Member of ‘150 Women Who Shake the World’ in Australia with a powerful message American documentary-maker and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) expert Libby Spears arrives in Australia today with a powerful message. “Commercial exploitation of children is not just a third world problem. “The USA has a thriving child sex industry. The same […]
UPDATE: Brisbane Screening October 2 In addition to screenings in Sydney (October 7) and Melbourne (October 9), ‘Playground’ will also be shown in Brisbane October 2. Details and bookings here.
My story is as isolated an incident as the existence of Walmart stores There’s this idea that trafficking happens ‘over there’ somewhere, in some God-forsaken hellhole. There is little understanding that the selling of girls happens every day in so-called enlightened Western liberal democracies. Carrie Bailee’s story of being sold by her father into a […]
Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution: a compelling take down of pro-prostitution myths I recently read Rachel Moran’s autobiography Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution (Spinifex Press, 2013). It is the most compelling take down of pro- prostitution myths I have ever read. As Amnesty International goes against all it supposedly stands for in backing […]
…and one of the bravest women I have ever met Last month I posted a piece by a woman named Carrie, who was sold by her father into prostitution at the age of 9. She wrote about our amazing reunion 14 years after I was involved in attempts to secure asylum for her and her […]
“What happened to us was a nightmare. We worked from 11am to 3 or 4am the next morning, and slept only three or four hours. They treated us like animals. We were sexually abused, we were dragged, we were hit.”- Former sex slave On Monday night ABC Four Corners exposed the stark reality of the […]
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 commodification of sexuality ‘Veronica’ is a 21-year-old Australian woman who has taken up film director-cum-pimp Justin Sisley’s offer to auction her virginity for his film. “I need to do something with my life” is one of the justifications she gives here: [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/11616540[/vimeo] Being paraded in a meat-market style display in a Nevada brothel in […]
