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‘Cannibal cop’ says torturing and eating women nothing more than his fantasy
New York’s so-called “cannibal cop” opened his defense in court Tuesday with video testimony from the Russian founder of an extreme fetish website who said that discussing eating young women was a standard online fantasy. Sergey Merenkov described his site darkfetishnet.com, a favorite of suspended New York police Officer Gilberto…
Man in ‘sextortion’ case might have coerced 350 women
Man in 'sextortion' case might have coerced 350 women Federal agents on Tuesday took aim at a new type of scam called “sextortion,” arresting a Glendale, Calif., man on charges that he hacked into e-mail and Facebook accounts of young women and then posed as a woman to convince others…
Creepshots and revenge porn: how paparazzi culture affects women
The row over topless pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge continues. But Kate is not alone. Young women everywhere – famous and non-famous – are increasingly becoming victims of voyeurism in our internet age On the popular website Reddit, where users submit and share content, a member of a forum…
Study: Mammogram radiation may put young women at higher risk of breast cancer
The radiation that young women are exposed to during a mammogram may actually put them at significantly higher risk of developing breast cancer, especially if they are genetically predisposed to it, according to a study published Thursday in the BMJ. Though women are typically only screened for breast cancer with mammograms over the age of…
5 Questions For: NARAL President Nancy Keenan on the ascendency of women’s issues in 2012
NARAL president Nancy Keenan, who rocked the house on Tuesday night with her speech at the Democratic convention, is a former Montana state legislator and a Superintendent of Public Instruction in the state. She worked her way through college at a local smelter before getting a Masters in education and…
Study: Bar and restaurant workers at higher risk of alcoholism
Bar and restaurant workers in Sweden run a higher risk of alcoholism than the rest of the population, with young women at greatest risk, a study published Tuesday showed. The research, which appeared in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health and surveyed 1,000 people aged 18 to 59, concluded that “restaurant workers…
Nigeria school offers hope for young women fleeing abusive marriages
The clattering sewing machines at this northern Nigeria school offer hope of a better life for a group of young women who fled abusive marriages that for some prove inescapable. In Nigeria’s deeply impoverished north, which has some of the worst gender disparities in the world, millions of girls who…
Indian village bans women under 40 from using cell phones in public
Police in northern India are investigating a village council after it banned “love marriages” and barred women under 40 from shopping alone or using mobile phones in public, reports said Friday. In a slew of restrictive measures on women’s behaviour, the council, or “panchayat,” in the predominantly Muslim village Asara…
Russia’s anti-Putin punks perform with U.S. rockers
Russia’s Pussy Riot punk band gave a surprise performance at a concert by US rockers Faith No More late Monday as three of its young women members await trial for singing an anti-Putin song in a church. Five women bounded on stage during a Moscow concert by Faith No More,…
More ‘frathouse’ legislation coming unless more women are elected to statehouses
The earliest skirmishes in the War on Woman were on the state level, long before an all-male panel was assembled in the House to discuss whether birth control should be covered by employee insurance plans. In 2011 alone, the Guttmacher Institute chronicled a record number of bills designed to restrict…
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