South Korean women aren’t safe in public bathrooms—or their homes—because of spy-cam porn Isabella Steger 4 hrs ago
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Women are speaking out and taking to the streets in ever greater numbers in South Korea to demand greater equality and protection across a host of issues. Few problems, however, are drawing the kinds of numbers and ire as the country’s long-running spy-camera problem.
Since May, tens of thousands of women have turned out on the streets in South Korea to protest against spy cameras (molka) and urge tougher punishment for perpetrators—the biggest-ever women’s protests in South Korea. Footage from these spy cams—which are used to film women surreptitiously in intimate situations, and are often so tiny that they can be hidden inside a door bolt or the tip of a pen—is then uploaded online to websites such as Tumblr.
But women are up against lax penalties for perpetrators and a lack of understanding about the invasive experience of being a victim of spy-cam porn. A recent police campaign (link in Korean) against spy cams in the southern city of Busan, for example, drew criticism for its childish portrayal of spy-cam-wielders as mischievous and playful, perpetuating the “boys will be boys” mindset when it comes to such crimes. The campaign encouraged people to find life-size cutouts of people resembling “man boys,” take photos of them, and upload them to Instagram. A spokesman for the Busan police force said in response “people can have different opinions regarding the campaign—there are positive ones as well.”
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When I was in High School in Chicago, there was a crack in the wall between the boy's and girl's locker rooms. The boys were looking thru the crack. When the girls got wise to it they stuffed a towel in the crack.