On the weekend – on the eve of International Women’s Day – I wrote about a Facebook slut page, arguing it enabled cyber bullying, stalking and harassment. On the page, photos were posted of girls and women who were labelled ‘sluts’. One was 10-years-old. Another had been bashed (she deserved it, she was a slut). A […]
Transcript of ABC’s Q&A in which precious minutes are wasted as I try to explain the term ‘skanky hos’ Melinda Tankard Reist: What would have been controversial would have been if Tony Abbott had said: “I want my daughters to be skanky hos.” Then you might have had a controversy. Satyajit Das: Sorry, what is […]
Fancy some violence on Valentine’s Day? Came across this, which is doing the rounds on some Facebook sites: “I’ve got a Valentines poem that has never yet failed to get me into a girls knickers. . . Here we go then . . . Roses are red, Violets are blue, I’ve got a knife now […]
The Federal Government is moving to strengthen the nation’s child sex exploitation laws. Until now it hasn’t been an offence to be a member of a child pornography network. If the bills are passed by Parliament that will change and the offence will attract a maximum penalty of 25 years in jail. >more About time. […]
A young woman known as Amy is seeking payment from consumers of pornographic videos and pictures that depicted her abuse. >more I hope she -and others like her – extract millions from the men who fuel the demand for the creation of child sexual assault images.
It was a remarkable case of playing fast and loose with the truth – even by the standards of the Australian Sex Party (ASP). Kids Free 2B Kids expose on ‘pseudo’ child pornography flooding corner stores, milkbars and petrol stations (including 7-Eleven and McDonald’s-Fuelzone) was turned into a claim that Australia had banned small breasted women in pornography. This […]
January 11, 2010 CHILD protection group Bravehearts has welcomed recommendations by a NSW government panel to scrap the defence of “artistic merit” in the use of child pornography images. Read the full article in The Australian
Clive Hamilton has written a commendable piece about the way artistic men who commit sexual crimes are considered above the law and deserving of special treatment. I’ve been thinking a lot about this since a piece in The Australian last week defending Roman Polanski who was just so clever and such a wonderful person and […]
