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There's Casual Sex, And Then There's Casual Sex
Tracy Clark-Flory has an interesting piece on Salon today responding to the rash of pro-abstinence books hitting the bookshelves this summer. She defends what she calls her casual sex life against the...
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Letters To The Editor: "Young Tramps At Riverbend"
Moral outrage in Chattanooga! A tipster sent us an exchange from her local paper that contains more disturbing crazy than an "I Saw Your Nanny" public diapering thread! Slut-shaming! Rage! Sin! "Rolls...
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Who Is A Slut? Depends
Rethinking virginity, as a few of our favorite ladies did recently, means unpacking the twin sister of the virgin: the slut. One of the panelists, Chloe Angyal, has a few thoughts on that front. More »
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Facebook Groups Celebrate Slut-Punching And Sandwiches
Facebook users have apparently designated May as National Pissing Us Off Month — groups have formed to promote both "National Women Bringing YOU Sandwiches DAY" and, more upsettingly, "National Punch...
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An Open Letter To Dumb Sluts (Updated)
Yesterday, Mary Elizabeth Williams wrote an open letter on Broadsheet to all the "celebrities" who appear in leaked sex tapes. Short version: You are all dumb sluts. More »
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What I Wear Is None of Your Business
Yesterday I was humiliated in a way I'm sure many girls have experienced. It was the first time I blushed so hard I could feel my cheeks burning. It was the first time I've ever been shamed for my...
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Was Bullying Really Behind Phoebe Prince's Suicide?
Coverage of Phoebe Prince's bullying (ours included) has told the story of a clique of evil kids systematically tormenting an outcast. But now one reporter says this isn't accurate — and the bullies...
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My Sluthood, Myself.
Last summer, I suffered the breakup of a relationship I'd thought would be permanent. Since then, I've had sexual interactions of the orgasmic kind with 9 different people, none of which I was ever in...
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Teen Girl Gets Death Threats From Bieber's Global Army
Two months ago, teenager Sydney Dalton and her friends made a YouTube video saying they were over Justin Bieber and ripping his posters off her wall. The recent result: Her name trending on Twitter,...
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Crappy Anti-Drinking Campaign Says Booze Will Make You A Slut
A campaign at the University of Minnesota aims to get students to drink less by telling them how embarrassed they'll be in the morning. But, you know, it really is possible to teach safe drinking...
View ArticleAnother Lesson Learned From The Duke "Fuck List"
Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly's "Fuck List" wisdom: "Don't sleep around! Don't be easy!" More »
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Do Girls Gone Wild Plaintiffs Deserve Anonymity?
Four women suing Girls Gone Wild, at least one of whom was 13 when filmed, are asking that their names stay under wraps. But several newspapers have argued in court that they have a right to know the...
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The Atlantic Weeps For The Sad, Slutty Drunk Girls
Did someone try to talk about young women's sexual politics without getting Caitlin Flanagan on board to showily weep for their bruised morality? Worry not, here she is concern-trolling Karen Owen —...
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Kathie Lee Attempts To Slut-Shame Snooki
During the fourth hour of Today, Kathie Lee grilled the new author about her on-camera hookups, asking what her parents think about it, how she will explain that behavior to her future children, and...
View ArticleCop's Rape Prevention Advice: Don't Dress Like A "Slut"
Sometimes "But what was she wearing?" is subtle. And sometimes, a police officer tells a crowd, as one did in Toronto, not to dress like "sluts." Right after saying, "I've been told I shouldn't say...
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Christian Men Beg Women Not To Dress Like Sluts
"Sometimes when I see a girl provocatively dressed, I'll say to myself, she probably doesn't even know that a 101 guys are going to devour her in their minds today," says pastor C.J. Mahaney in this...
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Mick Foley Brings It On Fox News
Maybe it was a coincidence that Mick Foley — currently on a fundraising drive for RAINN — was on the late-night Fox News show Red Eye last night just as the host went on a rant about Toronto's...
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Sluts Like Me
Anti-porn feminist Gail Dines manages to completely miss the point of the Slut Walk marches being organized in cities around the country. Dines and her co-author think that the marchers are asserting...
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Why Courtney Love Hates Us
Courtney Love begins her diary feature for xojane.com not with an introduction (as if she needs any), but with claws: "I kind of want to slam Jezebel, but I won't. I'll save it. Because otherwise the...
