If a 16-year-old school girl gets pregnant by a 23-year-old professional sports player and later posts naked pictures of his team mates on the internet should she be treated like an abused child or a vengeful calculating adult? The story is a complicated one that has been playing out for a while in Australia between ...
Unhappy young people are more likely to drink and have sex, researchers have found. I think we can all agree that we already knew this. But what this study has done which is different is look specifically at 11- to 14-year-olds. Over 3,500 young people were surveyed about their general well-being, school life, family life, ...
Do you remember being just ten years old? Running around in the park, playing with friends after school, starting to get interested in boys and pop bands (my favourite at that age was New Kids on the Block). Sadly, for a little girl in Spain, she will have to give all this up to be a ...
A mother has been jailed for prostituting her daughter, forcing her to take illegal drugs, and subjecting her to physical and mental abuse. The girl was only 16 when she started working in a brothel and the mother forged her birth certificate to say she was 18-years-old. The mother will ”serve at least 18 months jail ...
Sexually active elementary school children in Massachusetts are being given condoms after counselling and education. This is without their parents’ knowledge and people are up in arms (of course!). But I fail to see the problem. If your kids are sexually active don’t you want them to be able to protect themselves?! Young people, and especially ...
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.
Shag bands, each signifying a sexual act a girl is willing to perform, are taking the British primary school world by storm. Parents are up in arms. Is this an innocent fad or a dangerous trend?
Mick, Morning Quickie
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 ...
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...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
