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By Bangor Daily News 06/23/2015 “ELLSWORTH, Maine — A misdemeanor assault conviction for a former Gouldsboro man who had been accused of raping his wife has been vacated by a Superior Court justice. The judge’s order is the latest development in Vladek Filler’s campaign to undo the findings against him in an eight-year legal saga…

By thelocal.se 06/17/2015 “Södersjukhuset already has the largest emergency care unit in the Nordic region and runs a round-the-clock walk-in clinic for women and girls who have been sexually assaulted in the city, treating between 600 and 700 patients a year.   On Wednesday, the hospital announced that from mid-October, it would also admit men…

By News Day 06/17/2015 “WASHINGTON — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand lashed out at the Pentagon and the president Tuesday after her controversial measure on prosecuting military sexual assault won a Senate majority but fell short of the 60 votes needed to pass. …” Read the entire article: http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/gillibrand-s-measure-on-prosecuting-military-sexual-assault-defeated-1.10550165

By Blue National Review 06/17/2015 “Readers, there’s plenty of bad news out there, most of which can be found on this website in grim detail. (Looking at you, Andrea Tantaros.) So how about some positive news? Fisher-Price, a subsidiary of Mattel, has partnered with the LGBT family forum Proud Parenting to increase visibility of LGBT families in a new…

By ESPN 06/07/2015 “KIRKLAND, Wash. — It was early in the morning on June 21, 2014, and Hope Solo had just been arrested on two counts of domestic violence. The police were trying to book her into jail, but Solo was so combative that she had to be forced to the ground, prompting her to yell…

By The Huffington Post 06/07/2015 “Emma Sulkowicz, the former Columbia University student behind the now iconic performance “Carry That Weight,” also known as “Mattress Performance,” has released her newest artwork, a website titled “Ceci N’est Pas Un Viol” — this is not a rape — comprised of a written introduction and a graphic sexual video, which you…

By MedLine Plus 06/03/2015 “TUESDAY, June 2, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Young teens who are bullied appear to be at higher risk of depression when they reach early adulthood, according to new research. …” Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_152871.html

By Washington Examiner 06/02/2015 “Not content to redefine consent to mean asking permission before every step of the sexual process, California is now on the path to teaching high school students the proper way to have sex — because human nature is now wrong. To recap: Last year California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law aiming to…

By The Weekly Standard 06/01/2015 “Lately, there’s a lot of talk among feminists about the need to keep women safe. The rape culture is allegedly inescapable, and trigger warnings are appended to college syllabi to protect sensitive souls from reminders of any past cause of pain, from “neuro-atypical shaming” to mention of “how much a…

By The Cambodia Daily 05/30/2015 “A recent spate of cases of alleged sexual abuse of boys, several involving directors of child welfare NGOs, has drawn renewed attention to the prevalence of such crimes in Cambodia. Yet the male victims of such abuse remain shut out from support services due a perception that only women and…