This week saw the launch of a landmark report by Professor Clare McGlynn, Dr Fiona Vera-Gray, Dr Kate Butterby, and Dr Ibad Kureshi entitled “Sexual violence as a sexual script in mainstream online pornography”. This report is arguably the most…
The past week has seen a sadly necessary but welcome groundswell in media attention around the anti-sexual violence campaign group “Everyone’s Invited”, who have been active in highlighting just how prevalent and insidious rape culture and sexual abuse has become…
The University of Durham is now offering “training for students involved in the Adult Sex Industry”. Similarly, a so-called “Sex Work Toolkit” was put together by the University of Leicester a few months ago and went viral on Twitter, with thousands…
Today a coalition of women’s organisations have written to the Prime Minister urging him to implement Part 3 of the Digital Economy Act in order to protect women from violence at the hands of men, associated with consumption of extreme…
“I’m going to go in the other room, and I’m going to cover myself in oil, I’m going to do that for about 10 minutes, and I’m going to make about £8000”. This is the opening line of Channel 4’s…
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We are publishing our response to the Home Office call for evidence for its Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) open consultation.
We’re proud to release our response to the UN Special Rapporteur’s call for submissions on trafficking in persons, especially women and children.
This past week, the Canadian Government finally put the owners of Mindgeek – and by extension its subsidiary company Pornhub – under the spotlight and grilled them on their involvement in hosting child abuse, rape, and other illegal content. Members…