DEFENCE STRIPPED BARE

I want to put a hypothetical case to you. A young woman is about to get married and her bridesmaid organizes a Hen’s Night. There’s going to be a lot of drinking, a lot of laughs, and as a special treat, the bridesmaid hires a male stripper. And to hot things up she orders a XXX-rate stripper. This isn’t just a Manpower or Chippendale stud. This is going to be full nudity and simulated sex.

The raunchy show gets under way but the bride and another guest get cold feet and pull out. The bridesmaid does her duty. Strips naked from the waist down. Has lubricant spread on her buttocks, warns the gyrating stripper not to go too hard. But he does. And his penis penetrates her anus.

She is angry. The stripper says it was an accident. The stripper is charged with rape.

The defence is that if penetration did occur it was accidental. An accidental rape. And anyway consider what the bridesmaid did. She took her clothes off, Got down on all fours. A variation of the ‘she asked for it…. provocative clothing’ defence.

My question: Would that accidental rape defence convince a jury? Reverse the sexes. Make the victim a male and the alleged rapist a woman with a strap on dildo. And the answer is YES.

Stripper Linda Maree Naggs this week was found not guilty of raping the Best Man at a Buck’s Night. Forgot all your prejudices, and mine, about grubby Buck’s Nights. I think they are repulsive. But I believe reverse the sexes and make the victim female and the verdict in this case would have been guilty and the rapist would have been jailed.

Friday, August 7, 2009

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