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What the fuck is going on? What does this say, when it’s so, if not common, not uncommon either. What’s wrong with men? What’s the root cause, that anyone and everyone can be complicit?
Highlights
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Pelicot is the 72-year-old French woman whose husband, Dominique, is on trial for drugging her food and inviting at least 80 men to rape her while she was unconscious. (He photographed the whole thing, saving the evidence in a computer file conveniently titled “abuse.”)
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most are stable citizens, husbands, and fathers, ages 26 to 74, who thought it was OK to rape an unconscious woman. Their defenses are preposterous: I thought she was only pretending to be asleep as part of a sex game. Her husband said it was OK, and husbands can do what they want to their wives. “If the husband was present, it wasn’t rape,” said one man. Most of the men are pleading not guilty and blame the public trial for ruining their lives. Poor babies! Dominique, however, confesses to the whole thing: “I am a rapist just like all the others in this room.” Were the accomplices deceived? “When they came, they already knew everything. They all knew how this went about before the meetings.”
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In the UK, 1.8 million men have admitted viewing child porn online. Eight out of 10 get no jail time,
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7 percent of British men over the age of 18 have committed some form of online child sexual abuse. The United States, at 11 percent, is even worse.