Articles on sexualisation
Sep 13, 2019
The sexualisation of girls for profit
Aug 29, 2019
We recently wrote to 7-Eleven CEO Angus McKay about the harmful sexual harassment mags sold in their stores. These magazines not only include pornographic images and descriptions they even encourage up-skirting which is a crime in Australia. These magazines are classified as 'Unrestricted M' meaning they can be sold to...
Aug 16, 2019
In yet another display of inconsistent decision-making, the Ad Standards Community Panel has dismissed community complaints against a porn-inspired Honey Birdette ad. ‘Belinda’ features a series of close-up, head-to-chest shots of a woman wearing sheer, blue, mesh fabric. Despite the ad featuring graphic, sexualised imagery, the Community Panel made several...
Jul 31, 2019
Popular culture bombards us with hypersexualized images of women and men, conveying powerful images that help shape our sexuality. Dr. Gail Dines, recipient of the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America, sociology and women's studies professor, and porn industry researcher and writer, explores how...
Jul 15, 2019
Not sexually suggestive, but is sexually suggestive. Just two women posing in their underwear, but also two women in sexy lingerie expressing their sexuality.
Jul 10, 2019
Republished with permission from University of South Australia
Jul 07, 2019
The shame is not with young women’s sexuality but with a culture that teaches them that is their only value Everywhere girls turn they absorb messages which tell them their value and worth is in their sexual allure and their ability to attract sexual attention. Messages from media and popular...
May 26, 2019
Yesterday I took two of my children into town for ice cream. This is what they were exposed to on a busy Perth street. Ad Standards has previously dismissed complaints over this same venue’s ‘Miss Nude’ billboards, on the basis that “based on the location of the building, the audience...
May 01, 2019
General Pants has a long history of using sexist and sexually objectifying advertising to sell its merchandise. Their latest ad campaign, in store windows across the country, shows that nothing much has changed. This is not the first time General Pants has sexually objectified women, or used topless women to...
Apr 11, 2019
Three years ago we reported on the extreme amount of hypersexualised imagery on display at Chadstone Shopping Centre. A popular hangout for teens after school, it was hard to walk from one end of the centre to the other without being exposed to the harmful ads. A recent visit shows...
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