Four men in South Africa have been sentenced for the murder of a 19-year-old lesbian woman. She was stabbed and stoned to death in 2006. The court found that the girl was targeted due to her sexual orientation. Cases like this sadly are not uncommon in South Africa. The Human Rights Watch claimed that ...
A sexual assault survivor who fought for compensation after her convicted attacker won 7.2 million pounds of lottery money has waived her right to anonymity. Receiving an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for services to her community, Shirley Woodman spoke about her fight for compensation. After her attack in ...
David Kato was murdered in January this year in what was a controversial case. He was an active gay rights activist in Uganda, a country where homosexuality is illegal and where a bill is waiting to be decided on that will give the death penalty for being gay or for having HIV. Other activists claimed ...
Men are the only people who should be in prison, according to the Howard League for Penal Reform. They are arguing that women should not be sent to jail because of the trauma it causes their kids. They reported that thousands of children are separated from their convicted mothers each year. The damages it causes ...
One girlfriend attempted to roll her boyfriend out of Mexican jail in a suitcase. Imagine your partner is in jail. He was sentenced to 20 years for weapon possession (must have been a shit ton of weapons!). The natural move would be to simply wait it out and pray that he gets out early for ...
Erica Huerta and Stephen Douglas were arrested Monday night after allegedly having sex on a beach a stone’s throw from a family restaurant. Everyone has the fantasy of sex on the beach. All sandy and sticky, just the two of you hearing the waves and getting it on. Many have successfully completed the act, ...
Ever since Columbine, violence in public schools has been recognized worldwide as a serious issue that needs to be addressed to protect teachers and students. While it’s a safety precaution to sound the alarm bells when an 18-year-old high school student is caught on camera going into the girls’ washroom wearing a hooded sweatshirt, latex ...
Is chemical castration the answer to Russia’s growing pedophile problem? Russian president Dmitry Medvedev believes it is and he has urged lawmakers to consider it. In the past year alone more than 9,500 sex crimes were committed against children in Russia, not including the countless incidents that went unreported. The proposed chemical castration process involves ...
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 mother has been jailed for prostituting her daughter, forcing her to take illegal drugs, and subjecting her to physical and mental abuse. The girl was only 16 when she started working in a brothel and the mother forged her birth certificate to say she was 18-years-old. The mother will ”serve at least 18 months jail ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
