There’s not much that hasn’t been said about Alexander Trocchi’s treatment of women, real and literary. I read Young Adam through gritted teeth as a much younger woman, and again when it became a film in 2003. The film was, in my opinion, better than the novel in the sense that it effectively contrasted human ...
Two anti-sex trade laws were ruled unconstitutional Monday by Ontario’s Court of Appeals. Three laws were up for review. The two that were struck down banned brothels and making a living off of prostitution. The law prohibiting sex workers from communicating with clients in public was upheld. The reason these laws were changed is just ...
Many people wouldn’t expect sex trafficking to be a Canadian issue. The majority of media coverage is about women being smuggled from Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America to work in brothels or massage parlours. However, it happens everywhere in the world; sex trafficking doesn’t discriminate based on gender, age or nationality, and it is ...
A man was sentenced to six years probation, but no jail time, for having sex with an underage teenage victim of sex trafficking. “I also told him this was my first time and I was nervous and I didn’t feel comfortable,” she said. “But he was all ‘relax.’ I did what he told me to ...
A 15-year-old girl has been charged with “aggravated sexual assault” and “promoting prostitution” for selling her 7-year-old step-sister to several men who raped and abused her. Disgusting.
It’s that time of year, when spring blossoms counteract the car pollution, beer gardens are filled with humans on...
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...
