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12/10/2026

"A new weapon of abuse": Movement Director Melinda Tankard Reist on how men and boys are using n*difying tech against women and girls

It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and for some companies, supposedly a free pass to s*xually exploit women’s bodies to...
12/10/2026

It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and for some companies, supposedly a free pass to s*xually exploit women’s bodies to flog their products and services.

Over the years, we’ve exposed unethical corporates hijacking breast cancer awareness for their own gain, attempting to legitimise their s*xualisation and objectification of women’s bodies with a token donation to a breast cancer charity.

In 2014 we called out the Bavarian Bier Café for their s*xist ad treating women as meat. The advertisement for racks of pork ribs featured two women in low cut dresses on either side of a fully dressed man in front of a plate of ribs, paired with the slogan “We’ve got the best racks.”

When the ad was posted to Facebook, the restaurant chain announced that for every rack sold, they would donate $1 to a breast cancer charity – as though using women’s breasts to advertise an unrelated product and equating women with meat could be justifiable if accompanied by a donation to breast cancer.

We asked the restaurant, how are women who are undergoing treatment for breast cancer – which may include the removal of one or both breasts to save their life – supposed to feel about your invitation to s*xualise and judge women’s breasts?

As a result of complaints, the Bavarian Bier Café’s ad was withdrawn.

Read more about the s*xualisation of breast cancer – link in comments.

Honey Birdette has 100 recorded breaches of advertising Code of Ethics - but not this one. We're pretty sure the ad viol...
08/10/2026

Honey Birdette has 100 recorded breaches of advertising Code of Ethics - but not this one.

We're pretty sure the ad violated the Code.

The larger than life, shopfront digital billboard ad titled "Honey Bunny" was a Pl***oy X Honey Birdette collaboration. It featured a bare-bummed woman styled as a Pl***oy bunny. As it turns out, not just any woman either, but an OnlyF@ns p**n content creator - one featured in Stan's OnlyF@ns advertorial series Turned On: Dirty S*xy Money.

After receiving a complaint about the ad - spotted by a campaigner at Lakeside Joondalup (Perth) - Ad Standards advised that

👉🏽Honey Birdette removed it;
👉🏽they therefore considered the matter "resolved";
👉🏽the complaint would not be reviewed by the Community Panel.

But all that really means is that - thanks to Ad Standards - Honey Birdette dodged a ruling on a larger-than-life, porn-themed, p**nographer-promoting ad featuring a woman's bare, exposed buttocks, which was displayed in family shopping centres for weeks.

It's a convenient cover-up for Honey Birdette. They dodge newly recorded ad violations while perpetually violating advertising Code. How is that an effective system?

It's not.

The property industy is complicit too.

Get this: At the exact time this degrading, harmful, p**n themed was displayed, the shopping centre operator Vicinity Centres (headed up by CEO Peter Huddle - a named "Champion" for women) was lauding its "gender equality" efforts purported to help women and girls!

We're calling out Vicinity's double standards. We don't buy claims to care about women and girls from companies partnered with and profiting from p**nographers, or accommodating their p**n themed displays in their shopping centres. These are the very companies women and girls need protection from.

Read more and take action - see comments for more info.

Every girl deserves a childhood free from p**nography’s influence. Help us push back against the p**n industry and the s...
08/10/2026

Every girl deserves a childhood free from p**nography’s influence.

Help us push back against the p**n industry and the s*xualisation of girls. Together, we can create a world where girls can grow, learn, explore and pursue their talents and interests without cultural expectations shaped by p**n. One where they are free to develop healthy ideas about themselves, their bodies, relationships, and women's value.

Support us this International Day of the Girl - hit the link in comments and make your tax-deductible donation!

Every girl has the right to be safe online. To be able to engage in online spaces without grooming, harassment, or expos...
07/10/2026

Every girl has the right to be safe online.

To be able to engage in online spaces without grooming, harassment, or exposure to harmful content.

We know that social media contributes to poorer mental health among young people, particularly young women and girls. Research has found popular platforms like TikTok push content promoting eating disorders and self-harm into young users’ feed – and social media is often the first place they see p**nography.

But we know change is possible, because we’ve already achieved so much since our formation 16 years ago:

→ Raised age of access to social media helping protect girls from harmful content

→ Age verification to help protect young people from p**n exposure

→ Instagram accounts facilitating s*xual exploitation of girls removed following our reports

This International Day of the Girl, we’re celebrating the progress our supporters have helped make - and pushing for what needs to come next.

Help us keep going! Support our International Day of the Girl campaign via the link in comments.

Ad Standards gives green light to s*xualised Ghanda Clothing ads depicting young model with legs spreadFollowing complai...
07/10/2026

Ad Standards gives green light to s*xualised Ghanda Clothing ads depicting young model with legs spread

Following complaints over the youth retailer’s s*xualised depictions of young models, including with their legs spread, Ad Standards released their case report, determining the advertisement was not in breach of the code.

We responded in the Geelong Advertiser:

Collective Shout campaigns manager Caitlin Roper said to dismiss concerns because the pictures included “no explicit n*dity” was a “pretty low bar”.

“It also fails to consider the established harms of reducing women and girls to s*xual objects,” she said.

