Much of Somalia has been in turmoil and civil war for over 20 years and during those years various groups have held power. One thing they have all had in common is that they have systematically used rape and other forms of sexual violence against women and girls as a weapon. Initially, power was in ...
“There was a girl here. Ayesha is her name. She is 10 years old. Very tiny. The man she married is 50 years old, with a big belly, like so,” a man called Mohammed explained to a National Geographic writer visiting Yemen to write about the plight of child brides. “Like a rat getting married to ...
This week an Australian prostitute announced she was planning to sue the brothel where she worked, for failing to protect her from harm. While such news would probably catalyze interesting debate in most places, in Melbourne the situation is unique. One of only a few Western cities to have legalized brothels, the trial has become ...
Women are becoming increasingly proactive in their fight against domestic violence and sexual harassment. Led by Rebecca Chiao, a group of Cairo women are using “new media and old-fashioned community action” to take a proactive stance on sex crimes in Egypt. Assisted by Canada’s International Development Research Centre, HarassMap “lets women report incidents that might ...
When reports of Catholic priests abusing young boys started surfacing in the 1960s and ‘70s, many people blamed homosexuality. Instead of condemning the individual priests who committed sexual abuse, conservatives blamed the growing number of gay priests while liberals blamed the all-male celibate culture of the church. A five year study was released today detailing ...
Apparently some priests do not believe child molestation is in breach of their vows, or their virtue. Former auxiliary bishop of Sydney, Geoffrey Robinson, says girls are less likely to be sexually abused, as some priests believe their celibacy vows remain intact if it is a boy involved. “We’ve met it often enough to see ...
Ever wished you could capture an unsuspecting woman who would perform sexual pleasures through a hole in the bathroom wall? And if she got hysterical, you could give a good slap? Who would strip on request? Well now you can. Or at least your video-game alter ego can. The new edition of the Duke Nukem ...
People are constantly complaining about the state of teenagers today, yet hardly anyone is brave enough to delve into their world and try to find out what’s going on. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, by Dr. Mary Pipher, does just that. Through her work with adolescent girls as a clinical psychologist, Dr. ...
A holy man in Australia has been charged with third party sexual assault (meaning he was not there and did not do the physical assaulting himself). The holy man, Golossian, 62, is a Greek Orthodox priest and will be the first in the state of New South Wales to be convicted of this kind of charge if ...
Sometimes women cry after sex. It doesn’t mean she’s depressed. It doesn’t mean the sex was bad. In fact, we don’t really know what it means. Researchers in Australia have done a study that found that about one-third of women have had negative feelings after sex at one time or another, and it had nothing ...
Dear Madame X, I recently found out that one of my friends has been hit by her boyfriend. She...
As a teenager I was so absorbed in the chemical make-up of Jane Eyre, I didn’t have much time...
Men like peeing in the shower. That’s a fact. Of course, it’s pretty easy for anyone to do it,...
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...
