It's disappointing to see an Aussie brand that started in a garage on the Gold Coast treating women like this. A selection from their website this December. 

We've been writing about City Beach and their porn-themed products since 2010. 

These T-shirt designs that objectify women were found in their online store this December. 

AFL star Lance “Buddy” Franklin still promoting porn t-shirt brand to fans

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We’ve written about Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin’s pornified fashion label before.  We’ve written about headless, faceless naked women, bound, handcuffed and on all fours. We’ve written about the misogynistic content found on his label’s Facebook page, including rape jokes, a pornographic campaign video and women being referred to as bitches to be f*cked. We have been campaigning against Buddy’s porn t-shirts for three years now.

Nena and Pasadena encouraged jokes about raping women with their reply, ‘Keep em coming guys - this is very entertaining!

The Australian Football League proudly partners with the White Ribbon Campaign to stop violence against women.

According to the White Ribbon website :

The AFL (Australian Football League) is committed to tackling the issues of violence against women. Their support of White Ribbon has been long standing with many AFL managers and players participating in White Ribbon's Ambassador Program, and their commitment to driving change is also reflected through their respect and responsibility programs.

"Their commitment to driving change is reflected through their respect and responsibility programs."

Really?

Last week we wrote about AFL player Lance 'Buddy' Franklin, owner and director of sexist fashion label Nena and Pasadena. Our post resulted in significant media attention.

AFL footballer Lance 'Buddy' Franklin has released 'The Buddy Ball' football for kids. But what else is he selling?

[UPDATE] Collective Shout's "Give porn tees the boot buddy" banner confiscated at AFL game 

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After two years calling on City Beach to adopt corporate responsibility and withdraw their porn themed clothing range, Collective Shout recently held demonstrations outside two City Beach stores.

City Beach Human Relations Fail

Caitlin Roper who is leading the campaign against City Beach's pornified clothing range received a phone call from City Beach HR, Anita Dorwald. She was the City Beach rep who participated in the conciliation attempt for Caitlin's Human Right's Commission complaint last year. (Read more about that here.)

Caitlin's report on the conversation is as follows:

Ms Dorwald said that if we are going to distribute flyers using their logo, they must be "factually correct" and then proceeded to quote the 'headless, gagged, bruised women' part. (see flyer here)

Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation, a grassroots campaigning movement is calling on Switchfoot to withdraw from a planned live performance at City Beach surf store on Queen Street, Brisbane this Thursday afternoon (23rd February).

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Collective Shout WA representative Caitlin Roper has been leading the charge against pornified clothing and products sold in general retail stores.

Caitlin created the facebook page 'Say no to porn t-shirts' and has been keeping track of retailers that sell pornified products via her 'Porn Tees' blog. (Warning: product images)