Rape Culture

Gabrielle Union on Her Sexual Assault Op-Ed: 'We’re All Craving Acknowledgment'

By Eliana Dockterman

How Often Drink Spiking Actually Occurs, According to the Latest Research

By Denver Nicks

Why This Democrat Won't Vote for Hillary Clinton

By Caitlin Flanagan

Stoya, James Deen and the New Shift in Rape Culture

By Laurie Penny
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Why New Orleans Bounced Back

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Why Rape and Trauma Survivors Have Fragmented and Incomplete Memories

In the midst of assault, the brain's fear circuitry takes over while other key parts are impaired or even effectively shut down. This is the brain reacting to a life-threatening situation just the way it is supposed to

By James Hopper and David Lisak

UVA Rape Survivor: Don't Doubt a Victim's Story Just Because It Sounds Horrific

The victim of a UVA gang rape 30 years ago — also at Phi Kappa Psi — on why no one believed her then. And why she, too, was afraid to name her attackers

By Liz Seccuro

If There Were Ever a Time to Abolish Frats, It's Now

The disgusting good old boy behavior that is the root of frat culture dysfunction belongs in the 19th century

By Andrew Lohse

Why I Spoke Out About One Rape but Stayed Silent About Another

Decades ago, we didn’t call rape by a date or acquaintance 'rape'--so what was there to report?

By Susan J. Brison

Time to Call the Cops: Title IX Has Failed Campus Sexual Assault

Though based in compassion, the reality is a system that encourages silence or the avoidance of law enforcement

By Robert Shibley

What to Do About The Cosby Show?

If it's hard to "separate the art from the artist" this time, it's partly because the artist worked so hard to intertwine them.

By James Poniewozik

Don Lemon Didn’t Just Victim-Blame--He Perpetuated Multiple Rape Myths

An interview with one of Bill Cosby's accusers displayed an unethical lack of knowledge about sexual assault

By Soraya Chemaly

Fraternity Group Under Investigation for Rape Comments

Delta Kappa Epsilon's alumni include George W Bush and Theodore Roosevelt

By Naina Bajekal

Campus Sexual Assault: What Ever Happened to Common Sense?

Parents, don't let your daughters grow up to think they have no agency

By Jennifer Moses

I Shouldn't Have to Dip My Nails in a Drink to Reduce My Risk of Rape

There's a lost opportunity every time we make girls and women individually responsible for avoiding rape

By Soraya Chemaly

Stop Fem-Splaining: What 'Women Against Feminism' Gets Right

The charge that feminism stereotypes men as predators while reducing women to helpless victims certainly doesn’t apply to all feminists — but it’s a reasonably fair description of a large, influential, highly visible segment of modern feminism

By Cathy Young

'I'm a Survivor of Rape and Intimate Partner Violence--And I'm a Man'

The crisis of campus sexual violence can't be solved without addressing other populations that are at surprisingly high risk.

By John Kelly

5 Things We Must Teach Young Boys About Rape, Right Now

It's time to end the ambiguity on "ambiguous" encounters—we need better sex education for our young men

By Chris Ferguson

The Most Powerful #YesAllWomen Tweets

The suspect in Friday's killings in Santa Barbara, Calif. wrote a manifesto promising revenge on all the women who had rejected him. But Twitter users responded with their own thoughts on and experiences of misogyny, centered around the hashtag #YesAllWomen

By Nolan Feeney

Rape Culture is a 'Panic Where Paranoia, Censorship, and False Accusations Flourish'

Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a TIME contributor, and author of several books, including The War Against Boys. She hosts a weekly video blog The Factual FeministOn January...

By Christina Hoff Sommers
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