Sex Party Looks To Heat Up Australian Politics

Australia is about to get a new entry into national politics -- a party devoted to sex.

The brains behind the Australian Sex Party, which will be launched in Melbourne later this week, believe that politics has become too stuffy and conservative Down Under.

Describing itself as "serious about sex" the party sees itself as a political response to the sexual needs of Australians in the face of "moral campaigners and prudish politicians."

Party convenor Fiona Patten said the trigger had been the government's decision to place a mandatory filter on the Internet. Under the plan, designed to shield children online, Internet service providers would have to filter any content deemed inappropriate in their feeds to houses and schools.

Users wanting access to uncensored material would have to 'opt out' of the service.

To counter Patten said she thought: "If we can't beat them, join them."

"We want to be in there putting the position which I think is probably held by the majority of Australians, that, yes, by all means protect children, but do not in that way reduces the Internet to a G-rated Internet."

She said an "absolute fear of the word sex" had developed: "And it's just crazy. Sex is as natural to us as food. It's a necessary part of our lives."

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