Tag Archives: sexual abuse

On Don Draper, Dick Whitman & Consent

Jessica Wakeman7 hours ago //

Was Joan Holloway right to disobey her bosses? Read More »

The Ladies Of "Mad Men"...

... versus the creepy dudes of online dating site OK Cupid. Read More »

Joan Holloway On Dating

10 things Joan Holloway would say about dating. Read More »

SPOILER: Why wasn’t there more of a discussion about the prostitute who nursed a young Dick Whitman back to health and then took sexual advantage of him? [The Atlantic]
There’s an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today by editorial board member James Taranto that posits the military’s effort to clean up sexual assault is a “war on male sexuality.” As blogger Amanda Marcotte put it so well on Twitter, “Most men don’t rape, actually, James Taranto. But implying that they do emboldens rapists who want to believe they’re normal.” [Wall Street Journal]
Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri announced a Support For Hillary political action committee to encourage former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016. [Guardian UK] Keep reading »

Judge Who Ignored Woman Allegedly Sexually Assaulted By Court Marshal Is No Longer Employed

Daley QuinnJune 17, 2013 //

Patricia Doninger, the hearing master that ignored Monica Contreras pleas after an alleged sexually assault by a court marshal, is no longer employed by the Clark Country Family Courts. [8 News Now]
The Supreme Court is set to rule on a case originally filed by Abigail Fisher, a young woman who claimed that she was denied admission to the University of Texas because she is white. However, many studies have shown that white women have benefited disproportionately within the working world thanks to affirmative action. [TIME]
In Texas, two female inmates are suing three Live Oak County sheriffs after sharing disturbing information about the “rape camp” that was occurring in the county jail. According to the inmates, many girls had been sexually assaulted and humiliated by the various jailers. [The Raw Story] Keep reading »

Court Marshal Allegedly Sexually Assaults Woman, Then Arrests Her For Protesting

Jessica WakemanJune 12, 2013 //

Rape Posted On FB

Three teens post rape of 12-year-old girl on Facebook. Read More »

13yo Bullied Over Rape

A teen girl is bullied online after alleged rape by two Torrington, CT, athletes. Read More »

Rape Victim Slutshamed

14-year-old pregnant rape victim is shunned by Indiana community. Read More »

Disgusting

This video is extremely disturbing. It’s a KLAS-TV Las Vegas news clip featuring a woman named Monica Contreras, who was allegedly sexually assaulted by a court marshal and then arrested on false premises when she complained about it to judge (hearing master) Patricia Donninger.

Here’s what happened: Contreras was in Clark County family court in August 2011, with her two-year-old daughter, finalizing a divorce case. Then she was suddenly taken, by herself, into a room with court marshal Ron Fox to be searched for drugs. (There is no explanation given for why the search was needed.) During the search, the 28-year-old alleged the marshal touched her breasts, her butt and asked her to pull up her shirt. Then, Contreras walked back into the courtroom where Donniger sat, politely said she felt uncomfortable and “offended” by Fox’s requests to lift up her shirt, and that if she needed to be body-searched, could it be done by a woman. Patricia Donninger ignored her. Then Fox suddenly instructed another cop on duty to arrest her for “making false allegations against a police officer.”

But, as KLAS explains, there is no law about making false allegations against a police officer. It’s a bullshit charge he just made up because she was accusing him of sexual assault. And there is also no law that allows a police officer accused of sexual assault to arrest the accuser. Keep reading »

14-Year-Old Pregnant Rape Victim Slutshamed By Indiana Community

Jessica WakemanJune 11, 2013 //

This whole story is horrific: A 13-year-old girl in Ellwood, Indiana, was raped by a 17-year-old and became pregnant. She decided to carry the pregnancy to term because she is against abortion. Now her community has been slutshaming the teen over her traumatic rape and subsequent teen pregnancy, with people writing “slut” and “whore” on her family’s garage door. Despite the fact that the rapist’s case has been working its way through juvenile court, classmates are still gossiping about whether she might be faking the rape. Meanwhile, the rapist has at least two other young victims, one of whom was only 12, and has been charges with three counts of child molesting. [Slate, IndyStar.com]
Check out an op-ed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) about the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would make it easier for women to sue employers over pay discrimination. [Mother Jones]
Just as expected, the Religious Right is already screeching that pedophiles are going to be thrilled the morning-after pill will now be available over-the-counter. [Raw Story] Keep reading »

Illinois Man Charged With Sexually Abusing A Peacock

Julie GersteinMay 13, 2013 //

Elf Sex?

