*Content warning* Child sex abuse doll sellers are offering to customise replica girl sex dolls based on photos supplied by customers.
This means men can send in photos of *real children* and a doll complete with penetrable vagina, mouth & anus will be made in their likeness 🧵
"Kink shaming" is a concept invented to transform male violence against women into a special protected category free from critical analysis. Who benefits from this idea that acts of male violence, degradation, abuse and hatred acted out on the bodies of women is merely a "kink"?
I keep thinking of that quote by Andrea Dworkin - "When your rape is entertainment, your worthlessness is absolute." I can barely fathom the level of contempt required to abuse a woman in this way.
A group of women, including survivors, objected to games glorifying rape, incest, extreme sexualised torture and violence against women.
@CollectiveShout called on gaming platforms to take them down, and when they didn't, we wrote an open letter to payment processors, who then
"In my experience it is only poor and vulnerable women who choose to become surrogates. Wealthy, educated women never choose to become surrogates. If it’s only poor women, how can it truly be a choice? It is exploitation."
Tell me again how men's access to replica children to practice sexual abuse... prevents abuse?
Convicted sex offender Darren Morrison, 31, purchased an 'orphan' child sex abuse doll in the likeness of a 12 yo Asian girl. He was also found with "indecent images of children".
“Showing your dick is a power play, an act of dominance, the visual equivalent of territorial pissing. It is meant to put women and girls in their place.” @glosswitch
“We do not use the term ‘sex worker’ anymore because we believe it’s so inherently exploitative that we do not want to define it as work under any circumstances.” - Ruchira Gupta vogue.in/magazine-story…
'Pornography does not merely depict violence against women, it is violence against women. Real women are subjected to acts of degradation, violence, and harm in the production of this content (Tankard Reist & Bray, 2011).
'As feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon noted,
"Do we really think that making a hyper-realistic ‘woman’ available 24/7 for a man to customise, design and control completely without any ability for her to consent is a good idea?"
"There's nothing feminist about telling people what they can and can't do with their bodies of their own free will.”
This is a terrible argument to apply to surrogacy – here’s why 🧵
*Content warning* What appeared to be a dead body washed up on a Thailand beach turned out to be a discarded, headless sex doll. This isn’t a one off - it happens regularly 🧵