Well, this is nothing short of terrifying and awful. There's a man on the loose in Southern California who makes it a habit of using his "friendly face" to walk into the back of day spas and massage parlors and viciously assault the employees.
This is Fuck You Week, Jezebel's first annual week of desperate emotional cleansing and unhinged psychic purging.
A new revamped version of the iconic Tomb Raider aims to explain how Lara became the scantily clad badass fighter teenage boys rubbed one out to in 1997, but if you were expecting a similarly fun romp of Croftian ass kickery this time around, you'll be sorely disappointed. One executive at the studio behind the new…
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Too often, well-meaning campaigns to prevent sexual assault end up putting the onus of rape prevention on the victims— don't wear sexy clothes, don't walk in bad neighborhoods, don't drink too much, don't get raped. But in the UK, authorities are taking a novel approach to preventing sexual assault this holiday season: …
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Well, this is upsetting. According to a new study, people can't tell the difference between quotes from British "lad mags" and interviews with convicted rapists. And given the choice, men are actually more likely to agree with the rapists.
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Today in hateration news: people really, really don't trust atheists. In a new study, the only group participants found as untrustworthy as nonbelievers were rapists.
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Dr Sonnet Ehlers recently returned with a new and improved design for the Rape-aXe (formally known as Rape-X), a rubber device designed to catch a rapist's dick in its Velcro-like network of hooks. This has, naturally, spawned some debate.
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Sluts - they're everywhere. But how does one find the elusive loose woman of ill repute? Ripping an entire chapter from The AskMen Guide to Douchebaggery is UCSB student Johnny Valamehr, who penned this colorful guide. Observe:
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• Even though the video game RapeLay (which allows you to stalk and assault multiple women and girls) was removed from Amazon and other outlets, the game remains a viral sensation, and is commonly available for download online.
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A Swiss court has apparently approved Roman Polanski's bail offer. The filmmaker/admitted rapist will be released from prison on $4.5 million bail, and placed under house arrest. [NYT]
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Today the FDA voted to approve the vaccine Cervarix, an HPV vaccine created by British drug company GlaxoSmithKline. The vaccine is expected to become available later this year, but Glaxo has not released any information about pricing.•
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• After pleading guilty to rape, Torkieh Sadagheh freaked out in court, screaming that the judge was "worse than Hitler" and "In America, sex is legal!" He got 15 years for the rape and a $1,000 fine. •
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Is the new animal-only Pet Airways a sign of a cultural change in how we treat pets? Adam Goldfarb of the Humane Society thinks so. "There's a major shift from care being only adequate to care being really exceptional." •
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• This portrait of Evelyn Satterlee was painted 11 years ago, right after her mastectomy. Since then, the portrait has won the National Portrait Gallery's BP award and traveled around the globe. •
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An Australian douchebag claimed that it wasn't his fault that he kidnapped and raped his victim in 1997 because he was bit by a spider. Um, asshole? You're not Spiderman. In one small sign of hope for us as a species, the jury told him to go fuck himself and convicted him anyway. His sentence for kidnap and rape? 8…
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Yesterday, a rapist in Florida voluntarily underwent surgical castration to avoid a sentence of life in prison, reports ABC News. Bobby James Allen, 35, received 25 years in prison with 10 years probation, and requested castration in exchange for the reduced sentence.
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