Deep in a copse, under a thicket of brambles his member strokes your inner thigh. Cotton sodden from dampened earth, and a mystical murmur hangs beneath the treeline.  It trickles down your leg to mingle with mud and leaves, like a wet dream; a Rorschach test – all confused and […]

We have come to the end of January. For most of us, January connotes a month of healthy eating and exercise; of dealing with the dreaded post-turkey coma; and one in which we resolve to make ourselves better. This month, political parties have begun their journey to elections, altering their […]

Society has normalised an image of women that cannot be without repercussion. When Martin Luther King said that his dream was to see a society where content of people’s character would be the yardstick to measure them, not the colour of their skin; he knew prejudices, discrimination, violence and other […]

Trigger warnings: rape, sexual assault, child abuse, victim blaming. I hate it when people say “It’s time to talk about x”; “It’s time we sat down and had a serious discussion about y”; “It’s time the two sides stopped squabbling and hammered out their differences over z”. Especially if they’re […]

Sometimes you read things on the internet so heinous, so utterly, utterly heinous, you have to do a double take. Before I expand on that, can I just say, before anything else, how incredibly, insanely tacky and disrespectful it is to keep posting a leaked picture of a young woman’s […]

Directed by the progressively popular twin sisters, Jen and Sylvia Soska, the low-budget American Mary presents a voyeuristic yet psychologically volatile view into the dark worlds of body modification, rape and torture. The Soska twins, already having an impressive background in film with their love of all things horror, both […]

If you’ve been anywhere around the Internet this past summer, you probably heard about the controversy surrounding Daniel Tosh’s rape joke at a comedy club. Personally, I’m not really into stand up comedians and prefer to get my humor elsewhere – usually from television shows and films. But I’m familiar […]

As I grew up, I learned how much domestic violence there was around me. The earliest incidence I recall was from our next door neighbours. There were constant arguments. She drank. He worked shifts in the local Rolls Royce factory. Whenever we heard raised voices, mum or dad would lower the volume […]