Robert Jensen reviews Peggy Orenstein’s new book, “Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity.”
Tag: consent
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Fiona Mackenzie, the woman behind We Can’t Consent To This — a campaign tracking accounts of women murdered due to supposed “sex gone wrong.”
How can we claim to oppose abuse, while simultaneously presenting it as “sexy”?
Five feminists weigh in on questions and controversies surrounding the Aziz Ansari accusations.
Aziz Ansari isn’t an evil man — he is a completely normal man.
That men have learned to put their pleasure first has created a world where sadists like Peter Madsen and Brendt Christensen not only fantasize about hurting women, but make those fantasies a reality.
Men don’t rape because they don’t think consent is “sexy” enough, they rape because they think they will get away with it.
After being sexually harassed endlessly for weeks, Mel Watts, who runs the blog, The Modern Mumma, succumbed to her husband’s pressure and engaged in what she calls “a quickie.” That is to…
The image above, while enormously misogynistic, is not particularly out of the ordinary — not for female politicians, not for female females. Pornographic imagery is rampant in our culture today, impacting the…
This morning, Jian Ghomeshi was found not guilty on all charges — four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking. This verdict, unfortunately, is not particularly surprising.…
Predictably, the Jian Ghomeshi sexual assault trial has focused far more on what the victims did “wrong” than on the perpetrator’s behaviour. Story after story in the media paints a picture of…
Sigh. Vice’s “women’s section,” “Broadly” has shown itself to be kind of exactly what I was worried about. While there is certainly some good coverage of actual news events on the site,…
In what might be deemed a radical move, the University of Melbourne’s largest residential college banned access to pornography on campus. This means students at Ormond College will be blocked from accessing…
I’m going to hazard a guess and say that most people reading this do not believe that men are entitled to access women’s bodies for the purposes of their sexual gratification either…
Note: This post as well as the links and resources contained in this post may contain graphic descriptions of violence against women. “BDSM is not really abuse.” BDSM proponents promote the illusion…