If the market wants young, petite, fresh Asian women for sexual use then that’s what it’ll get Caroline Norma Pimps won’t be surprised that bidding has reached $15,000 for a 19-year-old ‘virgin’ Chinese woman currently up for auction for four days of sex. Pimps know what men will pay for, and they know the business […]
“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 porn industry, co-edited by myself and Abigail Bray and published by Spinifex Press, had its first official launch at Readings Books in Melbourne last Thursday. It was a great night. Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles […]
I thought I was coming to Australia for a mix of work and sightseeing. Well, I was correct about the work part, but missed seeing your beautiful country since I spent much of my time holed up in the studios of ABC. My book Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, was, thanks to the […]
An “ironic patriotic comment on capitalist recruitment and identity” says Roger David. In January last year I wrote about how Roger David’s menswear store was expanding from daggy men’s cardies into the violence and abuse t.shirt genre, I wanted to know why the men’s brand thought it acceptable to pimp porn-industry inspired messages about what women […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
And all for a good cause! It was probably intended to be clever. But appropriating the language of the global traffickers in the bodies of little girls in the name of a “good cause” was never going to be a good idea. ‘Innocent. Young. Available. Experience the sensation of buying a girl’. These words serve […]
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 […]
On Monday I ran here a guest blog post by Caroline S. Taylor, Foundation Chair in Social Justice and Head of the Social Justice Research Centre at Edith Cowan University, on the case of the 12-year-old Tasmanian girl forced into prostitution by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend, while in the care of community protection […]
“In a case involving the relentless sexual, emotional, and psychological abuse of a child, the men are protected” A 12-year-old Tasmanian girl is forced into prostitution by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend, while in the care of community protection workers. They advertise her as “Angela, 18”. She is allegedly used by at least 120 men […]
