Four Melbourne teenagers were arrested after police say they sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl. The group, which consisted of three males aged 16, 19 and 21 and one girl aged 16, video taped the assault and posted the footage online. The attack took place at a party, according to police. The four have been released from ...
Jailers can strip-search anyone who is being arrested, no matter how minor the crime, according to a Supreme Court ruling Monday. If you get caught driving without a license, walking your dog without a leash, or being drunk in public, you can be stripped naked and searched before taken to jail. Even if police have ...
Clothing is never an invitation to rape, even if it is deemed “provocative.” Though the SlutWalk protest marches have been met with controversy, they have become worldwide movements with a positive message. Scantily-clad women walk to show that showing skin doesn’t mean you’re open to sexual assault and that blaming victims over their perpetrators is ...
Match.com, eHarmony and Spark Networks (which operates JDate and ChristianMingle) have signed a joint statement agreeing to screen for sex offenders in an effort to better protect their clients. But is this public pledge, which holds dating websites more accountable but is essentially “non-binding and carries no enforcement penalties,” just to save face? Their statement ...
A group of female senators is protesting the fact that all eight Republican judiciary committee members voted against an updated Violence Against Women Act last month. The members were also all men. The Violence Against Women Act provides money for women’s shelters, counselling, rape crisis shelters and legal services for victims of sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking. It ...
It was one of those headlines that makes you look twice. I questioned my own powers of comprehension as I read over the words referring to a case that went before the British justice system: “Woman fails to quash conviction for falsely retracting rape claim.” A woman was convicted for falsely retracting a rape claim? ...
Three Canadian women are suing female US border patrol guards for “sexual groping” that occurred when they were crossing the border during a casual shopping trip. The women say that they were improperly searched in ways that violate the fourth amendment, which protects people from unreasonable searches. “They all allege essentially that the type of ...
Today there was a win for people with disabilities when the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a disabled victim of alleged sexual assault will get a second trial. The woman’s original testimony, about alleged assault when she was 19 from her step-father in 2004, was dismissed because she couldn’t describe what an oath was ...
Police are investigating claims in Dawson Creek that one or more Golden Cabs drivers trapped young women in their taxis and sexually assaulted them. The police department received a complaint in late January that a teenage girl had been lured into a cab with the promise of a free ride home. She was then reportedly ...
A Canadian navy medic, James Wilks, who took advantage of his patients and was subsequently jailed has just had new charges laid on him. He was convicted last year of sexual assault and was sent to jail for nine months. Now, like with many of these cases, more people have come forward to say he ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
