Teen girl takes life after boys share image of her graffitied and defaced body

Sexting, Shame and Suicide: a shocking story of sexual assault in the digital age This essay  was published last September but I’ve only just come across it. I keep thinking of Audrie and her body defaced and graffitied, the images shared and consumed. Her waking in horror to discover the markings all over her body […]

New study shows massive rise in intensely sexualized female images

“A decisive narrowing of media representations of women” A new study by Erin Hatton, PhD, and Mary Nell Trautner, PhD, assistant professors in the Department of Sociology, Buffalo University, has found sexualised imagery of women has increased a massive 89 percent from the 1960s to the present. The authors of ‘Equal Opportunity Objectification? The Sexualization […]