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Author/ed of 7 books, speaker, media commentator, Collective Shout co-founder + Movement Director. Tweets my own.
Jan 8 5 tweets 2 min read
Pornography exposure a factor in increase in adolescent child abuse according to an analysis published in the International Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect.

'By far the most common child sexual abuse perpetrator in Australia is another under-18 known to the victim, with numbers spiking in recent decades...' 1/ “Adolescent consumption of pornography, especially when violent, may lead to distorted sexual scripts that legitimise sexual coercion and abuse, enhance its likelihood in lived experience, and undermine sexual activity with full, free and voluntary consent,” the article says.

Using information from the landmark Australian Child Maltreatment Study, a nationally representative sample of more than 8,500 people aged 16 and over, the peer-reviewed article clearly shows child sexual abuse by adults is decreasing and offending by adolescents is on the rise. 2/
Oct 2, 2023 7 tweets 1 min read
‘Please ask the boys to stop making sexual moaning noises in class'
'Please ask the boys to stop telling us about the porn they watched last night'
'Please ask the boys to stop ranking us according to the bodies of porn stars' 1/ 'Please ask the boys to stop making jokes about our bodies' 'Please ask the boys to stop rubbing up against us in the corridors'
'Please ask the boys to stop sending us dick pics' 2/
Jul 21, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
Alison Pearson relays a conversation with a GP who described anal tearing from porn-inspired anal sex, increasingly happening to adolescent girls:
"A GP, let's call her Sue, said: 'I'm afraid things are much worse than people suspect'...1/ In recent years, Sue had treated growing numbers of teenage girls with internal injuries caused by frequent anal sex; not, as Sue found out, because they wanted to, or because they enjoyed it, but because a boy expected them to. 2/
Dec 17, 2022 9 tweets 5 min read
Aurora Linnea, the author of this joint review of @caitlin_roper ‘Sex Dolls, Robots and Women Hating’ and my ‘He Chose Porn Over Me’ understands our work at the deepest level. 1/ @caitlin_roper “Two books released in 2022 by Spinifex Press shine light on pornography’s morbid sway over men and culture, and how its ever-expanding range of desecrations brutalize women and girls, “ she opens. 2/
Dec 16, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
'Pornography today is so violent and dehumanizing to women and girls that most women can’t look at it without being traumatized... Canadians have the honour of owning the world’s biggest conveyor of woman-hating, the Montreal-based website Porn Hub. The website is free to access, with no age restrictions and no restrictions on the defilement of women. Rape and torture videos abound...
Feb 9, 2021 7 tweets 10 min read
@CollectiveShout provided evidence re #CrownCasino, money laundering, trafficking & the sex industry in a submission to the Senate Legal & Constitutional Affairs Committee
Inquiry into anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019 @CollectiveShout Our submission appears here: d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/collectiveshou….
Sep 1, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
and degradation, a woman holds sexual power — a paradoxical line of argument if ever there was one. Woman cannot be liberated as long as her existence is bound to her ability to inspire male desire... None of the WAP lyrics are subversive — these are standard ways to flatter men sexually. The approval of his large penis; the indication that his penis is so large that it hurts; the implication that his raw, domineering, red-blooded virility cannot be restrained;