“1 in 4 women get raped” would not directly imply “1 in 4 men is a rapist”. Gangbangs would drive the amount of rapists up, serial rapists would drive it down. Different statistic.
So I’m in bed reading this. I get to Autolycus’s Rape Around The Clock and start laughing out loud but trying hard to stifle it so as not to wake my bedmate. But couldn’t so I woke him anyway. Of course he wants to know what’s so funny. I say out of context it won’t be funny. He rolls back over. I keep reading and start laughing harder. He turns back and says will you at least tell me subject of the humor…
The problem is that the rotten apples apparently aren’t a minority. The cops who would turn a blind eye to such behavior are almost as much of the problem as the perpetrators themselves.
Do many rapists use a condom? They get in the way enough with consensual sex, it’d really cramp my raping style.
Not really for the SDMB, sadly.
Corollary: When pitted, don’t create a rape thread about it.
Corollary to the corollary: When you’re neck deep in a rape hole, stop fucking.
Wasn’t there a BBC series called “Rape Hole of the Bailey?”
Good way to keep the DNA evidence to a minimum, though.
Some do. Keeps semen out of the vagina, which obviously helps your defense if you get picked up.
ETA: Scumpup, that was Rumpole of the Bailey. Unless you’re being facetious. Well, even then, actually.
Its sounds pretty good if you say it in a Scooby Doo voice though.
The incident described in the OP is outrageous, and I don’t want to sound heartless (although that would be hard in this thread)… but is there any evidence the woman’s accusations are true? Did the hospital find evidence that a rape occurred? Did the boyfriend corroborate the story? I know about the Thin Blue Line, but it just seems that there were an awful lot of people involved for no one to defend the woman or blow the whistle if her description of events was accurate. The fact that they laughed at her is difficult to believe.
Of course if it is true, it’s incredibly heinous.
That’s next month.
Recreational, technically speaking: RO is when you’re pissed off about something that doesn’t in any way affect you directly.
Doesn’t do us much good to have procedures in place to deal with accusations like this when everybody just ignores them with absolutely no repurcussions.
It was worth it. See also: “Rape around the Clock.”
The only thing that’s up for debate is whether or not the sex that happened when the officer and the woman were alone in the house was consensual.
The officer had met the woman before, when he pulled her over. His original claim was that he’d had consensual sex with her then, but not after the 911 call; he then changed his story, saying that they hadn’t had sex after the traffic stop but they had after the 911 call (i.e., corroborating her story, but making it consensual instead of rape). The officer in question has numerous previous infractions on his record, including mistreating a prisoner, lying, and a two-day suspension for “failing to conform to and abide by the criminal laws in effect in the state of Wisconsin.”
The IA detective appeared to believe her. The DA’s office believed her account but didn’t think they’d be able to prosecute it. A whole string of procedures that are supposed to be followed in exactly this sort of scenario were just skipped (e.g., a supervisor should have been summoned to the scene as soon as she made the first accusation of rape). The woman was left in jail for almost 12 hours before she was taken to a hospital for treatment and evidence collection.
Really, if you have any doubt whatsoever that this shitstain is a rapist, just go read the full article.
I was actually thinking it was February. Why must you crush my hopes and dreams?
Ummmm…next month is February, isn’t it? Or have I bought a defective calendar again?
She thought it was February right now.
It’s February SOMEWHERE! <toke>
You don’t happen to have any film of that do you?
I say, if raped, Pit away and good luck to you. But this thread was more “OMFG *someone *got raped somewhere, ain’t it awful!” and it seems to have been a case of going once too often to the well. Hopefully the difference is clear.