On Sunday 13th October the UK’s Mail on Sunday, sister paper to the Daily Mail, uncovered the search failure of UK bookseller WH Smith’s weak search filter. Searching on the word “Daddy” brought up erotica titles together with the children’s books on the same screen, causing a shutdown and removal of the books from the…
Over at the Psych Central website, they’ve started up a blog party in support of World Mental Health Day, World Mental Health Day is promoted by the World Health Organization to help raise awareness about mental health issues. The day promotes open discussion of mental disorders, and what the world’s governments and health organizations are…
According to a blog post by Darkness to Light that’s the more current estimate for the prevalence of childhood sexual abuse. They put together a study using newer research and reporting numbers than the previous studies that put the number at one in four girls and one in 6 boys who are sexually abused by…
In the UK, the children’s charity NSPCC has launched a new campaign aimed at teaching children about abuse. The goal is to allow kids to “say now I know instead of I wish I had known”. More information is available in the news story, as well as on the NSPCC site
The Atlantic has an article today about a sudden increase of movie portrayals of older women sleeping with teenage boys. They rightly point out that while these relationships are portrayed as “no big deal”, you can guarantee that there would be outrage if the genders were reversed. Maybe it’s time we started to recognize that…
England’s Daily Mirror led in its Sunday 28th July Edition with the news that one of Jimmy Savile’s regular record shops had a list of names uncovered under plaster recently. It’s unclear whether these are victims, but it’s at least 200 more names for the police to trawl through and find out. The Mirror story…
