Industry at odds with efforts to end men's violence against women

Campaigns Manager Caitlin Roper was asked to comment on the survival of the "skimpies industry" in a post #METOO era during which women have increasingly testified to and called for an end to sexual objectification and harassment.

The inherently misogynistic skimpies industry is built on the practise of dressing female bar attendants and wait staff in bikinis and lingerie to serve as sexual entertainment for male customers.

Collective Shout Campaigns Manager Caitlin Roper quoted in Daily Telegraph

This piece was originally published on Mamamia

#FiLiA2022: Collective Shout in Wales

This year has seen the release of two new books from the CS team - He Chose Porn Over Me by Melinda Tankard Reist and Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating by Caitlin Roper - both published by our latest pledge partner, Spinifex Press. 

Below is a collation of their 'best of' interviews over the last few months - podcasts, presentations and news articles - about the contents of their new books.

Campaigns Manager Caitlin Roper's new book Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating: The Case for Resistance was launched online by Viviane Morrigan. You can watch the video on YouTube, or read her speech below. 

‘The sinister world of the illegal child sex abuse doll trade has been explored in a new book that reveals some shocking secrets.’

Collective Shout Movement Director Melinda Tankard Reist and Campaigns Manager Caitlin Roper are authors of two new books confronting porn's impact on relationships and the global trade in sex dolls and robots, published by Australia’s leading feminist publisher Spinifex Press.