Rape

In which the press passes it's own judgement in one word

Magic Belly Button - July 2, 2008 - 8:55pm


She's eleven. Not old enough by any imagination to have consensual sex legally.

She's pregnant. She didn't fall over and land on a penis accidentally. Read more »

Justice

Magic Belly Button - June 10, 2008 - 10:52pm

It’s the only way Tory Bowen knows to honestly describe what happened to her.

She was raped. Read more »

Another for the ‘rape is not about sexual attraction’ file

Hoyden About Town - May 12, 2008 - 6:01pm

Man, aged 18, charged with raping an 82 year old woman twice, allegedly attacking her as she was taking an early morning walk in a park. On Mother’s Day. He is most unlikely to have found her irresistably physically desirable: her vulnerability was most probably the key.

Why the newspaper calls a legal adult a youth I don’t know. Read more »

Is “pregnancy pact” the new MSM code for child rape?

Hoyden About Town - July 1, 2008 - 10:34pm

The West proclaims: “Parents form bizarre pregnancy pact with teen”.

The article opens with a description of what initially is made out to sound like a (bizarre and exploitative, but mutually agreed) surrogacy arrangement between mother, stepfather, and 15 year old daughter:

A man had sex with his stepdaughter as part of a pact with his wife to get the teenager pregnant because they wanted another child, a court has heard.

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“Don’t write a poem about rape.”

Hoyden About Town - June 10, 2008 - 2:18pm

“Shove It: Part 2″ (The Buffaloe Pen) is Julie’s story of having her deeply personal poem about rape rejected by a literary journal editor. Read more »