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Aussie
Anti-Porn Crusade Cinches Win Over Playboy
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Release: American Family Association
AFA
Journal March 2001 Edition
The
Australian Federation For the Family (AFF)
has ended a 17-year-campaign against Playboy
magazine in that country with an unprecedented
and complete victory: the Australian version
of the magazine has closed its doors.
AFF,
which is affiliated with American Family
Association, began the battle against Playboy
in 1983. Founders Jack and Margaret Sonneman
(See AFA Journal, 1/01.) have never doubted
they could prevail against the infamous
Playboy. "When we began, many tried to convince
us that we could not succeed," Jack said.
"We chose not to believe them. We chose
to believe God."
The
fight against Playboy was won in a succession
of smaller steps. For example, AFF targeted
advertisers who would be more subject to
consumer disapproval, and all the advertisers
eventually canceled their contracts with
the magazine.
AFF's
activities against Australian porn in general
also hurt Playboy. The ministry successfully
lobbied legislators to raise the age in
which girls could appear nude in pornography--from
16 to 18 years old. AFF also convinced legislators
to pass laws restricting children's access
to porn in the stores which sell such materials.
Jack
Sonneman said AFF's next target will be
Australian Penthouse, the Down-Under version
of the U.S. porn rag. He said that, over
the last two decades, Penthouse circulation
has dropped from 400,000 to 78,000.
"Over
the years we have declared this [fight against
porn] a ‘winnable war' and we are winning
it a battle at a time," Sonneman said. "We
will continue this war until all our children
are safe from porn."
http://www.afa.net/journal/march/pornc.asp
This
article is reproduced with the Permission
of the Australian Federation for the Family
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