NYC Is Making Groping and Grinding on the Subway a Felony

A new bill that passed on Thursday in New York will make it a felony to grind or grope another person in the subway.
Harvey Weinstein Allegedly Groped a Model This Weekend
A 22-year-old woman filed a sexual assault complaint against big-time producer Harvey Weinstein this weekend, according to Page Six.
Singapore Anti-Groping PSA Features Terrible Puns, Victim-Blaming ‘Tips’
Singapore, which might be one of the worst places in the world if you're looking to break the law, has apparently rolled out an anti-public-groping campaign, which would be very helpful and nice if its street-side ads didn't features incredibly creepy pictures supplemented with a litany of instructions about what…
Hypnotist Makes Two Female College Students Believe They’ve Been Groped, Hilarity Most Definitely Does Not Ensue
On-campus entertainment can be really hit or miss unless your college a) has a competitive sports team and you can muster the cognitive dissonance required to enjoy a sport that's exploiting its student athletes for the enrichment of a nefarious athletic director, or b) sells booze at the campus gift shop. Case in…
Wouldn't We All Secretly Like to Turn the Tables on a TSA Agent?
Today in perversely satisfying news: A 59-year-old woman was going through security at Southwest Florida International Airport when she threw down her bags and theatrically groped a TSA supervisor's crotch. The woman, Carol Jean Price, says she was just demonstrating the aggressive groping she'd just received from a…
TSA Screenings to Be Slightly Less Gropey
Complaints of TSA agents getting way too up close and personal while searching passengers have sprung up from virtually every corner of society. Supermodel Bar Refaeli recently took to her Twitter account to say she'd been felt up by one agent, and Rep. Francisco Canseco publicly accused the TSA of assault after he…
Subway Groper Shot By Off-Duty Cop
A man who groped two young women's butts in a Harlem subway station wound up getting shot in the lower back when an off-duty police officer tried to arrest him. Officer Jason Butler got involved when a woman started calling for police because her 13-year-old daughter had been groped. Then an 18-year-old said she'd…
What The TSA Screenings Mean For Sexual Assault Survivors
Among the constituencies pissed off about the TSA's new security measures: Sexual assault survivors, for whom both the body scans and the patdowns can be triggering.
The Anti-Groping Lobby's Pantsless Plot
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg proposes that men wear kilts on a day of protest against new gropey TSA policies. We suppose women could go pantyless, but somehow that seems less like a less effective fuck-you. Still, the dissent is building.
Sexually Harassed? There's An App For That
Emily May's project, Hollaback — which targets those who sexually harass women on the street — is moving beyond a blog and into the 21st century, with an iPhone app.
To Catch A Predator: How To React To Guys Who Grope
Upon being groped during a lights-out section of a ride at Disneyland, the quick-thinking Christina Esquivel grabbed her cellphone and took a picture of her attacker. But that's only one way of stopping those creeps.
Harassment's No Big Deal, Says Egypt's Council For Women Spokesman
Women in Cairo say harassment by men is a growing problem — but Egypt's National Council for Women says everything's just peachy.
British Comic Gropes Woman Onstage In The Name Of Funny
Someone should have told comedian Johnny Vegas that fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life. Vegas is the stage persona of British stand-up comedian Michael Pennington, whose act has been described as dangerous, confrontational, [and] out of control. Last Friday night in London, Vegas appeared as a "special…
