Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Along with words like “gaslighting” and “trigger,” “sexual coercion” is a term that gained traction out of the #MeToo movement, ...

April 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), which coordinates and provides educational materials for SAAM ...

The difference between voluntary and involuntary participation may seem clear, but a study from the Tibet Autonomous Region shows the distinction between the two can, in fact, be murky. In recent ...

How families, kinship networks and households become spaces where women's desires, refusals and freedoms are monitored, ...

Since the decision in Assénagon 1 in 2012, there has been some doubt as to how much coercion can be applied in a consent solicitation that includes an "exit consent" and whether consents that seek to ...

This week, the Supreme Court upheld a Kentucky law requiring physicians to describe embryonic or fetal anatomy to the patient prior to an abortion, as well as requiring the patient to listen to the ...

Meta is facing a call from lawmakers in the European Union to scrap its controversial “consent or pay” tactic on Facebook and Instagram. Currently, the company demands a per-account fee of €9.99/month ...

The era of U.S. hegemony has come to an end – or so declare headlines emanating everywhere from Tehran to Washington. But what does that mean? The concept of hegemony has been central to international ...

Brenda Ottenbreit has felt the harm caused by coercive control. It's why she's fought so hard to see it criminalized. Now, ...