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Fiona Patten is the president of the Eros Foundation, the Adult industry's association and lobby group. Patten was born and raised in Canberra, but she spent some of her school years in Washington.
She studied fashion design, and in 1988 started her own house called Body Politics. After putting on a fashion parade for sex workers, she was invited to become the Executive officer for WISE (Workers In Sex Employment), a group set up to educate Canberra sex workers about AIDS.
In 1992, she joined forces with Robbie Swan, the lobbyist for the Adult Video Industry Association, and formed the Eros Foundation. In the same year she ran in the ACT elections, gaining the fourth highest individual vote in her area. This 'stunt' helped put the Eros Foundation on the map.
Since then, Patten has remained president of the Eros Foundation. She contributes to the Adult Industry Review (formerly the Sex Files), and is widely quoted in the media on matters to do with the sex industry.
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| book - Laughter and Light - Inside the Australian Sex Industry . 00-00-1997 |
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Phillip Adams,
Robbie Swan
David Haines
Beatrice Faust
Jill Mathews
Rosalie Woodruff
Paul Wilson
Kimberly O'Sullivan
David Barnett
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| A collection of Articles, both written for the book, and from other sources, about the state of the industry. Contains useful stats on the numbers of Austra...[full record]
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| book - Laughter and Light - Inside the Australian Sex Industry . 00-00-1997 |
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Phillip Adams,
Robbie Swan
David Haines
Beatrice Faust
Jill Mathews
Rosalie Woodruff
Paul Wilson
Kimberly O'Sullivan
David Barnett
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| A collection of Articles, both written for the book, and from other sources, about the state of the industry. Contains useful stats on the numbers of Austra...[full record]
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| book - Laughter and Light - Inside the Australian Sex Industry . 00-00-1997 |
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Phillip Adams,
Robbie Swan
David Haines
Beatrice Faust
Jill Mathews
Rosalie Woodruff
Paul Wilson
Kimberly O'Sullivan
David Barnett
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| A collection of Articles, both written for the book, and from other sources, about the state of the industry. Contains useful stats on the numbers of Austra...[full record]
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| newspaper - Love and XXXes from Australia The Age. 17-02-1998. p.Metro 1 |
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Padraic Murphy
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| A description of the re-emergence of Australian Adult movies. Discussion of the 'X' rating and how the Adult film industry can compete overseas
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| newspaper - Porn:/Taboo or not Taboo? The Age. p.1 |
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Sonia Harford
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| Harford looks at the reasons why 'porn' is in style once more. Very in depth with a good list of contacts. This is definitly a good starting point when loo...[full record]
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| newspaper - States to strip porn videos of X rating The Age. 29-10-1998. p.11 |
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Andrew Darby
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| The story reports on the meeting of Attorneys General who decided to change the rating of adult film from X to NVE. The NVE rating has been suggested since ...[full record]
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