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Hacker Steals Nude Pics Of Women, Posts Them As Facebook Profile Photos
Florida hacker, Joseph Bernard Campbell, 24, broke into the email accounts of 19 women, stole nude and semi-nude photos of them, and posted them as their Facebook profile photo. More »
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Stupid Vandal Arrested For Calling Woman A 'Sult'
Vandalism and slut-shaming aren't funny, but one stupid criminal has managed to turn them into a pretty entertaining story. It all starts (and ends) with his inability to spell. More »
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Beyoncé’s Bonehead Bodyguards Block Father From Seeing His Sick Babies
She's only just come up for air, but Blue Ivy has already caused her very first storm of controversy after a man claims Beyoncé's security team were acting like a bunch of dicks and wouldn't let him...
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Did You Know Uggs Mean You Have Chlamydia?
These days, hating Uggs has become a bit of a cliché. So one writer decided to kick things up a notch, by plotting the boots on a "Scale of Whoredom" from "Sorority Slut" to truck-stop prostitute....
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Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Teaches Teens that Sluts Are Like Dirty Glasses Full...
What goes on in abstinence-only sex ed classes besides a whole lot of not talking about contraception? Slut shaming! At least, that's what's happening in one Boulder, Colorado middle school, where...
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Rihanna Does Whatever She Wants With Her Vagina and for Some Reason That's a...
Sluts. They're the worst, right? Always having sex for pleasure and walking around with visible ankles. Thank god we came up with this foolproof slut eradication technique, where we treat women like...
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Only 1 in 3 Women Think War Has Been Declared on Them
Between 2012's Race to the Dark Ages Republican primary contest, dozens of new laws designed to punish and humiliate women who choose to have abortions, and the bizarre debate over which women deserve...
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Check Out The Craziest Retraction in the History of Slut-Shaming
It's always a nice gesture to admit that you've done something wrong. But WSOC TV has gone above and beyond with an all caps, intensely detailed apology explaining how they misreported a story about a...
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First Text by English Author for Women Readers Is a Slut-Shaming Manifesto...
Four pages of a very old example of slut-shaming will go up for auction at Sotheby's next month, and it could be all yours if your Latin is up to par and you have about $900,000 in ancient manuscript...
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Bronx Assemblywoman’s Facebook Page Inspires a Spirited Round of Slut-Shaming
The Post today published a gleeful takedown of Bronx Assemblywoman Naomi D. Rivera's private Facebook page, which, featured (until Rivera recently took the page down) a picture of the assemblywoman...
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It's Your Fault If You're Sexually Assaulted by a Drunk Cop, and Other...
Earlier this summer, in an egregious case of power-tripping entitlement, Arizona police officer Robb Gary Evans drove drunk to a bar, showed his badge at the door to get in sans cover, walked up to a...
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Values Voters Would Love it if Ladies Could Refrain From Dressing Like Whores
In case you're wondering why your guy who normally sells you ecstasy is plum out of pills, here's why: it's Values Voters Summit time. And at the Value Voters Summit, they've been handing out some...
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Slut-Dropping, and Other Ways College Teaches Kids to Be Sexist Assholes
Today, let me introduce you to a practice known as "slut-dropping." Apparently it's all the rage in the UK, and I'm shocked that it hasn't caught on Stateside, since this sounds right up a lot of...
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High School Sexual 'Fantasy League' Shocks Administration But Probably Not Teens
Male students at Piedmont High School have been running a "sexual fantasy league," in which unknowing female students are drafted to teams based on how good they are at running bases; you know which...
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Slut-Shamed Teen Commits Suicide, Taunted by Classmates To the Very End
Felicia Garcia, a 15-year-old Staten Island teenager, ended her life on Wednesday when she jumped in front of a subway train. Witnesses describe the scene: More »
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Pepperdine Student Paper Publishes Insane Piece on Dangers of Dressing Like a...
Pepperdine University is a private Christian college overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the celebrity-enclave of Malibu, CA. The school is known for its sports teams, mandatory attendance at spiritual...
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Kink Community Tells Sexual Assault Victims It's All Their Fault
Chalk off FetLife, a members-only social network run by and for fetish enthusiasts, as yet another purportedly non-judgmental, welcoming online community that hosts a shocking number of slut-shaming...
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'Slut-Shaming Fatigue': Because This Crap Has Got to Stop
It may be freezing cold outside, but as the store windows remind us, spring is on its way. Along with the Easter bunny and the return of baseball, the rapidly approaching season is sure to bring a new...
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Rihanna’s Fashion Show Was Only Awesome If You’re an Unabashed Navel-Gazer
Rihanna debuted a collection of assorted fabrics Saturday night at River Island as part of London Fashion Week, and, if the outrage expressed by Tom Sykes of The Daily Beast is any indication of the...
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