Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
If you want to sleep with a robot, you don’t have to wait decades for a Westworld-style theme park of carnal delights. The future of virtual sex is already here. Strap on enough hardware, and the avatar of your dreams will grind to the beat of your teledildonics. Today’s smart dolls are becoming increasingly lifelike — nowhere…
A police officer arrested a man after watching him grope four women near the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, according to court documents.View Full Caption DNAinfo/Heather Holland NEW YORK CITY — Police Officer Joseph Pecora watched as a 44-year-old man groped a woman near the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree on a recent evening — but despite…
Politics Two Women Say Donald Trump Touched Them Inappropriately close story-meta-footer close story-meta Video ‘His Hands Were All Over Me’ Jessica Leeds, a businesswoman at a paper company, was sitting next to Donald J. Trump on a flight to New York in the early 1980s. She told The Times that he lifted the armrest and…
(iStock) As news of lewd comments made by GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump 10 years ago exploded across the Internet on Friday evening, a separate conversation was catching fire on Twitter. Canadian author Kelly Oxford had fired off a few tweets about Trump’s statements, particularly his declaration that he “can do anything” to women, including “grab them by the p—y.”…
How a San Diego woman discovered details of her rape on a pickup-artist blog—and fought to bring her attackers to justice. *Warning—the following article contains a graphic depiction of a rape. Alex Smith and Jonas Dick considered themselves part of the elite. The two men were instructors in the community of pickup artists—men who obsessively…
In January 2015, Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner was arrested for raping an unconscious woman outside of a fraternity house. Turner, who was the subject of a very sympathetic “once-promising” Washington Post write up, was caught mid-rape by two men who happened to be riding their bikes nearby. According to testimony in Turner’s March trial,…
The father of Brock Turner, the ex-Stanford swimmer who was given a paltry six-month sentence in a county jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in 2015, is defending his son’s crime—and saying that he should not be imprisoned for only getting “20 minutes of action.” In a letter Dan Turner penned as a diametric…
Entry Text Much of the attention paid to campus sexual assault centers on students’ trauma and victimization. Rightly so. Students often suffer in silence because of the stigma that surrounds the crime and confusing web of reporting structures on campuses. Further, the emotional and psychological impact of being a crime victim may last for years….
Last November, Rolling Stone published “A Rape on Campus,” a feature article detailing the alleged gang rape of a woman named Jackie at the University of Virginia. The article, written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, has since been discredited, and its implications have been far-reaching for journalists, sexual assault prevention advocates, survivors and U.Va. students. But…
Sarah* was 16 when she was raped by a stranger at a festival. She’d tried MDMA with her friends, but wasn’t feeling the effects and decided to head back to her tent. On the way, she bumped into a guy she’d been talking to in the arena. They flirted and headed to his campsite before…