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Media Release | Rape Culture in 3D: Petition calls on gaming giant Steam to remove rape/ incest simulation game

Posted on No Mercy Media Release by Collective Shout · April 10, 2025 10:30 AM

Grassroots campaigning movement Collective Shout launched a Change.org petition overnight calling on gaming giant platform Steam to remove ‘No Mercy, a 3D pornographic rape and incest simulation game. The petition is backed by female gamers and sexual assault survivors.

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Media Release: 77,000 sign petition calling on Spotify to pull Andrew Tate courses on how to traffic women

Posted on News by Coralie Alison · March 13, 2025 6:05 PM · 1 reaction

Media Release: 77,000 sign petition calling on Spotify to pull Andrew Tate courses on how to traffic women

Streaming service Spotify is hosting instructional courses by alleged sex trafficker Andrew Tate advising prospective pimps and traffickers how to recruit and sell women on pornographic websites. 

The courses include tips on how to manipulate and coerce women and establish dominance and control over them. Tate encourages listeners to recruit women into the sex trade under the pretence of a romantic relationship, and to keep the women’s earnings giving her only a small cut.

A petition by trauma counsellor Renee Chopping – who has counselled survivors of sex trafficking – calling on Spotify to remove them has attracted over 77, 000 signatures.

“I’ve counselled survivors - some trafficked as young as 9 - who have endured repeated abuse at the hands of men who used the same tactics Tate brags about,” Ms Chopping said.

“It takes years, if not a lifetime, of rehabilitative care to undo the damage, yet Tate boasts about profiting from their pain.

“And Spotify is helping him cash in.”

A number of survivors have added their support to the petition.

In response to the petition, Spotify has removed two of Tate’s trafficking courses, but the PHD [Pimping Hoes Degree] – which Tate describes as his recruitment system – remains.

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been charged with trafficking women across Romania, Britain and the US. Romanian authorities are also investigating the brothers for trafficking minors.

Contact:

Renee Chopping [email protected]

Caitlin Roper [email protected]

13 March 2025

 


Media Release: Trauma counsellor calls for Spotify to remove Andrew Tate courses on how to traffic women

Posted on News by Collective Shout · March 06, 2025 5:32 PM · 1 reaction

Streaming service Spotify is hosting instructional courses by alleged sex trafficker Andrew Tate advising prospective pimps and traffickers how to recruit and sell women on pornographic websites.

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Media Release: Collective Shout releases annual sexploitation offender blacklist

Posted on News by Collective Shout · December 01, 2024 11:00 AM

Grassroots campaigning movement Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation has released its annual ‘Crossed Off’ list.

First launched 15 years ago, the blacklist is a curated line-up of company offenders who have objectified women and sexualised girls to sell products and services through the year.
 
This list serves as a guide for consumers who wish to spend their Christmas shopping dollar ethically. 

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Media Release: “It’s out of control…it’s insidious…it’s not okay!” Teacher sexual harassment in schools report released today

Posted on News by Collective Shout · October 28, 2024 2:51 PM · 1 reaction

The findings of a national survey of Australian school teachers exposes widespread, entrenched and normalised harmful sexual behaviours in Australian schools.

Teachers – almost all female – report being subjected to routine sexual harassment. They are propositioned, threatened with rape, subjected to sexist slurs, mimicking of sex acts, sexually moaned, groaned, and grunted at, asked for nudes and intimated.

While adolescent males in Yrs 9 and 10 were responsible for the majority of harmful sexual behaviours, children as young as Kindergarten to Grade 3 were also exhibiting these behaviours.

The survey results are analysed in the report ‘Sexual Harassment of Teachers’ [SHoT] report, released today. The report is published by Collective Shout in partnership with parenting author and educator Maggie Dent.

The aim of the survey was to gain understanding of the prevalence of sexual harassment in Australian schools. More than 1000 teachers responded. Almost 80% reported a rise of harmful sexual behaviours in their schools.

Many female teachers said they did not feel safe at work. They were also having to deal with multiple disclosures from adolescent victims of harmful sexual behaviours, including girls in Yrs 5 and 6 coerced into sending sexual images.

Survey respondents are seeing more victims of Image Based Sexual Abuse [IBSA]. They report instances of children as young as Year 2 accessing and sharing pornographic content through personal devices or social media.

Teachers expressed despair about the rapid rise of harmful sexual behaviours which they attributed to early exposure to pornography, the malign influence of social media influencers, and broader societal sexist attitudes.

