The film that wins Best Picture might not have been everyone’s first choice, but it will have had the most fans across the Academy. The vote of the overall Academy chooses best picture. I have contemplated the significance of the movie Spotlight winning the Oscar for Best Picture. I am delighted it did. I believe […]
February 19, 2010 by 1 Comment
Child Pornography….the Second Type of Rape
Continuing from the appendix in my book Redeem The Silence; an Unintended Journey, the second type of rape I have identified is child pornography. Statistics: Child advocacy groups estimate that 2 million children worldwide are working the sex trade .” (If you refer back to a previous blog post I write about the confusion our […]
February 15, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Types of Sexual Violence
It occurs to me that the different types of SV that I have written about in my book are going to take several blogs. When I am done with them, I plan on doing some more about the ‘SV brain cancer.’ There may be other types I have missed, so, please feel free to add […]
February 9, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Updated Statistics, George Mason University
“In the United States: It is estimated that one in three American women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime. 89% of sexual assaults are committed by someone the victim knows. For every sexual assault reported to the police, between three and 10 to unreported. A woman is sexually assaulted every two to three minutes […]
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