Be careful what happens to those naked pictures or you could unwillingly end up being seen as a porn star or prostitute. A woman is suing a company because pictures of her ended up on their website that advertizes prostitution. The pictures were taken by her ex and somehow ended up on the site. She ...
Prostitution is now one step closer to becoming a recognized industry in Canada. In Edmonton, “massage” parlours and escort services are being licensed. The people who work for these agencies will have to take a three hour sexual exploitation information session. They will also have to prove they’re over 18. This means that actual massage parlours ...
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 ...
Is it morally, socially and legally right to charge an HIV-positive man with murder after seven women were infected with the virus after having sex with him? America has done it and now Canada is joining the ranks. The debate is on. Johnson Aziga has been declared a dangerous offender in Canada after “murdering” two ...
If you’re going to accuse a man of rape, make sure your sexual background is squeaky clean and you’ve never lied — or he won’t get tried. Whores and liars don’t get raped. It seems there’s a real possibility Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s trial could be dismissed with surfacing evidence that the chambermaid he’s accused of raping ...
Wikileaks isn’t the only one to reveal the dirty secrets of the planet’s governments. Two Australian academics, Evan Smith and Marinella Marmo of Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, uncovered documents from the National Archives in London that suggest that at least 80 South Asian women were subjected to “virginity tests” upon their entrance to Heathrow ...
A new bill waiting for approval holds that a miscarriage is murder, and that mothers who can’t reach full term should face the death penalty. It’s a fact that for every pregnancy there is a chance of miscarriage and these numbers are probably higher than you think. It’s also true that for a lot ...
Obama has declared that the Defense of Marriage Act, something that bans federal recognition of same sex marriage, is unconstitutional. This law has been around since 1996, and Obama has now ”directed the Justice Department to stop defending the law in court.” Obama isn’t completely comfortable with the idea of gay marriage. But with this move ...
A British woman might be forcibly sterilized while she’s undergoing a cesarean section on Wednesday. The courts will decide tomorrow what they will do with her. The woman will be represented by the official solicitor, a government lawyer who represents those who cannot instruct their own legal team because they lack capacity. They will argue ...
Women in Japan are suing for their right to have a different last name than their husbands. Currently the law says that families must have the same name. Although it’s up to the couple which name they have, it inevitably leads to women taking their husband’s name. Four women and one man are suing the government ...
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...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
