(Source: alianovnataliasoldblog)
In a comprehensive study, “Comparing Sex Buyers with Men Who Don’t Buy Sex,” Melissa Farley, PHD, Founding Director of the Prostitution Research and Education, compares the characteristics of men who buy sex versus those who don’t. Besides their involvement with prostitution, the men surveyed revealed surprising attitudes and behaviors when it came to sex and women. Here are ten things you may not know about men who buy sex:
1. On average, men reported were 21 years of age when they first bought sex.
2. 25% of the sex buyers had traveled to another state and while there used women in prostitution.
3. 41% of the sex buyers knowingly used a woman in prostitution who was controlled by a pimp.
4. 66% of the sex buyers observed that a majority of women are lured, tricked or trafficked into prostitution.
5. 74% of the sex buyers reported that they learned about sex from pornography.
6. Sex buyers were more than 7x’s more likely than non-sex buyers to acknowledge that they would rape a woman if they could get away with it and if no one knew about it.
7. Sex buyers are far more likely than non-sex buyers to commit felonies, misdemeanors, crimes related to violence against women, substance abuse-related crimes, assaults, crimes with weapons, and crimes against authority.
8. 89% of sex buyers said they would be deterred from buying sex if their name were to be added to a sex offender registry.
9. 90% of sex buyers said they would be deterred from buying sex if a $1,000-$2,000 penalty were imposed.
10. 100% of sex buyers said they would be deterred from buying sex if a one month jail term were imposed.
Rape Culture isn’t real?
What really really terrifies me is that the lowest percentage listed for males is 36%.
Also, how nebulous is “she had lead him on”? I don’t think I even want to know what those 54% of men consider being led on.
(Source: bonitabreezy)
get involved
www.now.org
www.rawa.org
www.womenslaw.org
www.amnestyusa.org
www.globalissues.org
www.globalfundforwomen.orgok so i am working on some informative type ad posters, tell me what you think or what i could improve or change http://www.flickr.com/photos/4lost/
always reblog
This is why International Women’s Day still matters.
Spotted on King St W, Toronto.
I finally took the time to take some snapshots of these stickers on my walk home. I’d like to make a huge collage with all those I find; I know there’s at least three dozen more, all over town.
- Since 2006, more than 95,000 service members have been sexually assaulted in the U.S. military
- More than 86% of service members do not report their assault
- Less than five percent of all sexual assaults are put forward for prosecution, and less than a third of those cases result in imprisonment
Free tattoo cover-ups for victims of human trafficking or former gang members
Based in Illinois, the non-profit covers up tattoos like the ones shown above. Those bar codes (which can be scanned by smartphones like regular bar codes you find on retail items) are tattooed on to victims of human trafficking by their “owners” to facilitate easy identification and retrieval of their “property” in case they escape.
The organization also covers up gang tattoos.
In any case, it’s a chance for a new lease on life. Reblog and spread the word, if you’re so inclined.
Skully Pens: 11 Signs You're A Men's Rights Activist
Text (would be legible on actual shirt):
1. You have no problem with the gender wage gap. But you hate having to pay for dates.
2. You insist that it’s a scientifically proven fact that men are stronger than women. But you complain about society believing that it’s worse for a man to hit a woman than for a woman to hit a man.
3. You believe that the age of consent is unfair and that there’s nothing wrong with having sex with teenage girls. But when you find out that a teenage girl enjoys sex, you believe she’s the biggest slut in the world.
4. You hate when a woman automatically assumes that a man is a douchebag before getting to know him. But when you like a woman who likes another man, you assume he’s a douchebag just because he’s not you.
5. You believe that if women want equality, they should be drafted into the military. But you also believe that the military is not a place for women.
6. You hate when women assume that men are like wild animals. But you believe that a woman who doesn’t cover up and make herself invisible to men is just like someone wearing a meat suit around wild animals.
7. You hate the fact that men are bullied for not conforming to their male gender roles. But when you find out that a man disagrees with your beliefs about women’s rights, your immediate response is to try to emasculate him by comparing him to a woman as an insult.
8. You hate when women assume that there are no nice guys. But you call yourself a nice guy and act like it’s a rare quality that should cause women to be all over you.
9. You hate when women assume that men just want to get laid. But when you find out that a man is a feminist, you assume that he’s just doing it to get laid.
10. You hate when women make generalizations about all men. But when a woman calls you out for being sexist, you claim that all men think like you.
11. You insist that women should be responsible for protecting themselves from being raped. But when they follow the one piece of advice that actually works, which is being aware of red flags, you complain about them assuming that all men are rapists.
(slow clap)
Jenny’s speech to Mark, on what it’s like to be a woman. I still love this sfm.
I’ve seen these around town and it makes me so happy everytime! King/Bay and Dundas/Spadina-ish. I think there’s one that says “Fight Back” as well.Found along McCaul street. #killyourrapist #rape #kill #bashback #fight
(Source: guurrrllltakeiteasy)
Said no real radical feminist ever, just individualistic bratty *cough* all *cough* liberal feminists
Me me me is feminism is what ya’ll should call that trifling shit.
(via malditafeminista)
wowww. and I always thought it was so romantic.
I always reblog this because for every one person who understands the true story behind this picture there’s about 50 who don’t.
(Source: m0dizzle)
A commenter at The Nation, referring to the murder of Kasandra Perkins. This is what a culture of violence against women looks like. (via jessicavalenti)
I just can’t with these people.
Blue balls vs Heart boners
- Molly Prather: It's weird how we're socialized as women to--it's insane to me that the minute you said to him "I don't want to have sex with you," that he didn't just say, "All right, dude, I'm out." Because like in our-- like why in our society do we as girls have to rationalize--
- Erin McGathy: It's this whole blue balls thing. It's an extension of that.
- Molly Prather: It's so insane!
- Erin McGathy: From 13 years old I was told "Don't get a guy going or like, he'll fucking lose his mind if you don't take care of that boner! It's like a tumor that will kill him if you don't take care of that boner!" Which is such bullshit.
- Molly Prather: And then dudes will be like, "Look what you've done to me!" And you're like, well, okay...
- Erin McGathy: Get over yourself! Look what you've done to my heart! I wish our hearts bloomed into a boner. And you're like, you have to put a ring on it now, because you gave me a heart boner. I'm gonna die! You have to propose to me right now! If you don't propose to me I'm gonna die.
- Molly Prather: If you marry me I'll fuck you.
- Erin McGathy: Or just tell me you like me, or tell me you're committed to me cause that's my fucking boner. You don't give a shit.
- Molly Prather: Yet they lay this insane guilt trip on you for not--like you have marred them physically and now you have to take care of what you've started. And we're saying this as women in our 20s, this happens to girls who are like 12! It's so horrifying that you would say to a dude, "You know what? For whatever reason I've changed my mind, I do not want to have sex with you right now." And they wouldn't immediately say: "All right! Cause I don't want to be a horrible monster."
