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Pages tagged "Pornography"


Rise in online sexual abuse is horrific, but not “shocking”

Posted on News · February 08, 2023 5:00 PM

This week, the Daily Telegraph published an article titled “‘Mental torture’: Shock rise in revenge porn, online abuse”, which revealed that “Three quarters of Australians had at least one negative experience online in the last year, with more than one in five perpetrators targeting their victims for fun”:

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Talking around the issue: Where is the mention of pornography’s impact in ANROWS report on sexual violence?

Posted on News · September 13, 2022 8:16 AM

By Dr Emma Wood

In the last month, Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) released a research report, titled: “A Life Course Approach to Determining the Prevalence and Impact of Sexual Violence in Australia.” The report summarised findings from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health.

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Is the AFL a safe place for women?

Posted on News · 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 News · 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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Abuse survivors get first win in case against PornHub

Posted on News · February 17, 2022 3:21 PM

A US District Court has denied a motion from tech organisation MindGeek, the parent company for the pornography website PornHub, to dismiss a class action lawsuit against the Montreal-based tech giant.

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Billie Eilish opens up about devastating impacts of porn

Posted on News · December 16, 2021 12:21 PM

Grammy award winning singer Billie Eilish has opened up about her addiction to pornography, which started when she was just 11 years old, saying that the abusive content gave her nightmares and warped her ideas of sex and body image.

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Age verification on social media, but not porn?

Posted on News · October 28, 2021 1:21 PM
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Woman who found her video on Pornhub creates app to help survivors of image-based abuse

Posted on News · July 22, 2021 3:13 PM

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.

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Brave women take on online porn giant

Posted on News · 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 News · 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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