Auckland, NZ- An Auckland pornographer, who is promoting the Erotica Expo, has gone ahead with a billboard advertisement outlawed by the Auckland City Council.

The council passed a new law in response to prostitution reform which makes it illegal to advertise a commercial sex premises.

The council purports that Steve Crow flouted the bylaw by putting up the billboard on Friday afternoon in a prominent spot next to the northwestern motorway.

Crow appeared on The Holmes Programme and said he would go ahead with his billboard despite council opposition.

The billboard features a head-and-shoulder shot of a fully-clothed woman.

The council claims the Erotica Expo is a commercial sex premises. It said Crow’s billboards offend women and can be harmful to children.

The council said it is taking legal advice and says, Oggi, the company which installed the billboard on behalf of Crow, risks prosecution.

Crow says if the council prosecutes, there is no way he will pay the $20,000 fine.

“I am just a Kiwi who is sick to death of being over governed. Elected officials push me around,” Crow told the Holmes Programme.

Crow made headlines in October of 2002 when the High Court agreed he could photograph adult-film star, Nikki, giving birth for a pornographic movie.

But Nikki had health problems and Crow cancelled the shoot.