NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 223

Title

Publisher

Recruit’s Revenge
Star Distributors

Bingramsters Slave Boy
Star Distributors

Runaway Chicken
Star Distributors

Sing Sing Slave Boy
Star Distributors

Slave Meat
Arena Publications

Summer Camp Rape Riot
Star Distributors

Switch Hitting Teen
Star Distributors

The Lady’s Big Cock
Star Distributors

The Neighbor’s Kids
Star Distributors

Tough Chicken
Star Distributors

Transvestite Bride
Star Distributors

Transvestite Husband
Star Distributors

Transvestite Quarterback
Star Distributors

Transvestite Rock Star
Star Distributors

Truckers Slave Boy
Star Distributors

These publications have very little storyline. They concentrate on crude portrayals of sexual activity including coercion, rape, violence, sex with minors and sado-masochism. Within these broad boundaries the range of activities include violent homosexual rape, whipping, mechanical torture, torture by urination and application of excrement, forced oral sex, extremely violent fistings and torture by genital manipulation. The titles Abused at Attica, Big Black Bruiser, Chicken Rapist, Hard Time, Recruits Revenge, Sing Sing Slave Boy, Tough Chicken and Trucker’s Slave Boy, all “rough trade” titles, and all published by Star Distributors, contain pictures of sexual activities so explicit that this factor alone renders them unconditionally indecent. The Tribunal agrees with Mr Wotherspoon that all the publications in this category would be compared to similar heterosexual publications which were submitted to the Tribunal and classified as unconditionally indecent in decision No. 70/89 and 52/89. All the publications in this category are totally lacking in literary merit and are patently of a kind which would be injurious to the public good and each of them, therefore, is classified as unconditionally indecent.

Title

Publisher

Ballsy Lady
Star Distributors

Beach Brute
Star Distributors

Biker Slave
Arena Publications

Brawny Meat
Arena Publications

Frat House Swinger
Star Distributors

Her Lover Wore Lace
Star Distributors

His Black Lover
Star Distributors

His Girlfriend’s Hot Cock
Star Distributors

Hung Black Jock
Star Distributors

Riding the Rods
Star Distributors

Sex Ads
Star Distributors

The Mountain Men
Star Distributors

The President’s Men
Arena Publications

These publications, too, describe graphic sexual encounters. However the ameliorating factor so far as all members of the Tribunal are concerned is that these publications do not contain the injurious elements of coercion, rape, violence, sex with minors and sado-masochism which pervade the majority of the publications in this application which the Tribunal has classified as unconditionally indecent. Certainly all members of the Tribunal viewed with concern the nature of the material in these publications but they agreed unanimously that they differed to a degree from the other materials thus enabling the Tribunal to conclude that each be classified as indecent in the hands of persons under the age of 18 years.

Cautionary Note:
A matter of grave concern to all members of the Tribunal is that none of these publications mention the subject of AIDS and the steps to be taken to avoid contamination by it. Depictions of unprotected sex as in these publications must be a matter of concern because it is anti-social behaviour. The books in this application, and in the great majority of others coming before the Tribunal, routinely depict unprotected sexual activity as though STDs and AIDS did not exist. The Tribunal views with concern the almost complete absence of precautionary measures during sexual activity in all the publications in this application.

Dated at Wellington this 14th day of September 1990.

P. J. CARTWRIGHT, Chairperson.

Indecent Publications Tribunal.

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Decision No. 53/90

Reference No.: IND 46/90

Before the Indecent Publications Tribunal

In the matter of the Indecent Publications Act 1963, and in the matter of an application by the Comptroller of Customs for a decision in respect of the publications contained in application No. IND 46/90. These publications are more particularly referred to by title and publisher in the categories specified in the decision which follows:

Chairperson: P. J. Cartwright.

Members: W. K. Hastings and S. C. Middleton.

Hearing at Wellington on the 11th day of September 1990.

Appearances: No appearance by or on behalf of the importer.

M. J. Wotherspoon on behalf of the Comptroller of Customs.

Decision

The publications in IND 46/90 were commercially imported through Auckland air freight on or about November 1987. Clearance of the publications was not made at that time and seizure by the Collector of Customs was not effected until 7 May 1990. The importer having subsequently disputed forfeiture, the publications have been referred to the Tribunal for classification prior to the commencement of condemnation proceedings pursuant to the Customs Act 1966.

The publications before the Tribunal in this application are mainly male homosexually orientated magazines. In the Tribunal’s finding 8 magazines justified an age restriction of 16 years, another 9 justified an age restriction of 18 years with the remainder, 3, justifying an unconditionally indecent classification. Accordingly the magazines are subsisted below in respect of those particular classifications.

Category A

The Tribunal classifies the following publications as indecent in the hands of persons under the age of 16 years:

The publications in this category feature mainly single male models in a variety of poses and states of undress. The photographs are restrained and place no undue emphasis on the genitalia.

In dealing with the In Touch For Men publications Mr