In 2006 it was reported that men sexually assaulted 754 women in the Fargo-Moorhead area. Due to the prevalence of domestic violence and sexual assault in our community, a domestic violence and rape ...

Intimate partner violence is a global scourge. One in four Australian women have experienced physical or sexual violence at ...

It is no secret that, throughout the ages, women’s bodies have been the source of nearly constant objectification. The ubiquity of social media has further enabled this objectification, as women’s ...

According to objectification theory, women become culturally desexualized during midlife and have the opportunity to let go of their propensity to self-objectify. In young women, self-objectification ...

A study to be published in Sex Roles, published by Springer, offers an explanation for why women fear face-to-face crime more than men, despite being less likely to experience most crimes. The ...

October brings all that is beautiful about autumn, with its glorious colors and cooler temperatures, but it also carries with it a darker underside, as it’s known as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Chitrangada Singh addressed criticisms of Housefull 5 for objectifying women. She emphasised that audience judgment varies ...

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Several personality traits related to psychopathy -- especially being openly antagonistic -- predict a tendency to view others as merely sex objects, finds a study by psychologists at Emory University ...