Osaka. The six men have admitted the allegations.

Should women receive preferential treatment in the workplace? Newly published research suggests attitudes toward this issue may correlate in part to whether people are porn viewers.

Writing in the Psychology of Women Quarterly , Indiana University researchers Paul Wright and Michelle Funk report people who admitted to watching pornography were less likely to support affirmative action for women in a subsequent interview.

That equation held true once a variety of factors that could shape one's view of the issue (including political ideology and religiosity) were removed from the equation. Furthermore, it applied to women as well as men.

The researchers claim: these results suggest that pornography may be a social influence that undermines support for affirmative action programs for women. ( But on the other hand it may just mean that if feminists were a little less strident in wanting to ban adult entertainment, they may get a little more support in more fundamental issues).

In interviews in 2008, nearly 24% of the men and 13% of the women said they had watched a pornographic film during the previous year. Two years later, as part of a follow-up session, the same people were asked, Are you for or against preferential hiring and promotion of women?

The results: Prior pornographic viewing predicted subsequent opposition to affirmative action for women. While women in the study (like those in previous research) were more supportive of such programs than men, they, too, were less likely to express approval if they had watched porn.

According to the researchers, this suggests sexual media activate abstract social scripts, which may then be used to inform opinions about social issues ---particularly issues dealing with gender equality. But really it just means that porn viewers aren't awfully keen on those who want to take their fun away.

Malaysians are seemingly unaware that recording sexual acts of oneself or of others and keeping them are in violation of the Film Censorship Act 2002.

Ahmad Hilmi Said, director of the Film Censorship Control and Enforcement Division under the Home Ministry, said a person who is selling or owning pornographic films could be charged under Section 5 of the Film Censorship Act 2002 and can be fined between a minimum of RM10,000 (£1,900) to a maximum RM50,000 (£9,600), or face a jail term of not more than five years, or both, if convicted. He advised:

This includes recording oneself or others (in sexual acts); you should not keep it.

Ahmad pointed out there is a trend of people making recordings and storing pornographic videos in their mobile phones. This act would be violating the law.

On 7the September Dutch cable TV station Dusk! will present the very first Porna Award. This Award will go to which ever film our panel selects as their favorite.

The seven films nominated in no particular order are:

• Don Juan's Therapist -- Nica Noelle
• The Kiss -- Kendo
• Skin. Like. Sun. -- Jennifer Lyon Bell
• Your Orgasm Inside Me -- Dane Jones
• Aphrodite Superstar -- Candida Royalle
• A Taste Of Joy -- Petra Joy
• Cabaret Desire -- Erika Lust

The nominated films were selected as best films by the Dusk! panel consisting of thousands of women. At the moment the panel is selecting which of the seven nominees will receive the Porna Award 2013.

Goa, the once popular Indian holiday state, has announced a ban on dance bars, further repressing the party scene in a destination once famous as a dance paradise.

The state has progressively restricted nightclubs and outdoor parties over the last few years.

Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has made sanitising Goa's palm tree-lined beaches a priority to make them more 'family-friendly'. He has now announced:

Dance bars will not be allowed in Goa. There has been a lot of image-beating for the state due to the existence of drugs and prostitution on the beaches.

His administration has also ordered police to remain present on the beaches until midnight. Previously police would withdraw after sunset.

Previous measures against nightclubs and parties, have forced many to close or finish early. Silent discos , in which party-goers wear headphones to listen to the music, have developed as a way to work around the restrictions on outdoor noise.