Nearly 1500 people have signed an online petition, ”Stop the Lingerie Football League in Australia”, and the Minister for Sport, Kate Lundy, warned the league was an assault on sport.

”Our daughters deserve more,” she said. ”The LFL is about giving viewers an opportunity to perve on women in gear that looks like it’s come from an adult shop. It’s called the Lingerie Football League because it’s almost exclusively about the underwear.

”In sexualising the game of gridiron, they’re undermining any future for broader inclusion in the sport, inevitably making it harder for women to … receive equitable treatment.”

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