Jessica Valenti
Related They remember either waking up and being aware of clear evidence of a sexual assault, or they woke u... HUGH GRAF It's a day to think about prevention of sexual assault and to provide support to survivors of sexual... LINDA HERBERT Forgiveness can be very hard, but not impossible....each victim/survivor in their own way and time c... CATHY GIPSON JESSICA VALENTI Sexual assault is any sexual contact with someone without his or her consent. COREY COOK This is not just sexual harassment, if it's true. It's sexual assault, ... Late Edition. PATRICIA IRELAND MARGO ST. JAMES April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. CHAR BLODGETT (Today) is End Sexual Violence Day, the kick off to Sexual Assault Awareness Month. CHARLOTTE CONJELKO There is no evidence other than the word of this one complaining person that any rape or sexual assa... JOSEPH CHESHIRE J. LYNN It is important to realize that girls' arrests for homicide, robbery, and rape/sexual assault have n... DARRELL STEFFENSMEIER ROXANE GAY MIKE RUTHERFORD a quick turn around a cornerS. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. This shows that sexual assault does happen here. TARA FISHER JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN ALEX FERGUSON BOB FILNER Domestic violence and sexual assault go hand in hand. GEORGIA TAYLOR [Referring to rape] It already is bigger than everything else. It lives in front of me, behind me, n... DAISY WHITNEY It was a sexual assault, but we can't get into specifics. JEFF PEARSON We can assume there are increased numbers of reported sexual assaults (not necessarily increased sex... KRIS OLDS Memory repression thrives in shame, secrecy, and shock. The shame and degradation experienced during... RENEE FREDRICKSON They're very helpful to these boys in showing there was no rape or sexual assault. JOE CHESHIRE You better have somebody seeing sexual assault victims who is willing to provide emergency contracep... JANET MCDOWELL CATHARINE MACKINNON He committed a sexual assault and asked them to perform certain things. BARBARA MILLER The decision sends a message that in respect to people who are infected with the HIV virus, that it ... ANDREW MACDONALD We are defining sexual assault, and letting people know how to prevent it. CINDY STEWART It is demeaning and extremely embarrassing and every bit as violating as a sexual assault. It ought ... JAMES PAPILLO JESSICA VALENTI My mom doesn't say anything. I don't say anything. Neither of us knows yet what you should say when ... JOANNA CONNORS KATIE MCGARRY Victims are often reluctant to report a sexual assault for a number of reasons, such as fear of reta... COREY COOK Victims of sexual assault experience traumatic, life-changing events, ... We should work to protect ... CAROLYN MALONEY In every charge, in every count, she was an active participant in the sexual assault of these childr... DAVID LAMB It's easy not to abuse your power when you don't actually have any power. OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY We are living in a culture of silence. Even though [some form of sexual assault] occurs 23 times in ... EMILY SAUNDERS Why Is It So Important to Remember?BEVERLY ENGEL DAN BROWN Each one of these cadets provided information on how the academy failed to adequately support them a... WAYNE ALLARD It's a time to get better informed about the problems and realities of sexual assault ... to discuss... JAN DAVIS People may not realize the damage that they are doing by placing the blame on the victim ~ but that ... DARLENE OUIMET EMMA CLINE CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA CAMILLE PAGLIA Too often the message ends at abstinence and students are denied the information they need when they... DAVID LANDRY A.M. HOMES LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON The military has been making great progress in the last year in regards to adult sexual assault case... JULISA DELAMAR P.D. JAMES Mr. Matthew thankfully has been excluded as a suspect, ... He has been conclusively shown not to hav... DAVID CHAPMAN JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN Clearly, the Justice Department reviewed documents highlighting the importance of helping sexual ass... LOUISE MELLING It is really important to tell the stories so we can see how unique they can be ... bringing (storie... ELEN SEMRAN Like Jocelyn, Survivors often think: * That’s just the way I am CAROLYN AINSCOUGH The Army understands that a retired sergeant major made a complaint against the current Sergeant Maj... ARMY SGT. For anyone who wonders what it's like to have a tragedy shatter your existence, this is what I would... SARAHBETH CAPLIN CAMILLE PAGLIA One in four girls will experience sexual abuse by the time she is sixteen, and 48 percent of all rap... PATTI FEUEREISEN Despite their frequent cries to the contrary, politicians have rarely demonstrated an ability to wal... IAN THOMAS MALONE Assault and battery are often used together, but they are distinct. Battery is where you physically ... TONY WONG The connotation is you're getting some kind of sexual gratification, or wanting sexual gratification... CHRISTOPHER MURRAY Of course, men often 'use their economic superiority to gain sexual advantages,' but women often use... DAVID P. BRYDEN JODI PICOULT Everyone heals in their own time and in their own way. The path isn't always a straight line, and yo... ZEKE THOMAS The witnesses saw the assault, and the victim had some marks on her consistent with what they saw. T... SEAN WHITCOMB Massachusetts does not need or want federally funded programs that promote a particular religion and... CAROL ROSE These results showed exactly what we knew all along. No rape or sexual assault happened in that hous... JOE CHESHIRE The Courage