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Baise Moi, Plain Smut and Violence?
Thursday, 16 May 2002, 7:00 pm | Barbara Sumner Burstyn
For the moral high-grounders among us the decisions to ban the movie Baise Moi both in New Zealand and Australia must seem like a victory for all that is good in the world. Certainly Baise Moi is pornographic in many aspects. There's real-time sex ... More >>
The Abortion Bonus
Friday, 3 May 2002, 9:04 am | Barbara Sumner Burstyn
In a similar way to the economic upside that is now being attached to divorce – that it doubles the market – researchers are now redefining the economic and social consequences of abortion. Abortion used to be a purely moral issue with the debate surrounding ... More >>
Zero Tolerance Makes Zero Sense
Thursday, 25 April 2002, 11:51 am | Barbara Sumner Burstyn
We need a New York-style zero tolerance approach which has reduced violent crime in that city by 30 percent,” said ACT party leader Richard Prebble on March 22. The press release goes on to state that violent crime in New Zealand has risen by 14.9 ... More >>
Restoring Testosterone
Thursday, 18 April 2002, 9:50 am | Barbara Sumner Burstyn
What’s it like to be a man? No really, what is it like? Short of putting one into therapy for 10 years and extracting marrow from bone we may never know. Not because we don’t want to or because men are aliens but because men don’t seem to know themselves. More >>
Final Acts, Last Rights
Tuesday, 9 April 2002, 10:47 am | Barbara Sumner Burstyn
Final Acts, Last Rights - The ungainly process of dying under the influence of the medical profession. We’re in the ambulance and the medic is asking my elderly mother-in-law a set of simple questions; her name and age, the day of the week, the season and ... More >>
Email Lovers - Deleted with Impunity
Thursday, 4 April 2002, 9:22 am | Barbara Sumner Burstyn
Email was always destined for indispensability. It has all the ingredients for addictive personality types, going far beyond just the feeling of pleasure at hearing from a friend. Email is ego supporting, instant gratification, as if self-esteem is tied ... More >>
POV: The Love That Dare Not Bark Its Name
Thursday, 28 March 2002, 9:43 am | Barbara Sumner Burstyn
Are dogs are the new humans? Just ask Philip Buble, the 42 year-old writer of the Zoophilia Manifesto and the poster boy for zoosexuals all around the world. More >>
POV: This Won’t Hurt A Bit
Thursday, 21 March 2002, 12:14 am | Barbara Sumner Burstyn
When it comes to immunization, who do we believe? British leader Tony Blair recently re-ignited an old battle by refusing to say if his young son Leo had been immunized. More >>
POV: 100% Pure?
Thursday, 14 March 2002, 11:28 am | Barbara Sumner Burstyn
Call me paranoid but after last weeks ruling by the Privy Council, I'm installing a mega microfilter on my tap water and importing Fit Fruit and Vegetable Wash, the new North American spray for food obsessives that removes chemical residues from ... More >>
P.O.V: Teachers' Pets
Wednesday, 6 March 2002, 10:21 am | Barbara Sumner Burstyn
There's a special place, somewhere between martyrdom and pariahdom we reserve for people who scratch the veneer of our sexual self-deception. And Amy Gehring is going there. More >>
POV: Plushie Love
Thursday, 28 February 2002, 9:20 am | Barbara Sumner Burstyn
In the seven years since the founding of the first online plushophile website, organizers say their community has mushroomed from a few people discussing their obsessions with soft toys to include thousands of adherents worldwide. More >>
POV: Where Have All The Playgrounds Gone?
Friday, 22 February 2002, 9:24 am | Barbara Sumner Burstyn
Do you remember it? Hanging upside down from a parallel bar, your dress tucked into your undies, your hair like a fan beneath you. And you're swinging from your tightly hooked knees, dangling your arms, and imagining yourself flipping up or even letting ... More >>
P.O.V: Cash And Carry
Monday, 18 February 2002, 10:58 am | Barbara Sumner Burstyn
Suddenly money as motive is immoral, at least if you're an impoverished woman renting the only space you have left. Your womb. But what of the people who buy the babies? Are they not the true immorals? More >>
