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7th December - CAAN win Specialist Website-Gay Sex & Fetish Award
CAAN is delighted to announce that we won the Specialist Website award at the Gay Sex and Fetish Awards last night.
The award was collected by gay porn star Cristian Torrent, who is a CAAN supporter. There were lots of press present and it gave Cristian a great opportunity to raise further awareness about the imminent ban on possessing 'extreme' porn.
Big love and thanks go to Spike Rhodes for including CAAN in the nominees, to Cristian Torrent for representing us at this event, to our webmaster, to the gay press for supporting our campaign work, to everyone who voted for us at this fantastic event, and most of all to everyone who has supported and worked with and for CAAN over the last 8 months in scores of different ways.
26th November
CAAN are relieved to at last be told the commencement date for the Extreme Porn Law/Dangerous Pictures Act
will be the 26th January 2009.
Guidance here http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/announcement261108a.htm
See article here in the Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/26/pr0n_ban_date/
Thanks to el Reg for their ongoing coverage of this issue and for their speedy response to the news.
13th November 2.30pm - 5.30pm Westminster Hall (open to the public)
Debate on the 10th Report from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Harmful content on the Internet and in video games.
Tuesday 11th November Porn Industry on Trisha
First several fairly articulate members of the porn industry, a stipper, a dominatrix, prostitute, sex shop owner and a porn star.
And then some varied audience participation.
Finally Liz Longhurst took the stage for the final word.
She claimed Graham Coutts had been grooming her daughter Jane becuase she was beautiful and had a lovely neck. He came across as nice and reasonable but had had an obsession with strangling women since he was 15. He had tried half-heartedly to get help for this but when the internet came along he found lots of sites and other people who liked the same thing and it normalised his obsession.
She went on to tell the audience what happened to Janes body after her death.
Liz Longhurst went on to say she is not against the whole industry- just the extreme end. She said....
'Some people will say they can look at this material and not harm anyone. Lots of people will be desensitized but not go on to murder anyone'. [Trisha interjected with 'but if it just saves one other person then its worth it']
Liz finished with 'these people will think violence towards women is normal'.
Sunday 9th November
Supporters are now going up on our statement support page they include Ben Westwood, Peter Tatchell, Dr Tuppy Owens and Spike Rhodes (see below)
CAAN have been nominated in the ‘website section’ of The first London Gay Sex & fetish Awards 2008. www.londongayfetishawards.com.
Spike Rhodes, a seasoned club promoter announces the launch of London's first ‘Gay Sex & Fetish Awards’ at Union on Saturday 6th December. The event is in celebration of our sexual diversity; Spike feels its an important time to stage such an event now as new laws making it a criminal offence to posses ‘extreme porn’ come into force in the New Year. The awards also support the Consenting Adult Action Network.