“You have to look at the way she was dressed. She was wearing a thong with a lace front.” These words, uttered by a female defence lawyer at a rape trial in Ireland, were used to argue that the sexual contact between the accused and a 17-year-old girl was, in fact, consensual. The 27-year-old man

You aren’t one of those people who think someone can ever be responsible for being raped or assaulted. You know that no one is ever actually ‘asking for it.’ You know that rape is always the fault of the rapist. But there are some people who haven’t quite figured it out yet. Addressing them, New

It's back-to-school time, and that means we need to talk about an extremely serious subject: Despite years of outcry, college rape is still rampant in the United States. One in five women and one in 16 men experience sexual assault in college, and though we know college rape is a pressing and ...

Last Thursday, convicted rapist Brock Turner arrived in a Santa Clara County court to receive his sentence: six months in county jail, likely to be reduced to three after good behavior. Most reasonable people do not agree that the sentence fits the crime (three counts of felony sexual assault carry

There's lots of things we find funny until it happens to us. Falling over in a cafeteria with a tray full of food. A red-carpet nip slip. Accidentally farting into a microphone.Personally, I never found any of those things particularly humorous, and maybe that's why I've karmically ... Continue