This woman says it's real. Read More »

Animal Sex Advice

Animal Advice For 6 Sex-Related Freak Outs

If animals gave sex advice...this is what they'd say. 7 Photos »

Snowman Sex

He tried to have sex with a snowman and got frostbite of the penis. Read More »

Sex Offender Registries

There are some good reasons why these should be abolished. Read More »

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On April 28, David Beckmann, 64, of Roselle, Illinois was booked on a host of horrifying charges, including battery and attempted indecent solicitation of a child. But his most bizarre crime? Sexually assaulting a peacock. Before we get into the particulars, can I just start out by saying what everyone is probably thinking: how in the fuck do you sexually abuse a peacock? The bird, named Phyl, was seen alive by neighbors the night before its body was discovered while police were investigating another crime. The exact nature of the sexual abuse has not been revealed by police, as it also allegedly involved the indecent solicitation of a child estimated to be between the ages of 13 and 17. In any case, we now have something new to have nightmares about. [Daily Herald]

Lawyer Wants Age Of Consent Lowered To 13 To Stop “Persecution Of Old Men”

Jessica WakemanMay 9, 2013 //

On Consent

Jessica explores a sexual experience that wasn't totally consensual. Read More »

Statutory Rape Suicide

14-year-old commits suicide when IDed after statutory rape. Read More »

Teach Boys Not To Rape

On Steubenville High School and teaching boys not to rape. Read More »

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Yup, you read that headline right: a British lawyer has called for the age of consent to be lowered to 13 because a dirty old man touching 8th graders’ boobs should be totally OK.

London lawyer Barbara Hewson penned an impassioned piece for a contrarian British publication called Spiked in which she wrote about the Jimmy Savile trial, or Operation Yewtree. Simply put, Yewtree investigated multiple allegations that a late British TV host had sexually abused many, many underage girls and boys. The whole trial has reignited concerns in the UK about adult sexual abuse of children and young adults

But now Hewson — A WOMAN!— is concerned that the UK is conducting its own witch hunt, falsely accusing adult men of being sexual predators. ”[T]he goings-on at the BBC in past decades are not a patch on what Stead exposed. Taking girls to one’s dressing room, bottom pinching and groping in cars hardly rank in the annals of depravity with flogging and rape in padded rooms,” she wites. “Touching a 17-year-old’s breast, kissing a 13-year-old, or putting one’s hand up a 16-year-old’s skirt, are not remotely comparable” to rape or gang rapes. And since that’s supposedly the only really bad way a young woman can be violated, she now advocates that they “remove complainant anonymity; introduce a strict statute of limitations for criminal prosecutions and civil actions; and reduce the age of consent to 13.” Keep reading »

Facebook Page Run By Active Marines Mocks Violence Against Female Troops

Jessica WakemanMay 9, 2013 //

Trump's Rape Tweets

Donald Trump helpfully reminds us all men are rapists, always. Read More »

Rape In Military

Defense Secretary vows to take sexual assault in the military seriously. Read More »

A Soldier's Thoughts

Why an ex-soldier was reluctant to endorse lifting the ban. Read More »

A Facebook page run by active Marines mocking violence against female troops has been taken down after it was publicly outed by a Congresswoman. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) penned a letter to the Secretary of Defense and the commander of the Marine Corps asking them to take action on the page, F’N Wook, which showed pictures of women with disrespectful, sexist, and violent captions. “Many of the pictures imply women only advance professionally by performing sexual favors,” Rep. Speier wrote in her letter. “And otherwise promote the idea that women are inferior and only useful as sexual objects and sandwich makers.” One showed a picture of three female Marines with the caption, “Lesbian … still goes down on gunny for promotion.” Another showed a servicewoman with a black eye and the caption, “She burned the bacon only once.” Keep reading »

