Last summer, the Vancouver Police Department started a campaign to try to cut the city’s growing rate of sexual assaults. Three posters with pictures of intoxicated young women were put up in bars and nightclubs around Vancouver with the slogan “Don’t Be That Guy.” The good news is that Deputy Chief Doug LePard announced that ...
If you do a quick Google search of the word “rape,” you get dozens of headlines about the victims of sex crimes around the world. Most of us have no trouble saying that a great deal of these victims are women. In the Pickton inquiry alone there’s an ever-increasing list of women who are coming ...
Most men who are held prisoner in concentration camps and or as political prisoners are raped and sexually abused, yet they are often ignored. An opinion piece in the New York Times by Lara Stemple looked at male rape and the problems we have because we don’t acknowledge it. The United Nations reported that out ...
Dear Madame X, When I masturbate I keep fantasizing about raping men. I told my friend and she says I was probably abused in my past. I had a rough childhood but I’m pretty sure I would remember something like that. Sometimes I tell guys about it and they ask me to get rough, but ...
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. This is the first of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. Day 16, Human Rights Day, is December 10th. So take a moment today and think about all the women who have been victims of abuse and rape and think of what you ...
Rape crime statistics are released every year in the FBI annual report of crime. But there might be a problem with this, as pointed out by Salon. The FBI definition of rape is so old-fashioned, out-dated, archaic, narrow, and stereotypical that they can’t possibly do any real reporting on it and this means hundreds, if not thousands, ...
Dear Madame X, I don’t understand how rape works. I’ve read reports about soldiers in Africa who are forced, at gun point, to rape women as part of their ethnic cleansing. Afterward many of them say that they didn’t want to. If they really don’t want to, how did they get it up? Also, the ...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
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...
