Usually-accurate purveyor of Bachelor spoilers Reality Steve is reporting that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who has been accused of sexual assault twice, appeared at a group date Tuesday during the filming of this season’s Bachelorette.
Following a recent bill mandating sexual harassment training for taxi drivers in New York City, the Taxi and Limousine Commission is beefing up how they identify sexual contact and harassment by announcing more serious penalties for predatory drivers.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is planning an exhibition of Bill Cosby’s entertainment career, and people, understandably, are pissed.
On Monday evening, Full Frontal’s Samantha Bee turned her attention to the thousands and thousands of little boxes of pristine evidence that police departments across the U.S. have been holding onto for no conceivable reason: rape kits.
For three months, United States Army private and rape suspect Jameson T. Hazelbower has lived off the grid without difficulty. Despite accusations of violent sexual assault, the 24-year-old was simply listed as a military deserter without further efforts to bring him into custody.
In Massachusetts, according to Variety, a judge has ruled that seven women who are suing Bill Cosby for defamation can access Andrea Constand’s case file, regarding a 2004 sexual assault she allegedly suffered at the hands of the comedian.
Washington D.C. police are investigating a report that a female student was raped by a male student on the campus of prestigious private school Sidwell Friends.
In September 2014, a female student at Thornton Fractional North High School near Chicago was sexually assaulted in the boys’ locker room. Although the principal and his supervisors learned of the assault, the girl and the alleged perpetrator were kept in the same class and went on the same field trips. The school…
In a particularly dumb iteration of an age-old trend, news outlets cannot seem to get over the fact that a Yale student was expelled and kicked off the Yale basketball team for sexual misconduct right before the NCAA tournament, emphasis right before the NCAA tournament.
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After her first deposition in February, Camille Cosby is facing another, and she doesn’t want to discuss her sex life with her husband Bill Cosby. Unfortunately for her, the topic will probably be relevant to the lawsuit in question, and a lawyer representing the seven women who’ve filed a defamation suit against…
As we increasingly rely on digital assistants like Apple’s Siri or Samsung’s S Voice, many question the extent to which these systems should be programmed to respond to crises like rape or domestic assault. For the time being, a recent study finds, they’re scarcely of any use.
A U.S. Navy sailor stationed in Okinawa has been arrested and is being charged with the rape of a Japanese woman, a 40-year-old tourist from the prefecture of Kyushu. Okinawan authorities say the sailor, 24-year-old Justin Castellanos, found the victim drunk and asleep in a hotel lobby.
Kesha will make a guest appearance on Nashville, our favorite depressing country-themed night time soap. The season returns from hiatus on Wednesday. Is your DVR as excited as ours?
Spring has practically sprung, which means it’s time for all of us—even date rapists—to bust out our coolest warm weather threads!
A lawyer for Jack Montague, the former captain of the Yale men’s basketball team who was recently expelled on charges of sexual misconduct, has released a statement disputing those charges and calling his expulsion “excessive by any rational measure.” Claiming that Montague has been used as a “whipping boy” to dispel…
Last spring, Paul Nungesser—best known as the alleged rapist of Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia alum who, for her senior thesis project, symbolically bore the weight of her assault by carrying her mattress across campus—filed a discrimination lawsuit against Columbia University. On March 11, that lawsuit was dismissed by…
Today’s Bad Bitch Award goes to Karmenife Paulino, a 22-year-old graduate of Wesleyan University. Raped at a fraternity during her freshman year, she reasserted her sexual agency in a photoshoot entitled “Reclamation,” where she poses as a dominatrix on fraternity grounds.
In New York City, a new bill has been proposed to combat the rise in sexual assaults among female cab riders by requiring anti-sexual assault training from drivers. In 2015, the number of rapes against women in taxis jumped to 14, up from 10 the previous year.
