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Brendan Fraser says he won’t attend next year’s Golden Globes, even if he’s nominated for his acclaimed performance in The Whale, after having alleged that he was sexually assaulted by the former president of the organisation that runs the awards.In 2018, Fraser publicly alleged that Philip Berk, a longtime Hollywood Foreign Press Association member and a former president of the organisation behind the Globes, once groped him at a lunch in Beverly Hills, in 2003.Fraser has said that the alleged incident was a factor in…

Destroy this mad brute. Enlist. U.S. Army poster (1918) The United States Government sought to sexually stimulate then frustrate its soldiers to prepare them for an unpopular conflict in Europe, a Cambridge historian argues. Recruiting attractive canteen staff; inviting female civilians to closely supervised dances; disseminating…

Billionaire Elon Musk took to Twitter late on Thursday to denounce as "utterly untrue" claims in a news report that he had sexually harassed a flight attendant on a private jet in 2016.Business Insider reported earlier on Thursday that Musk's SpaceX paid $250,000 (roughly Rs. 2 crore) in 2018 to settle a sexual harassment claim from an unnamed private jet flight attendant who accused Musk of exposing himself to her.The attacks against me should be viewed through a political lens – this is their standard (despicable)…

Years after it was first proven to work, a new tool for preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is on the brink of entering mainstream medicine. That tool is doxyPEP, an antibiotic that works like a morning-after pill — but instead of preventing pregnancy within hours of unprotected sex, it prevents STIs like chlamydia and syphilis. Ever since a 30-person trial first suggested hope for the strategy in 2015, people worldwide have begun trying doxyPEP for themselves, often without the approval or…

A Los Angeles County jury on Thursday convicted former UCLA gynecologist Dr. James Heaps of sexually abusing female patients.Prosecutors portrayed Heaps as exploiting his position as a renowned cancer specialist to prey on the most vulnerable women during his 35 years associated with UCLA. Hundreds of accusers have been paid nearly $700 million by UCLA in the largest sexual abuse settlement involving a public university.Heaps’ arrest in June 2019 came on the heels of similar charges against George Tyndall, a former USC…

On Monday, actor Kevin Spacey testified at a civil trial against him, where an alleged victim is seeking damages claiming the actor sexually assaulted him years ago. During his cross-examination, Kevin repeatedly rejected suggestions that he wasn't telling the truth, when he denied an actor’s claims that he made a sexual advance on him, when he was 14 in the 1980s. Also read: Actor Kevin Spacey to face trial over sexual misconduct allegationsThe trial, now in its third week, has an actor seeking $40 million in damages…

Viola Davis has shared that she mined traumatic experiences from her past to help her play a warrior in her latest film,The Woman King.The movie sees Davis plays the fictionalised leader of the real-life Agojie, an elite unit of all-female warriors active in the historical kingdom of Dahomey.In Davis’s memoir, Finding Me, which came out earlier this year, the actor wrote about how she and all her sisters were subjected to sexual assaults by relatives, babysitters and the neighbourhood “dirty old men” when they were…

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Melanie C – the former Spice Girl born Melanie Chisholm and nicknamed Sporty Spice – has alleged that she was sexually assaulted by a masseur the night before the Spice Girls’ debut performance. Appearing on the How To Fail podcast to promote her new memoir Who I Am, Chisholm discussed the incident, which she says took place at a hotel in Istanbul. She told host Elizabeth Day that the experience made her feel “vulnerable” and “violated”.“What happened to me, I kind of buried immediately, because there was other things to…

As data come in from around the world, a clear picture is emerging of who is being affected by the recent outbreak of monkeypox (MPX): Outside Africa, 99 percent of the cases have been in men, and 92 to 98  percent have been in self-identified men who have sex with men. Also, many of the cases in the Europe Union, the U.S. and the U.K. have been in men who are living with HIV. In the U.S., MPX is overwhelmingly affecting Black and Latino men who have sex with men. If this dynamic is not corrected, this racial disparity…