Women travelling in busy train carriages often have to deal with men taking advantage by purposefully bumping into them. Jakarta, Indonesia, is now introducing women-only train carriages along a busy commuter route to stop this problem. But is this going to work?
There is a trial going on in the UK about an eight-year-old girl who claimed to be raped by two ten-year-old boys. When I first heard about it I was repulsed. But now I’m just confused.
Mack, Morning QuickieBetty White plays up her libido for comic effect, but when she was paired with Andy Samberg the skit was too hot for Saturday Night Live to air. This is the show that invented “Dick in a Box” and “Bitch Hunter,” for goodness sakes! Why is octogenarian sex such a taboo?
Mack, Morning QuickieFemale Genital Mutilation (FGM) was just downgraded to “cutting” and is being encouraged for doctors in the USA. This is seriously distressing news and I have to wonder what they could possibly have been thinking!
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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 ...
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.
Mack, Morning QuickieThe Boy Scouts of America are being sued for US$29 million by a man who was abused as a child. I think it’s time we stopped blaming the institutions and instead look at the individuals involved.
Mack, Morning QuickieA 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.
Mack, Morning QuickieA Belgian man has walked free after raping his daughter in his sleep. Because there was no evidence he was awake, there was a reasonable doubt he was asleep and not in control of his actions. What a shame the courts ignored common sense and instead relied on the testimony of paid experts to understand ...
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In the UK teenagers think abuse in relationships is normal and up to a quarter of 13 to 17-year-old girls have “experienced physical violence from a boyfriend and a third had been pressured into sexual acts they did not want”. A campaign is trying to raise awareness about this in the UK and to stop the violence.