By Rachael Wong

The incredibly disturbing and explicit content children are being shown and encouraged to create on TikTok revealed by a Daily Telegraph investigation has a direct correlation with the proliferation of pornography in our culture.

Women’s and children’s advocates have been celebrating the latest win in the fight against Pornhub after Visa and Mastercard suspended card payments for advertising on the porn giant’s platform on 4 August.

After almost taking her own life on finding out that a video of her was uploaded to Pornhub without her knowledge, a Chinese woman is fighting back with an app to help survivors of non-consensual pornography.

Last week we welcomed the federal government’s commitment to regulate unlimited access to pornography by minors through age-verification laws.

The flood of responses from young women to the call by former Kambala student Chanel Contos to share their experiences of sexual assault and treatment at the hands of teenage boys has opened a window into the world that young women are navigating in this country when it comes to boys and sex.  The responses from thousands of girls have chronicled story after story of their damaging sexual experiences, abuse, unwanted sex and feelings of regret and being uncomfortable at the expectations of boys when it comes to sex.

Several News Corp media outlets, including The Herald Sun and The Queensland Times, have published a story about American woman Deanna Lynn’s experience in the porn industry, the traumatic childhood that led her there, and how she escaped.

German police have shut down “one of the biggest darknet child pornography platforms in the world” and arrested four of its members in a series of raids last month.

Women’s Forum Australia CEO, Rachael Wong, was recently invited to join a discussion on BBC Global Questions about ‘Sexism and Violence Against Women’. The discussion centred around why women in so many countries continue to endure sexism and sexual violence, and why change seems so difficult to achieve.

Last year Pornhub launched a sex ed video series. Because who wouldn’t want to learn about sex from an organisation who promotes and profits off “child rapes, revenge pornography, spy cam videos of women showering, racist and misogynist content, and footage of women being asphyxiated in plastic bags”??

Last week, the New York Times published an article entitled “The Children of Porn Hub”, which detailed the stories of several underage vicitms of trafficking whose abuse was recorded and uploaded to PornHub.