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5 Bizarre Realities of Being a Man Who Was Raped by a Woman
We spoke with a victim of female-on-male rape to find out what it's like to be the victim of a crime that most of society refuses to acknowledge is even a thing. Spoiler Alert: It's awful.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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5 Things You Don't (Want to) Know About Your Justice System
Unfortunately, if you don't happen to be the wealthy sort, the system is stacked against you in countless soul-crushing ways.
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- By Anonymous, Talia Jane
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5 Things People Don't Get About Borderline Personalities
Since pop culture treats these BPD sufferers (and no, they're not all women) as a walking Worst Case Scenario, we thought we'd sit down with one and see what it's like to live with it.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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5 Horrific Things You See Collecting Dead People as a Job
The average body transporter quits pretty quickly. Here's why.
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- By Jason Iannone, Kevin Courtney
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5 Things I Learned as a Mormon Polygamist Wife
The world is full of women who are either in this situation right now or just recently got out. We sat down with a woman who escaped life as a 'plural wife' in a fundamentalist Mormon sect.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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5 Awful Lessons I Learned Living With a Mystery Illness
Thomas Wolfe suffered from an extremely rare disease that took four damn years to correctly diagnose. As we learned, not every possible disease a person can catch has been discovered.
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- By Amanda Mannen, Thomas Wolfe
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6 Reasons You're Picturing the Post-Apocalypse Wrong
In October, Cracked sent four of its most expendable out to spend a weekend at Slab City -- a place that exists without water, electricity, or laws.
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- By Robert Evans, Michael Swaim, David Christopher Bell, J.F. Sargent, Rene Cajelo
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8 Ways the Legal System Screws Rape Victims (Like Me)
After I pressed charges and took my experience to court, it became painfully obvious why the vast majority of women don't.
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- By Anonymous, J.F. Sargent
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5 Reasons Being an Ice Cream Man is Shockingly Hard Core
We wanted the inside 'scoop' (Editor's Note: The person who wrote that joke has been fired ... out of a cannon) on what life is like as the person inside that brightly colored van full of childhood obesity.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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5 Things I Learned Pretending to Be a Molested Kid for Cops
This is, quite simply, the weirdest job we've ever heard of.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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5 Things You Learn Hanging With the Taliban
Robert Young Pelton has spent most of his life reporting from violent hotspots around the globe ... and somehow getting interviews with people on both sides of the fighting.
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- By Robert Evans, Robert Young Pelton, Austin Bodetti
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Kids Want to Finger Your Butt: Adventures In Teaching Abroad
It turns out there is a level of culture shock that is alternately hilarious and mortifying.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz, Fred Colton, Josh Anonymous
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5 Terrifying Secrets of Hospital Emergency Rooms
We wanted to know what television leaves out, so we sat down with an ER doctor for a candid look behind the blue, plastic, blood-spattered curtain.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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6 Ways My Real Kung Fu Training Was Crazier Than Any Movie
Kung fu can be way crazier than the movies show you.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz, Anonymous
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6 Ways Women's Prison Is More Horrifying Than It Looks on TV
I spent 18 months in a minimum-security prison after I was caught helping my boyfriend sell drugs. This is what life is really like on the inside.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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