David Sullivan is a Welsh pornography magnate and newspaper proprietor; he is owner of the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport. His personal wealth has been estimated at 575 million pounds. Motto: (Royal3) (French) God and my right Anthem: God Save the Queen 4 Map showing the location of the United Kingdom. ... Pornographic movies Pornography (Porn) (from Greek πόρνη (porne) prostitute and γραφή (grafe) writing), more informally referred to as porn or porno, is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity with the goal of sexual arousal. ... The Daily Sport is a tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom by Sport Newspapers. ... The Sunday Sport is a British newspaper which established itself in 1986 as a tabloid. ...

Born in Penarth near Cardiff, South Wales and later a graduate of Queen Mary College, he initially made money in the mail-order business, then spotted a gap in the UK soft-core porn market in the 1970s, and has never looked back. Penarth (Welsh: pen head, + garth cliff or hill, or arth bear) is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, lying on the Bristol Channel and Cardiff Bay. ... Cardiff (English:  Welsh: ) is the capital, largest and core city of Wales. ... Approximate extent of South Wales South Wales (Welsh: ) is an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. ... Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) (until 2000 Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London and still called that in its charter [1] and occasionally still abbreviated to QMW) is the fourth largest College of the University of London. ... Erotica, from the Greek eros, love, are works of art, including literature, photography, sculpture and painting, that deal substantively with erotically stimulating or arousing descriptions. ...

Up to that point magazines available in newsagents had stopped well short of the material readily available today, and models posed demurely, showing their breasts but not much else. Pubic hair had not long made an appearance in these magazines, and Sullivan realized that there was big money to be made by taking things one stage further. A newsstand, known as a newsagents in countries using British English, is a small business that sells newspapers, magazines, snacks and often items of local interest such as postcards and clothing emblazoned with sports team mascots. ... Pubic hair is hair in the frontal genital area, the crotch, and sometimes at the top of the inside of the legs; these areas form the pubic region. ...

One of his early stars was Mary Millington and she and others happily posed for Sullivan's magazines with their legs wide open and their genitals fully exposed. Mary Quilter (November 30, 1945 - August 19, 1979), better known by her stage name Mary Millington, was a 1970s British porn star and nude model who became famous in the through her appearances in David Sullivans magazines and films, most notably in her starring role in the sex comedies...

This was new territory for Britain at the time (full penetration did not become legally available until much later, in the early 2000s) and the police attempted to prevent these magazines being sold. Soho porn merchants had long had a monopoly on fully exposed vaginas, but Sullivan opened them up to the masses. Soho is an area of central Londons West End, in the borough of the City of Westminster. ...

He later saw that the larger profits in the sex trade were in shops rather than magazines, and so moved aggressively into ownership of sex shops, opening them in hundreds of towns and cities outside London after the Government's implementation of the recommendations of the Williams Report. A sex shop is a shop that sells products such as sex toys, pornography, erotic lingerie, erotic books, and safer sex products such as condoms and dental dams. ...

Sullivan's 1982 attempt to import a consignment of sex dolls into Britain had the unintended consequence of lifting all import prohibitions on "obscene or indecent" items arriving from Europe.

Having had the dolls seized by Her Majesty's Customs and Excise officers, his company, Sullivan took the case all the way to the European Court of Justice, and won in 1987. Britain was forced to lift its stringent import prohibitions dating from 1876, because to do otherwise would have constituted an arbitrary barrier to free trade under the terms of the Treaty of Rome. Her Majestys Customs and Excise (HMCE) was, until April 2005, a department of the British Government in the UK. It was responsible for the collection of Value added tax (VAT), Customs Duties, Excise Duties, and other indirect taxes such as Air Passenger Duty, Climate Change Levy, Insurance Premium Tax... The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is formally known as the Court of Justice of the European Communities, i. ... Free trade is an economic concept referring to the selling of products between countries without tariffs or other trade barriers. ... The Treaty of Rome signing ceremony Signatures in the Treaty The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community (EEC) and was signed by France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (the latter three as part of the Benelux) on March 25, 1957. ...

This was particularly helpful to the gay community, at that time under legal attack from a number of directions. The ruling caused HM Customs to drop their high-profile prosecution against the largest British gay community bookshop, Gay's The Word, and thereafter the spate of 1980s prosecutions of gay and lesbian bookshops declined.

In 1986 he launched the Sunday Sport, in collaboration with former soft-core magazine rivals, the Gold brothers. Erotica, from the Greek eros, love, are works of art, including literature, photography, sculpture and painting, that deal substantively with erotically stimulating or arousing descriptions. ...

Sullivan recently owned top race horse David Junior winner of many Group 1 races around the world trained by Irish trainer Brian Meehan the horse was called after his son of the same name, David Junior is now a top Sire in Japan. He also has a horse in training named after another one of his sons which should feature in the 2007 flat racing season.

Sullivan, along with David Gold, is co-owner of Birmingham City will loose —F.C., however Sullivan has recently expressed his desire to sell his share in the club. David Gold is an English red businessman. ...

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