What’s Current: Sweden cancels music festival after reports of sexual assaults

The camping site of the Bråvalla festival. (Image: Tt News Agency/Reuters)

Four rapes and 23 sexual assaults were reported at Sweden’s largest music festival this year, leading to next year’s event being cancelled. Perhaps Sweden should have a women-only festival “until men learn to behave.”

Experts point to pornography as cause of sharp rise in girls, some as young as nine, seeking labiaplasty surgery in the UK.

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Canadian parents have succeeded in their first attempt to keep their newborn child’s sex off of official records. The child’s provincial medical services card has been issued with a “U,” presumably meaning “unidentified,” in the field for sex.

Antoine Thomas, a 27 year-old man, has been indicted for an anti-lesbian attack on the New York City subway that left the victim unconscious, requiring eight stitches.

Two men beat a woman with a baseball bat and slashed her face outside of a bar in Harlem after what started as a disagreement about one of the men using the women’s restroom.

A male suspect in a woman’s kidnapping in Illinois visited the BDSM/fetish website FetLife.com, which hosted an “Abduction 101” forum.

Susan Cox

Susan Cox is a feminist writer and academic living in the United States. She teaches in Philosophy.