Rape - Quillette

The author, pictured on a bridge in Amsterdam, in 1993, a few weeks before she was attacked.

Toward Ruin or Recovery?

The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all.

20 Mar 2024 · 35 min read

The Ugly History of Rape Panics

As sexual violence was reaching historic lows, the narrative was demanding the opposite. The definition of sexual violence began to be broadened, and so the numbers grew.

Jerry Barnett

22 Apr 2021 · 11 min read

Grooming Gangs and Indifferent Police: What Have We Learned After Rotherham?

Sajid Javid, during his time as the U.K.’s Home Secretary, promised an investigation into the grooming phenomenon but nothing materialized. It is clear that we need investigations, but we also need accountability.

Ben Sixsmith

4 Feb 2020 · 9 min read

Derailing Australia’s Campus Rape Panic

Universities Australia has just commissioned a new survey on sexual assault intended to cook up more impressive rape statistics after the failure of the AHRC to produce the desired results.

Bettina Arndt

21 Dec 2019 · 6 min read

The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is for Good Women to Do Nothing

In my pre-feminist days, sexual harassment and rape were so common, so pervasive, so accepted, that they were virtually invisible.

Phyllis Chesler

13 Nov 2019 · 14 min read

PODCAST 55: Samantha Geimer, raped by Roman Polanski at 13, on her rejection of victimhood

Samantha Geimer, who was raped by Roman Polanski aged 13, talks to Jonathan Kay about why she has refused to be cast as a victim and how she’s dealt with the controversy her stance has generated. She is steeling herself for another bout of unwanted attention when Polanski’s

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

26 Sep 2019 · 1 min read

A Girl’s Place in the World

Men (and, less often, women as well) across societies all over the world have used violence in an attempt to control women’s reproductive outcomes and limit the choices available to them, and in many circumstances, men have benefited from doing so.

William Buckner

9 May 2019 · 15 min read

Portrait of the Artist as a False Accuser

An artist should be able to create whatever artifact she likes out of the tissue of her own reality—within such boundaries prescribed by libel law.

Jonathan Kay

9 Nov 2018 · 9 min read

Germaine Greer's 'On Rape'—A Review

As an answer to the conundrum of consent I don’t think much of it.

Matthew Scott

5 Nov 2018 · 11 min read

Challenging the Campus Rape Narrative

The evidence is there for all to see. Our Australian universities are on a hiding to nothing by surrendering to the bullying tactics of a small group of feminist activists and agreeing to get involved in the criminal justice business.

Bettina Arndt

25 Oct 2018 · 8 min read

Je Suis George Lawlor

University life is beginning to sound like a dystopian world; hollow-eyed students hunting in packs, scouring the landscape for dissenting individuals unplugged from the matrix.

Emma C Williams

29 Nov 2015 · 6 min read