Hitting children as a form of discipline used to be so common people wouldn’t bat an eyelash. In the UK almost half of us think there’s nothing wrong with it. There’s definitely something wrong with that! I once saw a man hit his child at a restaurant and I was sickened. Then thrilled when another ...
How sweet, people coo, leaning over the baby carriage. The next question is inevitable: Is it a girl or a boy? A Swedish couple have refused to identify the sex of their baby — causing an international furor, with some accusing them of child abuse. Pop is a healthy two and a half year old ...
This morning, Jordan Romero must be the happiest 13-year-old boy on the face of the earth. Having become the youngest person ever to summit Mount Everest, by two whole years, he can certainly tell all of his middle-school friends how he cheated death while climbing the world’s tallest mountain. But why does he need to ...
There is a trial going on in the UK about an eight-year-old girl who claimed to be raped by two ten-year-old boys. When I first heard about it I was repulsed. But now I’m just confused.
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) was just downgraded to “cutting” and is being encouraged for doctors in the USA. This is seriously distressing news and I have to wonder what they could possibly have been thinking! The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) just released a policy called “Ritual Genital Cutting of Female Minors” which encouraged “federal ...
Roman Polanski allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl in 1978 in California. He has been under house arrest in Switzerland since September last year. His lawyers wanted the trial to go on without him in America but it has been ruled that he must be extradited.
Every parent has the right to educate their children about sex and sexual health. But involving them in their own sex play with a webcam is harmful and abusive. This is what happened in a case in Texas with a father and his three daughters, one of whom is eight-years-old.
The Boy Scouts of America are being sued for US$29 million by a man who was abused as a child. I think it’s time we stopped blaming the institutions and instead look at the individuals involved. If you are the kind of person who wants to abuse children, then you will, undoubtedly, gravitate towards jobs ...
A backwards, mixed-up tragedy has occurred where a South Korean couple spent hours a day raising a virtual child online while they let their real child starve to death.
A Belgian man has walked free after raping his daughter in his sleep. Because there was no evidence he was awake, there was a reasonable doubt he was asleep and not in control of his actions. What a shame the courts ignored common sense and instead relied on the testimony of paid experts to understand ...
This week, for a change of pace, I’m looking at non-fiction online. Bookslut is an established and well-publicised e-zine...
The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet...
Happy Earth Day! Earth Day Network and Women Saving the World - Kathleen Rogers from Womensphere on Vimeo.
As I lay stricken in bed the other night, twisted in agony and gurning manfully at the grinding torment...
Sandwiches. Gender conspiracy. War on women. Let me explain. It was a sunny afternoon here in southern Germany. I’d...
Touch his penis! Men like it and it feels good. Plus sometimes they do need help getting hard and...
On rare occasions, television does reflect real life. A new series that debuted on HBO last weekend, Girls offers...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend seems to have a man-crush on one of his male friends who he really...
