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No. 3401.
PERTH, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1969.
(Registered at the Ci.P.O., Perth ,or transmission by post as a Newspaper.)
Price 8c.
14 ;"neoft Core' Pornography IS CENSORSHIP OUT OF DATE? MANY PEOPLE THINK SO. SOME C OUNTRIES HAVE ALREADY REMOVED ALL RESTRAINTS ON SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR BETWEEN CONSENTING ADULTS, NO MATTER HOW PERVERTED. THE SAME FREEDOM—SOME WOULD C ALL IT FRANKNESS—IS NOW BEING CLAIMED FOR SPEECH, LITERATURE, THE STAGE AND SCREEN. THE QUESTION IS . . . " WHY ? "
DRESSED FOR THE OCCASION
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, THE REV. DR. B. R. ADDERLEY, PH.D., B.A., EXAMINES IN THIS ARTICLE THE MOTIVES UNDERLYING THE PRESENT-DAY FLOOD OF PORNOGRAPHIC MATERIAL AND SUGGESTS SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE.
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C AN any kind of literature genuinely be called corruptive ?
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Because of lack of research in this field, the point could ivaji be regarded as largely conjectural. oven; Many psychiatrists tend to discount the influence of either law . or visual matter on criminal action. In their view, and reading s es the worst to be feared from the most obscene type of literature COD, C/0. is the encouragement it may give people who are already Bev. perverted to indulge themselves in ways in which they were previously unaware or in which they were uninstructed. More often, though, according to this school of thought, people who for own buy pornography are simply seeking either a substitute earn practice or a vicarious addition to it.
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Poland is not forgotten and for special occasions, like the Polish Mass and Eucharistic procession at Clontarf last Sunday, out come the national costumes to show that although they zre good Australians t hese girls remember their origins.
No Holds Barred!
IN the Australian frame of reference, the Uni- S.A. educationist, Sister special reference to the and all the apparatus of ly to create this taste. Mary Campion, a lectur- t ype of school they atmodern education are ( 4) It is just too facile versity is seen not as shaping the nation's destiny, er in Education at the tended. based on the belief that to say that the sexual but as the instrument of various sectors of the University of Adelaide, It was submitted in they do. People are cer- appetite is the same as community. Our concept of the University is not who was recently awardJuly, 1966, and recomany other human appetainly influenced by readed the M.B.E. for her mended to S.A.I.T. Exeing the Bible. No one, I tite. It is, in fact, start- so much one of a community of an intellectual contribution to educa- cutive for publication by think, would deny that lingly different. You will elite, as of one tier in a single system of pu;.a!;:. tion. the Research Committee the inflammatory anti- find very few people education that encompasses primary, secondary Submitted for the de- of the Institute. Semitic literature of the who want to eat things gree of Master of EducaIn her summary, Sister and tertiary units. that are not food, or who Nazis influenced the fortion, the work investi- Campion says that studies mation of public opinion want to do other things Two points arise from and large indicated the gates the success and of university successes in Germany to such an with food instead of eat- this concept of Univer- existence of a -schooling failure of first-year full- and failures in other extent that it largely ing it. We don't as a rule sity education—precisely factor" of being account- time students at the Uni- States had led to the contolerated the jump from eat sand, nor do we use a because the University is able for the success or versity of Adelaide, with CONTINUED PAGE 3 the printed word to the stick of celery to paint a viewed as a public utility, failure of students at brutal action. In view of house. In other words, deep concern is felt at University levels. these things, to claim perversions of the food high failure rates, which that pornography is ex- appetite are rare, but are seen as evidence of Better Prepared ceptional. having no ef- perversions of the sex waste of public money. fect, would seem to be a appetite are numerous, Because the work of the Students from indevery unsound assump- hard to cure and fright- University is seen as the pendent and Catholic ening. tion indeed. of the work of extension schools saw themselves the secondary school, as better prepared than NEWS of the death and (2) The modern busifailure at the tertiary LIES those from State schools a short resume of the ness world is far from W HAT level has resulted in the for making the adjust- life of REV. FATHER foolish in money mat(5) Every day and all attention of research S AFEGUARD? ters. It does not throw day, through popular workers being turned ment to university life. J. F. O'SULLIVAN (picmoney away. Modern