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How Rolling Stone Should Have Dealt With the Fallout From Its UVA Story

Jackie’s “inconsistencies” are hardly as egregious as the sexual assault animating much of Greek life on college campuses today.

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The Promise Platform’s Ingenious, Technologic Assurance

Victims of sexual violence frequently lack access to a smartphones or WiFi. Believe it or not, there’s an app for that.

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How 'Take Back the Night' Keeps Some Victims Silent

After I attended my own college's Take Back the Night, I didn't feel empowered. I felt shaken and shamed.

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What Most Sex Scandals Have In Common (Hint: It's Not Sex)

Sex scandals are treated as gossip, not as wake-up calls to fight abuses of power.

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How Do We Stop Child Sex Abuse? What Penn State Can Learn From Prisons

"When people have unchecked power, bad things happen. When predators have unchecked power, horrendous things happen."

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Free Speech on Facebook: The Case Against Banning Pro-Rape Pages

Facebook is a private company that functions largely as a public space. Should we be policing its content?

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Three Apps That Might Actually Prevent Sexual Assault

Not getting raped? Actually, there's not an app for that.

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FBI Expands its Definition of Rape—Will We Take It Seriously Now?

The FBI's new rape definition may mean crime statistics are about to skyrocket, but our culture's tolerance of rape could plummet.

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Unsolicited Advice for Bristol Palin: Call It Rape

I'm worried about you, girl. You say you're not accusing Levi of raping you, but the way you tell the story, it sure sounds like it to me.

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Sex, Rape, and Single-Sex Dorms: How Promoting "Virtue" Can Make It Hard to Prevent Violence

Catholic University of America is instituting sex-segregated dorms in an effort to curb "risky" sexual behavior. It will only make sex riskier.

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DSK, Lies, and the Myth of the Perfect Victim DSK Rape Case and Perfect Victims

I'm wondering why so few people are asking the most important question of all: How does any of this prove that DSK didn't rape her?

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Why Prison Rape Jokes Are Really Not Funny

With hundreds of thousands of sexual assaults behind bars annually, prison rape is no laughing matter.

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How Not to Talk When You Talk About Rape Lessons About Media Emerge from Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Case

The IMF's Dominique Strauss-Kahn is in police custody in New York, but it's the people writing about him behaving criminally.

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Female Soldiers Now More Likely to Be Assaulted By Fellow Soldiers Than Killed in Combat

It's really dangerous for women in the military. But that's not because of the putative enemy.

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Report: War Is a Really Terrible Learning Environment

A new UNESCO report says that 28 million kids don't go to school because of armed conflict in their countries.

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How to Rectify Our Military's Culture of Rape?

A new lawsuit alleges Defense Secretaries Robert Gates and Donald Rumsfeld have allowed rape to proliferate in our armed forces.