Rights and advocacy groups
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Electronic Frontiers Australia
"Our major objectives are to protect and promote the civil liberties of users and operators of computer based communications systems such as the Internet, to advocate the amendment of laws and regulations in Australia and elsewhere (both current and proposed) which restrict free speech and to educate the community at large about the social, political, and civil liberties issues involved in the use of computer based communications systems."
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"The Eros Association Inc. is Australia's adult goods and services industry association. . . . The Association's main objective is to seek logical perspectives on sex and rational law reform of the sex industry. 'Make love not war', is the philosophy we bring to our political debates."
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The Erotica Project (Australia)
"The Erotica Project (Australia) is for people who seek legal and cultural reform of erotica in Australia. We support legislative reform to allow adults to engage in informed and consensual erotic practises and living arrangements without discrimination. . . ."
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"The media may have given you the impression that feminists support moves to censor sexual media, so you might be surprised to know just how many feminists out there have been actively opposing such censorship since long before there was an Internet. And we still do. Scare stories about the alleged new dangers of the Internet haven't changed our minds. We still see the same dangers in censorship that we always have, and the 'new' arguments really seem remarkably familiar."
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"Feminists for Free Expression [FFE] is a group of diverse feminists working to preserve the individual's right and responsibility to read, listen, view and produce materials of her choice, without the intervention of the state 'for her own good.'" (NB. FFE is a US organisation.)
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The International Union of Sex Workers
"We demand: * Decriminalisation of all aspects of sex work involving consenting adults. * The right to form and join professional associations or unions . . . "
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National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
"In 2002, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) once again took the lead in defending the rights of individuals and groups in the SM-leather-fetish, swing and polyamory communities. NCSF's coalition of 29 educational and social groups is committed to creating a political, legal, and social environment in the United States that advances equal rights of consenting adults who practice forms of alternative sexual expression." (NB. the NCSF is a US organisation.)
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"NoLose* is a vibrant community of: fat dykes, bisexual women, transgendered folks and our allies, seeking to end the oppression of fat people!"
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"We want to make an internationally relevant Website where alternative/radical/disenfranchised queers can exchange information, network, organise, inspire and be inspired, self represent, challenge ourselves and each other, and learn about DIY ideas and ethics. We hope this site will convey the diversity of queer life, identity, and politics; provide visibility for a definition of queer that confounds and contradicts the limited representation of the 'normal'/consumerist model; and be an active tool for building community that recognises the differences in queerness globally."
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"Scarlet Alliance is the Australian peak body for Sex Worker Organisations/Projects/ Groups/Networks representing issues effecting our members and those of Sex Workers at a National Level."
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"The Sexual Freedom Coalition represents tens of thousands of supporters and scores of campaign groups across Britain. We are run by a small group of volunteers and challenge the Home Office, governments, police and press for the sexual freedom of consenting adults. We hold an annual conference in London."