There is no excuse to deny or ignore the undeniable exploitation of countless human beings People have been asking me my thoughts on the recent and sad reports that Somaly Mam’s story of being trafficked into prostitution as a child are not true. I know many good people who have selflessly supported Mam’s work in […]
Whether it hurts the woman or not, the men don’t care The sex industry done well at spinning prostitution as a positive good for all involved. This piece in The Irish Times cuts through the gloss and shows what life is like for many prostituted women (and there’s no reason to believe these experiences are […]
The truth about the porn industry Today I reprint two important comment pieces by UK journalist and feminist Julie Bindel. The first, ‘The truth about the porn industry’ was published recently in the Guardian. It’s about Gail Dines new book Pornland, which I also wrote about in a blog post titled ‘Opposed to porn sex’. Julie Bindel writes: […]
Stop Porn Cultures conference: how industrialised porn harms us all I’ve just come back from the US where I attended the Stop Porn Culture conference in Boston. While I can’t say I enjoyed it quite as much as the enchanted evening listening to James Taylor and Carole King perform in Washington (my smooth-taking mate DJM from […]
Victor Malarek – here’s what he said Award winning Canadian journalist and author Victor Malarek was in Australia recently speaking about the international trade in the bodies of women and girls.The exploitation of women and girls in the sex trade was one of the most neglected human rights abuses in the world today, Victor Malarek said, describing […]
There are some books which chill you to the core. The Natashas: Inside the new global sex trade (Arcade, NY, 2003) by award-winning Canadian journalist Victor Malarek is one such book. A brutal expose of the lucrative trade in the flesh of women and girls from Eastern Europe, The Natashas is a testament to human […]
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 […]
Last month I briefly mentioned a Tasmanian case in which a father, a registered sex offender convicted of possessing child pornography, was given visitation right to his two daughters. I thought the story warranted a more in-depth examination, so I asked Caroline Norma to take a closer look. Caroline is a PhD candidate with the […]
In ‘Girl Slavery in America’, a recent post published on Huffington Post, Executive director of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights, Malika Saada Saar, highlights (like this earlier piece I published) that there is a marketplace for the bodies of girls in the West as well as other parts of the world. She also makes […]
Fancy some violence on Valentine’s Day? Came across this, which is doing the rounds on some Facebook sites: “I’ve got a Valentines poem that has never yet failed to get me into a girls knickers. . . Here we go then . . . Roses are red, Violets are blue, I’ve got a knife now […]
The Wall Street Journal JANUARY 8, 2010 Rights Court Raises Sex-Trafficking Oversight By PAULA PARK The European Court of Human Rights ruled for the first time since it was created in 1998 that sex trafficking is a violation of antislavery conventions, in the case of a 20-year-old Russian woman who died two weeks after she […]
