First, a disclaimer. I used to work as a sub-editor on the Australian edition of FHM, a men’s magazine that was not exactly known for being politically correct. But while I may have written off-colour captions, including an alarming reference to Chuck Berry’s penis and a spooky prediction of the death of Michael Jackson five ...
If a woman is completely drunk then she is incapable of giving consent to sex, right? Well not according to Emily Yoffe aka Dear Prudence. In her web chats this week she completely dismissed a scenario where a woman stated she had been date raped on the basis that she had gotten very drunk in ...
Julian Assange lost his extradition appeal in London, and will be on his way to Sweden within ten days. There the Wikileaks founder will be questioned over alleged sex crimes. Assange became a household name in 2010 after the publication of US Embassy Cables leaked by his organization. Almost simultaneously, he was accused of rape, ...
Whether you’re married or not, no means no. Rape in marriage is a sex crime that should not be taken lightly. But it seems it means something different in 2011 than it did in the 1960s. Fifty years ago, an Australian woman accused her husband of rape. Today, it looks like the case, which has ...
Dear Madame X, I like to remember my conquests and I often record these escapades with a hidden camera. Sometimes I tell the girls, if they look like they’ll be up for it, but usually I just keep quiet. What’s the harm, I’m the only one going to see it anyway, right? I hired a ...
Porn is not just adults having sex in front of a camera. It’s not quite that simple, or innocent. At least that’s what UK Feminista is hoping to show with the tenth anniversary screening of Hardcore today. However, the porn documentary has sparked a controversy in the feminist community. The drama over the film being ...
The intactivist movement has a strong candidate for a new spokesman in Russell Crowe, who went on a violent rant against male circumcision on Twitter yesterday after one of his followers asked him if he should get his son circumcised. Calling the practice “barbaric and stupid,” he indiscriminately shot down any objections his followers made ...
A convicted rapist will get no jail time because the judge believes “sex was in the air.” The victim, or woman in heat, apparently confused the rapist by wearing suggestive attire and flirting. I guess she shouldn’t have worn her “No Means Yes” t-shirt and “Rape Me” jeans, because we all know that what a ...
Sargent David Gutierrez had HIV and also liked sex. The problem arose when he went to swinger parties and assured his sexual partners that he was HIV free and didn’t use condoms. He has been charged with seven counts of “aggravated assault and violating his commander’s order to notify partners about his HIV status and ...
A man had sex with an unconscious woman, who is now claiming that he raped her. The catch is that he claims she consented to it. Now the case before the Supreme Court of Canada is whether a person can give consent in advance for things that occur while they are unconscious. The woman passed ...
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...
