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Bio
Cindy Gallop
Cindy Gallop is half English, half Chinese, grew up in Asia, in Brunei, and read English Literature at Somerville College, Oxford. She began working in theater marketing and then moved to advertising, where she spent the majority of her career working for one agency, global creative network Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
She joined them in London in 1989 to run global accounts such as Coca-Cola, Polaroid and Ray-Ban; moved to Singapore in 1996 to help start up and run BBH Asia Pacific; and moved to New York in 1998 to start up BBH US, which began as Cindy in a room with a phone, and four years later was named Adweek's Eastern Agency of the Year, winning clients such as Levi's, Johnnie Walker and Axe. In 2003 Advertising Women of New York voted Gallop Advertising Woman of the Year.
In 2005 Gallop resigned as chairman of BBH to do something different. She consults for clients who want to change the game in their particular sector, and who are looking for radical reinvention, and for groundbreaking, innovative, forward-thinking strategic and executional approaches. She is the founder and CEO of IfWeRantheWorld, an extremely simple crowdsourced web platform designed to turn good intentions into action, which will launch in January 2010. She launched another side venture, MakeLoveNotPorn, at TED 2009 and acts as board advisor to a number of technology and media startups.
She has a reputation as a highly compelling speaker at conferences such as TED, ad:tech (for whom she hosted the inaugural ad:tech Tokyo in September 2009), The Feast (which she hosted in October 2009), The Next Big Idea, MIPTV, and iMedia Summits, and writes opinion pieces for online publications (Adotas) and magazines (Marie Claire, V-Marketing China). More details can be found at www.cindygallop.com.
Depiction of erotic behaviour intended to cause sexual excitement. The word originally signified any work of art or literature depicting the life of prostitutes. Though pornography is clearly ancient in origin, its early history is obscure because it was customarily not thought worthy of transmission or preservation. Nevertheless, in the artwork of many historic societies, including ancient India, ancient Greece, and Rome, erotic imagery was commonplace and often appeared in religious contexts. The Art of Love, by Ovid, is a treatise on seduction and sensual arousal. The invention of printing led to the production of ambitious works of pornographic writing intended to entertain as well as to arouse. In 18th-century Europe, pornography became a vehicle for social and political protest through its depiction of the misdeeds of royalty and other aristocrats, as well as those of clerics, a traditional target. The development of photography and motion pictures in the 19th and 20th centuries contributed greatly to the proliferation of pornography, as did the advent of the Internet in the late 20th century. During the 20th century, restrictions on pornography were relaxed throughout much of Europe and North America, though regulations remained strict in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Child pornography is almost universally prohibited.
Dear hairyotter - I must admit to being very surprised that your takeaway from my presentation was the above, and that you actually think that I 'don't seem to see it as a problem at all that 11 year olds are watching hardcore pornography'. My entire speech is about the fact that that is a huge, huge problem, and one that has to be addressed, not just by preventing children from seeing this kind of material (because unfortunately the reality is that that is extremely difficult to do today) but also by being prepared to have an open, healthy dialogue about sex and to improve sex education to provide a counterpoint.
I should also emphasize that this issue applies, unfortunately, across the full spectrum of age, ranging from children through to adults who have already been affected - as the huge amount of emails I receive from teenagers, adult men and women and parents testifies.
Please do email me at cindy@ifwerantheworld.com - I would like to discuss this with you further, and am happy to do so by phone or Skype if that is easiest for you.
A speech meant more to entertain than to educate, much like her websites. If she wanted to be taken seriously, she would not dress like a cheap hooker, a fact that kind of detracts from the points she is trying to make. She tries to make it a point that the pervasiveness of pornographic culture has and always be with us, but anyone who understands history going back more than 50 years knows that while at some level this is true, to try to compare the "pornographic" culture of the past to the current state is like saying a fist fight and nuclear bomb are both violent, a true but functionally useless point (here used as a justification of modern porn industry). She talks about balancing viewpoints; she doesn't seem to see it as a problem at all that 11 year olds are watching hardcore pornography. This is the epitome of stupidity, to suppose that rather than prevent children from being exposed to hardcore pornography which arguably is among the most potent, psychologically charged material available to a child, we should simply try to show them that it is actually not all about the porn that they are haplessly being addicted to, that porn is but one "viewpoint". Does Ms. Gallop have a child? Can she even remember what it is like to be a child? What child cares about anything she is talking about? When we were kids we got our kicks from cartoons and the funny pages whereas nowadays they are getting it from the internet and hardcore porn, and she says the problem with the world is a lack of blowjobs. This lady immerses herself in culture, sure, but she understands none of it and has absolutely no grasp of what actually needs to be changed.
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