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Diva stop selling porno fashion chic to girls: petitions delivered in stores this weekend
Collective Shout supporters will deliver our 135-page Change.org petition containing 6000-plus signatures in Diva stores in various states this weekend. We will be letting Diva know personally that pimping one of the signature brands of the global sex industry to its key target customer base of 8-13 year old girls takes corporate social irresponsibility to […]
Diva: ‘Perhaps the most blatant example of consumer disregard we’ve come across’
‘Out of control…outdated damage control tactics…’ Fantastic post from Corporate Failings on Monday about Diva’s spectacular mis-management of the outrage over the company’s pimping of a major brand of the global sex industry to little girls. Why Diva founder should feel very sad In an earlier post the same day, Corporate Failings asked ‘Has Diva lost […]
Big Porn Inc launched in Brisbane: 100 turn out to show support
One hundred friends and supporters gathered at Spoon Deli Cafe in East Brisbane Friday night to celebrate the Brisbane launch of Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global porn industry (Spinifex Press). Five contributors spoke: myself, Dr Betty McLennan, Caroline Norma, Dr Robi Sonderegger and Melinda Liszewski. Scott Stephens, Editor of ABC Religion and […]
Selling women hatred as freedom: why porn is not liberating
Big Porn Inc contributors continue to get a significant run in the media. In the lead up to our Brisbane launch tonight, here are recent pieces by Dr Meagan Tyler, co-editor Dr Abigail Bray, and Dr Helen Pringle. Porn: Just a bit of harmless fun? Pornography is great. Just a bit of fun. It doesn’t […]
Tony Abbott and that porn calendar: not ‘oops’ or tacky but discrimination
Heather Horne and Helen Pringle on porn discrimination in the workplace Last week, Tony Abbott was photographed at a manufacturing company beneath a pornographic calendar image. In a piece titled ‘Naked truth: Factory life laid bare for Tony Abbott’ News.com concealed part of the woman-on-woman porn image with “Oops”. The reporter characterised it as an issue […]
Playboy wants your tween
Why is the Playboy empire peddling its bunny logo to the middle-school set? The Playboy brand has come a long way. Playmates now samba proudly on family friendly fare like “Dancing With the Stars,” and its empire is the subject of a retro-themed fall drama. But are you ready to let your little girl be […]
Petition launched to stop Diva pimping Playboy brand to girls: please sign today!
Why this is Important Diva is an Australian fashion jewellery retailer popular with young girls. Alongside items such as Winnie the Pooh charm bracelets, Disney Princess pendants and Cute Cupcakes Best Friends necklaces, Diva has now chosen to stock Playboy brand products. Playboy has succeeded in embedding its bunny logo on pencil cases, bed linen, […]
DIVA pimps Playboy to girls: Collective Shout calls for boycott
Keep the global brand of the porn industry off our girls – boycott Diva Playboy has been very clever with its marketing, establishing its brand on doona covers, pencil cases, wallets, keyrings, stationery, make-up, youth clothing ranges and even embedded into children’s movies such as Hop. I’ve written about this before. Now DIVA is the […]
Just kids being kids? Sexting and peer-to-peer porn
Historically debates about children and pornography have tended to play out in two directions. Either children are discussed as being the victims used in illegal child pornography, or alternatively they are constructed as the damaged consumers of adult pornography which they inadvertently or deliberately access. Both the “exploited victim” and “damaged consumer” approaches have produced […]
Is porn wrecking your relationship? MTR in Just B magazine
In compiling ‘Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global pornography industry’, the raw and painful experiences of women had a significant impact on us. Men who think viewing porn is harmless – and that the women who care for them shouldn’t take it badly (after all, aren’t the women in porn just ‘fake’ […]
Big Porn Inc is launched!
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 […]
