62 h. ago Name by Constance Debré review – a demolition of bourgeois life

The French author takes aim at marriage, childhood and her illustrious family name in the finale of a landmark autofictional trilogy“What is your name? My name is Nobody, a name is nothing, like family, like childhood, I don’t believe in it, I don’t want it.” Constance Debré has a grand name – her grandfather was the prime minister who drafted the French constitution – and she’s long been trying to disgrace it. She is driven by a mixture of petulant rebellion, existential longing for erasure and revolutionary anarchism. A decade ago she left behind her husband, job as a criminal defence lawyer, furniture and crockery to embark on a new life of casual sex with women and iconoclastic, fervent writing.Following Love Me Tender and Playboy, Name is the final instalment in the autofictional trilogy where, with fury, disdain and panache, Debré has recorded her revulsion at bourgeois life and at the legal system that allowed her ex-husband to remove their son because of her h...

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3 d. ago Instagram's most dangerous woman: Influencer 'ex of Leonardo DiCaprio' scammed millions of followers with her rags

Kat Torres, a Brazilian wellness influencer and life coach, was sentenced to eight years in prison last year for human trafficking after coercing women into sex work.

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6 d. ago Mystery sacrifice altar hidden in jungle reveals shock crossover of ancient cultures

An altar has been discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the centre of Mayan culture

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8 d. ago We are Americans living in the UK and the biggest culture shock was the bathrooms for these five reasons

The expats who have come to call the UK home have said the bathrooms have been their 'biggest adjustment' and Americans are 'not built' for them.

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9 d. ago Single sex homeless accommodation is needed in Scotland to keep women safe

Record View says no woman should feel it is better to return to an abusive husband than to stay in a dingy hotel or sleep on the street.

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1 week ago Women really are the stronger sex. Female hormones suppress pain better than opioids, study finds

The researchers from UC San Francisco believe the discovery could help with developing new treatments for chronic pain such as arthritis and cancer.

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1 week ago Russell Brand reveals why his marriage to Katy Perry ended and praises his 'beloved' wife Laura in post just a day before he was charged with rape

Brand, 49, who is believed to living in the US, was today charged with five sex offences against four different women alleged to have taken place between 1999 and 2005.

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1 week ago Russell Brand's Twitter page is still topped by the slogan 'Stay Free' as he faces rape and sex assault charges

Comedian Russell Brand's Twitter page is still topped by the slogan 'Stay Free' after he was charged with five sex offences against four women including rape.

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1 week ago UK brothel ring busted as three jailed for forcing vulnerable women into sex work

Lina Wang, Chung Fu Wang and Yuan Hang played key roles in the prostitution of vulnerable victims in places including Canterbury, Chatham, Dartford, Gillingham, Maidstone, and Tunbridge Wells

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1 week ago Jean Claude Van Damme caught up in sex trafficking investigation after 'five women were presented to him as a "gift" in Cannes'

Van Damme, known for his roles in the film Double Impact and most recently in The Gardener, was brought up in the case after one of the alleged victims came forward, according to reports.

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1 week ago Hot tub sex pest spared prison for sex assaults on three women at hotel

Zia Khan claimed the teenager and two women made up the claims they were sexually assaulted by him at the Village Hotel in Attenborough. He was convicted and given a suspended jail term

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2 w. ago Love, actually: How intimacy survives marriage and motherhood | Saman Shad

The key isn’t chasing some impossible ideal of passion that never fades, but learning to appreciate love in all its evolving formsThe first thing a friend did when I told her the title of my book was laugh. “The Sex Lives of Married Women?” She asked. “You mean The No Sex Lives of Married Women.”I laughed too. She wasn’t wrong – married people aren’t exactly known for their thriving sex lives. And I suspect the only couples reliably having sex must be the ones who have scheduled it into their Google calendars, probably in a shared folder alongside “Bunnings trip” and “remortgage review”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Married hotel jacuzzi sex pest who attacked three women is spared jail

Dad-of-two Zia Khan was found guilty at Nottingham Crown Court.

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2 w. ago ‘Their voices had been overlooked for so long’: the shocking hunt for the Gilgo Beach killer

The long and often shocking journey to finding the alleged killer of young women in Long Island is brought to a wider audience in a damning new Netflix seriesThe film-maker Liz Garbus was on vacation in July 2023 when she got the call that an arrest had finally been made in the case of the Long Island serial killer. Since 2010, when the bodies of four women were found along an isolated stretch of highway near Gilgo Beach, authorities had looked for a presumed serial killer with little progress and plenty of consternation. Garbus was one of the most prominent chroniclers of the grassroots effort to force authorities into action; her 2020 feature film Lost Girls, an adaptation of Robert Kolker’s book of the same name, depicted the fight by a group of working-class women to figure out what happened to their loved ones – all women who participated in sex work on Craigslist – with or largely without police help.It was the star of that film, Amy Ryan, who alerted Garbus to the arrest of R...

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2 w. ago ‘What the hell is this stuff?’: French people on the culture shock of flossing

While preventative care has not traditionally been a priority in France, US dentistry is ‘very focused’ on itThere are many established, regularly parodied cultural differences between France and the US: style, portion sizes, attitudes towards picking up after your dog.But there’s another – possibly bloodier – contrast: flossing. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The most shocking claims from the Facebook whistleblower's memoir

Never has a gag order been so ill-judged. Meta's attempts to quash Sarah Wynn-Williams' memoir, Careless People – the inside story of her six years at the company, which was then called Facebook – have made it a bigger hit than its former director of global public policy could ever have imagined.

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2 w. ago Plane passenger is arrested after performing 'unusual' sex act in front of shocked women during flight

A fellow passenger noticed the man, 33, engaged in the inappropriate act roughly halfway through the 73-minute flight. She alerted cabin crew, who issued repeated warnings to the man to stop.

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2 w. ago 'I'm not somebody who rubs himself against others on the metro': Gerard Depardieu tells sex assault trial he does not go around 'groping' women

Gerard Depardieu, 76, appeared in court in Paris today, denying the accusations that he assaulted two women during the filming of Les Volets Verts in 2021.

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3 w. ago Noel Clarke said he kept explicit photos of women to use as ‘collateral’, court told

Actor had pictures of women’s vaginas to use in case they ever wanted to speak about him or tell his wife, witness saysNoel Clarke told an actor that he kept explicit photos of women he had sex with to use as “collateral” in case they ever wanted to speak out about him or tell his wife, the high court has heard. Clarke, 49, is suing the Guardian over publications from 2021-22 accusing him of sexual misconduct, based on allegations from more than 20 women. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Dire warning issued following the release of Netflix's Adolescence over 'tsunami' of boys turning to misogyny

In a bleak assessment of the nation's youth, educators say classes are increasingly being threatened by boys with 'toxic' views on women, sex and relationships.

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