Collective Shout

05/11/2025

Campaigns Manager Caitlin Roper was interviewed on The Briefing on our campaigns against platforms selling child s*x abuse dolls.

05/11/2025

Shein forced to remove child s*x abuse dolls: Collective Shout in the news

Following our successful campaign to get child s*x abuse dolls pulled from global online marketplace Shein, Campaigns Manager Caitlin Roper spoke to the Daily Telegraph:

‘Collective Shout, which fights against s*xploitation, said the campaign group has called out Shein previously for young-looking s*x dolls, but was ignored.

‘“We found disembodied heads and legs, childlike heads and legs that were being marketed for men’s s*xual use,” said the non-profit group’s campaign manager Caitlin Roper.

‘Ms Roper, who is also author of S*x Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating: The Case for Resistance, said now there is a financial incentive the fashion giant might actually take down the harrowing listings.

‘“Men found with child s*x abuse dolls are almost always also found with other kinds of child s*xual abuse material.”

‘Ms Roper cited case studies where real children’s faces had been placed on the dolls and said there are companies that create bespoke s*x dolls to match images sent in by buyers.’

04/11/2025

Recently NSW mum Emma Mason addressed the UN on how her daughter Tilly was bullied to death, with the bullying enabled by social media.

As the tech giants fought the ban, Ms Mason in New York told world leaders about her daughter.

Ms Mason said that a fake n**e photo of her daughter produced by a fellow student was “circulated on Snapchat, reaching at first five children, then 300 by 4pm and, by 6pm, over 3000 children.”

“The reality of this harm was instant. Tilly was hysterical and spiralling…In a small rural community, this event was catastrophic for Tilly. She wouldn’t leave the house.”
Addressing the new 16-year old age limit for social media accounts, Ms Mason said : “we’re the first country to do this…I implore leaders and nations of our great world to act, and act no…[the law] will improve lives. It will save lives.”

Speers, D. (24 Sep 2025. Australia’s social media ban wins praise from Europe at UN event. ABC News.

Australia's willingness to take on the social media giants is drawing significant international interest, winning the support of the European Commission president at a forum in New York.

04/11/2025

Win! SHEIN forced to remove child s*x abuse dolls

Online marketplace SHEIN has removed child s*x abuse dolls from its platform after France has threatened to ban it from accessing the country’s market.

France’s anti-fraud watchdog reported the platform for selling “childlike” s*x dolls, and in response, SHEIN removed the dolls and announced it would be launching an internal inquiry.

The move came a few days after national media attention on our campaign against child s*x abuse doll sellers on SHEIN and Temu on ABC.

A representative for SHEIN claimed the illegal dolls “were immediately removed from the platform as soon as [they] became aware”, but this is false.

We first exposed SHEIN selling child s*x abuse dolls in September 2024. After discovering child s*x abuse dolls, disembodied replica child heads and legs, we approached the company with our concerns – but were ignored.

It is clear that corporates like SHEIN will only act ethically when compelled to do so. We’ve been calling out the company for years for their paedophilic aesthetic s*xualising girls, selling g-strings for toddlers, p*nis ‘squishy toys’ and global p**n brand Pl***oy.

03/11/2025

Ad Standards gives green light to s*x shop fe**sh ads for kids - tell us what you think!

Ad Standards just dismissed community complaints about a series of Honey Birdette p**n style fe**sh themed shop window ads. One depicted a naked woman posed in a sheer black mesh bodysuit; the other two featured women in bo***ge gear - one posed in a collar and handle.

We want your feedback. Do you have child safety or development expertise? Or are you a concerned parent, grandparent, carer or educator?

Drop a comment below and let us know what you think of Ad Standards rulings on Honey Birdette's f*tish promos as 'suitable for kids'.

03/11/2025

'Isolation, resentment, AI-driven recommendations pull vulnerable young men deeper into online misogynistic cultures'

'Caroline Hayes, Senior Officer for Strategic Initiatives at Equimundo, stresses that the manosphere isn’t new, but technology has scaled it dramatically.

“Outward misogyny and violence against women have been around for a very long time, but with the advent of the technologies that we have, what was a subculture in the past has now become platformed and on a whole different scale.”

Hayes explained that what was once niche, fringe misogynistic rhetoric is now woven into aspirational, mainstream narratives, often packaged through the personas of wealthy, influential men...

Hayes points to “social atomization” — personalized feeds, isolated online spaces and political value gaps between men and women — as a key driver.

“Men are much less likely to seek help, and therefore they’re finding community and belonging in some of these more harmful spaces that are actually telling them, 'you are the victim … and it’s women and LGBTQ people who have done this to you.'”

The consequences extend beyond individual attitudes. Hayes warns: “The single most important protective factor in gender-based violence is having gender-equal societies. The manosphere is about a hierarchical structure in which men should have control. That’s not gender-equal. And that’s what leads to high rates of gender-based violence … and social fracturing.”

Read the full article here: https://koreaherald.pulse.ly/joq7pax5y4

01/11/2025

It's great to see our work featured in the New York Times!

