Morality in Media: waging war against pornography since 1962 (KSL)
The battle against pornography and sexual exploitation is raging, and staggering are the accounts of casualties that pornography leaves in its wake.
The battle against pornography and sexual exploitation is raging, and staggering are the accounts of casualties that pornography leaves in its wake.
18-year-olds say it is too easy to find explicit images by accident, and most girls say it puts pressure on them to act a certain way
Due in part to what they see in pornography, teenage boys have no qualms coercing young women into having anal sex, according to a new study, with some of these encounters possibly crossing the line into rape.
‘It’s something we find abhorrent. It’s about using underage pornography to sell products and the sexualisation of children, which cannot ever be justified.
The new trailer for Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Fifty Shades of Grey has angered viewers in the US after it was aired at 8am during NBC’s Today programme.
The “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie trailer is “absolutely a misrepresentation” of what is in the book, said Gail Dines, a professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College in Boston. “It advertises it as a love affair and erotic sex — what it’s really about is abuse and violence, and the grooming of a young girl into sadistic sex,” said Ms. Dines, who is also a founding member of Stop Porn Culture.
In response to the release of the highly-anticipated “Fifty Shades of Grey” trailer, non-profit organization Morality in Media has issued a statement, citing that the preview “deceives the public” by romanticizing and normalizing sexual violence.
The trailer for Fifty Shades of Gray “deceives the public with a visually appealing melodramatic love story that romanticizes and normalizes sexual violence.”
Opposition to sex trafficking is almost universal. People don’t think anyone should be forced into sexual acts for another’s gratification. Yet, this form of slavery is widespread, even in Western nations.
The age-old marketing mantra ‘sex sells’ doesn’t have the same effect on gadget fans, it seems, as Stuff magazine reveals putting sexy girls on the cover actually makes sales fall.
There’s now one fewer place you will see pornographic advertisements: Google. Google explained back in March that sexually explicitly material would no longer be featured in their ad spaces.
I have just returned from Washington, D.C. where Morality in Media’s new president Pat Trueman and assistant Dawn Hawkins gathered anti-pornography leaders from all over the country for the first time in 27 years. They have ignited a fire in anti-pornography fighters and have achieved outstanding successes this year.