http://twitter.com/AusWomenOnline/status/16384461041

http://www.pennyauctionwatch.com/2010/05/swipebids-jesse-willms/

David Fanshaw
http://www.v3Dates.com

I didn’t even know that STotC had already done a topic on AWO and the rampant ignorant women that run it.

I also wrote to them saying something along the lines of that I’m embarrassed to be an Australian woman if the likes of them are claiming to speak on my behalf. and also that before long their archaic views will be ignored, because freedom of speech loving gen y will soon be in control of the country.

I wrote this letter to Minister Conroy and had no response . I thought with your unyeilding support of him you would be able to get it through to him for me…

Dear Minister,
Your work towards the filtering of online content to all Australians is ludicrous. We are a nation of free thinking free speaking people with some of the best minds in the world. You seek to shelter us from the information age and impose on us a view of the world from behind rose coloured glasses.
As adults we deserve the right to censor our own information and place restrictions on what our children view as well.
As Australians we deserve the right to free speech and the ability to read and share our opinions and points of view from those other than our countrymen.
Preventative education is better than a blanket restriction. You will drive more people to view the information you are restricting simply by placing a taboo on it and escalating the desirability of the information. Educate our children in nutrition and healthy self images rather than dumb them down and shake your finger at them.
Spend the money on educating our society on their rights and options when it comes to terminal care and pain management. Do not remove one of the final bastions of hope and acts of self relief from the desperate amongst us in intolerable pain without cure or hope of respite from the pain.
All of the information you seek to block is available on peer to peer networks and readily accessible to anyone with access to the internet.
A waste of time and money. Spend it on the children and educate them to the dangers the internet poses and help us keep them safe from predators and pedlars.
I hope that your views may change with time and you will seek to re-educate, re-invest and support our nation in their pursuit of education, entertainment, freedom and lastly, relief from personal guilt and pain if so desired. I welcome your retort and look forward with great gusto to an open dialogue on an issue that should only exist in totalitarian states.

Regards

Bit of free advice from somebody who knows a bit about psych research. Carr-Gregg’s routine is often nothing more than conservative middle-class moral panic dressed up in pseudo-scientific rhetoric. He frequently makes claims well beyond what the actual scientific evidence supports. Many in psych are not happy with many of his public statements.

Take everything he says with a large grain of salt.

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“oral and anal sex” (being promoted by the government in the United Kingdom (2003)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article885612.ece

February 21, 2003

Government urges under-16s to experiment with oral sex

By Glen Owen, Education Correspondent

A GOVERNMENT-backed course is encouraging pupils under 16 to experiment with oral sex, as part of a drive to cut rates of teenage pregnancy.

Family campaigners believe that the course, called A Pause, is having the reverse effect by exciting the sexual interest of children.

The scheme, which has been pioneered by Exeter University and is backed by the Departments of Health and Education, trains teachers to discuss various pre-sex “stopping points” with under-age teenagers.

It aims to reduce promiscuity by encouraging pupils to discover “levels of intimacy”, including oral sex, instead of full sexual intercourse.

More than 100,000 children are now taking the course at one in every thirty secondary schools. It forms part of efforts to tackle Britain’s teenage pregnancy rate, which is the highest in Western Europe.

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I DON’T BELIEVE IT’S POSSIBLE TO BLAME THE INTERNET FOR THIS ! Perhaps similar schemes are being promoted in Australia.

In any case I would expect parents to have some involvement, or at least be aware. They should be aware of what their children are doing or seeing or being advised about.

The person making this statement is an “adolescent psychologist”. I would expect that his exposure to this type of issue arises from “problem children” and no doubt his viewpoint is skewed due to his occupation.