I had a horrible flashback yesterday of this terrible sociology course that I took while at university. The course material and lecturer were stimulating enough,…
Posts published in “Gender violence”
Sexual favours for a price. On the side of the road. Down an alley. In your car. In your hotel room. In your house. On…
There are a number of unspokens in the most silent of crimes. The one is that most rapists experience erectile dysfunction, in other words they…
The odds are stacked against men. There are about 750 million sperm per ejaculate, yet only one sperm can fertilise the single egg a woman produces…
How do you help children forced to watch while their mom is gangraped? Or a shy, teenage boy whose mother remains silent when a gang…
In Namibia the sentence for stealing a cow is higher than that for raping a woman. For the first offence both rape and theft of…
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which we celebrate on December 10, came at a time when the world was reeling under the devastation of…
If the world relied on politicians for meaningful progress we’d still be in animal skins hunting rabbits. Individuals have always driven real change. And you…
Every 26 seconds in South Africa a woman gets raped, it was my turn last Thursday night. Before I began writing this I took AZT,…
The past two years have seen an abundance of scary child captivity cases come to light. These cases are really scary and difficult to understand.…