Leigh Cuen

Sweden is considered one of the best places in the world to be a woman. The country has one of the world's most generous parental leave policies, and it recently ranked fourth in the World Economics Forum's 2015 global gender gap index. Now, a…

Porn actress Ava Mir-Ausziehen is wearing a lacy black bra. She's sprawled across the bed while performer Lance Hart goes down on her.  The two are starring in the VR film Empowering Ava, the story of an erotica writer (Mir-Ausziehen) whose partner…

News flash: Laws that restrict women's access to abortion don't actually do anything to decrease abortion rates — but they do make abortions more expensive and difficult to access. Now, a new study of more than 2,700 patients in Ohio, published in…

Imagine you're on a sunny stroll through a park. The grass is green and the birds are singing, until suddenly, you fall face first into an oversized pair of animated breasts.  That's exactly how the demo for a highly anticipated new virtual…

It's a truth universally acknowledged that male pick-up artists are terrible at understanding women.  This week, self-proclaimed relationship expert Dan Bacon published a (now-deleted) article filled with the world's worst advice for hitting on…

On Wednesday, comedian Leslie Jones was the victim of a vicious cybercrime: Hackers stole nude photos of the star, along with her driver's license and passport, and posted them on her website, JustLeslie.com.  The attack highlights the layers of…

Wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne Johnson is arguably the nation's sexiest 44-year-old father of two, and his Instagram proves it. He recently posted an Instagram video of his baby daughter playing with his head. And she's such a cute little drummer.…

The internet is seething about a patronizing piece of career advice penned by New York job recruiter and career counselor Bruce Hurwitz.  Earlier this month, Hurwitz wrote a controversial series of LinkedIn articles about jewelry that people…

British poet Hollie McNish recently released a spoken-word video about breastfeeding in public, called "Embarrassed." The writer's visual collaboration with Independent Films quickly went viral on Facebook. Thousands of people rushed to share the…

A 15-year-old student named Faith Sobotker just delivered an epic speech about slut shaming after her high school, Kambrya College, forced students to attend a sexist assembly chiding young women for taking "sexy selfies." Australian newspaper The…

Abortion is heavily restricted in Ireland — which means that Irish people who want to terminate their pregnancies have to leave the country and jump through numerous hoops to have the procedure.  Last weekend, a bold pair of Irish women sought to…

The sexist double standards of dating are all too familiar to many women. Women generally have fewer orgasms and are regularly shamed for expressing their sexuality, while men often expect sexual satisfaction on the reg. Even in 2016, when it comes…

Thursday night, the nerdtastic internet erupted when word spread that former Disney star Zendaya will reportedly be playing Mary Jane Watson, Peter Parker's love interest, in the upcoming franchise reboot Spider-Man: Homecoming. This is exciting for…

Could talking to students about BDSM culture help combat rape on college campuses? Psychology researcher Kathryn Klement thinks so.  Klement is the co-author of a newly published study out of Northern Illinois University, which showed that BDSM…

Olympic wrestler Sakshi Malik, 23, hails from Haryana, a region of India made infamous in recent years for several highly publicized rape cases and garnering one of the nation's highest rates of femicide, the practice of selectively aborting female…

To most people, the following tweet might look like a simple string of emojis: Some witches on Tumblr, however, would see the above as a mystical witch's spell, replete with magical powers. The full meaning of each image is only truly known to the…

There's nothing more romantic than showing your gratitude to your partner, and Italian swimmer Rachele Bruni just schooled us all about how to do so without being cheesy. After wining a silver medal at the 10km marathon at the Olympic games in Rio,…

There has already been plenty of sexist media coverage during the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, from websites obsessing over what female athletes wear to media outlets describing medalist trapshooter Corey Cogdell as the "wife of" a Chicago Bears…

They say New Yorkers are tough. But even by big city standards, nobody is as fierce as Deanna Carter, a woman who recently busted out her phone and confronted a man who tried to masturbate in front of her on the subway.  "Rubbing your dick? What the…