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OBJECT challenges ‘sex object culture’ – the ever increasing sexual objectification of women in the media and popular culture through lads' mags, advertising or lap dancing clubs.
Sex object culture has been driven by the mainstreaming of the porn and sex industries and is recognised by research, women's organisations and human rights treaties as promoting the attitudes associated with discrimination and violence against women (1).
We raise awareness of the links between sex object culture and sexism because of the need to tackle the attitudes underpinning inequality and violence against women.
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OBJECT and Eaves have launched the UK's first campaign to challenge the demand for prostitution. DEMAND CHANGE! raises awareness of the realities of prostitution and call for all political parties to tackle its demand. It seeks to criminalise those who buy sexual services but decriminalise those selling them and help women and girls to exit prostitution.
BREAKING NEWS: New Law to criminalise purchase of sex from someone who is forced or coerced passed. Read more here. Find out more about the Demand Change! campaign at www.demandchange.org.uk
Challenging the normalising of lap dancing
A legal loophole has meant that lap dancing clubs have been licensed as cafes. OBJECT is stripping the illusion that buying a lap dance is no different from buying a latte and we have been campaigning with The Fawcett Society to give local people the powers to object to lap dancing clubs opening in their neighbourhoods.
BREAKING NEWS: April 2010, new laws will allow local authorities to license lap dancing clubs as sex establishments instead of cafes.
(1) These are summarised on our Violence Against Women pages |
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