Australia's sex industry only films a handful of its own movies but the backrooms are busy duplicating porn brought in under copy-right from the US and Europe.
"The mail-order branch is the real money spinner in the industry," says Kallin Dunsire, operations manager of the Adult World warehouse.
The Eros Foundation doggedly pursues the government, campaigning against censorship in its glossy, bi-monthly journal and pushing for a new classification of X-rated videos to legalize them nationwide.
With a national election tipped for December, the Eros Foundation has started to flex its political muscle, saying it has 640,000 people on its mailing list, many rural-based, who will be urged to dump the Howard government.
Sample voting cards with the slogan "Keeping the bastards out of your bedroom" have been prepared to show people how to direct preference votes against the government.
Eros spokesman Adam Herbst says the foundation's campaigning could make a difference in seats held by the coalition government with a slim margin, and help wipe out the five-seat majority with which Howard is clinging to power.
The foundation funded stripper Jody Moore as an independent candidate in a by-election in the Queensland seat of Ryan in March this year -- and she won 1.86 percent of the vote.
"There's a lot of seats in the coming election that are held with a margin of less than half a percent," Herbst said.
"Just 200 or 300 votes could change these seats so we could make a critical difference come election day."
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