songs, TV, the movies, more and more towards according to a thesis on tured) were published It is further obvious advertising would hardly the press, we are fed lies the quality of education success and failure of recently in "The Record." that a TOTAL safeguard be so insistent and exfirst-year university stuabout sex. We are told offered in secondary against the possibility of pensive if it had no indents, recently published Father O'Sullivan was a till we are sick of hear- schools. weak-willed the South Australian very highly revered man by or impres- fluence. Our sales resist- ing it, that sexual desire whose devotion and serRecent surveys, re- Institute of Teachers. sionable people being ance is subject to con- is the same as any of our criminally thesis, which vice to the people of The corrupted by stant assault till we be- other natural desires, ports and theses have What they read or view come easy victims for and that, if we would been offered academical- marks the Institute's the North-West was well cannot be had, except the soft sell. Can we give up the silly old Vic- ly in regard to Catholic first venture into such known and acknowledgthrough imposing a more claim that in the sexual torian view of sex, every- schools and independent type of publication, was ed. His funeral took sweeping form of censor- sphere we are simply not thing in the garden schools. These have by written by a well-known place after concelebrated s-NO than a democratic influenced when our sexMass at St. Francis would be lovely. Sex in society could conceivably ual sales resistance is 1969 has certainly thrown tised itself as portraying put ourselves at the Xavier's Cathedral, Gertolerate. But if a TOTAL being so constantly got off Victorian restraint, "sex and horror as never mercy panderers aldton. of safeguard is for all prac- at? but is our sexual garden seen before." It is not whose sole aim is to tical purposes Among the conceleout of the surprising that the film make money out of us by any the lovelier for it? question it is equally were the Bishop brants (6) At one end we was called "Repulsion." selling a product which true that we are P Geraldton, ORNOGRAPHY Most Rev. F. X. Thomas, who also apof for unfit basically is spend millions each year Pr What possible effect oaching the point of no the panegyric, The Lord Abbott of New consumption? preached uman h on education with the safeguard screencan the public ( 3) Pornography, we at all. Is this d are told, is for the few intention of forming a ing of such a film have? After all, there are pure Norcia, Most Rev. Gregory Gomez, 0.S.B.. and five esirable? safeguard other priests from the North-West. Tributes to the and is, in addition, bor- balanced, self-controlled Doesn't it rather make food acts to To help us arrive Are labour and self-sacrifice of the deceased priest were health. bodily our at citizenry. a One of the siderational the spending of millions ing. How then account outlook on the for the fact that in Am- effects we hope for is an on public education seem our minds and souls and received from people of all shades of belief and Whole problem of pornoelevated public taste. At rather pointless? In the particularly the minds conviction. !ral3h17 it might be use- erica it is a booming the other end, we find sacred name of freedom and souls of our children business. Books are not All to All sections of the community and representatives Douits consider a few published if they do not much of modern enter- must we continue with- so unimportant that they from the parishes where he worked came to pay together. sell. To say that publish- tainment and certainly out protest to tolerate cannot be similarly pro- tribute to the man who had served them well. A (1) Let us ers of pornography are all pornographic produc- this constant undermin- tected? consider 'Irst plane had been chartered from Perth by priests whether If we take no action. what we merely catering for an tions destructive and ing of our educational read or and friends who knew Father O'Stillivan well, but taste. of public corrosive see have any e xisting taste is naively efforts? Have we who do we not in effect be, .luence on us irlf was unable to leave the airport because of heavy corunwitting bill come the foot the educational at all. to assume that no atSome time ago in Perth most fog. Text certainly they do. tempt is being made by a picture was screening no right of self-defence ruptors of our own chilbooks, visual aids the publishers deliberate- which blatantly adver- in the matter? Must we dren? May he rest in peace. But not everyone guaLified to speak on the matter takes so sanguine a view of the problem. Some of us consider it menacing enough to warrant much tighter control of books and photographs, p art icu larly photographs, if these make an appeal to perverted Or sadistic incl inations. We are convinced that such material can result in serious crime through arousing dormant sexual fantasies, goading into action people with abnormal sexual desires.
Tributes To A Devoted Priest