With the furore over Danny Dyer and Zoo, Rachel Bell reminds us how lad mags feed gender violence and pulls apart the usual lad mag defenses
Tag: raunch culture
University challenge
With the sex industry now targeting students, more and more young women are taking a stand against lads' mags and lap-dancing clubs. Rachel Bell reports.
Students move into pole position
While many students embrace raunch culture, a growing number are refusing to accept sexism on campus says Rachel Bell.
Porn creep in the corner shop
MP Claire Curtis-Thomas calls for media regulation to end the normalisation of porn in our newsagents.
Challenging the ‘Sex Sells’ Cliché
Everywhere you turn these days there are sexualised images of women's bodies as porn becomes more and more mainstream. Rachel Bell investigates the growing protest movement against the normalisation of porn in everyday life.
Talking to Page 3 models
On the 35th anniversary of Page 3, I suggested the Guardian Women's page cover the story, with the view to asking why is a newspaper still getting away with representing women in this way, and rarely any other way? I interviewed former Page 3 models and asked MP Clare Short to write about her experience trying to outlaw Page 3.
Run, rabbit, run
Some of the many letters, printed in The Guardian, responsding to my article, It's porn innit?
Subvert the dominant pimpiarchy
How did the abusive, exploitative role of Pimp become the epitome of cool? Rachel Bell comments on this outrageous trend in popular culture
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