Many respondents reported major gaps in policies, procedures and codes of conduct. One teacher commented: “The safety of very large portions of the school community is at risk, not just physical safety but mental and emotional wellbeing.”  

The report contains six recommendations for dealing with the issue. It can be found here.

Maggie Dent:

"I have been very concerned for a while now about some of the things I'm hearing from teachers and parents in my community and the team at Collective Shout and I thought it was important to get a sense of the prevalence of sexual harassment in schools.

This report demonstrates a strong need for educational authorities to provide teachers and schools with clear steps they can follow to prevent and deal with sexual harassment.

This is something staff, parents and students need to be educated about. Some of what we are hearing about in this report is technically criminal behaviour and it simply cannot be dismissed as 'boys will be boys' – which was a phrase we heard multiple times in the survey.

I would also urge parents and other caring adults in our kids' lives, to have awkward conversations with their kids, and not just expect schools to be responsible for addressing this behaviour from some boys. This needs to be a whole community response."

Melinda Tankard Reist:

“This is a crisis. Schools have become sites of abuse.

The safety of teachers and female students is significantly compromised.

I speak in large numbers of public and private schools and the stories I’ve been told by female teachers and students this year are the worst I’ve heard in more than a decade of engagement with public and private schools.

The situation is unacceptable. There needs to be strong, national, uniform response to address it.”

Monday October 28, 2024

Contact:

Melinda Tankard Reist, Collective Shout Movement Director and report editor: email [email protected]

Tahlia Perry, report co-author: email [email protected]


Media Release: Teacher sexual harassment in schools survey reveals widespread and entrenched harmful sexual behaviours in children and young people

Posted on News by Collective Shout · October 25, 2024 4:44 PM · 1 reaction

The findings of a national survey of Australian school teachers reveal widespread, entrenched and normalised harmful sexual behaviours in Australian schools.

The survey results are analysed in the report ‘Sexual Harassment of Teachers’ (SHoT) to be released Monday. The report is published by Collective Shout in partnership with parenting author and educator Maggie Dent.

The aim of the survey was to gain understanding of the prevalence of sexual harassment in Australian schools. More than 1000 teachers responded.

Teachers – almost all female – reported being subjected to routine sexual harassment by male students. They were propositioned, threatened with rape, subjected to sexist slurs and mimicking of sex acts seen in pornography.

While trying to perform their duties as educators, they were sexually moaned, groaned, and grunted at, asked for nudes and intimidated. Some of the harmful sexual behaviours were exhibited by children from as young as Kindergarten to Year 3.

Many female teachers reported they did not feel safe at work and the response from executives and principals was inadequate when they did report sexual harassment.

Teachers reported dealing with multiple disclosures from adolescent victims of harmful sexual behaviours.

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Media Release: More sexual abuse, harassment and violence against women if Government refuses to act on age verification

Posted on News by Collective Shout · April 30, 2024 6:57 PM · 1 reaction

Emergency national cabinet meeting tomorrow must address porn as a driver of violence 

In response to a rising tide of violence against women – including a spate of recent homicides - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said we need to “change culture” if we are to prevent this violence. He has called an emergency meeting of State Premiers and Chief Ministers tomorrow to respond to the crisis.

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Media Release: Shopping centre sex store Honey Birdette hits 74th advertising violation

Posted on News by Collective Shout · April 23, 2024 7:00 AM

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Shopping centre sex stores Honey Birdette hits 74th advertising violation

Playboy-owned sex shop Honey Birdette has been found in breach of the Australian Association of National Advertisers code of ethics for the 74th time. The latest Ad Standards rulings related to three p*rn themed window displays. 

Since 2010, Ad Standards has investigated over 160 complaints about Honey Birdette promotions, upholding complaints against 74* – three in the last month alone. Two separate ads were deemed to have a “high level of nudity” and found in breach of Section 2.4 of the Code.

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Media Release: Sex store Honey Birdette receives record 70th advertising ethics code violation

Posted on News by Caitlin Roper · March 14, 2024 9:17 AM · 1 reaction

Playboy-owned sex shop Honey Birdette has received its 70th ruling for being in violation of Australian Association of National Advertisers code of ethics. The rulings relate to the company’s porn-themed window displays in shopping centres.

Since 2010, Ad Standards has investigated close to 160 complaints about Honey Birdette promotions, upholding complaints against 70. The latest ruling was announced 13 March, with two separate ads deemed to have a “high level of nudity” and found in breach of Section 2.4 of the Code.

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Collective Shout welcomes Coalition efforts to protect kids from porn

Posted on News by Caitlin Roper · November 24, 2023 5:20 PM · 1 reaction
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