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The Conspiracy of Silence: Penn State and Child Sexual Abuse
Published on 2011-11-14 14:02:00
The recently revealed allegations of sexual abuse against former Penn State football coach, Jerry Sandusky, and the revelations that many were privy to this information but did nothing, has rocked the college football world and the entire country. Concerns about Jerry Sandusky were apparently raised as far back as 1995 by the biological mother of a troubled teenage boy that Jerry Sandusky was fostering and would later adopt, although it is not clear whether the concerns at the time were sexu
He loves me, he loves me not, she loves me, she loves me not...
Published on 2011-02-27 00:42:00
Do you remember the feeling of trying to figure if the person about whom you are excited might be excited about you? This dilemma and the ensuing feelings date back to that very first crush when we first try to decode the mysteries of love. Can we not all relate to trying to find the answer to this burning question? As we all come to understand, of course, this is not solely a dilemma of early life, but one which continues to plague us well into adulthood. I recently rece
Death by candid camera: Voyeurism, Exhibitionism and the suicide of Tyler Clementi
Published on 2010-10-07 23:07:00
Tyler Clementi was a freshman at Rutgers University whose sexual encounter with another young man was deliberately videostreamed over the internet without his knowledge, by his roommate and another freshman. On discovering that this had occurred, Tyler apparently became distraught and tragically took his own life by jumping off the George Washington bridge. Many serious issues are rightfully raised by these events, including the prevalence of bullying and suicide in gay youth, the sc
