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Professor of Law, Durham Uni and expert on violence against women and girls, particularly: #SexualViolence #metaverse #porn #cyberflashing #OnlineAbuse #ImageBasedSexualAbuse. www.ClareMcGlynn.com @McGlynnClare on the platform that looks much the same .. more

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Clare Mary Smith McGlynn is a Professor of Law at Durham University in the UK and leading expert on violence against women and girls and gender equality. She advises governments, civil society and social media platforms regarding online and image-based sexual abuse, and works closely with survivors to strengthen the law. In 2020, she was appointed an Honorary KC in recognition of her role influencing law reform and advancing equality. In 2024 His Majesty The King appointedMcGlynn to the Judicial Appointments Commission, which is responsible for selecting judges in England and Wales. McGlynn has also served as a member of the UK Parliament's Independent Expert Panel, hearing appeals in cases of sexual misconduct, bullying and harassment against Members of Parliament.  .. more

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · Feb 27

Incest porn? It's more common and harmful than you think.
My comment on the need to regulate this content and remove it online - as recommended in the Porn Review published today.
theconversation.com/why-incest-p...

Why incest porn is more common and harmful than you think

New proposals recognise role incest porn plays in normalising and trivialising child sexual abuse.

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Institute For Addressing Strangulation @institutefas.bsky.social · 16h

Excited to announce that Kate Brown, Chief Crown Prosecutor at CPS will be speaking at our conference Children and Young People: Could strangulation be ‘choking’ future generations?

Excited to hear from her as well as MP Jess Phillips

Book your place here! ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...

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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 3d

Professor @claremcglynn.bsky.social from our Law School played a key role in a deepfake sexual abuse case.

Her expert evidence helped secure a major penalty of over £220,000, recognising the serious harm caused by sharing fake explicit images.

Read more: durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · 15d

Deeply troubling article minimising the nature and extent of legal actions against the Tate brothers for rape and sexual assault. Peddling inaccuracies as well to bolster the argument is never a good look. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Women allegedly abused by Andrew Tate decry ‘misleading’ Spectator article

Complaint sent to Ipso over interview with ‘misogynist influencer’ and brother in Michael Gove-edited magazine

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 28d

The news of Conor Gearty's death has just been announced and I'm not coping. He was a mentor and the pole star in my constitutional thinking. He was also a great friend and fantastic fun to be around. I'm heartbroken for Aoife and the children.

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · Aug 28

ChatGPT actually said to a suicidal teenager: 'would you want to write them [his parents] a letter? If you want, I'll help you with it'
ChatGPT both suggests a suicide note and offers to write it.
We could prevent this. It's not inevitable. It's a deliberate design choice.

Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Want to know more about ChatGPT being sued for encouraging and assisting a teenager's suicide?
Here's the full legal submissions from the parents
#TriggerWarning it reproduces some of the chats where ChatGPT gave advice about different suicide methods

www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Intimate images are being shared on mainstream media, against the law in Serbia, to shame and silence women - and no action is being taken.
Every day there are new stories about the extent of image abuse against women and girls #darktimes
balkaninsight.com/2025/08/28/i...

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Stephen Burrell @thedailypanda.bsky.social · Aug 25

On #NowandMen, @claremcglynn.bsky.social argues that the online world doesn't just reflect sexism & misogyny in society more broadly. From 'nudify' AI apps to strangulation in pornography it *turbocharges* it, because that suits the business model of the tech companies: nowandmen.net/episode/clar...

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · Aug 22

#MaybeTomorrow #HopeSo

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · Aug 19

It's this content that we need to remove from mainstream online p0rn as it is legitimising and normalising abusive and non-consensual practices. The Report does call for such action. My point is that this gets drowned out by the predominant focus on age verification and children's access.

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · Aug 19

The Report also identifies
➡️ more than half (58%) of had seen porn depicting strangulation
➡️ 44% had seen depictions of sex while asleep - otherwise known as rape p0rn
➡️ and they were not searching for this content

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · Aug 19

It's the content of p0rn that's the real problem - if the content was not racist, misogynistic and sexually violent, there would be far less concern re children's access.
That's what we need to focus on.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Children’s exposure to porn higher than before 2023 Online Safety Act, poll finds

Children’s commissioner for England says findings show little had improved despite new law and tech firms’ promises

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · Aug 9

"This is not misogyny by accident, it is by design"
My comment on the latest example of AI tech being released without a care about its adverse uses and impacts, particularly on women and girls.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pornographic Taylor Swift deepfakes generated by Musk's Grok AI

Grok Imagine's

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · Aug 9

Musk’s AI generating deep fake Taylor Swift porn www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pornographic Taylor Swift deepfakes generated by Musk's Grok AI

Grok Imagine's

www.bbc.co.uk

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Stephen Burrell @thedailypanda.bsky.social · Aug 6

Amidst all the public attention towards AI and the tech industry, something not being talked about nearly enough is how they are exacerbating gender inequality and violence against women. So how can we hold them to account? We discuss with @claremcglynn.bsky.social: nowandmen.net/episode/clar...

