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(UK) Mantalk Glasgow on May 17th

07 May 2012

(UK) Mantalk Glasgow on May 17th

On Thursday 17th of May the White Ribbon Campaign Scotland and the Women’s Support Project are organising a ManTalk event. This free event will give you the chance to share your feelings and make your voice heard on violence, porn, commercial exploitation and inequality. So if these issues are something that are of concern to you please come along. See the poster below. Register your interest here 17th May 2012, 8pm-10pm, Wintersgills, 226 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G4 9EJ Organised with the Scottish Coalition Against Sexual Exploitation

My initial reaction to seeing porn for the first time

04 May 2012

My initial reaction to seeing porn for the first time

Until a few years ago, my awareness of pornography was limited to glimpsing at magazines on the top shelf of the newsagent. Unless you were looking for those magazines, it was rare that you’d come into contact with porn by accident. The advent of the internet has obviously changed all that. But still, I naively thought that porn just meant some amateurish videos showing couples having sex. This changed just the other day. I was using a shared computer (using internet cafes is becoming a rather intimidating experience for me now though) and when I tried to type in the URL I wanted, all sorts of things came rolling down on the screen. “Father and daughter do it together, that is the best”, “Barely legal”,…

Participants Needed for Stag Tour Research

02 May 2012

Participants Needed for Stag Tour Research

I am a postgraduate student at London Metropolitan University who is currently undertaking research into the meanings of stag party sex tourism. Lately there’s been quite a lot of media coverage about the increase in the number of stag parties going abroad for stag weekends. The coverage has drawn attention to the fact that buying sexual services is often a part of the stag weekend abroad. I am seeking to explore this apparent relationship between the stag weekend abroad and buying sex.I am really in need for anonymous interview participants. Interviews will take place by telephone at a time that is convenient for you and only last about 20 – 30 minutes. Questions will explore your experiences, decision making and feelings about paying for sexual…

What’s at the core of porn? 14yo posting porn on FB and other news in April

30 April 2012

What’s at the core of porn? 14yo posting porn on FB and other news in April

This month my blog is based around one quote from the article ”Is porn hijacking our sexuality? (Part 1)?” “After all, most of us would know pornography when we see it. But there’s no definition of pornography in UK law: “obscenity” is covered by the Obscene Publications Acts (obscene material is defined as that with “tends to deprave or corrupt)… these definitions are intended to be narrow, and there’s obviously a huge volume of material that is pornographic, and yet doesn’t fulfill the criteria for obscenity”. I am no expert on U.K. law but I would argue that in many ways depravity and corruption is at the core of pornography. In the U.S. a letter drafted and signed by 117 member of the House and Senate…

Porn is an issue for the left but practical approaches from across the political spectrum shouldn’t be rejected out of hand

26 April 2012

Porn is an issue for the left but practical approaches from across the political spectrum shouldn’t be rejected out of hand

Last week saw the publication of the ‘Findings and Recommendations’ of the UK Parliamentary Inquiry into Online Child Protection. The inquiry was headed up by the Conservative MP Claire Perry, and while some may argue (or presume) that the report is couched in a “save the children” small ‘c’ conservative-style rhetoric, the cross-party inquiry’s findings and recommendations are actually far more balanced in their ideological approach than one might expect. Crucially, in the report the inquiry shows special concern regarding the “violent, degrading and coercive” pornographic material that teenagers are said to be accessing (p.13), and noted from evidence given by the NSPCC, that “overuse of pornographic material has been shown to desensitise children and young people to violent or sexually aggressive acts [and] diminish…

(UK) Demonstration next Saturday organised by Sheffield Against Sexism

21 April 2012

(UK) Demonstration next Saturday organised by Sheffield Against Sexism

Sheffield Against Sexism has organised a march for the 28th April called ‘We will not calm down ‘dear’ We are an inclusive group from all backgrounds and faith groups trying to stand up against the detrimental effect of the cuts on the vulnerable and women. We want to save our local women’s services like Rape Crisis, Sure Start, Domestic Abuse Forum, Scoopaid, Young Women’s Refuge as well as many more being directly hit as well as saying that they cannot expect women to keep quiet about picking up the brunt of the cuts. Furthermore we want to protest the council decision to grant Spearmint Rhino’s their Sex Entertainment license, despite unprecedented complaints because sexism make ‘good economic sense’. This means the key of our demands…

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