Announcing first national gathering of sex trade survivors this weekend – Media Release
April 6, 2016 CATWA condemns threats of violence at sex trade conference See also: Anti sex trade conference, survivor stories book launch Melbourne April 9-10
Tag: sex industry
Hit, kicked, starved: the violence I endured from my porn fuelled boyfriend – young survivor speaks out
Brooke, 21, tells her story for the first time Brooke, 21, survived a year of abuse at the hands of her porn-fuelled boyfriend who bashed her if she resisted the porn inspired acts he demanded. Last Tuesday Brooke and I shared a platform at a breakfast gathering of civic leaders, teachers, police domestic violence & […]
Growing Up in Pornland: Girls Have Had It with Porn Conditioned Boys
“[I want] better education regarding sex for both boys and girls [and] information about pornography, and the way it influences harmful sexual practices.” These are the words of Lucy, aged 15, one of 600 young Australian women and girls who took part in a just-released survey commissioned by Plan Australia and Our Watch. The survey, conducted […]
All porn is revenge porn
Meagan Tyler tackles the false separation between revenge porn and commercial porn By Meagan Tyler In recent years, there has been growing media coverage, academic research, government interest, and public anger about what’s known as “revenge porn.” But a false separation between “revenge pornography” and the proliferation of commercial pornography undermines existing analyses. The basics of revenge pornography are often […]
The ABC’s sex industry promotion
Last week I was one of 12 panelists on the ABC2 program ‘Australians on Porn’. I’d had my hesitations about participating, the producers assured me of fair treatment and a serious discussion how porn was shaping sexual attitudes and behaviours. What transpired was a wank fest and sex industry promotion. We saw and heard from […]
McNally and Murphy expose ‘feminist’ whitewashing of the sex trade and how SlutWalk fails us
Re-branding exploitation as choice “The realisation that on issues related to poverty and sexual exploitation, there is no solidarity from Australian feminists… “…I had wrongly assumed that those leading the charge against sexism would examine how ethnocentrism […]
Pole dancing for girls: how a sex industry practice puts them at risk
‘We are enrolling them into a billion-dollar global industry that objectifies, oppresses and conditions women to believe they are created for sex’ Jemma Nicoll The studio is dim. Neon lights flash around the room in a club-esque fashion. A swarm of what appears to be 6-year-old girls climb, twist and twirl around the floor-to-ceiling iconic […]
ACT sex industry exhibition ignores the brutal experiences of women like me: prostitution survivor speaks out
Maybe next time there could be an exhibition for survivors like me? By Donna* Last month a new exhibition – X-Rated; the sex industry in the ACT – opened at the Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG). The exhibition is funded by the ACT Government and the Interchange General Practice. It is of particular interest […]
‘I paid for her, I can do what I want with her’: No you can’t saysTom Meagher at anti-prostitution campaign launch
Prostitution: We Don’t Buy It Launched this week in Ireland, ‘Prostitution – We Don’t Buy It’ is an Irish movement organised by The Reach Project, encouraging men not to buy prostituted women. The new movement was launched by Tom Meagher, bereaved husband of Melbourne woman Jill Meagher who was murdered in September 2012 by serial […]
Sexual pressure and degradation: This is what porn has done to every woman I know
‘The pornographic vocabulary of sex as the violent debasement of the female body had seeped out from screens and into the lives of women’ There’s a shift happening. Perhaps not quite enough yet to call it a tipping point. But something is going on. When my colleagues and I were working on ‘Big Porn Inc: […]
‘Management should starve girls like this to make them perform’: men who buy women for sex
How come the sex industry never has anything to say about the johns and punters – the kind of men, for example, who share their ratings of women with other men in the way you might recommend a meal or place to stay? While they continue to roll out selected prostituted women as human shields* […]
The Scarlet Alliance says trafficking is a myth. It opposes penalties for brothels selling trafficked women and exit programs for women who want out. So why are we funding them?
I wrote earlier how the sex industry went into overdrive over some fair questioning on ABC Lateline last week. The industry’s meltdown over the program demonstrated how hostile it is to any light being shed on the realities of the business of sexploitation which profits from the bodies of women. This blog post exposes the facts […]
