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Australian Sexuality Collection

Accessing collections Special collections Australian Sexuality Collection

The Australian sexuality collection contains information on sex, sexuality, erotica and pornography in Australia. This includes publications, periodicals, audio-visual material, posters, board games and realia.  The collection has been added to by businesses in the sex industry, Australia's HIV/AIDS organisations, gay & lesbian groups, sex worker associations, IV drug user groups, and individuals.

The collection includes the following sub-collections:

Eros Association Publications and Archives

The Eros Association (previously named Eros Foundation) is a national lobby group for the sex industry in Australia, based in Canberra. The collection was donated by the Association.  The material is mostly Australian and covers the industry's perspective on censorship, pornography, erotica, civil liberties, gay rights, sex and sexuality, sex work, sexually transmitted diseases and legal issues. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, reports to committees, inquiries and publications (including periodicals and audiovisual items) of affiliated groups and members. Affiliated groups and members include Australian sex worker associations, IV drug user groups, gay & lesbian groups and AIDS councils. There are also pamphlets and posters on safe sex & safe injecting.

Go to the Eros Collection in findit@flinders. (Add additional search terms in the search box to search within the collection)

Reason Party/ Australian Sex Party Archives

The Reason Party/ Australian Sex Party Archives is an archival collection containing material pertaining to the establishment and running of the Australian political party. 

The Australian Sex Party was a political party established upon civil libertarian political thought. Founded in 2009 by Fiona Patten and Robbie Swan, the Australian Sex Party formed in response to frustration with the lack of social change on censorship, drug law reform, assisted dying and marriage equality.  Members of the Eros Association were involved in the establishment of the political party. This created strong links between the Australian Sex Party and the Eros Association, Australia’s leading adult-industry body. 

Deregistered in 2017, the Australian Sex Party was relaunched as the Reason Party. Originally launched as the political extension of the sex industry in 2009, the political party now describes itself as a movement of common sense. Since registration in 2018, Reason Australia continues to advocate for civil liberties while separating official ties to the Eros Foundation.  

The collection includes newspaper clippings, articles, advertisements, correspondence (including letters, emails, and inquiries), audio visual items, documents, records, election materials and realia. The collection also contains the autobiographical book, correspondence and parliamentary speeches of Reason Party leader, Fiona Patten.

Scarlett Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association archives

The Scarlett Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association archives contains material relating to the work of Scarlett Alliance, as well as broader sex worker information. There is also material on the HIV and Harm Reduction sector. The material includes reports, campaign material, publications, educational resources and diaries. The material was donated by Scarlett Alliance.

LGBTIQ+ cultural archives

The LGTIQ+ cultural archives contains publications, periodicals, ephemera and audio-visual material relating to the LGBTIQ+ community in Australia. 

Conditions of access

Access to archival material is restricted to bona-fide researchers.

Enquiries should be made initially to the Special Collections Librarian. Application to use specific parts of the collection must be made to the University Librarian.

Some of the material (both published and archival) is sexually explicit and RESTRICTED (Classification 2) by the Office of Film and Literature Classification and is not available to persons under 18 years of age.

Material may be embargoed for a given period of time and special clearances may be required.

Need further information?

Special Collections
Flinders University Library
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide SA 5001

special.collections@flinders.edu.au

1300 354 633 (Option 2)

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Sturt Rd, Bedford Park
South Australia 5042

Ph: 1300 354 633 (Select 3)
Email: library@flinders.edu.au

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