A Hymn to Life by Gisèle Pelicot review – a unique memoir by a figure of astonishing power

Pelicot’s riveting account of her ordeal refuses to conform to any agenda but her own

The Guardian
A day with the Revenge Porn Helpline: ‘You can sense the callers’ desperation’

Intimate image abuse is a crisis in the UK – with a fortyfold increase in calls to this service since it opened in 2015. Thankfully, there are effective ways to help those being victimised

The Guardian
Anger grows in China over reports of online groups sharing explicit photos of women

Chinese media said more than 100,000 were members of Telegram group that shared pictures taken without consent

The Guardian
These evangelical men saved sex for marriage – they weren’t well prepared

Scores of Christian men have been raised on ideas of abstinence and ‘purity’ – what does that mean for their sex lives later on?

The Guardian
‘I told him to stop’: the elite restaurant culture that consumed me

To enter a four-star dining room like Jean-Georges is to enter a world of perfection. But in dark corners hidden from guests is its cruel and seedy underbelly

The Guardian

On what women want - by Kat Rosenfield

https://katrosenfield.substack.com/p/on-what-women-want

Neil Gaiman appears to be a pretty bad guy. That's not actually what this essay is about, but I know people are going to ask — what about the man, are you defending the bad man — so let's just get it out of the way, the bad man is so extremely bad.

#NeilGaiman #ScarlettPavlovich #SexualConsent

On what women want

Neil Gaiman appears to be a pretty bad guy. That's not actually what this essay is about, but I know people are going to ask — what about the man, are you defending the bad man — so let's just get it out of the way, the bad man is so extremely bad.

The usual palm tree
Study finds alcohol and relationship context skew perceptions of sexual consent

College students' perceptions of sexual consent vary with alcohol consumption, relationship type, and gender, with tipsy women often seen as more consenting.

PsyPost
‘Sex strikes’ aren’t the feminist win they appear to be. Here’s how to get really radical

The problem with the 4B movement is that it plays into the idea that sex is labour: work women do for men, writes the sociologist Finn Mackay

The Guardian
The Misogynist Orange Turd - Silkester - Medium

The orange turd misused his power position to coerce a sexual favor and didn’t pay up. Since Stormy Daniels had a dissociative episode initially, this encounter counts as rape from her perspective…

Medium
3 States Just Banned Nonconsensual Pelvic Exams

New laws in Missouri, Montana, and Colorado ban medical staff from performing pelvic exams on unconscious or sedated patients without prior consent.

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