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Pages tagged "Pornography"


Is the AFL a safe place for women?

Posted on Blog · May 12, 2022 11:57 AM

Despite a considerable effort by the Australian Football League (AFL) to reform its culture in recent years following negative media reports of sexual assault and intimate partner abuse by players, the emergence of a number of damaging leaks and allegations have once again brought into question whether real reform has actually been achieved and the possibility that serious measures are needed.

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Taskforce to investigate porn link to rise in sexual assault

Posted on Blog · March 15, 2022 1:03 PM

The link between the normalisation of sexual violence through pornography and actual violence against women has been borne out by the research for some time now:

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Age verification on social media, but not porn?

Posted on Blog · October 28, 2021 1:21 PM
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Brave women take on online porn giant

Posted on Blog · June 25, 2021 6:09 PM

A group of 34 brave women from several countries around the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom and Thailand, have filed a lawsuit against Montreal-based company MindGeek, the adult entertainment empire that runs Pornhub. The women claim that the company has knowingly profited from material that depicts rape, sexual exploitation, including of minors, and trafficking and other non-consensual sexual content.

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New Australian research shows link between porn and intimate partner sexual violence

Posted on Blog · May 21, 2021 6:00 AM

New research by University of Melbourne Professor Laura Tarzia and RMIT University’s Dr Meagan Tyler has found that “pornography features prominently in the accounts of women experiencing Intimate Partner Sexual Violence (IPSV)”.

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Aussie kids trapped in online porn ring

Posted on Blog · November 13, 2020 4:17 PM

It has been reported that Australian children as young as 12 have been caught up in an international online pornography ring operating out of Bangladesh. The children involved were blackmailed on social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook into sending explicit images of themselves, which were then sold on the dark web.

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Australian Border Force blocks Japanese hentai pornography containing child sexual abuse material

Posted on Blog · November 05, 2020 1:38 PM

The Australian Border Force has started blocking the importation of Hentai (a popular form of animated Japanese pornography) due to its depiction of sexual violence and child sexual abuse material.

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South Australian man jailed for sending child pornography involving bestiality

Posted on Blog · September 02, 2020 12:07 PM

By Rachael Wong

A 46-year-old man from South Australia has been jailed for nine months after sending videos of child pornography involving acts of bestiality to an undercover officer.

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