There are several reliable sources that provide statistics on rape and sexual assault in the United States. Here are a few options.

A recent report by the NSSF shows firearm purchases among law-abiding Americans has reached new levels.

A teen girl who was kidnapped in 2022 from a NBA game reveals she voluntarily left the game men who would lead to her trafficking online.

Tracie Arlington talked with Brian Doucette, host of the Everyday Martial Artist, on teaching women's self-defense.

Tracie Arlington, women's self-defense instructor and owner of Play It Safe Self-Defense appeared on the Maglight podcast recently.

A woman who survived a knife attack by the killer is speaking out about her experience. Two other people died at the hands of the killer.

What are the lessons we can learn from this? There is a whole lot of wrong with this attack: First, a deliberate targeting and stalking...

Readers of the new book "Never Defenseless: Empowering Women's Self-Defense" are coming mostly from the U.S., Germany, and the UK.

Women IRL are successfully defending themselves against dangerous attackers who an unarmed woman would have been defenseless against.

Why we use the "I Dream of Jeannie" reference for women to defend against front strangle.

A rape of a woman jogging in New York highlights two basic elements that need to be in your women's self-defense training program.

Let’s take a look at a vicious stabbing attack and how one of the potential victims ended up successfully defending themselves.

Just like their counterparts in the wild, human predators search for the weakest members of the herd as potential prey.

You've been led into a closed room. And now he's starting to get aggressive and is positioning you up against a wall. What do we do now?

What can we do to improve our responses and our odds of prevailing over a life-threatening situation? Science directs us to two things.

If your self-defense system has a lot of techniques that depend on the attacker reacting to pain, then you might want to rethink that.

Here are the seven most common mistakes women make that could result in them getting kidnapped, attacked, and/or raped.

The coaches at the Women's Self-Defense Community discuss the most dangerous time in a woman's life.