I don't know the background of this author (although I can guess). The article is up there with so many of these fake claims and 'articles' and often the 'give away' is in the quotes:

“He raped me”, stammered one woman recently, “he ripped off my pyjamas, he beat me up”.

Bull. No woman who had been subjected to such a terrible experience would express it like that.

The lie is further compounded with the claim that "In Australia today, one in every five female friends of mine..." blah blah.

She is trying to blend the fake stats from Government Departments (and I work in one and know how fake the stats are) with so called personal experience.

Grow up Joanna, the fake tricks aren't working anymore. My partner is a victim of real abuse (from her former husband) and one of the things that saddens her so much is how many women are faking it (or writers like you faking it) to spin the 'all men are bastards yarn'.

The world is waking up to this crap and all you are doing is making it harder for genuine abuse victims to be believed.

OLO seems to be a favourite place for spinning these yarns.

QKay

Rape used to coexist with paternity fraud in marriage. Now only the latter remains legal. Why marry?

The politics of abuse.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=430702

Thanks for the link aqvaruis. The article makes some interesting observations.

Society has changed its attitudes to violent behaviour from banning public executions, not hitting kids across the knuckles with a ruler, not hitting kids, not beating your wife. There will always be individuals who will successfully play the victim card for their own ends while other victims remain silent and get on with life and yet others will suffer the consequences of their assault.

Australian courts did not accept the "but she asked for it" defence put forward by the muslim youths who raped Sydney women going home from work.

Very few rapes are reported to police and even fewer are prosecuted. Because the victim's sexual history will be aired in court only victims with unblemished records who look as pure as driven snow bother to complain to the police.

Many people in abusive situations have been so abused their self confidence is eroded to the point they are unable to function outside the relationship. This can be a child whose choices are remaining in the family or going into care or a woman who has to hide from her husband and her family and friends because he will come looking for her. Or the abuse might be in the workplace where although the victim is being pressured into leaving they are so lacking in self confidence they are unable to perform well at a job interview.

Men will always be self serving, sexually aggressive, pigs. At best a man can only ever repress that tendency by learning self restraint and the outward pretext of civility and empathy.

Man is fundamentally flawed and so too is the illusion of 'relationship.' He develops resentment toward the world. He wallows in original sin, the guilt of his existence and the ultimate sacrifices imposed upon and endured by woman to bring man into existence and to civilise him into society. That women start the process, is her guilt. That man is the process is his. They take it out on each other, but as usual, man is more ruthless about it.

Ladies, spare yourselves the indignity of man.

Dont marry them.

CJ Morgan “our resident misogynists to exploit,”

I will tell my daughters and partner that. They will have a laugh, it looks like your analytical prowess is about as persuasive as your charm.

Robert “Could they in fact be talking about a wide range of experience from women feeling some pressure within a monogamous relationship to have intercourse when they don't feel like it through to violent sexual assault?”

I suspect you are right Robert.

When I consider some aspects of relationships, I would say any woman who expects “monogamy” must bear the consequences or price being her “availability” which “monogamy” implies.

The alternative, a response to her unilateral withdraw or denial of sexual services, will basically force her partner to seek satisfaction elsewhere.

Now I suspect pursuing the services of a consummate paid professional, compared to the fumblings of a reluctant amateur, operating under some duress, would be seen as an encouragement to promiscuity and the breakdown of the marital unit.

This, the author could blame on the dilletant demands of the husband, whereas the real cause were the monopolist and controlling exploitation by the wife to access for sexual congress.

Now, am I being “misogynistic”, as the official OLO village idiot, CJ Morgan, would claim or am I simply analysing and describing the rights and obligations which come from being in a relationship?

Trade215 “Men will always be self serving, sexually aggressive, pigs.”

Oh your misandry is showing.

Re “Ladies, spare yourselves the indignity of man. Dont marry them.”

Maybe you are right, maybe men and women should stay single.

From a (tongue in cheek) male perspective, it might well be cheaper to buy the services of one of a range of experienced and technically dextrous good whores, whenever the urge comes, in pursuit of “satisfaction”,

than to buy a house and all the trimmings, to bring a wife back to for endless nights of frustrating “headaches” in pursuit of “monogamy”.

I can see how that works from the make perspective, I wonder how well it works from trade215’s perspective?