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Born in a remote village in Kenya, Nice Leng'ete saw the young girls she grew up with receive the cut, the rite of passage into female adulthood in Masai culture. Every girl got the cut, and once you did, you'd be married off to a man triple your age. You might be his second or third wife. You'd have children in your teens. This is exactly what happened to Nice's sister. To resist the cut meant becoming an outcast in Masai culture.

Un libro que presenta la cadena que comienza con el abuso sexual infantil, la explotación sexual, el turismo sexual con menores, el comercio sexual con hombres de poder, la protección tanto policíaca como política de los pederastas, la pornografía, el lavado de dinero y el tráfico de influencias. Todo englobado en una poderosa y peligrosa red mundial de crimen organizado.

When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force that underwrites our world. In the first history of its kind, Clement Knox reassesses our idea of...

Did you know that children are at risk of sexual abuse, now more than ever? While your children are ‘playing on their laptops’ online grooming could be occurring? Would some tips on how to protect them be useful? Sexual abuse and grooming of children across the world are both frightening realities, and ways to manage this are desperately needed. This roadmap is for the parents, teachers, grandparents, and front-line staff everywhere. Resources are instrumental in combating these predators, and children need practical tools to use.

Una no ficción atípica que combina percepciones y recuerdos personales con la investigación de tres femicidios en el interior de la Argentina durante la década del 80 y que revelan, de modo sutil, la ferocidad del machismo y la indefensión de las mujeres pobres. Tres asesinatos entre los cientos que no alcanzan para titulares de tapa ni convocan a las cámaras de los canales de Buenos Aires. Tres casos que llegan desordenados: los anuncia la radio, los conmemora un diario de pueblo, alguien los recuerda en una conversación.

Know that you are no longer alone. For a long time, I didn't know what triggered my anger. Past and present were mixed together, and it was impossible for me to tell them apart. I felt rejected and abandoned. To get to see it more clearly, I undertook several therapeutic approaches, in groups, alone. The secret was buried deeply in my memory and poisoned my existence. All I wanted was to feel better. I simply did not know how and what was causing my suffering.

After the disintegration of the most significant relationship of his life, the demons Luke Turner has been battling since childhood are quick to return - depression and guilt surrounding his identity as a bisexual man, experiences of sexual abuse, and the religious upbringing that was the cause of so much confusion. It is among the trees of London's Epping Forest where he seeks refuge. But once a place of comfort, it now seems full of unexpected, elusive threats that trigger twisted reactions.

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a longstanding problem that has increasingly come to the forefront of international and national policy debates and news. Yet, while we frequently read or learn about particular experiences or incidents of VAWG, we are often unaware of the full picture. Author Jacqui True provides an expansive frame for understanding VAWG in this book.

I know that you’re the kind of woman who wants to be able to live life on your own terms, but in order to do that, you need to know how to keep yourself and your space safe. The problem is that right now, your safety depends on what the guys around you want, not what you want. It makes you feel vulnerable, sometimes even scared.

The definitive, devastating account of the largest sex abuse scandal in American sports history-with new details and insights into the institutional failures, as well as the bravery that brought it to light. For decades, osteopathic physician Larry Nassar built a sterling reputation as the go-to...

Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada—a coming of age story, a survival story, and a triumphant story of overcoming emotional devastation. On her second night of college, Aspen was raped by a fellow student. Overprotected by her...

The debate over sexual violence on campus is reaching fever pitch, from headlines about out-of-control fraternities to the "mattress protests" by female students at Columbia University and other colleges. The Hunting Ground, the new documentary by award-winning filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, has taken this debate to a new level, becoming a galvanizing catalyst for discussion at the hundreds of campuses where the documentary is being screened each month.

“An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors… It's at times downright virtuosic in the threads it weaves together.”—NPR Winner of the 2022 ABA Silver Gavel Award for Books...

The Porn Myth is a non-religious response to the commonly held belief that pornography is a harmless or even beneficial pastime. Author Matt Fradd draws on the experience of porn performers and users, and the expertise of neurologists, sociologists, and psychologists to demonstrate that pornography is destructive to individuals, relationships, and society. He provides insightful arguments, supported by the latest scientific research, to discredit the fanciful claims used to defend and promote pornography.

Disgrace is the first truly global history of sexual violence. The book explores how sexual violence varies widely across time and place, from nineteenth-century peasant women in Ireland who were abducted as a way of forcing marriage, to date-raped high-school students in twentieth-century America, and from girls and women violated by Russian soldiers in 1945 to Dalit women raped by men of higher castes today.

This book is more than just a book of child abuse stories. The victims of child sexual abuse are one out of four girls and one out of seven boys (World Health Organization). A majority of the offenders are people they know and trust like their family members.

If you're a survivor, it's important to take one day at a time. Let 101 Tips for Survivors of Sexual Abuse be your companion in healing, and you'll be reminded of the strength and wisdom that's already inside you. This book will help you celebrate the good days and develop solid coping strategies for the bad times. Most importantly, this book will remind that you're not alone, and it was never your fault.

New York Times best-selling author Alan Dershowitz, one of America’s most respected legal scholars, proves - with incontrovertible evidence - that he is entirely innocent of the sexual misconduct accusations against him, while suggesting a roadmap for how such allegations should truly be handled in a just society.

On July 6, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein became a household name as an international sex trafficker of underage girls, serial sex abuser, and confidant of the most famous, rich, and most powerful men in the world. Barely a month after his arrest, he was reportedly found dead in his prison cell, supposedly by suicide. Numerous investigations are ongoing, to find out how he really died - but the public has been kept in the dark.

Este libro trata de la inmigración masiva, la violencia sexual y los derechos de las mujeres en Europa. Trata de un fracaso colosal por parte de la clase dirigente europea. Y trata de las soluciones al problema, de las falsas y de las reales. En los últimos años, el debate en torno a la inmigración, la integración y el islam en Europa se ha intensificado en respuesta a los atentados terroristas, a la prédica de un islam radical en algunas mezquitas y centros de culto, al resurgimiento de partidos populistas y de extrema derecha....