“It doesn’t change the fact that the company consistently sexualises young women, yet depicts young men and boys in natural, non-s*xualised poses.”

Ms Roper said nearly 1000 supporters had sent emails to Ghanda voicing their opposition to the catalogue, but they were not answered.

“We are encouraging our supporters to boycott the company until they commit to no longer s*xualising and objectifying women and girls in their advertising.”

Ms Roper said Collective Shout would continue to call for more “meaningful advertising regulation” that recognised s*xual objectification of women as a discriminatory practice.

“The fact that Ad Standards did not find the images in breach is less a statement on the images, and more a reflection of the inadequacies of Ad Standards,” she said.

Let Ghanda know what you think about their sexualised advertising – more info on how to take action in the comments.

Every girl deserves the right to her own image.A photo of a girl playing sport, hanging out with friends or simply exist...
06/10/2026

Every girl deserves the right to her own image.

A photo of a girl playing sport, hanging out with friends or simply existing online should never become raw material for someone else’s s*xual content.

But the use of AI generation tools has made it possible to take an ordinary photo of a woman or girl and turn it into a s*xually explicit deepfake in seconds.

Collective Shout has been sounding the alarm about this technology since 2019 - and pushing governments to close the gaps that allowed perpetrators to create s*xually explicit images of real people without their consent.

And we’ve seen change.

Following years of advocacy, NSW strengthened its laws to criminalise the creation as well as sharing of s*xually explicit deepfakes without consent. Queensland has also introduced protections making it unlawful to generate a s*xually explicit AI deepfake of another person without consent.

We’re continuing to push for action against the technology enabling this abuse in the first place - including nudifying and un******ng tools that make women and girls targets at the click of a button.

This International Day of the Girl, we’re celebrating the progress our supporters have helped make - and pushing for what needs to come next.

Help us keep going! Support our International Day of the Girl campaign via the link in comments.

A group of teen girls from The Cooper School in Bicester, England, are petitioning to get school uniforms out of p**nogr...
05/10/2026

A group of teen girls from The Cooper School in Bicester, England, are petitioning to get school uniforms out of p**nography – and we’re supporting them.

The Little Feminist Bookclub (LBC) has launched a petition and published an open letter to Prime Minister Andy Burnham calling for the removal of school uniforms in any s*xual depictions and p**nography, and for retailers to stop selling school uniforms with s*xual connotations.

From the letter:

“Indecent photographs of a child under 18 are already criminalised, so why is it that people pretending to be a child under 18 are not?

“It is crystal clear that anyone depicted wearing a school uniform in p**nography - whatever their age and whether they are pretending to be an individual under 16 or not - is simulating a school-aged identity and therefore s*xualising children.”

The letter includes the girls' personal experiences of being s*xualised and feeling unsafe wearing their school uniforms, with many of them even reluctant to wear their school uniforms at an event to introduce their campaign to Parliament:

“We were aware we may be photographed and were afraid of what might happen to those images of us wearing school uniform. No young person should be made to feel this way.”

We were pleased to add our names to the letter in support of the LFB.

Read more and sign the petition – link in comments.

Every girl deserves the right to childhood.A childhood where she can grow, learn and discover who she is without being s...
05/10/2026

Every girl deserves the right to childhood.

A childhood where she can grow, learn and discover who she is without being s*xualised, exploited or exposed to harmful s*xual content.

And together, we’re helping make that childhood safer.

YOU have stood with us as we pushed for changes that will make a real difference for girls growing up in Australia:

→ Age assurance requirements to help protect children from early exposure to p**nography.

→ A minimum age of 16 for social media accounts, helping protect younger girls from environments where they can be exposed to s*xualised content and material promoting or normalising body hatred, eating disorders and self-harm.

These changes came after years of advocacy from organisations, experts, survivors and ordinary Australians refusing to accept that children should simply learn to navigate adult harms.

YOU have been part of that push.

There is much more to do. But this International Day of the Girl, we’re also taking stock of what we’ve already helped change - and what those changes can mean for the girls growing up behind us.

Help us keep going!

Support our International Day of the Girl campaign via the link in comments.

She deserves better. We’re making better possible.Every girl deserves the freedom to grow up without being reduced to a ...
05/10/2026

She deserves better. We’re making better possible.

Every girl deserves the freedom to grow up without being reduced to a body, s*xualised for profit, preyed upon online or told that exploitation is simply part of being a girl in the digital age.

And change is possible.

We’ve seen what happens when people speak up together. Companies change course. Harmful products are removed. Governments strengthen laws. Platforms are forced to answer for the environments they create.

This International Day of the Girl, we’re celebrating what we’ve already changed for girls - and looking ahead to what still needs to change.

🙌🏻 A future where girls are safer online.
🙌🏻 Where their images can’t be manipulated with impunity.
🙌🏻 Where p**n isn’t shaping their expectations of s*x and relationships.
🙌🏻 Where businesses know that s*xualising girls and objectifying women will be challenged.
🙌🏻 Where girls can grow up knowing they are worth so much more than how they look.

Throughout this week, we’ll be sharing some of the change Collective Shout supporters have helped make - and the future we’re fighting for next.

Will you help us keep going?

Donate to our International Day of the Girl campaign! Link in comments.

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