research from the world health organisation shows one-third of adolescent girls report their first sexual experience as being forced.

one in ten australian teenage boys aged 16-17 say they watch pornography daily. one in eight said they engaged in unwanted sexual behaviour towards someone else in the past year.

how did we get here?

in his book, ‘the little #metoo book for men’, mark greene links our current culture of male emotional suppression with the epidemic of sexual violence happening to girls and women;

“…two seemingly disparate issues, the widespread silence about and cultural acceptance of sexual assault against women, and the emotional assault against men that begins when they are boys.” lisa duggan, professor of social and cultural analysis, new york university