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'(CNSNews.com) – The United States Agency for International Development is planning to spend $24.5 million to circumcise an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 male infants and males aged 10 to 49 in the kingdom of Swaziland by 2018.

The Kingdom of Swaziland has the highest rates of HIV in the world, accounting for 31 percent HIV prevalence among adults, the grant said.

“While the data suggest that the rate of new infections is stabilizing, HIV and AIDS remain the most important health burden and impediment to socio-economic development for Swaziland,” the grant said. “As a result, there is an urgent need to scale up the HIV prevention response in Swaziland.”'

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'IT SEEMS it is winter again, which is okay if you are the member (of the Upper Jukskei Fly-fishing Collective), because at least he has a pair of boots in which to fish and absolutely no intention of sacrificing any part of his anatomy to gain entry into a cohort of his peers.

Each winter, many South African boys withdraw from society to undergo hardship in a ritualised test of manhood, including circumcision. Many boys will be horribly injured when their prepuces are crudely hacked off in unsanitary conditions. Many will die.

Circumcision of men and boys, in the opinion of the member, is genital mutilation no different from the widely condemned practice of genital mutilation of women and girls. Tradition or no tradition, religious or otherwise, in either sex it is cruel, atavistic and primitive. Other than in the relatively rare event of the medical condition paraphimosis and a number of infections, there is no reason to perform circumcision other than to establish dominance.

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'The city of Durham and former Duke Lacrosse players have settled a lawsuit with regard to a false rape allegation.

David Evans, Colin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann - 2005-06 Duke men's lacrosse players - were accused of rape charges in 2006. The players were accused of sexually assaulting stripper Crystal Mangum at a team party.

The charges filed against the players led to the cancellation of the 2006 season and firing of coach Mike Pressler.

However, in 2007, state Attorney General Roy Cooper dropped the charges against the players as they were found innocent. Cooper and team concluded that details of Mangum's story did not coincide with evidence presented to police and prosecutors.

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'There is a great shared parenting bill that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick says he “enthusiastically supports.” But he has not submitted it to the Legislature as his bill. It was developed by the Governor’s Working Group, which included our founder and chair Ned Holstein, MD, MS.

NOW is the time for the Governor to send the legislation to the Legislature that HIS Working Group produced as HIS bill. This is the only way Governor Patrick’s legislation will become law this year in Massachusetts.

Everyone can call the Governor’s office. Call Governor Deval Patrick's office - Rosemary Powers, Deputy Chief of Staff for Government Affairs; 617.725.4090. Ask her to have the Governor sponsor the child custody bill prepared by HIS Working Group and send it to the Legislature as HIS bill. Report your results to me.

A funny and informative video about circumcision, its history, the harm done by the practice, and the illogical reason we still circumcise men today.

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'An Oklahoma high school teacher gave one of her failing students a top A-grade after they started having sex, police said.

Kalyn Thompson, 25, allegedly gave the Kellyville High School teen a 98% result in his English test — just months after he'd been struggling to pass the exams at all.

Cops claim the duo started talking outside class in December and had their first sexual encounter in March, shortly after the student turned 18.

They then had sex at least twice — once at a nearby lake and a second time at a hotel in Tulsa, investigators believe.

Thompson reportedly resigned mid-April after realizing that an internal investigation into her alleged activities had been launched.
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Thompson was charged with second-degree rape and was held at Creek County Jail before being bailed out on $35,000 bond.'

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'When it comes to straight white men, the unfounded and irrational “we’re bad people” theme is of a piece with news that Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (“HKS”) will soon have a required course for incoming students called “Checking Your Privilege 101.” While the specific content of the class hasn’t yet been determined, the basic idea is clear: If you come from an inherently powerful group in the United States, which is defined as being a straight white man, you have inherent (and unfair) advantages in life and although you’ll try hard you’ll never really understand anybody else. And you should feel really really bad about that.

