Surely this cannot be allowed to occur- how do I explain to my 13 year old daughter and son? This is not sport it is sexual exploitation and well just plain degrading and disgusting! Prime Minister please see it for the destructive ploy that it is and stand up for what horrible message this puts out there about how we view women. Please!

Yeah make them play in burkas like in Saudi Arabia. Actually that's not true, women aren't allowed to play sport there or even drive much like in many muslim counties but yet I hear no cry from the feminists here.At least the women can choose to play in lingerie if they want to without copping a stoning for it. I can think of more serious violations of women's right than girlies playing footy in underwear.

All I see are cliches from the guys: "Don't watch it if you don't want to." "The girls wouldn't be in it if they didn't want to be." etc. etc. Whatever the comment, it stems from a selfish perspective. There's a problem with our society when we have women who are willing to do this and men willing to watch. It's steeped in porn and it's dirty and degrading. It's the BIG PICTURE that needs to be looked at here - in MANY areas of our lives - and more importantly the way it's shaping and moulding the lives of both our boys and girls. Noone is denying people of their sexual pleasures - but does it have to be EVERYWHERE? It's getting inescapable and THAT is the problem.

I'm sorry, but the LFL is an interaction between voluntary participants who provide the entertainment, and voluntary consumers who consume the entertainment. It is a transaction entered into freely and voluntarily by both parties, and the government should not step in to prevent a mutually beneficial exchange of assets. We don't want to live in a nanny state, and this is the worst kind of nanny statism. Don't like the LFL? Don't watch.

What we really need is the exact opposite - cross gender sport where people get to play as we do in the rest of real life

The LFL undermines all women in sport. It reduces them to sex objects, instead of focussing on real talent and achievement. Women in sport (and women in general) deserve more respect than this. The women of the LFL are uninsured against injury, and yet they are not protected from injury as they have little in the way of protective attire. You can be certain that men would not agree to play a contact sport without protective gear and health insurance. The women in the LFL are actively encouraged to be violent toward one another. It's dangerous, it's sexist and should not be marketed as family entertainment. These leagues need to recruit from somewhere, much like the NRL and the AFL. This is usually done in youth sporting clubs. Do we really want the LFL recruiting girls as young as 15 to play in their underwear? Imagine the Saturday games of your daughter's LFL club. A bunch of people standing around waiting to see your 15 - 17 year old lingerie clad daughter, being thrown into the ground, her underwear ripped from her body while the crowd cheers at her nudity. Will you step in and stop this from happening in Australia?

Just because some women choose to participate does not make it any less demeaning to women. If male rugby is not played in underwear then why is LFL unless it is about treating women like objects or sexual toys.

I thought this got dealt with and was banned. The idea that it is still going ahead makes my blood boil. It makes it a lot harder for women to be taken seriously in any career when sexist male fantasies are allowed to take control of the media

Lets respect women, not treat them as contemptuously as the NFL does

I challenge anyone who goes to watch this as a "sport" to say honestly that they look at these women as sports people, anymore than a bikini wearing mud wrestler. If you are interested in watching women play football then you would go and watch them with their cloths on, else you are going to have a oggal at girls in lingerie in which case there are plenty of clubs licensed for that where children are not permitted to enter and they call it for what it is adult entertainment. This is not sport, children should not be exposed to it and my personal opinion is that any women respecting son, father,husband, uncle, brother would not go and watch women being degraded in this manner. Our society is sexually charged enough without adding so called sport to the long list of things that add to this environment. Again if you want to watch women play sport go to your local game where they have all their cloths firmly in place.