Behaviour to ‘promote’ or prevent pregnancy can intersect with domestic, family and sexual violence. It weaponises someone’s reproductive capacity to control them.
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The pain of ‘blue balls’ should never be used as a coercive tactic. But almost half of study participants — mostly women and some men — reported pressure to engage sexually.
The law continues to treat intimate partner violence like a bar fight – considering only what happened in a given violent incident. But domestic violence isn’t about just physical violence.
As the Harvey Weinstein trials start, a psychology scholar explains why jurors may be biased on the question of consent. While the situations examined in these studies are not equivalent to sexual assault, they illustrate a pervasive psychological bias.
In the wake of the #MeToo movement and women finally feeling free to discuss having been sexually assaulted, it may seem like all men are predators. A trauma psychologist says this is far from true.
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Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University
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Professor of Organizational Behavior, Cornell University
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Professor, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Ontario
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Senior Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Studies, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery and the Judith Lumley Centre, La Trobe University
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Angela Taft is a Friend of The Conversation.
Emeritus Professor, Judith Lumley Centre (JLC) of Mother, Infant and Family Health, La Trobe University
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Professor and Co-Lead of the Sexual and Family Violence Program at the Department of General Practice & Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Principal Research Fellow at the La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University
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PhD Candidate & Coordinator, Reducing Gender-based Violence Network | NHMRC and Fulbright grantee, La Trobe University