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Friday, February 5, 2010 - 11:07am By Charles Moser and Janet HardyWe've had fun writing this column, and we hope you've had fun reading it. But as a result, we haven't really had an opportunity to talk about the kind of disasters that aren't even slightly entertaining: rape, assault and child molestation. So, to...
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Friday, January 8, 2010 - 12:18pm By Asher BauerI remember it clearly—morning in the drab hotel room. A rumpled bed. Him, me, getting dressed. He had finished raping me barely fifteen minutes before. I hadn't named it "rape" yet, or even thought to call it abuse. I'd consented to the sex,...
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Monday, November 30, 2009 - 10:07am By Matthew LawrenceBritish police in the town of Halifax plan to scare holiday partygoers this season by screening a short film about rape in the town center, reports the Halifax Courier. The newspaper describes the "hard-hitting short film" as "...
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Friday, October 23, 2009 - 11:18am By Tim McElreavyA 21-year-old waitress lost her job at the Coq D'Argent restaurant in London. She had apparently not been pulling her weight and was taking too much time off. Embarrassed and afraid to tell her family the real reason behind her sudden unemployment,...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - 12:39pm By Chris HallVia PZ Myers at Pharyngula, we find yet another one of those items that just makes our heads hurt to think about it. Apparently, the great divisive controversy in the Bahamas is legislation that would make it illegal for a man to rape his wife....
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Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 3:33pm By John PettittThere are a couple of rules of corporate communications that the Marriott hotel chain don't seem to understand. First: Never let lawyers do public relations. Second: If you do something stupid, people will tell 2 million of their closest friends...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 9:03pm By John PettittAn Australian stripper hired for a bachelor party has been found not guilty of rape by a court in Melbourne. Linda Maree Naggs who works under the name "Tiffany" came to the party came armed with a whip, vibrator and "strap-on...
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Sunday, August 2, 2009 - 12:02pm By John PettittDisturbing video interviews with victims from the Guardian South Africa: The phenomena of "Corrective Rape," where a person, typically a lesbian, is raped to 'correct' their sexual orientation is on the rise in South Africa...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 10:17pm By John PettittAustralia is a great country, but its radio DJ's are even more inane and stupid than their counterparts in the US, as the Lie Detector segment on radio station 2DayFM recently demonstrated. A mother brought her 14-year-old daughter on the show to...
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Sunday, July 19, 2009 - 2:06pm By John PettittIn perhaps the most blatant example of double standards we've seen in a while a Kansas prosecutor has received a slap on the wrist in the form of a six month suspension for distributing child pornography. The case involves 17 year old was...
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Monday, June 29, 2009 - 6:59pm By Tim McElreavyThe basic definition of rape is subjecting a victim to sexual activity through force. Of course, what constitutes force must necessarily be broadly interpreted in order to account for the many ways of forcing a victim into sexual activity. The state...
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Monday, May 25, 2009 - 6:06pm By Tim McElreavyThe topic of pedophilia and molestation is much discussed in the United States, sometimes to the point of hysteria. Conventional wisdom would suggest that the problem is rampant in every society, but more conservative cultures have been slow to...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 2:54pm By Chris HallVideo games make it possible for millions of people to live out their fantasies by manipulating multi-colored pixels every day. If you can imagine it, there's a video game out there. The scenarios in videogames range from the absurd to gritty and...
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Sunday, April 5, 2009 - 5:45pm By Tim McElreavyThe Associated Press reports that Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan, has ordered a review of a law, passed last month, which critics charge legalizes the rape of women by their husbands. The law was meant to regulate familial relations among...
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Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 10:06am By Tim McElreavyMystery surrounds a proposed Shia law currently before the Parliament of Afghanistan. Neither the law nor even its proposal have been published. Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office has refused to comment on it, but critics say Karzai agreed to...
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