Expressing support for the legalization of pre-marital sex in Morocco can get you killed. That’s what the editor of Morocco’s Al-Ahdath Al-Maghribia daily newspaper discovered when he expressed this support during a televised debate. Article 490 of Morocco’s penal code, based on Islamic law, criminalizes sex outside of marriage, with a man and women recently being jailed [...]
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Accurate and Comprehensive Sexual Education is Our Right
There are a few lessons we can take away from Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) recent outrageous remarks, the first being that you can lack total empathy and be mind-numbingly dense, yet still somehow be an elected official crafting legislation in Congress in 2012. Another is that many Americans truly don’t understand how and where babies [...]
Slap Happy: The Romanticization of Rage
Admit it: you’re angry. You have every right to be. In fact, anger is a normal emotional reaction to perceived injustices. And, these days, the perception that the cannons of injustice are aimed squarely at the figurative (and literal) chests of women is increasingly endorsed by feminists and non-feminists alike. When women experience rage within [...]