Rape Prevention

House GOP: Rape Prevention Makes Immigration Detention A 'Holiday'

Mother Jones | Posted 03.29.2012

On Wednesday, as most of official Washington was fixing its gaze squarely on the Supreme Court, the House Committee on the Judiciary convened a hearin...

In Memory of Common Sense: VSB's 'Rape Responsibility' Fail

Tracy Clayton | Posted 03.26.2012

Tracy Clayton

To posit that a woman's behavior can be a means for stopping rape is a slap in the face to all the women who "followed all the rules" and still got raped.

Got Teeth? Proactive Anti-Rape Device or Another Way for Women to Live in Fear?

Jill Di Donato | Posted 08.16.2011

Jill Di Donato

A year after South African doctor Sonnet Ehlers introduced the Rape-aXe, some interesting questions arise about the "Venus Flytrap" condom, and how it might serve cosmopolitan women in the U.S.

Trust, but Verify

Stephen Balkam | Posted 05.28.2011

Stephen Balkam

The new movie Trust is not easy to watch, particularly if, like me, you have a hyper-texting teenage daughter.

Ten Minutes with David Schwimmer

Fabio Periera | Posted 05.25.2011

Fabio Periera

With mobile phones, computers and the Internet, the opportunities for a young person to reach out and connect to another person seem endless. So too, ...

Back to School, Back to Rape

Amy Siskind | Posted 05.25.2011

Amy Siskind

The precursors to rape in our colleges -- which affects 1 in 4 women -- can be found in our middle schools, where dating violence is fast becoming a crisis, with 1 in 3 teens who date experiencing some form of abuse.