The Australian Sex Party will launch its classification and censorship policies before the third night of screenings at tomorrow’s Sexy International Film Festival. Speakers will include Angela White, an international erotic actress and Sex Party candidate for the seat of Richmond; Jason Turley, the coordinator of the Film festival playing this week in Melbourne, Tom Killen a sex party candidate and games developer and Sex Party president and Northern Metro candidate, Fiona Patten.

The Sex Party is calling for a complete review of the Victorian Classification Act and for the re introduction of a limited Victorian Classification Board to allow the state to classify R18+ computer games and circumvent the federal classification scheme.

Ms Patten said that Victoria needed to show the Federal government that the current veto on approving R rated computer games for all states by South Australia, could easily be overcome by hiring a few trained classifiers and setting up a temporary office in the Attorney General’s office. “The Commonwealth would very quickly change the arrangements at SCAG if one state showed it was prepared to go it alone on this popular issue”, she said.

Angela White is a feminist pornographer’ who has made over 100 erotic films and has also starred in Australian productions such as SBS’ Fat Pizza. She said that she was outraged that the X18+ films she had made and sold in the USA like ‘Taped Evidence’ and ‘Big Boob Paradise’, were all illegal in Victoria. She was sending copies of the films to Attorney General Rob Hulls for his adjudication.

Jason Turley is a Melbourne film maker and Festival Director who said that the Classification Board’s criteria for allowing the films in his festival were absurd because the Board didn’t even view the films before making a decision. “They simply ran off a check list of words like ‘breasts’, ‘open vagina shots’ etc etc without even considering the context”, he said.

According to a news report in Christian Today, the Victorian Coalition has promised to take action against pornography including the illegal sale of X18+ films, by turning consumer affairs inspectors into ‘porn police’, as has recently occurred in NSW.

6.30pm, The Burlesque Bar, 42 Johnston st, Fitzroy.