UPDATE: River Heads Pharmacy Post Resurfaces With Sarcasm and Targeted Ridicule
After public backlash over a sexually suggestive post degrading elderly women, River Heads Pharmacy has resurfaced the same post - this time with the caption:
“*edited for the easily offended* Customers love it when Mark makes them cream. There’s that’s better”
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Falvey’s Hotel Doubles Down on Sexual Exploitation
This Easter, Falvey’s Hotel Yamanto has decided that the best way to entertain its patrons is with a Playboy themed event—glossing over the reality of sexual exploitation and packaging it as “fun.”
Read moreAbuse of women in sex trade “a bit of fun”: Spotlight remains silent, continues to profit from pimp costumes
"Men can dress up as the men who beat, rape, abuse and murder vulnerable women and girls in the sex trade as though it is just a bit of fun or a laugh – enabled by you."
Back in July, we exposed craft and fabrics store Spotlight selling pimp costumes that trivialise male violence against women and girls in the sex trade.
The retailer has failed to respond – even after we contacted Head Office by phone and email multiple times, and even after we published the account of a sex trafficking survivor who outlined how these products normalise the sexual exploitation of women.
It appears Spotlight has made a conscious decision to continue to sell misogynistic pimp costumes in their stores.
We’ve called on our thousands of supporters around the country to boycott Spotlight until they stop selling these products.
Read more“Heartbreaking”: Sex trafficking survivor responds to Spotlight pimp costumes
We exposed crafts and fabrics store Spotlight selling pimp costumes back in July. The retailer has failed to respond – even after we contacted Head Office by phone and email – and continues to sell these misogynistic products.
We wonder if Spotlight considered how women and girls who are survivors of sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation might feel about their decision to knowingly profit from a product that trivialises their abuse?
Caroline Pugh-Robert, a sex trafficking survivor and award-winning expert and speaker, weighs in below.
Read moreCall to Action: #BoycottSpotlight for trivialising violence against women
Spotlight fails to pull pimp costumes from stores - it's time to #BoycottSpotlight
More than a month ago, we called out crafts and fabric store Spotlight for selling pimp costumes.
Pimps control women and girls in commercial sexual exploitation, often through physical violence and abuse. They sell vulnerable women and girls to other men for paid sexual abuse and take a cut (or all) of their earnings.
While the company quietly removed the costumes from its online store, they continue sell them in stores - even during their Book Week promotion, alongside Harry Potter, Disney and Spiderman costumes.
Read moreThrivent attempts to hush strip club critics
It's time to come clean
When I first heard that Thrivent Financial for Lutherans reportedly owned shares in strip clubs I knew I had to call them out. This company, with particular appeal to faith-based and ethically motivated investors - was propping up and profiting from the sale of women’s bodies as men’s sexual entertainment.
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