Campaigns Manager Caitlin Roper was interviewed, speaking about the online abuse and threats directed to the team over the last few months.

Online harassers are generating images and sounds that simulate their victims in violent situations.

31/10/2025

“After reviewing a smattering of ads, I realized that the poses were basically designed to keep women ‘in their place.’”

Almost a decade ago, we published a critique of the portrayal of women in advertising by photographer and author Jennifer Moss. Jennifer created four categories of poses that functioned to keep women “in their place”.

Which category below best fits this ad by MAC Cosmetics? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

A.) SCARED/VICTIM
“She’s looking over her shoulder or her facial expression is frightened. She has her hands up in protective or shielding position. She’s pulling away from a man. She’s dead. Any image depicting the woman as victim.”

B.) POSITIONED FOR SEX/UNDRESSED
“She is set up for s*x: lying supine or close to it. Her legs are spread. She’s on a bed. She’s in a state of undress in which she wouldn’t (realistically) be allowed in public. Something is in her mouth.”

C.) NON-THREATENING/DEMURE/CHILDLIKE
“Head angled. Eyes looking away, down. The classic ‘hunch’ pose of the upper torso. Body is not square to the camera. Chin is down. Body language depicting submission, weakness.”

D.) OBJECTIFIED/NON-HUMAN/ONE OF MANY
“No face or her face is obscured. A group of women all dressed and made up the same. No individuality. A product.”

Read more >> https://www.collectiveshout.org/as_subtle_as_the_pose

31/10/2025

**US supporter takes stand against strip club giant**

After a strip club opened in his neighbourhood, Colorado-based supporter Peter Droege sent a letter to the editor of his local media outlet, exposing owner RCI Hospitality Holdings' connection to criminal activity, and demanding better for his community. The letter followed months of activism and engagement with his city council, urging them to uphold restrictions on strip clubs operating in the city centre.

Despite, the city's rules, Rick's Cabaret Central City opened in July. The operators are currently evading restrictions on strip clubs by telling female performers to cover their bare breasts and buttocks in clear latex (ensuring the women appear n**e).

On November 4, residents will vote on whether to allow strip clubs to operate in the city's main street. We are standing with Central City residents resisting s*xploitation in their neighbourhood!

We've led a 3-year campaign exposing RCI's links to crimes and s*xploitation of women, and calling on faith-based, "ethical" and "responsible" investors to dump their strip club shares.

Read Peter's letter to the editor, and more about the campaign to keep strip clubs out of Central City's main street>> https://www.collectiveshout.org/us-supporter-fights-rci-hospitality-central-city

31/10/2025

Temu will ship illegal child s*x abuse dolls to Australia: Our investigation featured on ABC

After we exposed global online marketplace Temu selling child s*x abuse dolls and replica child body parts – including disembodied child heads, legs and torsos all marketed for men’s s*xual use – we’ve made another discovery.

Not only is Temu facilitating the sale of child s*xual abuse material, the platform will also illegally ship these products to Australia.

Read more about our campaign against Temu Australia >> https://www.collectiveshout.org/our-campaign-on-abc

29/10/2025

"Undeniably modelled on prepubescent girls": Our campaign featured on ABC

29/10/2025

Mortified, emotionally distraught, living in perpetual fear: teen sues nudifying app co

One of the earliest teen victims of AI deepfake n**es is now suing the app used to create the images and which has caused her to live in constant fear.

ARS Technica reports:

'In her complaint, the teen—who was granted anonymity as a 17-year-old minor—accused ClothOff of intentionally making it easy to generate and distribute child s*xual abuse materials (CSAM), as well as nonconsensual intimate images (NCII) of adults. She also alleged that the social media network Telegram helps promote ClothOff through automated bots that have attracted hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

On average, ClothOff and its apps generate 200,000 images daily, the complaint said, and have reached at least 27 million visitors since launching…

ClothOff allows users to create galleries of fake n**es, suggesting that the platform stores images of victims, the lawsuit alleged. That terrified the teen victim, who is scared that ClothOff is training on her image to “better generate CSAM of other girls.”

The teen hopes that the court will intervene to end ClothOff’s operations, block all domains associated with it, and prevent any marketing or promotion, including through Telegram bots. She also asked for her images, as well as all of the CSAM and NCII that ClothOff may be storing, to be deleted, in addition to punitive damages due to suffering “intense” emotional distress.

…the teen expects to be forever “haunted” by the fake n**es that a high school boy generated without facing any charges…the teen girl sued the boy who she said made her want to drop out of school…

The teen has felt “mortified and emotionally distraught, and she has experienced lasting consequences ever since,” her complaint said. ..

“Knowing that the CSAM images of her will almost inevitably make their way onto the Internet and be retransmitted to others, such as pedophiles and traffickers, has produced a sense of hopelessness” and “a perpetual fear that her images can reappear at any time and be viewed by countless others…” her complaint said.'

We have been speaking out against nudifying apps since 2019. Naturally we hope this victim wins.

Full story here: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/teen-haunted-by-fake-n**es-sues-to-kill-nudify-app-block-telegram-bots/