Somebody Think Of The French Children!

I’m back from a lovely month in France. I could bore you with a slide show of my adventures but I thought I’d put up this photo instead. It was on display in a French newsagent on a low shelf. Where children could see it! Ack! Cue the moral outrage! How could this happen? Don’t they know that images of boobs irretrievably corrupt children and turn them into nasty, fire-breathing Read More …

Revisiting The Rudeness Of Hot Gossip

And here’s my favourite: Muscle Bound, with a fabulous introduction by Marcel Wave. A Twitter conversation has made me revisit some of the sexy Hot Gossip dance clips on Youtube, so I thought I’d post a couple here. Hot Gossip were a dance troupe in the 70s and 80s who became famous via the Kenny Everett Video Show. They were also incredibly RUDE. At least, that’s what I thought when Read More …

Questioning The Moral Panic About “Sexualisation Of Children”

It keeps popping up on TV talk shows and is used as a debate silencer by right-wing pundits. Religious groups use it to put pressure on politicians to create greater censorship. It’s the term “sexualisation of children” and I suspect that it’s bullshit. I’ve been meaning to write a blog post on this for a while but today I’ve found that Australian researcher Catherine Lumby has pretty much summed things Read More …