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Article: Fed: Eros calls for NVE computer games classification

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August 24, 2001
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AAP General News (Australia)
08-24-2001
Fed: Eros calls for NVE computer games classification

By Max Blenkin

CANBERRA, Aug 24 AAP - Australia's sex industry lobby group the Eros Foundation today
called for a non-violent erotica (NVE) classification for currently banned sexually explicit
computer games.

Eros Foundation spokeswoman Polly McGee said the R category (for those aged 18 and
over) as proposed in new draft guidelines was likely to be full of violent material with
minimal sexual content.

"Responsible adult traders do not like their non-violent videos being included in the
same category as Hannibal and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre," she said in a statement.

"There should be a ...

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