Donald Trump Helpfully Reminds Us All Men Are Rapists, Always

Jessica WakemanMay 8, 2013 //

Marine To Fox News

Sexual assault should not be part of her job. Read More »

Military Ban Lifted

The military has lifted the ban on women in combat roles. Read More »

A Soldier's Thoughts

An ex-soldier on lifting the ban on women in combat. Read More »

Just in case you thought that men should be expected to obtain consent from women before engaging in sexual behavior with them, bigoted blowhard Donald Trump is here to remind you all men are rapists, always. Why else would 26,000 service members have reported experiencing [second item] “unwanted sexual contact” last year? It’s because, Trump tweeted, men and women have never, ever worked alongside each other in coed workplaces without men raping their colleagues. In a followup tweet Trump — who, correct me if I’m wrong, attended a military high school but has never served a day in the actual military, unlike actual women in combat — said “top military brass” didn’t want “a mixer.” But “dumb politicians” just had to endanger these vulnerable women at the hands of all the rapists in uniform. Sorry, ladies. Rape away, dudes — I know you can’t help yourselves. [Examiner]

Elizabeth Smart Felt Like “Chewed Up Piece Of Gum” After Rapes

Jessica WakemanMay 6, 2013 //

Justice For Elizabeth

One of Elizabeth Smart's captors has finally be sentenced. Read More »

Hired By ABC News

Elizabeth Smart has hired by ABC to discuss missing persons cases. Read More »

Abstinence Message

Abstinence-only sex education is rebranding its message. Read More »

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“I thought, ‘Oh, my gosh, I’m that chewed up piece of gum, nobody re-chews a piece of gum, you throw it away.’ And that’s how easy it is to feel like you no longer have worth, you no longer have value. Why would it even be worth screaming out? Why would it even make a difference if you are rescued? Your life still has no value. … [Kids should know] you will always have value and nothing can change that.”

– Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped at 14, held captive and raped for nine months, spoke recently at Johns Hopkins University on a forum about human trafficking. Here she is explaining why she didn’t run after her captor raped her, which he did daily during her entire ordeal. As the now-25-year-old told Johns Hopkins, she was raised in a religious family and had learned from abstinence-only education that a person whose virginity has been ‘sullied’ is worthless. Her mention of chewing gum is not random: A popular teaching in abstinence-only education, “the gum game,” is to compare people to chewing gum: a person who has had multiple partners is just like dirty, grimy gum that’s been chewed over and over again by multiple people. It’s a way of teaching children to feel ashamed and guilty about sex. And while positing sex before marriage as “slutty” could mess up anyone, for rape victims like Elizabeth Smart, it’s enough to make someone feel like worthless trash. [Christian Science Monitor] [Photo: Getty]

Serial Groper Gets Off Scot-Free, Because That’s How We Do

Jessica WakemanMay 3, 2013 //

Gun Pulled On Flasher

Woman pulls gun on flasher, flasher puts penis away and runs. Read More »

Legs Filmed On Subway

Some creep is filming videos of your legs on the subway for YouTube. Read More »

BareMinerals Fail

They had frat boys hold signs reading "You look beautiful sweaty." Read More »

Oh, FFS, America. Last year, New York City was captivated by the tale of the good-looking, really well-dressed, white man — totally the kind of guy who want to bring home to your bubbe — who was sexually assaulting women in public. The man the tabloids called the “Gentleman Groper” was later fingered as a lawyer named Paul Kraft, who plead guilty to groping or taking crotch shots of numerous women in wealthy neighborhoods like the Upper East Side or the Financial District. Here are some creepy examples of stuff he did. Gross, right? Well, you’ll be … surprised … to hear he’s gotten off without jail time. Keep reading »