Across this site, I generally refer to the victims of gender violence as women. I want to immediately clarify that there are male victims of abuse, male prostitutes, male survivors of sexual assault, and male survivors of child abuse and incest. Nothing I say here denies or minimizes that fact. No one who has been …
Sex sells. It sells perfume, jeans, cars and deodorants. It also sells children, women, violence, and cruelty. We’re supposedly a democracy; we’re supposed to be enlightened. The word ‘slavery’ is consigned to history books with a bit of bashfulness and cow-towing, as though it were a different breed of humans who would do such a …
In an abuser’s mind, he isn’t being “abusive” or “controlling”, he’s expressing anger. It’s common for the abuser to feel “attacked” by his victim, although a clearer perspective shows she has not attacked him or abused him, she has only expressed an opinion or practiced some act of self determination. The abuser often tries to …
