Zombie Porn and Australian Sex Parties

Todd Jepperson


Again, kids, sorry for the late post. It seems that Australia has some interesting happenings going on. Apparently, there’s a Sex party running in their Victorian election. Sound a bit ambiguous? It did to me too.


First, a little background info. There’s a state called Victoria in Australia. They’re having an election on the 27th of this month. There’s a party campaigning in the election called the Australian Sex Party. Now we’re all on the same page. They have a whole page of policies and mission statements on their site, sexparty.org (Completely SFW.)

Now, here’s where the story gets interesting. It’s illegal, apparently, to have homosexual zombie porn at your film festival in Australia. So, when a guy named Richard Wolstencroft decided he’d stage a little civil disobedience, the law man brought the hammer down. He’s facing criminal charges for screening the film LA Zombie at his film festival on the 29th of August.

From Wikipedia: “The film was due to have its second and third screening as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia on the 7th and 8th of August 2010. However, the Australian Film Classification Board advised festival organizers that the film could not be screened as it was likely to be refused classification. Under Australian law, films that are refused classification may not be imported, sold, or distributed, which precludes screening at public events. In defiance of this censorship, the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, which occurs concurrently with MIFF but screens films regarded as too controversial for the mainstream event, held an illegal screening of L.A. Zombie on the 29th of August. While police did not attend or stop the screening on the night they did raid the home of director Richard Wolstencroft on the morning of November 11, 2010. Wolstencroft admitted to police that an August 29 screening had occurred but claimed to have destroyed the only copy of the film afterwards. Victorian police have stated that he will face court at a later date.

Not surprisingly, Wolstencroft is now publicly supporting the Australian Sex party and their tolerance of sexual free speech and sexual expression. Too little too late? Respectable demonstration for free speech? Read all about it by following this link, and decide for yourself.