Why not go to a place where people like you are treated like chattel and used as objects for the entertainment of men? It will be fun! And the men might like it! You may even learn your place in life! But donât ever take your male colleagues to a gay male strip club, Iâm sure they wonât like that. Just be a âcool girlâ!
The trial of a man charged with murdering his wife and two young sons has begun this week, with the accused now claiming to identify as tran
The trial of a man charged with murdering his wife and two young sons has begun this week, with the accused now claiming to identify as transgender. Mohamad Al Ballouz, 38, is charged with the second-degree murder of his wife, Synthia BussiĂšres, and the first-degree murders of their two sons, aged just 5 and 2 years old. Ballouz has now adopted the name Levana Ballouz, and has been referred to as a âwomanâ by Canadian press.
A trans-identified male police officer in Berlin has been suspended from duty after being accused of drugging and raping two of his male col
A trans-identified male police officer in Berlin has been suspended from duty after being accused of drugging and raping two of his male colleagues. Despite being under investigation, Judy S. is still in the running to become the Deputy Representative For Women at the Berlin Police Department.
When announcing the investigation to the public, the Berlin Police described the suspect of the sexual assaults as a âfemale officer,â leading to widespread public confusion as many noted that the details of the crime did not seem typical for a woman.
MarĂa del Carmen GarcĂa was sentenced to prison after killing her 13-year-old daughter's rapist by pouring gasoline over him and setting him
A devastated mom was handed a jail sentence after she burnt her daughter's rapist alive following his release from prison.
Spanish woman MarĂa del Carmen GarcĂa's daughter VerĂłnica was just 13 years old when she was raped at knifepoint by her neighbor Antonio Cosme in 1998. The rapist was sentenced to nine years in prison for the crime but in June 2005 he was on day release when he approached MarĂa at a bus stop near her home outside of Alicante.
In the meantime, MarĂa, who had been left feeling a combination of rage, fear and hysteria over his question, went to a nearby petrol station and purchased a container of fuel.
She entered the bar Cosme was at, poured the gasoline over his head and set her daughter's rapist alight. Cosme suffered burns over 90% of his body and died in hospital days later.
Japanâs abhorrent practice of enslaving women to provide sex for its troops in World War II has a little-known sequel: After its surrender â
Japanâs abhorrent practice of enslaving women to provide sex for its troops in World War II has a little-known sequel: After its surrender â with tacit approval from the U.S. occupation authorities â Japan set up a similar âcomfort womenâ system for American GIs.
An Associated Press review of historical documents and records â some never before translated into English â shows American authorities permitted the official brothel system to operate despite internal reports that women were being coerced into prostitution. The Americans also had full knowledge by then of Japanâs atrocious treatment of women in countries across Asia that it conquered during the war.
Tens of thousands of women were employed to provide cheap sex to U.S. troops until the spring of 1946, when Gen. Douglas MacArthur shut the brothels down
The documents show the brothels were rushed into operation as American forces poured into Japan beginning in August 1945
âAs expected, after it opened it was elbow to elbow,â the history says. âThe comfort women ... had some resistance to selling themselves to men who just yesterday were the enemy, and because of differences in language and race, there were a great deal of apprehensions at first. But they were paid highly, and they gradually came to accept their work peacefully.â
Kaburagi wrote that occupation GIs paid upfront and were given tickets and condoms. The first RAA brothel, called Komachien â The Babe Garden â had 38 women, but due to high demand that was quickly increased to 100. Each woman serviced from 15 to 60 clients a day.
American historian John Dower, in his book âEmbracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWII,â says the charge for a short session with a prostitute was 15 yen, or about a dollar, roughly the cost of half a pack of cigarettes.
By the end of 1945, about 350,000 U.S. troops were occupying Japan. At its peak, Kaburagi wrote, the RAA employed 70,000 prostitutes to serve them. Although there are suspicions, there is not clear evidence non-Japanese comfort women were imported to Japan as part of the program.
Womanhood has been turned into a fetishised commodity.
It is impossible to separate the influence of pornography from the gender-identity movement, as both are aspects of the sex industry. The gender-identity industry sells âsexâ as a noun â supposedly allowing a male to âbecomeâ a female (and vice versa) through surgeries and hormones. Whereas the pornography industry sells âsexâ as a verb.
Gender identity conceptually reduces women to sexist stereotypes, or a fantasy in a manâs head. It is also an ideology that uniquely redefines womanhood â and to a lesser degree, manhood â as the living embodiment of pornography.
For men, however, the impulse to declare a female identity is often a cover story for a desire to live out a sexual crossdressing and body-modification fetish full-time. In online communities such as Reddit, men encourage each other to âcrack eggsâ â to convince another person that they are, and always have been, transgender. Supposed indicators that a man, or teen boy, has a transgender identity include: watching trans porn, being jealous of women, or masturbating while wearing womenâs clothing.
