Ryk Goddard interviews MTR on links between Fifty Shades and violence against women A coalition of organisations combating abuse want you donate $50 rather than watch 50 Shades darker. Melinda Tankard Reist explains where the lines are between romance, fantasy and the facts. See also: Nothing says true love like getting a belting and being […]
Violence is the New Black: Fifty Shades and the Glamorisation of Abuse Melinda Tankard Reist ABC Religion and Ethics 9 Feb 2017 “Every fairy tale has a dark side.” That’s the motto of the just released film Fifty Shades Darker, the second in the trilogy of films adapted from E.L. James’s Fifty Shades pulp fiction […]
The dark world of paedophilia exposed The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the recent sentencing of Daniel Morcombe’s killer along with the imprisonment last week of former television star Robert Hughes after being found guilty of nine sex offense against three underage girls, have all heightened public attention on the scourge […]
Over exposure is making teens pawns to porn A 15-year-old boy confided in me after I addressed his class at a Sydney school last year. He cried as he told me he had been using porn since the age of nine. He didn’t have a social life, had few friends, had never had a girlfriend. […]
Addressing the myths of the prostituted Asian woman On July 3 the Sydney Morning Herald ran an article titled ‘Low prices fuel exotic sex trade’ . Accompanied by an alluring photo and informing us that prostitutes from Asian backgrounds offer more exotic services than their Caucasian counterparts and for less money, it read almost like […]
Why did SMH publish this? I’m pondering how it is that the Sydney Morning Herald decided to run this piece yesterday headed ‘True to form the drama queens have been holding court again.’ Robert Grant, for AAP – a news service I usually respect – describes how female players really aren’t very good. […]
