It made her skin crawl. Some were images from Snapchat. Some were stolen. Some were videos taken, selfie-style, mid-sex-act, by males. Just to get a rough idea of numbers," read one. Jess Treloar-Walker, also 18, had it worse. It's their way of getting back at us," she said.
It was so disgusting, I was so angry. He said if you give me money I can get you in with her. Many of the images appear to be of under-age women.
Melbourne's Men's Society was shut down by Facebook on Friday. But it is said to be only an imitator compared with another group known as Melbourne Blokes Trade, which has been operating for some time. Melbourne's Men's Society had members, with another awaiting approval.
The group is hidden on Facebook, and people cannot apply to join it — its administrators choose members based on recommendations for induction. The groups sit at the centre of a galaxy of "lads' groups", which contain low-level profanity and soft-core pornography. On Saturday, after being alerted by The Age , Facebook investigated Melbourne Blokes Trade's content and ruled the page wasn't breaching any of its community guidelines. The root of the problem, says media and gender expert Dr Lauren Rosewarne, is that male sexual behaviour is treated very differently to female sexual behaviour.
It's probable they all met there, and maintained contact as they went their separate ways. Not to create an under-age pornography folder for a bunch of year old males," he wrote. After Melbourne's Men's Society was shut down, a dozen or more replacement groups were immediately set up by members, showing the difficulty of stamping out a network that can move and morph with ease.
