What’s worse than being associated with sex tourism? Not being associated with it. The Hilton Hotel group has finally joined the international anti-trafficking community, promising to sign a code of conduct against sexual exploitation in the tourism industry. Signatories of the ECPAT Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel ...
Sex slaves and child soldiers are common in Afghanistan and the government has acknowledged this problem to the United Nations. The government is going to sign an agreement with the UN’s special representative for children and armed conflict on an “action plan to combat the problem.” This will be the first time they “officially acknowledge ...
Prostitution has victims. We don’t like to talk about it, but kids are forced into sex work. Many Johns don’t believe this, and insist that they are doing what they want to do. One girl had the courage to step forward and explain how she was pimped out against her will. “The level of abuse ...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