But there is also a hefty financial incentive for some: it is estimated that men who âfeminiseâ their bodies with surgery and hormones can earn double what female porn actors earn in the industry, due to rising demand. Moreover, there is an emerging trend involving men who claim to be women independently selling their homemade pornography on OnlyFans or via social media.
In 2018, Australian National University student Sophie Pezzutto â a man who identifies as transgender â travelled to Nevada and California to research pornography for his anthropology PhD. The following year, his research, âFrom Porn Performer to Porntropreneurâ, was published by the International Journal of Gender Studies. Pezzutto notes that searches for transgender-themed pornography quadrupled between 2014 and 2017, and that âthe overwhelming majority of trans porn revolves around trans womenâ (that is, men who âidentify asâ women).
Pezzutto also points out that the sex industry provides the revenue for cosmetic surgeries, particularly breast implants for men. âA large number of performers interviewed entered the industry at least in part to fund their transition. Sex work was for them a lucrative and, at the same time, empowering avenue to self-actualisation because it provided funds for prohibitively expensive surgeriesâ, he remarks.
According to 2022 data provided by porn site Pornhub, pornography listed under the âtransgenderâ category increased in popularity by 75 per cent that year, becoming the seventh most popular category worldwide and the third most popular in the US. In 2017, Pornhub released data specifically on the category of âtrans pornâ, revealing that viewership of content within the category had exploded in recent years, with a noticeable increase beginning in 2015.
Pornographic videos featuring men who âfeminiseâ themselves are typically viewed by men who otherwise consider themselves to be heterosexual, and the content may be advertised as featuring a woman with the sex drive of a man, willing to engage in practices that women otherwise may not, or would find physically difficult, if not impossible.
A notable American academic who has claimed that pornography motivated his decision to begin identifying as transgender was awarded a Pulitzer prize for literary criticism in May, prompting outcry on social media from individuals who criticise gender-identity ideology. Andrea Long Chu, born Andrew, graduated from Duke University in 2014. In 2021, he was appointed to the role of book critic by New York magazine, where his work earned him the 2023 Pulitzer.
In the following years, Chu would repeatedly reference the influence of pornography on his desire to take female hormones, and even to undergo surgery. In 2018, he told the NYC Trans Oral History Project: â[M]y porn addiction had all along been waiting for something like sissy porn⊠It⊠demands you to imagine your experience of porn as something thatâs turning you into a woman. Not just that youâre looking at people being turned into a woman, but that the act of looking turns you into a woman.â
Sissy porn, a shortened form of sissification pornography, is one of several genres that incorporate broader themes of forced feminisation, wherein a man is ostensibly âforcedâ to transform into a woman, whether through the administration of hormones or the donning of makeup and lingerie.
A staggering quantity of sissy and forced-feminisation pornography and adjacent content can be found on platforms such as Reddit, Tumblr, 4Chan, adult sites, and even on seemingly non-pornographic parts of the web, such as Pinterest, Flickr, Facebook and YouTube. The overwhelming majority of the content involves the theme of men being turned into women. Men post photos of themselves dressed in makeup and lingerie and invite viewers to objectify them. Personal Facebook accounts belonging to men who call themselves âsissiesâ or âtransâ have racked up tens of thousands of followers in recent years.
In some cases, even rape and sex trafficking are considered forms of validation for men given over to the fantasy of âbecomingâ female. Columbia University graduate and author Julia Serano wrote of his erotic imaginings of womanhood in his 2007 book, Whipping Girl: âI would imagine myself being sold into sex slavery and having strange men take advantage of me⊠Itâs called forced feminisation⊠It is about turning the humiliation you feel into pleasure, transforming the loss of male privilege into the best fuck ever.â
Most of the individuals who took part in the research stated that AGPP âhelped them express the feminine side of their sexualityâ. Some mentioned that AGPP had provided a motivation to transition. The studyâs authors emphasised that there was a âfrequent association of femininity with sexual submissivenessâ.
Plastic surgery was not always a sexually motivated undertaking. Some early procedures were pioneered in response to the needs of survivors of the First World War. Soldiers returning from the trenches with scarred and disfigured faces made up a substantial number of patients considered for cosmetic treatments. After this initial boom in experimental surgeries on injured men, doctors soon aimed their scalpels at the healthy bodies of women.
Under the influence of pornography and sex trafficking, cosmetic surgeries on women became primarily centred on satisfying menâs sexual appetites. The first silicone breast implants were performed on Japanese women trafficked into sex slavery during post-Second World War American occupation. The silicone, stolen from shipping docks, was injected directly into their breasts, resulting in gangrene or âsilicone rotâ, and in some cases, death.
Gender ideologues tell confused individuals that this external and purchasable identity will confer freedom. But they fail to mention the impact this pornified process has on both our collective humanity and on women and children in particular. Through transgenderism, womenâs identity, dignity and safety is being fragmented â and sold as scrap to the highest bidder.
Genevieve Gluck is a writer and advocate for womenâs rights. She is co-founder of Reduxx and host of the podcast, Womenâs Voices.
