CNN recently exposed a website that hosted over 20,000 videos of women who had been drugged and filmed by their partners while they were unconscious. The site had recorded around 62 million visits. Imagine millions of men visiting a website that was built entirely on drugging and sexually violating women. Now, when you place that number beside the global population of billions, it becomes easy to reduce it to saying, “it is not all men.” But 62 million is not …
Category: Sex and Society
One area of global health policy that is most talked about and yet least understood is reproductive healthcare. Most people know it is important, but only a few understand why it matters, who influences it, or …
Written by Anluma Ocran My first pregnancy occurred eight months after the burial of one of the women I have most loved in this world, my grandmother. I was so distraught by her passing, especially given …
Dear Society, the boys you refused to train are harming the girls you’ve spent years trying to discipline. On Thursday, March 19, Nigeria woke up to disturbing news it would never have imagined. Men from the …
In Nigeria, it is easier to publicly discredit a woman who speaks about rape than it is to get justice against the man who actually committed it. Rape in Nigeria is drastically underreported. In fact, national …