Sydney Anglicans Under Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald has denounced the Sydney diocesan newspaper with glorifying sadomasochism and denigrating women as sex objects. In an opinion piece published on 4 June 2014, columnist Elizabeth Farrelly stated the cover of the June issue of the Southern Cross offended her “depersonalised pseudo bondage “.

In an article that touched upon the virtues of Australian aboriginal spirituality, the sacred feminine, semiotics and Anglican symbology, Dr. Farrelly asked “What has got into Anglicans? The cover of this month’s Sydney Anglican magazine, Southern Cross, shows a scarcely clad female in black lycra. Headless and hairless, she kneels full frontal; naked thighs, leather finger-gloves, red nails and, centre page, the coveted "box gap". The graphic focus, where all lines converge in swelling cruciform, is her barely concealed crotch.”