Ditching Dieting Campaign
From the Ditching Dieting Campaign website: Endangered Bodies is a global and local initiative to fight the culture of body anxiety, body hatred and fear that is pervading all parts of our society. This month we are starting a campaign to expose the role of the diet industry in de-stabilising women and girls’ appetites and [...]
Porcupine: new anti-porn resource for young people
A new group called The Porcupine Campaign has started to help young people challenge porn culture. The name ‘porcupine’ comes from the phrase “porn is a prickly issue”, which I think is brilliant and inventive! If you are on Facebook, go and like them; this is an important campaign, as young people particularly (and young [...]
Muff March against ‘designer vaginas’!
“Keep your mitts off our muffs!” “I love my vagina!” “You’ve put my chuff in a huff!” These are some of the slogans of the Muff March taking place along London’s Harley Street Saturday morning. Its aim? To raise awareness of the increase in gynaecological cosmetic surgery – both on the NHS and in private [...]
“Designer vagina surgery: snip, stitch, kerching!”
All extracts from: “Designer vagina surgery: snip, stitch, kerching!” Since many of the obstetricians and gynaecologists at the conference are untrained in plastic surgery, one big question begins to bother me: on what/whom they will practise? The answer is, they don’t – or, often, not much. A number of those here plan to watch the [...]
“I was too weak to fight back because of how thin I was”
From: Anorexic women targeted by ‘super-skinny’ porn websites Anorexia porn is growing in popularity and the prevalence of pro-anorexia websites is making those with eating disorders easy targets for grooming. Vulnerable users of pro-anorexia websites are increasingly being courted for their emaciated frames by pornography agencies specialising in images of extremely thin women. [...] The [...]
“Labiaplasty surgery increase blamed on pornography”
Medical experts have sounded the alarm over soaring rates of labiaplasty, as the preliminary findings of a study show women are increasingly turning to private providers to pursue “designer vaginas”. NHS and private sector professionals have warned that some young women approaching cosmetic surgery companies are depressed or on medication, and are being sold operations [...]
Endangered Species
http://www.endangeredspecieswomen.org.uk/ Susie Orbach says: ‘Endangered Species summit is an urgent call to action: to save future generations from the body misery which can start as early as 6 and continue until women are in old age homes. The summit aims to show girls and women how they can do something about it, and to inspire [...]
Quote of the Day
It was hardly ever going to be a fair match: some activist women against an entire military-industrial-cosmetic complex geared up towards getting us to commodify our own bodies. [...] It is the gaze of search and destroy, and it certainly affects the inner lives of those who are not perfect. Which is a fair few [...]
QotD: The Naked Truth
From Bidisha’s article, Pubic hair removal: The naked truth If porn told you to jump off a cliff, would you do that too? Porn has introduced a new aesthetic – perhaps as a joke or momentary experiment – and women have responded with unquestioning servility and breezy abandon. At least now we can confront the [...]
QotD: Gail Dines
Gail Dines has a CiF piece in the Guardian today (as always, the comments are better left unread!) Some of the themes that ran through many of the seminars at the expo were how to integrate porn into pop culture, create a favourable public image for the business, and sidestep regulation. The pornography industry, unlike [...]
Recent Comments