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		<title>Miley Cyrus conforming to sexualised coming-of-age music industry scripts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 01:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you know when a teenage girl singer is now all grown up?
What are the tell-tale signs that she has left  the foolishness of her immature girly days behind and become a real woman?
Her coming-of-age is easy to detect.
She will launch a sexy new look and a song that tells us how hot she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They didn&#8217;t &#8220;have sex&#8221; with the girl: they raped her</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, another example of  how rape is not named as rape.
The Australian reports today on a 51-year-old Hobart man found  guilty of  prostituting a 12-year-old girl. Men were charged $100 for half an hour, with $50 extra for &#8216;no condom&#8217;. One man used her to make pornography. The report states that 120 men were alleged  &#8220;to have had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dads&#8217; “rights” gone mad: girls ordered to have overnight stays with child porn dad</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caroline Overington writes in The Australian today that the Family Court has ordered two girls aged 8 and 10 to have sleepovers with their child sex offender father. As long as there’s a lock on the bedroom door. This man has filmed child pornography and created links to child porn sites. He also previously invited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Slut Page Removed: but bullies still active</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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On the weekend &#8211; on the eve of International Women&#8217;s Day &#8211; I wrote about a Facebook slut page, arguing it enabled cyber bullying, stalking and harassment. On the page, photos were posted of girls and women who were labelled &#8217;sluts&#8217;. One was 10-years-old. Another had been bashed (she deserved it, she was a slut). A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A special IWD treat from the Australian Archives: The case against female trade commissioners</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Child porn victim seeks damages from men possessing her image</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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A young woman known as Amy is seeking payment from consumers of pornographic videos and pictures that depicted her abuse.  &#62;more
I hope she -and others like her &#8211; extract millions from the men who fuel the demand for  the creation of child sexual assault images.
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