Of course no mention of the porn industry that reduces humans to animals. Feminist want the right to be portrayed as sex objects and then scream when it happens. Rape is always wrong but so is stealing. Feed a kid hours of ice cream adverts and then expect him not to steal from an unattended counter and you are stupid. Its time parents taught their girls some decency if they want to be treated decently. To many loose woman of the 60's 70's and 80's are seeing their girls do in excess what they did in some sort of moderation. Repentance and a concern for your children should have you acknowledging that feminism is a failure. Ban pornography (perversion) and rape drops would drop fairly quickly. Teach young girls a little modesty and rape rates will drop a bit more.

Roscop, I something don't think that DOB tattoos are the answer and I expect that your comment was tongue in cheek anyway.

The other problem is that underage sex has been going on for as long as there has been an age of consent. My first wife, of 30 something years ago, told me how she and all her friends didn't worry about not being 'legal' even though they knew what they were doing at 14 and 15 was illegal. They then celebrated being legal at 16 by doing other stuff that they were not yet legal for, like drinking.

More recently, a friend had a daughter who was under-age, who had a similarly under-age boyfriend. My friend reminded them of the age of consent, and both responded that neither was aware of the concept, so that it seems that previously under-age sexually active children ignored the law, whereas most now are not even aware of the law.

Getting back to the girls posting sexual photos of themselves on line. The almost inevitable response to their being reported and having the photos removed is to describe the person who reported them, or who suggested that their photos are against the rules of the site, as a pervert. It is obvious that they think that all the guys who were encouraging them to put more up to be the ones on their side. The idea that someone putting limits on behaviour as showing care and concern is a completely alien one.

J Parker...where did I say women who dress sluttily DESERVE to be raped ?

Pelly... you 'have' been naughty :)...how? aaah..you also put words into my mouth which didn't come from it. You say I say.. Dress code=permission"...I didn't say that at all.

I said.. slutty clothing sends a message. The message was not "I am giving permission for you (whoever) to have sex with me"..the message was... "I'm hot to trot for the bloke I approve of"

I also said nothing about absolving any rapist from guilt. The Bible is quite candid about such things. If the woman is betrothed.. he gets executed. If she is not betrothed.. he is to marry her.
(the idea here being, that if it is known she has been damaged by the man, no one will want her..in those days)

Try to understand this from a tribal/theocratic perspective, not our modern values.

PS..I also called you 'dear' because you are dear to me here :) we are able to discuss and disagree about controversial topics with reason and patience.
Some others could learn a lot from you.

ROSE C.. good grief... I just read your older article about your bad experience with those bastards.

//You wrote Since then, I’ve relived the incident over and over, trying to make sense of it.//

and later:

//Was it misogyny?//

To me, it all began with the whole values framework you moved in.
You are not Robina Crusoe in that of course.. 2 of my children have bruises from the same kind of environement.
I tell them the same thing I tell you. 'Values framework'.
My son just about destroyed himself, but came back from the brink.
(unfortunately he now plans to take over the world :)

The loser b/f you had is beyond belief... give me 2 minutes with him at a local gym eh? He beats up your rapist... but needs a good hiding himself.

The values framework which WORKS (for those who embrace it) is that which is connected to the ultimate value Giver. Would any of those things have happened if:

a) You moved in circles which celibrated purity, honesty and true love.
b) Regularly reinforced those values with others who shared them.

c) Provided a connection to God in Christ and true personal dignity and self worth and healing from many of the emotional troubles that can scar us for life.

Bad things still happen to Christians, but the chances and probability are far less... of that you can be sure.

AGIR

What is wrong with Rose's ex boyfriend? Doesn't he have a right to move on? I hope that he checked his facts before attacking the bloke in question. I know plenty of women who would think nothing of telling any old lie to get their ex bashed up. As Elizabeth argues, some women lie.

Many years ago I read an article in the Waikato Times, NZ which said the Hamilton police did an analysis of reported sexual assault/ rape cases. It revealed that 30% of allegations were proven to be false. No doubt the percentage of actual false allegations would have been higher than that.

Does anyone know of any research done in Australia on false allegations?