A preference fling involving both major parties could see the Sex Party win its first seat in state Parliament.

Sex Party leader Fiona Patten was tongue-in-cheek as to why Labor, the Liberals and the Greens were directing their preferences towards her.

“We’re not monogamous,” Ms Patten said.

Thanks to the proportional representation electoral systems for Upper House seats, Ms Patten could be elected even with a small percentage of the vote.

But she hoped there would be significant support for the party, and for it to not just rely on preferences.

“We need to get a good primary vote, we need people to vote for us,” Ms Patten said.

“We’d hope people are looking for a civil libertarian alternative.

“As extreme as our name sounds, we are not an extreme party.”

Ms Patten said voters would be attracted by the party’s policies, not just its name.

Drug law reform would be on the agenda, as it was one of the party’s key planks aside from sexual matters.

“The war on drugs doesn’t work. We need to be brave and look at new approaches,” Ms Patten said.

“We have concerns about privacy, and the amount of information governments can hold on us, like the myki card.”

Sex education in schools and the community was also essential in light of rising rates of sexually transmitted infections and “sexting”.

“It’s time we had honest, frank information out there,” Ms Patten said.

Support for same-sex marriage was also a key policy of the Sex Party, she said.

Ms Patten said she had worked for almost 20 years as a lobbyist for the adult entertainment industry with the Eros Foundation.

She said the election of a Sex Party member to Parliament would be a world first.

In the Upper House, each region has five members. The battle for the fifth spot in Northern Metropolitan region could be between Ms Patten and Labor’s Nathan Murphy.

Source: hearaldsun.com.au