But then I saw a range of really distressing merchandise on Etsy and I shut down my shop straight away.

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing! Child sex abuse dolls and body parts, child abuse and incest-themed products with slogans begging a father to use his own daughter. Not just words but images depicting young girls as wanting to be violated.

So I’ve launched this petition because I don’t think child sexual abuse should be normalised and turned into something to make money from. Children’s charities say incest-themed images give permission to predators and put children at greater risk.

These products appear alongside cards for Father’s Day and books and baby clothes. Girls shouldn’t be presented as sexually available to anyone, let alone a parent.

As a mother of five who, like all the mums I know, wants to protect their children from abuse, I feel I need to do something. Corporate Social Responsibility is really important. Etsy is a bad corporate citizen, enabling significant harm to the most vulnerable in our community.”

Unbelievably, after launching the petition, Anna received hundreds of letters from supporters of the merchandise who felt she was trying to censor them. They called her ‘vanilla’ and claimed she was trying to shame adults for their sexual preferences. Regardless if those ‘sexual preferences’ were in fact ‘child abuse’ and ‘pedophilia.’ This is NOT a sexual preference. It is not a consensual interaction. It is called child sexual abuse.

In an updated post, Anna has informed her supporters of where things currently stand between her and the deluded people who have written in in support of the Daddy-daughter merchandise. Here’s her letter:

“Dear Supporters

After I launched this petition, I saw a lot of comments on social media from people defending Etsy’s incest and child abuse themed merch. They said things like ‘Daddy-daughter sexual themes are about ‘fantasy’, not real abuse of girls by their fathers’, and that I was shaming ‘consenting adults’ for their sexual preferences.

Collective Shout responded to some of the claims made by Etsy defenders – and highlighted why we must keep the pressure on Etsy to dump its range of incest and child abuse themed merch. As long as they continue to promote these sexploitative products, they’re putting real women and girls at risk. You can read more here.

Thank you to the hundreds of new supporters who have signed over the past couple of weeks – I’m so grateful! Don’t stop now – keep the petition moving and help it reach 50k signatures by sharing it with friends, family and on all your social media pages.

With thanks,

Anna”