In June this year Hugh Hefner opened a new Playboy Club in London. When asked about the feminist demonstrators outside, Hefner said: “Playboy and the Playboy Clubs were the end of sexism.” The sad thing about this statement is that Hefner probably believes it. Hefner is at one with those postmodern radicals who believe girls […]
Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global porn industry, co-edited by myself and Abigail Bray and published by Spinifex Press, had its first official launch at Readings Books in Melbourne last Thursday. It was a great night. Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles […]
If Playboy isn’t porn what is? Today a guest blog post by Clive Hamilton, Australian author, Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University and a contributor to Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls. Here Clive takes on Dymocks Bookstore for selling Playboy and makes […]
