As published on Collective Shout
We recently spoke out about online clothing retailer “Cafepress” advertising vulgar, sexualised clothing for babies and children on its website. Onesies that were made available online included “I Love sluts”…”blow job instructor” and “No gag reflex.” We shared an image of just some of these products on Facebook. Thousands shared the image online and voiced their shock and disgust to friends. Many wrote to Cafepress pledging never to shop with them again.
Cafepress posted a response to the protest, both on its own Facebook page and in the comments section of the Collective Shout Facebook page.
It was encouraging to see Cafe Press’s stated intention to remove the products. However weeks after the protest, it appears that Cafepress hasn’t taken this issue seriously at all. “Sexual humor baby clothing” is still a category of clothing on the site with thousands of items listed.
An article about Cafepress published in WA Today featured comments from Justine O’Malley from child abuse prevention organisation Protective Behaviours WA:
“They’re really inappropriate sexualised messages,” she said.
“Of course the infant themselves can’t read it, but other children might be able to and adults can read them; so we’re putting children in a sexualised space.
“Sex and children; those two things just don’t go together.”
You can hear more from Justine O’Malley in an interview on 6PR882 radio. Listen here.
You might like to ask Cafepress why sexualised, hardcore and violating children’s clothes are still available on its website. Contact them through the website here and on Facebook here.
6 Responses
I went on the Cafepress website but couldn’t find the clothes and images you have mentioned.
The only thing I find more incomprehensible than the fact that someone has these for sale is the fact that there would be a market for them. Consider my mind boggled.
It’s there! If you choose the Baby Clothing option and type in Sexual Humor” in the search bar (American spelling “humor”) and click search. There are lots of inappropriate, sxually explicit baby and toddler sized clothing. I’m appalled, >I
How totally f***ed up in the head would you have to be to put your or anyone else’s child in these clothes. Satan is obviously investing heavily in the baby and children’s clothing industry.
I am disgusted that anyone would find these messages on children’s clothing “funny” but has anyone else noticed the irony of the statement “sex and children don’t go together”? ummm……hello???
Well done Nicole for following this up! This is truly ghastly product.