See this t.shirt? Where do you think we found it? Some niche not well known store specializing in glamourised violence against women motifs for a specialist market into that kind of thing? For order in a surf magazine marketing women in sexually submissive poses to boys? Perhaps through a more risqué on-line t.shirt seller who […]
Community concerns about the sexualisation of society and the objectification of women should be key principles, says Committee Last week outgoing Senator Guy Barnett, chair of the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, tabled the report Review of the National Classification Scheme:achieving the right balance. The report was the result of the first major […]
It rakes in billions, exploits women, and leaves men disgusted with themselves. A few years ago at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, the biggest porn convention in the United States, Abbywinters.com, an Australian porn company, had one of the largest booths. It bills itself as offering “real, passionate, unscripted” sexual activity by “happy, […]
Please click here for a list of Gail’s other events in Sydney and Melbourne. See also: How pornography hijacks our sexuality: Gail Dines and MTR on Phillip Adams Late Night Live Listen to Gail’s interview on ABC Breakfast yesterday.
The fetishisation of the female backside reached royal heights this week with the global worship of Pippa Middleton’s bum. The frenzied prostration before the bottom of HRH Catherine Middleton’s younger sister and bridesmaid highlights anew the objectification of women deeply entrenched in our culture. This in the Daily Mail: Many women admired her dress, but […]
Collective Shout makes a case for change that puts women and girls ahead of corporate profits Here’s two recent submissions (here and here) Collective Shout made to Federal Government inquiries into outdoor advertising and to an examination of the classification system. On April 4 I appeared before the House Standing Committee on Social Policy and […]
Porn: the wrecking ball of authentic intimate relationships Came across this piece in the New York Magazine on the impact of pornography on male sexuality. It’s rare to see a man talk so honestly about how frequent on-line porn use impacts real world relationships. While of course the author appears to be writing from a purely […]
How convenient to caricature someone whose work you oppose by reducing them to a cartoon parody. Like I haven’t had enough Helen Lovejoy clichés to last a lifetime? Oh, and look, another media studies academic watching The Simpsons. Are we impressed yet? Where Stephen Harrington sees “a graphic critique of post-feminist female sexuality”, I see […]
Normalising porn-inspired sex scenes on mainstream TV Where would you expect to find these pics? Oh, just on a regular episode of Britain’s Next Top Model which screened on Fox TV here this week. In another example of the mainstreaming of sex industry themes, BNTM gave us threesomes, girl-on-girl, girl-on-girl-on-boy, crotch shots, breasts falling out of […]
Boycott Krank I’m tired of writing about t.shirts depicting women in pornified ways and sending a message that violence against women is sexy. But this latest example, brought to you by Krank Clothing, demands a response. This blog is from the Collective Shout website. Please take action. A Collective Shout supporter was recently in a […]
Nina Funnell, who I’m happy to say is become a regular contributor here on the MTR blog, has written a thoughtful analysis of the dead-women-are-sexy Monster video clip soon to be officially released by rapper Kanye West. It has been encouraging to see the issue attracting global coverage. Here’s Nina’s piece. Sex, death and Kanye […]
Pornography will always be exploitative I recall a few years ago being interviewed (read ‘debated’) by two young men on an Adelaide radio station, on the issue of prostitution and trafficking. After cataloguing a litany of harm caused as a result of the global trade in the bodies of women and girls, the boys came […]