Episode 56 of the Now and Men podcast with Prof Clare McGlynn

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · Jul 25

My latest comment on - why we need to talk about 'sexual digital forgeries' not "deepfake p0rn."
Terminology matters - it shapes our debates, laws and policies. Forgery underlines this is stealing someone's identity.
with Ruya Tuna Toparlak
journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/why-we-...

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Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research @thesccjr.bsky.social · Jun 18

🗣️ Please share/take part in our survey on: Women musicians' experiences of sexual violence & harassment in the Scottish folk scene.

We've heard many conversations about ongoing challenges and hope to help develop better understanding and awareness, and pathways to change.

✍️ bit.ly/UofG-Survey

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · Jul 7

Excellent article from Anna Moore emphasising the serious risks of choking/strangulation during sex, with my comments on the proposed regulation of depictions in prnography:

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Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research @thesccjr.bsky.social · Jul 7

If you would like to participate in the research please use this link. bit.ly/UofG-Survey

@uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social

Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research @thesccjr.bsky.social · Jul 7

Dr Kelly Johnson said: "We are launching an online confidential survey to capture the extent and nature of women musician's experience of sexual violence and harassment and collect ideas and understandings about pathways for change and possible routes forward."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's scary to talk about music scene abuse but if I don't, it won't change

Fiddle player Laura Jane Wilkie feels a responsibility to talk about issues in her industry to help other women

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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · Jul 3

Judges across many courts and tribunals have been subject to increasing — and increasingly unacceptable — sensationalist and inaccurate abuse, the lady chief justice Baroness Carr said last night. More needed to be done about attacks on our democratic process.
rozenberg.substack.com/p/attacking-...

Attacking democracy

Lady chief justice demands effective security for judiciary

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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · Jul 2

The Court of Appeal has set limits to the principle of open justice, overturning the decision of a judge in the High Court family division and ruling against the BBC.

rozenberg.substack.com/p/open-justi...

Open justice limits

BBC told care cases are not always source of material for journalistic endeavour

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Dr Helen Bichard @drbichard.bsky.social · Jun 24

Worrying new paper from Prof Cath White: in 6 year period, doubling of #strangulation in sexual assault on children. All perps male. Association with victim's mental health - effect, or vulnerability? @institutefas.bsky.social @claremcglynn.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Analysis of case files of children reporting non-fatal strangulation as part of a sexual assault

There is increasing awareness of non-fatal strangulation (NFS) in interpersonal violence in adults but less in the literature regarding children and y…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · Jun 19

Detailed comment from me here www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

⏰ Sexual Choking/Strangulation is a Ticking-Time Bomb – We Need Regulation Now | Clare McGlynn

⏰ Sexual Choking/Strangulation is a Ticking-Time Bomb – We Need Regulation Now 👍 The UK Government’s plans to strengthen extreme prn laws to cover depictions of strangulation is very welcome. It’s a ...

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · Jun 19

Proposed changes to restrict sexual strangulation in prn are very welcome. The Ministry of Justice says it's not yet able to say how it will be implemented.
The obligations under the Online Safety Act are clear - this material will have to be removed.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

'Choking porn' to be BANNED by Labour under new law

Laws will be brought in to criminalise 'pornography depicting any act of strangulation'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · Jun 19

Welcome Gov't announcement that sexual strangulation in prn is to be restricted.
Action urgent as MRI evidence finds that frequent choking/ strangling is giving young women brain damage.
We cannot dismiss this as a 'moral panic' unless we don't care about young women
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Minister pledges ban of strangulation and suffocation pornography

Dame Diana Johnson told MPs harmful content online was

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Helen Bichard @drbichard.bsky.social · Jun 17

Great paper. Plus 1) hypoxia affects frontal lobes ie cannot gesture/vocalise STOP as you say, but also hinders judgement/decision-making 2) I'm frequently seeing women where NFS has been used in DV as an escalation from sexual choking ("but we've done this before! you like it!") Horrible blurring.

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · Jun 17

Each day brings new ways tech is used to abuse women & girls showing the gaps in the law. Some law reform suggestions here for New Zealand.
Bigger question: how do we future-proof the law?
My suggestion for a law on intimate intrusions in @flsjournal.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · Jun 16

My latest briefing on how the prevalence of sexual strangulation/choking risks serious harm to young women who are the unwitting guinea pigs of a large-scale experiment with their well-being.
We need far better education and regulation.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Sexual strangulation, criminal law and pornography regulation

This Research Briefing outlines how English law currently applies to depictions of sexual strangulation, why it is a concern that such material is so freely and

papers.ssrn.com

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N8 Research Partnership @n8research.bsky.social · Jun 13

In an increasingly digital age, criminal law has struggled to keep pace with online abuse, particularly for women and girls. @durham-university.bsky.social’s Professor @claremcglynn.bsky.social is changing this by transforming the law to protect women online

www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Spotlight on: Professor Clare McGlynn – transforming the law to protect women online - Durham University

In an increasingly digital age, criminal law has struggled to keep pace with online abuse, particularly for women and girls. Professor Clare McGlynn, from our Law School, is changing this.

www.durham.ac.uk

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