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DonateOpen Letter: Women’s safety and child protection experts call for age verification pilot
The Hon Michelle Rowland MP
Minister for Communications
PO Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Re Pilot program for age verification in Australia
Dear Minister,
We the undersigned are writing to request a re-think of the Federal Government’s decision not to proceed with an age verification system to help protect children from exposure to pornography, as recently announced by yourself on behalf of the Government.
Early porn exposure harms developing sexual templates, contributes to damaging stereotypes, the development of sexist ideas, the normalisation of violence against women and a rise in child-on-child sexual abuse. These harms were placed on the record by academics, educators, child safeguarding NGOs, and experts in child development and welfare in submissions to the Inquiry into Age Verification for Online Wagering and Online Pornography conducted by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs.
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Through monthly giving, you can directly support Collective Shout’s campaigns against the objectification of women and sexualisation of girls in media, advertising and popular culture. As well as constantly holding corporations and marketers accountable for their depiction of women and girls, Collective Shout equips others to campaign, and educates young people to resist harmful messages about their bodies, relationships and sexuality to bring about grassroots cultural transformation.
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Open Letter to Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing
Att: Sandy Grant, Chief Executive & Chair and Fiona Hardie, Chair, Hardie Grant Media & Director
Remove harmful advice to minors on headless nudes from 'Welcome to Sex'
We the undersigned write to urge you as publishers of ‘Welcome to Sex’ (Dr Melissa Kang, Yumi Stynes, Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing, Richmond, Vic, 2023) to remove advice for minors re the sending of nudes.
While we support efforts to educate children and young people about bodies, sexuality, relationships and consent, we believe this advice fails child safeguarding standards and puts children and young people at risk.
In the section titled ‘Nudes, texting and online sex’, the authors write (p.174) “If we were talking to our own kids, we’d tell them to always crop their heads out of any photos, just in case…”
Australian laws make it a crime to possess, produce or distribute sexual images of minors. In some cases, there may be some limited exceptions and defences - but your readers, acting on the advice on headless nudes, may risk being charged with very serious criminal offences.
Criminal charges are not the only risk. There is evidence to suggest that boys in Australian schools play at guessing who the headless nude belongs to, causing distress among girls who fear they may be wrongly identified as the sender. In this context, boys play ‘swap the head’, superimposing a preferred head onto the image and sharing it among their groups.
We are also concerned about advice on p.175, “If you send a nude with someone you’re being intimate with, they aren’t allowed to share it with anyone else without your consent, and vice-versa – it can be a crime.” This advice is also misleading. In these cases, 'consent' may not be recognised as a defence or exception in criminal law.
We believe there is a significant risk that you have inadvertently published advice which may lead to the commission of an offence.
Children and young people – especially those skimming the book in school libraries without mediation of an adult who may understand the risks – cannot be expected to be across the legal ramifications.
For these reasons we call on you to remove this section of your title prior to the next reprint.
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Collective Shout is known and respected as a thought leader on the objectification of women and sexualisation of girls. Our team is regularly asked to comment on issues relating to sexual exploitation. Below you will find media articles where you can read, watch or listen to Collective Shout's commentary.
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Etsy Take Action
Your support enables us to take action against those who are sexualising and objectifying women and girls to sell products and services.
Etsy's incest and child abuse themed products serve to normalise incest and child abuse and put girls at risk. As we’ve been highlighting for over a decade, we cannot address the scourge of child abuse unless we address the wider culture which fetishises and profits from it.
Help us stop Etsy from selling incest and child abuse themed merch today!
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Since we launched in 2010, we have achieved a huge number of wins: billboards objectifying women pulled down, inappropriate clothing for children withdrawn, violent games banned, sexist lads mags folded and child sex abuse dolls pulled from a mega e-commerce platform.
We are continuing to campaign against corporates that exploit women and girls thanks to the financial generosity of our supporters.
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