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XXX Schoolgirls Wanted

September 11, 2016 ~ Rachel Bell ~ Leave a comment

What did I learn from listening to survivors of prostitution? That school age girls are most in demand – and it’s not only for sex but 'despoilment' ‘I’ve answered phones in enough brothels to know the most common question is always, ‘What age is the youngest girl you have?’ writes Rachel Moran, a survivor of … Continue reading XXX Schoolgirls Wanted

A man’s introduction to feminism

February 5, 2015 ~ Rachel Bell ~ 1 Comment

As 2014 was the year that the Fourth Wave of Feminism went mainstream, more men may be wondering what they should and could be saying and doing. Luckily, men, there are a significant number of male-led campaigns and organisations to help you work it out. Because as one young woman at the 2014’s Feminist in … Continue reading A man’s introduction to feminism

Why a pole dancing display at a primary school fete is wrong

June 20, 2014 ~ Rachel Bell ~ Leave a comment

As well as being a devastatingly crap experience for many women working in the clubs, lap dancing and pole dancing clubs promote all women as sex objects.

Miley Cyrus and Major Lazor’s double assault on black women

September 8, 2013 ~ Rachel Bell ~ Leave a comment

Nicola Adams may be in the M & S ad campaign, but racism and sexism in music videos is taking black women’s status hurling backwards

Simon Cowell’s thumbs up to the sex industry as kids’ entertainment

April 7, 2012 ~ Rachel Bell ~ Leave a comment

ITV brought the sex industry to the kids again last night, with Simon Cowell giving a massive approval to the stripper who performed on Britain's Got Talent at 8pm, sending the message that stripping is fun for all the family and will get you places.

Pole-dancing: just what kids telly and sports day needs

May 10, 2011 ~ Rachel Bell ~ Leave a comment

The sex industry continues its infiltration into kids’ – and all our – lives with a lovely new video from dance act Nero. The video for Guilt portrays a pole dancer performing in a high-end strip club for some johns who, we are to believe, are Japanese businessmen, too.

Are women human yet? Afraid not ladies, the Playboy bunny is back.

March 24, 2011 ~ Rachel Bell ~ 1 Comment

While Hooters have brought their tacky ‘family friendly’ sexism to Bristol, this May sees undead misogynist Hugh Hefner opening his ‘exclusive’ Playboy club in London’s Mayfair once again

It’s not just our thickest millionaires who buy girls and women

September 7, 2010 ~ Rachel Bell ~ Leave a comment

Footballers are like many other young men in Britain, who see using prostitutes as socially acceptable. So less of this focus on the women in the sex industry and let’s start taking about the demand, the one in ten British men who fund it, says Rachel Bell

Beauty is not a contest

September 2, 2010 ~ Rachel Bell ~ Leave a comment

The resurgence of beauty pageants is not harmless fun argues Rachel Bell, nevermind ‘empowering’, but part of the wider culture of objectification that underpins women’s lesser status.

The pornification of pop

August 11, 2010 ~ Rachel Bell ~ 1 Comment

It's the way in which pop and rap music embrace the porn and sex industries, elevate the pimp and sexualise male violence that makes it pornographic says Rachel Bell. And it’s not girls we need to be worried about, it’s boys.

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