sexual-assault
The Male Rape Scene in ‘Deliverance’ Was So Jarring, It Gave Us a Half Century of Jokes
John Boorman’s acclaimed 1972 film gave audiences a depiction of male rape that remains powerful, unsettling and unresolved. Rather than confronting its implications, we’ve spent the last several decades parodying it.
Why These Survivors Hold On to Their ‘Rape Clothes’
‘It’s something I’ll carry — always. To throw them away seems like that’s where my story would go, too.’
Why We Still Believe Male Victims Are ‘Lucky’ When Their Abuser Is a Teacher
It’s every boy’s fantasy to have sex with a hot teacher… right?
These Twin Brothers Were Sexually Abused in Their Childhood — But Only One of Them Remembers
In the new Netflix documentary ‘Tell Me Who I Am,’ director Ed Perkins chronicles how Alex Lewis’s coma and memory loss inspired his brother Marcus to keep their traumatic past secret
