Border guards in Australia have been shown naked self-portraits and pictures from peoples’ honeymoons in confusion over what they mean when asking to declare pornography. The Australian Sex Party has been fighting to change the airport customs cards for a while and now what used to ask for a declaration of pornography now asks for “illegal ...
If there is one topic that makes everyone uncomfortable it is the sexual abuse of children. We can watch shows where people painfully recover from drug abuse, read books about detailing the work of serial killers but bring up child abuse and the conversation just dies. No one even wants to think about it. During ...
Roman Polanski allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl in 1978 in California. He has been under house arrest in Switzerland since September last year. His lawyers wanted the trial to go on without him in America but it has been ruled that he must be extradited.
HatManJim // A weather-beaten eye cast over the media: HatManJim looks at a story in the headlines and as a feminist with a penis (Menimist? Femi-meni-mist? I just believe i n women’s rights, I’m not having gender-reassignment. OK?), attempts to map the sexism inherent in the press, without inadvertently saying anything lecherous about breasts.
After the news of his arrest, people are desperate to weigh in on the justice of Polanski’s arrest. The surprise? They don’t see any. Is there any other pedophile that could elicit this much public sympathy? A petition is circling Hollywood for his release and France’s foreign minister has called his arrest “sinister.” Some are ...
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Don’t tell anyone — but I turned 30 today! Last night, to celebrate the last day in my 20s,...
