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An American judge has been accused of advocating corrective rape for lesbians. Joe Rehyansky, a part-time magistrate and Vietnam veteran, wrote on conservative news site The Daily Caller that lesbians should be allowed to serve in the military because straight male soldiers could “convert” them. The Daily Caller swiftly removed some of his remarks but…

The statistics were bad enough: nearly half of London men aged 18–25 think sex with women too drunk to know what is going on is not rape. A quarter of those young men don’t believe it is rape if a woman says no to sex and the man continues anyway, and one in five men…

By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun Soldiers haunted by scenes of war and victims scarred by violence may wish they could wipe the memories from their minds. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University say that may someday be possible. A commercial drug remains far off — and its use would be subject to many ethical…

In an act freighted with symbolism, the Canadian Forces has burned convicted serial killer Russell Williams’ military kit — all his ceremonial and fighting uniforms, as well as shirts, headdress, boots, gloves, rucksacks, and other items of military apparel. The kit was committed to the flames of a roaring furnace at Canadian Forces Base Trenton,…

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MaleSurvivor, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to overcoming sexual victimization in boys and men through its interactive website, membership program, weekend workshops, and bi-annual International Conference in New York City, has announced the 2011 schedule of events for its Weekends of Recovery. The program, launched in 2001 and serving male sexual abuse survivors from…

After being severely beaten and raped by a fellow Coast Guardsman, the female victim was said to be at fault for choosing a career that was predominately for men, according to official Coast Guard records. After the victim reported the alleged rape in 2006 to her command at Coast Guard Station Burlington, VT, her command…

Officials with the Air Force are staying mum about the possibility of more victims of Staff Sergeant Joshua Adam Smith. They refuse to give the information about the convicted child rapist because the case is still open. Linda Card, an Air Force Office of Special Investigations spokeswoman at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, stated that…

CHICAGO (CBS) – It’s a problem the military doesn’t like to talk about. But thousands of soldiers are sexually assaulted every year by fellow soldiers. Now one of them is speaking out about how the Veterans Administration failed him, denying him benefits for decades as he continued to be haunted by the memory of a…

Detectives took hair, saliva and blood samples from Mitchell Dean Morrison, the suspect in a rape in Raleigh last month, according to search warrants released Tuesday. Morrison, 25, of 4163 N.C. Highway 210 in Smithfield, was indicted Monday on charges of first-degree rape, first-degree sex offense, assault on a female, first-degree burglary, false imprisonment and…

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — An Air Force staff sergeant who posed online as a trusted baby sitter to troll for victims was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday after pleading guilty to multiple counts of raping and molesting three girls, two of them preschool age. Staff Sgt. Joshua Adam Smith, who…