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'Former Eugene City Councilor Kevin Hornbuckle has filed a civil rights complaint on behalf of three University of Oregon students who were kicked off the basketball team in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations.

Hornbuckle said he submitted his Title IX complaint against the UO on Monday through the website of the ­ Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education . Hornbuckle said he filed the civil rights complaint without the players’ knowledge. He said the issue is wider and affects all UO students.

“The basic problem is that rape accusations are effectively forever,” Hornbuckle said Tuesday. “And the University of ­Oregon as well as the media have gravely harmed these three players, probably for the rest of their lives.”

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'A group of Portland State University (PSU) students disrupted a panel on anarchy to protest a speaker they accused of “targeting survivors” of sexual assault.

Kristian Williams, an anarchist author whose career has focused on fighting against the state and police brutality, was supposed to be one of three speakers on a panel titled “Informants: Types, Cases and Warning Signs.”

But the event erupted into chaos — as seen in a video posted on YouTube — as any efforts by a panelist or moderator to speak were thwarted by chants including “We will not be silenced in the face of your violence,” and “Fuck you, pig.”
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Williams’s controversial writing, “The Politics of Denunciation,” states that factions of feminism have made questions about sexual assault “off limits” because it has become widely accepted that the answer is always “whatever the survivor says it is.”

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'Parroting over 20 years worth of feminist propagandizing, the White House claims nearly 20 percent of female college undergraduates are sexually assaulted during their college years. To put that number in perspective: Detroit residents have been fleeing the city for years due to its infamous violent crime. And what constitutes an American urban crime wave? In 2012, Detroit’s combined rate for all four violent felonies that make up the FBI’s violent-crime index — murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault — was 2 percent. The rape rate was 0.05 percent. And yet, despite an alleged campus sexual-assault rate that is 400 times greater than Detroit’s, female applicants are beating down the doors of selective colleges in record numbers.

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'A student news site at Columbia University is receiving attention and some criticism for reportedly removing a writer from its staff after his name surfaced on a much-publicized list of “Rapists on Campus.”

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'The Vice-President recently spoke out on campus sexual assault, reminding us that “No means No.” And he’s right; if a woman says no, and a man doesn’t respect that, it’s rape.

But I’ve represented a number of male students accused of sexual assault on campus, and I haven’t yet seen a case of the kind Joe Biden is talking about.

The cases that are prosecuted by schools tend to be much more ambiguous. And a lot of that has to do with how schools view alcohol and consent.
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Everyone knows that drunk college kids have sex. But when a student is found guilty of sexual assault by a school and gets suspended or expelled, he has a mark on his transcript identifying him as a rapist – sometimes for life. That’s stiff punishment for something that almost everyone on campus does.

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'The battle to end sexual assault on college campuses is one of the most important civil rights movements of our time. It is a movement for change. It is exciting and inspiring to see young women stand up and say “we know that we have rights, and we intend to assert them.”
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Victims should consult a lawyer with expertise in handling this type of case, so that they may learn their legal options including their right to be compensated by the college for the college’s failure to protect them and for violating their legal rights under Title IX. With knowledge of their legal rights, victims can then make an informed decision as to whether or not they wish to assert their rights. Where appropriate, victims can also file a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education.'

Wikipedia on Allred here.

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'In Riverdale, a town in northwestern Ohio, a teacher was captured on video abusing a kindergartner who was returning from the bathroom. She pinned him to the wall, took his face in her hands, and lifted him up by his shirt so that his head snapped back and hit the wall.

Anthony and Autumn Nelson’s six-year-old son Ian was walking back from the bathroom last Wednesday when his teacher, Barb Williams, caught on a surveillance camera, accosted him. 

Anthony Nelson, who told WTKR that Ian had a bruise on the back of his head, said: “We thought it was just a little incident that happened, and that’s what the school made it out to sound like. And then all of a sudden we get this video today and this is just outrageous.”'