These pictures demonstrate why it’s not a good idea to leave me in a television studio in front of a camera on my own… As Neil McMahon tweeted: My friends have amused themselves with references to leaning towers and lefties. The topic is not quite as amusing. You can see the interview here. I’m at the […]
Our new book, Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Porn Industry, documents the proliferation and normalisation of pornography, the way it has become a global industry and a global ideology, and how it is shaping our world and the harm this causes. The global pornography industry is expected to reach US$100 billion […]
Melbourne academic and author Cordelia Fine has included Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global porn industry in a cover essay in the latest edition of The Monthly. Fine writes: “The men in porn are little more than scaffolding for their erections but it is the women who are the product, and who […]
Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry Melinda Tankard Reist and Abigail Bray (eds) Forthcoming Release—September 2011 … our primary concern with pornography is not that it is offensive (although it often is), but that it is subordination and degradation—mostly of women. It is a human rights issue. The unprecedented mainstreaming […]
The ACT Government is holding an inquiry into prostitution in the Territory. Collective Shout has made a submission to the Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety. Here it is: Collective Shout submission in response to the Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety review of the operation of the Prostitution Act 1992 (1) […]
Canberra needs to follow the Swedish model and provide exit programs for prostituted women. Caroline Norma, a valued contributor to the MTR blog, wrote this piece in response to an article in The Canberra Times March 6 (‘Sex trade eyes the suburbs’) about sex industry pressure for less regulation and more brothels to expand Canberra’s […]
New report says strip clubs harm women, increase crime and are a gateway into prostitution Recently, the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Australia (CATWA) launched a report on the harms of the strip club industry, titled Not Just Harmless Fun: The Strip Club Industry in Victoria. Written by Dr Meagan Tyler, Professor Sheila Jeffreys, Natasha […]
Two young women dead thanks to the fetishisation of female body parts British woman Claudia Aderotimi was only 20 when she died last week after travelling to the US for a procedure to give her a bigger ‘booty’. She paid more than £1000 ($1600 AUD) for silicone injections to give her the look she thought […]
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 […]
Return to school special at Melbourne sex shop Blackboard, schoolbooks, pencils, apple. You associate these things with children right? Children in classrooms, children learning, children bringing an apple for the teacher. Not the sort of things you would usually associate with a sex shop. The “Love Play” adult store in St Kilda, Melbourne, has no […]
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 […]
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 […]
