“These pictures make me feel worthless” Late last night (12:07am to be precise) I received this comment from 18-year-old Bellatrix in response to Clive Hamilton’s piece Dymock’s Bookstore: Porn Merchants? which I published yesterday. I thought what she wrote such a powerful commentary on the impact of porn magazines on women, I was compelled to […]
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 […]
How we started. Where we’re heading It was a comment about my book, Getting Real: Challenging the sexualisation of girls, which sparked the birth of Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation. A contributor, Melbourne writer and blogger Tania Andrusiak (author of Adproofing Your Kids: Raising critical thinkers in a media-saturated world ) described […]
Latest child abuse book removed but others remain [trigger warning for survivors of child sexual assault] After a global protest and threats of boycott, on-line bookseller Amazon removed The Pedophile’s Guide to Love & Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct from its site yesterday. The book endorses sexual crimes against children. The E. book by […]
Gail Dines and MTR on Phillip Adams Late Night Live Gail Dines, author of Pornland: How porn has hijacked out sexuality – just published in Australia by Spinifex Press- and I were guests on ABC RN Late Night Live last night (repeated this afternoon). We discussed the harms of the global porn industry with well […]
A strong spiritual woman is tamed in Zoo I had this piece published on the ABC Drum Unleashed site this afternoon. Zoo magazine’s pornification of Mary MacKillop shows they consider no woman exempt from pornographic exploitation in pursuit of profit. Australia’s first saint, Mary Mackillop, was a woman who devoted her life to the poor and […]
The latest in the continuing sexualising of young actresses Glee actresses Lea Michele and Dianna Agron cavort in bras, knickers, short skirts, and long socks in a locker room. There are spread legs, lolly-pops, top tugging and come-hither expressions. Michele and Agron’s co-star, Cory Monteith, is fully clothed. He’s not spreading his legs or sucking […]
De-Sexing Sexpo Here’s a piece I wrote about Sexpo, published on ABC Unleashed today. I’ve included some of the pics me and my mate took on the day. I hesitiated to do this. But they illustrate the ugliness I have described. (I have not included more pornographic visuals). — Billed as the world’s biggest health, sexuality and lifestyle […]
“In a case involving the relentless sexual, emotional, and psychological abuse of a child, the men are protected” A 12-year-old Tasmanian girl is forced into prostitution by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend, while in the care of community protection workers. They advertise her as “Angela, 18”. She is allegedly used by at least 120 men […]
Published today on Sexism: alive and well in Australia Virginia Haussegger is right to lament the status of women in other countries and the brutalities and indignities they suffer daily. But attitudes towards women in our own so-called liberated western democracy desperately need an overhaul as well. While I frequently write about the objectification of […]
Why would Woolworths associate itself with the objectification of women? It’s not news that Lynx’s revels in degrading representations of women to promote its body spray. I’ve talked about the company’s ‘Spray More Get More’ campaign which features women transforming into out-of-control-sex-maniacs the second they smell Lynx on a man. Collective Shout has also exposed the sexism […]
The brutalisation of girls In the past couple of weeks I’ve met or heard from young girls whose experiences give further disturbing insight into just how bad things are for girls right now. A 12-year-old girl approached me after I addressed the question ‘Are girls being treeated as sex objects?’ before an audience in Sydney’s […]
