Wigmore Hall is not a place that one would typically expect to find out is intimately connected with the subversion of the sexual morals of the West. If you aren’t a fan of classical music, then its name probably means little to you, but since 1901 this concert hall located in central London has been […]
Go to Part 1. The Video Revolution Just as occurred with the internet almost two decades later, it was a revolution in technology that changed the game when it came to pornography. Small, hard to detect, portable, and easily replicable, the Video Home System (VHS) tape proved to be the perfect vehicle for the flourishing […]
After an interlude, Part IV of this series picks up in the depths of Kings Cross in where the second section of Part III, left off. Following Portnoy’s victory in 1972, obscene and sexually explicit material was riding high in Australia. The abandonment of threshold censorship by the federal government and the collapse of the enforcement […]
Just a twenty-minute walk east from the centre of Sydney, passing along Hyde Park and the traffic sewer of William Street, you will reach what is arguably the most infamous precinct in all of Australia. Kings Cross, or more informally “The Cross,” is not a suburb in the traditional sense of the word; rather, it’s […]
The 10-story Kinkabool tower at 34 Hanlan Street in Gold Coast Go to Part I. Go to Part II. From South Coast to Miami Beach. Further afield from Sydney and Melbourne where the majority of Jews reside, Jewish property developers are also notable on the Gold Coast, performing a now familiar role. It was here […]
Go to Part I. Due to geographic constraints and restrictive rent controls, Sydney was never quite as suburban and low-density as Melbourne prior to World War II. Early flats were built for the working poor near industrial points of the harbor and luxury towers were constructed along Macquarie Street in the city centre, the first […]
