This is Why We Published a Rapist’s Story
Joanna Schroeder explains why it’s so important to understand the link between the partying lifestyle and sexual assault. “I’d Rather Risk Rape Than Quit Partying” is an addict’s story. If you’ve...
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Shannon Ridgway and Sandra Kim offer a clear guide to understanding and obtaining consent from your partner. What is consensual sex? Common knowledge states that it’s two adults who willingly agree to...
View ArticleThe Healthy Sex Talk: Teaching Kids Consent, Ages 1-21
A list of parenting action items, created in the hope that we can raise a generation of children who have less rape and sexual assault in their lives. — The ongoing horror of rape in the news, from...
View ArticleHeads of the Hydra or, The End of Rape
It takes more than education on consent to stop rape, but it is a vital chapter in a new story of what we all want: a world without rape. “During the fight, every time Heracles chopped off one of the...
View ArticleA Father-Son Talk About Rape and Rehtaeh Parsons
How can we help prevent sexual assault in the future? Teach every child not to rape. Zach Rosenberg and his son are starting early. “Because that’s rape,” I answered, matter-of-factly. “What’s rape?”...
View ArticleIs There Abuse in the Kink Community?
Danielle Paradis and Dylan Richards explore the ways in which rape can be prevented with in kink and BDSM communities. Danielle: I had always thought that kink held the golden standard when it came...
View ArticleChallenging ‘Boys Will Be Boys’
Joanna Schroeder insists that dismissing boys’ bad behavior as a natural part of being male is dangerous for both boys and girls. - I’ve always been a guy’s girl. Maybe it’s because I have older...
View ArticleThis Awesome Sex-Ed Talk Will Leave You Laughing (and Informed)
Tweet Yes, this is about sex, so it’s a bit NSFW. Meet Thomas “TomSka” Ridgewell, the host of this amazing sex talk, and the guy we all wish we’d had teaching our SexEd classes. He’s funny, charming,...
View Article7 A’s of Hooking Up
Tweet Jamie Utt’s 7 A’s of Hooking Up from Fivel Rothberg on Vimeo. - After a Georgia Tech fraternity brother wrote a letter entitled “luring your rapebait“, Jamie Utt responded with his own list of...
View ArticleMy Covert Mission to Raise Boys Who Balance Empowerment with Empathy
Joanna Schroeder wonders how to raise sensitive boys in a society that empowers them to abuse. – Galit Breen, a mother of a teen daughter, wrote a beautiful essay called “Why I’m Not Raising a Good...
View Article7 Reasons Why Your Child Should Never Be Forced to Hug Anyone (Even Relatives!)
Do you really want to teach your children they don’t have control over their own bodies? (Content Warnings: incest, rape, and sexual violence) Two of my good friends had their first baby late this...
View ArticleSorry Parents, But Having ‘The Sex Talk’ is No Longer Enough
Your kids are looking to YOU to teach them how to feel about sex and their bodies. Don’t let them down. By Joanna Schroeder I learned the truth about where babies came from when I was 10 years old....
View ArticleThis is Why We Published a Rapist’s Story
Joanna Schroeder explains why it’s so important to understand the link between the partying lifestyle and sexual assault. Author’s note: It’s important that I’m clear, as both an editor and a...
View ArticleOnly ‘Yes’ Means Yes: Sometimes What You Think is Consensual Sex is Actually...
Shannon Ridgway and Sandra Kim offer a clear guide to understanding and obtaining consent from your partner. What is consensual sex? Common knowledge states that it’s two adults who willingly agree to...
View ArticleThe Healthy Sex Talk: Teaching Kids Consent, Ages 1-21
A list of parenting action items, created in the hope that we can raise a generation of children who have less rape and sexual assault in their lives. — The ongoing horror of rape in the news, from...
View ArticleHeads of the Hydra or, The End of Rape
It takes more than education on consent to stop rape, but it is a vital chapter in a new story of what we all want: a world without rape. “During the fight, every time Heracles chopped off one of the...
View ArticleA Father-Son Talk About Rape and Rehtaeh Parsons
How can we help prevent sexual assault in the future? Teach every child not to rape. Zach Rosenberg and his son are starting early. “Because that’s rape,” I answered, matter-of-factly. “What’s rape?”...
View ArticleIs There Abuse in the Kink Community?
Danielle Paradis and Dylan Richards explore the ways in which rape can be prevented with in kink and BDSM communities. Danielle: I had always thought that kink held the golden standard when it came...
View ArticleChallenging ‘Boys Will Be Boys’
Joanna Schroeder insists that dismissing boys’ bad behavior as a natural part of being male is dangerous for both boys and girls. – I’ve always been a guy’s girl. Maybe it’s because I have older...
View ArticleThis Awesome Sex-Ed Talk Will Leave You Laughing (and Informed)
Yes, this is about sex, so it’s a bit NSFW. Meet Thomas “TomSka” Ridgewell, the host of this amazing sex talk, and the guy we all wish we’d had teaching our SexEd classes. He’s funny, charming,...
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