Collective Shout
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A grassroots campaigning movement against the #objectification of women & #sexualisation of girls in #media, #advertising & popular culture.
Joined January 2010
Myth: Selling nudes on OnlyFans is “empowering” - a thread🧵.
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The rise of sexual moaning in schools - a thread 🧵.
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*Content warning* Men who choke female partners during sex have little understanding of risks, study finds 🧵.
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Girls are increasingly reporting being subjected to sexual moaning by male classmates. But sexual moaning by boys in class doesn’t just impact female students – it creates a hostile and unsafe environment for female teachers, too.
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One teacher expressed, "From a teacher’s perspective, it is also done to intimidate and make female staff uncomfortable as well. "It is horrendous to experience as a grown woman, I can only imagine the awfulness my female students would experience as well.”.
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In addition to sexual moaning, a number of female teachers described regular sexual harassment including:. ✅ wolf whistling.✅ inappropriate sexual comments.✅ boys playing porn on their devices.✅ boys masturbating in class.✅ being propositioned by male students.
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.@MelTankardReist: “I have had female teachers approach me in tears, describing what it feels like to be greeted by these orgasm noises every time they enter the classroom. They feel helpless, disempowered to stop it.”.
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After a boy in her year 6 class began humping the floor and moaning, one teacher was told by the Deputy Principal this behaviour was “age appropriate” and “normal” and that she should expect this kind of “smutty” behaviour because boys will be boys. Eventually, the teacher quit.
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Schools are failing to address rampant sexual harassment. Many parents and female teachers reported that schools were not taking appropriate action to address sexual harassment of girls and teachers.
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One mother recounted her six year old daughter’s distress after a group of boys targeted her and moaned in her ear. When she reported it to teachers, she was told, “Your daughter can also be flirtatious.”.
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Sexual moaning in class constitutes sexual harassment. It creates a hostile, unsafe environment for female students and teachers. Schools that fail to address it are facilitating a crime.
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“When it is reported, oftentimes the male lead teacher will make the comment, 'I never have this problem with this student’. They believe that female teachers are incompetent or we make this stuff up.”.
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Parents and female teachers reported the sexual moaning was coming from younger and younger boys. “It’s not just high school, I've heard the noises from boys in year 4,” said one.
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“Having been in this industry for 20+ yrs, I can honestly say that the way male educators and school leaders respond to these behaviours can often be a big part of the problem.”.
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“I worked in an all-boys school and put up with constant issues like this daily including wolf whistling. Heads of school did NOTHING and shrugged it off saying "you're a young female teacher and have come into their male environment, it's gonna happen" (cont).
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Warning to parents: @Spotify is serving up porn to your kids. Supporters contacted us with concerns about pornographic content on Spotify. We’ve done our own digging and this is what we’ve found… 🧵.
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“I was always made to feel it was my fault for being female. I quit after a year of feeling constantly unsafe.”.
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The reality of "sexual choking" and risks of strangulation: a thread 🧵.
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Many female teachers described their experiences of being sexually moaned at in the classroom. “As a younger female teacher I have experienced this multiple times,” said one.
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Some female teachers said when they reported sexual harassment to management, they were dismissed, not believed, or even blamed.
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“I work as a relief teacher only (not a full time classroom teacher), but am in middle and high school classrooms and I’ve experienced this so many times. Especially with year 7 and 8 boys," wrote another.
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"The stories are getting worse and the kids are getting younger": This is what happens when an entire generation has unlimited access to porn 🧵.
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Petition: Shut Down Pornhub and Hold Its Executives Accountable for Aiding Trafficking via @LailaMickelwait #TimesUp for #Traffickinghub #ShutDownPornHub
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Many female content creators on OnlyFans report pressure to provide increasingly explicit content in order to keep subscribers – meaning they felt pressured and coerced into performing sex acts they did not want to do.
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Sexual choking (or strangulation, as it is more appropriately described) can cause serious, long-term damage and even death even weeks or months later.
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We are pleased to report that following our campaign calling on 7-Eleven to withdraw porn mags that sexualised teen girls and normalised sexual harassment, both 7-Eleven and BP removed them from sale. This morning, publisher Bauer Media announced the mags would be discontinued.
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"Visual terror": Sheila Jeffreys on what the everyday sexualised, objectifying and porn-themed advertising portrayals of women mean for women 🧵.
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Individuals who have been strangled can suffer strokes, depression, memory loss, seizures, motor and speech disorders and paralysis – and strangulation does not have to be prolonged or forceful to do serious damage.
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“Every time I posted something, my followers would say, ‘That’s good but it’s not enough’. I felt like I had to keep getting more extreme. I told myself I was empowered and wanted to pretend that I was, but I felt horrible. I was smiling in the pictures, but I wasn’t there.".
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Some women report having to perform degrading, violent sex acts and describe how their mental health suffered as a result.
