sexual assault

Sex is important. Not because its fun but to put it mildly, it keeps us going. The past few years have revealed trends that should cause concern. The #MeToo movement has been an incredibly publicised movement which has changed perceptions…

Dublin band MUNKY recently released a song titled 'One in Five'. All proceeds of the track are being donated to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, including 1\5th of their EP proceeds. The song itself was written in response to sexual assault,…

During the recent Belfast rape trial, one of the defence barristers raised the question with the jury: why didn’t she (the complainant) scream the house down? This was echoed in discussions on social media, in conversations with friends,…

It was inevitable that #MeToo would expand beyond the movie industry. You’d have to be a card-carrying, tunnel-visioned member of the patriarchy to think that Hollywood was uniquely shitty in its attitude towards women. Indeed, if you were…

In 2002, I was eleven. As is fairly customary for eleven year olds, I went to a lot of birthday parties. Some of them were sleepovers. They tended to revolve around impersonating wrestlers, drinking gallons of coke, sharing a Silk Cut…

It’s half five on a Wednesday evening and I’m lounging on the couch - half watching Pointless, half texting a friend. We haven’t caught up in a while and among the pleasantries and Netflix tips, we get talking about the Harvey Weinstein…

I started watching a Netflix Original series called Easy last week. It’s self-described as an “anthology that follows diverse Chicagoans fumbling through the modern maze of love, sex, technology and culture” - each of the 8 stories in the…

There used to be flyers hanging in UCD’s arts block that read ‘Drinking is not a crime. Rape is.’ The words screamed from the page, white on red background, beside an image of an unconscious woman with makeup smeared across her face.…

‘Susan’ worked as an escort on-and-off about four years before she met with Donal Lehane in a Dublin hotel on March 28th 2010. Both were travelling up to the capital that weekend. Lehane a self-employed accountant, married with three…

Dear Niamh, I am not one for writing open letters to journalists but here I am in reference to your piece “Count the shades of grey between seduction and violation.” 1. First, make sure you know the definitions of what you are talking…