to Heal Workbook: For Men and Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse LAURA DAVIS I hope the community will read the reports and make its own judgment about whether the record warran... JAMES COLEMAN MICHAEL SALTER I can line up these moments of violence, precariously as dominoes. Sometimes I worry they will all f... JENNIFER PATTERSON MORTIMER ADLER JOHN PIPER NAOMI WOLF MORTIMER ADLER I think we need to see what the breakdown is, ... Have people backed off a bit from reporting [sexua... CAROLYN BENNETT ANNA C. SALTER We had sufficient evidence for probable cause to obtain search warrants in this case. And we are con... KAMMIE MICHAEL Denial forces victims to retreat in lifeless existence, dieing in the shadows of buried trauma and p... TRUDY METZGER April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. We felt this was a good time of year to plan this event, to... TRISH KLEY SARAH DESSEN You know all the ways you can kill a girl?COURTNEY SUMMERS There is hardly an imaginable form of genital assault that is not regularly performed on children LLOYD DEMAUSE Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the cent... FLOYD SKLOOT I really hope that the reading raises people's consciousness of domestic abuse and sexual assaults o... ALLISON FUNK Just the fact someone is a girl, or female, that they have two X chromosomes, there's a reason to su... ELIZABETH SHADIGIAN Often it's not easy. Men are still shy about discussing their sexual encounters, but I find they tel... GANGA RAM MICHAEL JOHNSON MICHAEL SALTER SIGMUND FREUD SIGMUND FREUD Sometimes it feels like my queerness was always there but I was too shell-shocked and splintered by ... JENNIFER PATTERSON Assault on Precinct 13. DREA DE MATTEO NAOMI WOLF Sexual abuse is also a secret crime, one that usually has no witness. Shame and secrecy keep a child... RENEE FREDRICKSON What you have here is an assault on Willie Copeland. RICHARD PATTON This book is dedicated to all who have been affected by sexual violence. ROBERT UTTARO
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In addition to shaming sexual-assault victims, positioning abstinence as women's domain further prom... 
Punishing the prostitute promotes the rape of all women. When prostitution is a crime, the message c... 
The silence was killing me.
The boy I thought was my boyfriend pushed me to the ground. He took my clothes off, and I lay there ... 
We have arrested several people over the last several years that had pistol permits or weapons in th... 
Since most sexual abuse begins well before puberty, preventive education, if it is to have any effec... 
allegations of improper conduct, let alone sexual assault, on my part are untrue and entirely withou... 
The Executive Office of the President seems to care more about hiding the truth about military sexua... 
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and h... 
Women who are harassed, at work, on the street, or even online, are subject to the same rigid purity... 
Hand off my ass or I'll rip off your balls. 
As you may know, when someone endures a horrific event like a car accident or a sexual assault, the ... 
Hatred was easy. The permutations constant over the years: A stranger at a fair who palmed my crotch... 
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, t... 
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, t... 
A man of the mouth, formerly the most oral of surgeons, Henry had the habit of giving his lady patie... 
I just want to sleep. The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make i... 
People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assau... 
Since most sexual abuse begins well before puberty, preventive education, if it is to have any effec... 
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual persona... 
It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did... 
In the early 1990s, a group of people accused of sexual abuse formed the 'False Memory Syndrome Foun... 
Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not ap... 
Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into... 
Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also ... 
Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do no... 
I should meet many people who do not know anyone personally who has been raped or molested as a chil... 
She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the th... 
People need to know there are good things happening. Unfortunately, people are going to read about J... 
We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of thi... 
We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of thi... 
The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another... 
When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I ... 
It's quite funny in that I once won Rear of the Year at my school! I was about 17 in the sixth f... 
It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made th... 
My personal style is kind of tomboy-boho chic! Sort of funky but simple. 
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Everyone has areas they're not comfortable with, and mine are my bum, thighs, and legs. 
Well I think any designer that can understand what people need to be wearing right now is the bigges... 
The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months. 
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Thanks for giving me a place to sleep last night, 
We eat. We sleep. We keep going. 
When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you. 
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When you really see how much God loves you, there's no greater love than that, and I had to matc... 
Stupid kissing. Stupid roaming hands. Stupid boys. 
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