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Research indicates more than a third of UK women under forty have been subjected to non-consensual choking, slapping, gagging or spitting during sex
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"They can say some really explicit things to you. When I first started I felt like I had to go along with it because they were paying — I didn’t want them to unsubscribe. A lot of the time I feel like it’s bordering on sexual assault.”. -Eve, content creator.
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Women are not empowered through sexual objectification, they are harmed by it. Pornified representations of women do not advance the status of women or women’s wellbeing, they disempower women and leave them worse off.
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While some dismiss porn as “just a fantasy”, in reality, it is the filmed abuse, violation and degradation of actual human women. For the women being brutalised on camera, it is real 🧵.
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After her nude images were posted online, Celestia believed if she started an OnlyFans account and posted her nudes there, it could be a way of taking her power back.
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Celestia’s followers pushed her to post more nudity, live sex shows and to use sex toys. She then entered the porn industry, but left after a month or so and, after a breakdown, disappeared from the online world.
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“I have been asked to dress as a schoolgirl and pretend to masturbate myself. Once I was told to tie a rope around my neck and pretend to choke.”. -Eloise, content creator
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Last night we found child sexual exploitation material on the front page of @pornhub . #Pornhub profits from sexual abuse and rape. We join @LailaMickelwait’s call for @visa and @Mastercard to cut ties with @Pornhub. #ShutDownPornhub #Traffickinghub.
Visa, MasterCard and Discover are doing business with mega predator website Pornhub. They must stop now like PayPal did, or they will also be held accountable for profiting from the rape and trafficking of women and minors. @Visa @Mastercard #Traffickinghub
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Content originally shared on OnlyFans can be leaked and shared all over the Internet. Some women’s content ends up on porn sites. It is virtually impossible for women to track down their images and videos and get them taken down.
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Additional research of heterosexual college-aged men found men who viewed porn more frequently were more likely to choke sexual partners and hold the beliefs that choking is safe, pleasurable and does not require consent (Wright, Herbenick and Tokunaga, 2021).
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Lawyer at a firm specialising in non-consensual pornography cases, Honza Cervenka said:. “You might spend a whole week sending takedown requests only to have content resurface six months later. Victims will sometimes have to look over their shoulder for the rest of their lives.”.
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The study authors were struck by the confidence displayed by some of the male participants in their ability to “safely” strangle their partners – particularly given they had typically learned about choking from porn.
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Injuries from strangulation may not always be immediately apparent, and men who choke their partners may therefore conclude their method or the intensity of their choking is safe.
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“I'm hardly sleeping, eating, I'm crying and having severe panic attacks and I'm just absolutely destroyed mentally, physically and emotionally. I have all the evidence in the world and no one will help me.”. -Becky.
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The authors interviewed 21 men, all of whom had sexually choked someone on at least one occasion.
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"[R]eactions like their partner gasping for air, gagging, coughing, face changing colors, and tears were of some concern to the men in our study and sometimes prompted participants to ease off the choking pressure or to stop entirely.".
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Some female content creators can be doxxed, with their private information shared online.
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"Aside from occasional mentions of being aware that choking could bruise a person, cause loss of consciousness, or kill someone, the men in our study did not describe an awareness of other forms of potential harm of being choked.".
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“Women are far too often penalised for their sports apparel when all anyone should be thinking about is their performance and how to help them be at their best.”. -Jessica Ennis-Hill #letthemwearshorts
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"However, some men considered these physical responses as pleasurable discomforts that co-occurred with their partners’ pleasure and not necessarily reasons to decrease intensity or stop.".
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Strangulation does not need to be prolonged or forceful to cause serious long-term damage
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Sexual choking or strangulation can be fatal. Victims are at risk of brain damage or death even weeks or months later.
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One male participant described pinching a partner’s nose during ‘deep throating’ so she couldn’t breathe.
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The authors noted that some participants would ask their partners for a sign they wanted the choking to stop. Some would ask them to tap them. One had his partner hold an item, and if they dropped it, he would know it was time to stop strangling them.
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Some men reported concerning physical responses from their partners when they strangled them during sex.
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Strangulation is a particularly serious form of violence against women. It is a known red flag for future homicide, increasing a woman’s odds of being killed by 7 times
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The study participants described the ways they would strangle their partner during sex – with one or two hands around their neck, or using a leash, a tie, a belt, or a rope, or their penis.
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Along with female students as young as 10, @MelTankardReist said female teachers were reporting disturbing sexual harassment from young boys, with some being brought to tears. Girls are reporting that boys are treating them “more harshly, more aggressively,” she said.
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Individuals who have been strangled can suffer brain damage, strokes, depression, miscarriage, memory loss, seizures, motor and speech disorders, heart attacks and paralysis.
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It has become so common that a strangulation trauma support centre has been set up in Brisbane to treat victims
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