A question of consent: sexual assault in Oxford
CW: Sexual Assault, violence, rape.
"If I didn’t tell this man to stop, how could he have known how uncomfortable he was making me?"
Anonymous reflects on their experience of surprise and unconsented choking, and the line between kink and assault.
How to get away with murder: claim she consented
The fact that this defence is used so often, and is picked up so readily by the press, suggests that we are resistant to holding men responsible for the violence they commit, and so their victims shoulder the blame instead.
Wearing a thong is never consent
The Irish rape trial reveals the flaws in our definition of sexual assault
Students hold consent protest following Irish rape trial
About 100 people gathered in protest of the recent trial, in which the alleged victim’s underwear was used as evidence against her in court
