Alien sex tapes, robot rape and the evolution of consent

A little over a week ago Engadget's EIC and I had dinner with a couple of friends at a Chinatown Thai restaurant in L.A. As I sipped on a Singha Slurpee, our dinner companions, Claire Evans and Jona Bechtolt of the band Yacht, gave us an off-the-reco...

Sexual Assault Resistance Program Lowers Rape Risk


A very comprehensive program was set up according to which females were taught various drastic methods of resisting rape. At the end of the study, the group that was told to put the methods into...

Honey Boo Boo Star Mama June seen guilty of harboring Child Molester in her Family’s Midst


Can this mom be a monster in reality?! According to media reports, the shame and the horror of allowing a child molester, who abused her eldest daughter Anna Cardwell, to hang around the house ten...

Twitter: Rape Threats Still Not Taken Seriously


In August, Robin Williams' daughter Zelda left Twitter due to harassment from pretty horrible trolling. There's no question to that, really, since she announced as much after begging other users to...

Elizabeth Smart wants to end Human Trafficking


Elizabeth Smart was barely a teenager when she was kidnapped and kept by the criminal minds for a period of nine months away from her loved ones. She is now a mature woman and is an activist who...

Charlize Theron Critized for Comparing Privacy Invasion to Rape


The South African native-born, Charlize Theron caused pandemonium in the media world by saying that the meddling by others in her private life felt to her like she was being physically assaulted and...

Congress Passes Major Military Sex Assault Reform


The Senate passed a bill Thursday that contains several important changes to how the military handles sexual assault within its ranks. The legislation was included in the National Defense...