I'd really hate to be living in Sweden if what Jewely posted is true.

To think that Australia may be going fills me with dread.

Might as well start constructing suicide booths.

Hehe, Assange is calling Sweden the "Saudi Arabia of feminism".

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/wikileaks-founder-baffled-by-sex-assault-claims/story-fn775xjq-1225976459286

What a great description!

Sounds like those ladies are complaining about their "sexual
integrity", now that they know that he slept with both of them
within a week.

Perhaps they should have just done it the old fashioned way and
kept their legs together, if that was really their concern.

Clearly Sweden is becoming a utopia for vindictive women.

Clearly Sweden is becoming a utopia for vindictive women."

It might be Yabby, but none of us other than those in the room know what really happened.

Having sex without a condom when there was an understanding (or an unwritten contract if you like) to wear one, might be conisdered a most dangerous act in light of modern diseases.

There is always a chance the law can go too far but if the law is protective of the sexual rights of men and women I cannot see a problem. There is nothing vindictive about 'safe sex' and an expectation of honesty in that regard in the sexual act.

None of us know the validity of the Assange case. Interesting how some have appointed themselves judge and jury without knowing all the facts.

It may well be that Assange's high profile makes him a target for less than honest claims or highly exagerrated ones. But equally, a high profile should not mean an instant free pass. One judge lying about his own traffic fine for example.

*It might be Yabby, but none of us other than those in the room know what really happened.*

Oh I find this case highly amusing, Pelican. I also think that enough
has been published, to give us some kind of an idea.

The fact that their lawyer claimed that they were not lawyers, so
would not know if they had been raped or not.

The fact that Miss no 1 published a thinggy on the net, months before
this happened, about how to get even with a lover who strayed or
left.

The fact that she was fine the following evening, enjoying her
crayfish party with him and boasting to her friends on twitter.

The fact that both women only became pissed off, when they realised
that he had knocked them both off within a week.

That hardly sounds like "rape" material to me.

I wonder what ever happened to all that Nordic free love I heard about when I was a boy.

I'd really be in trouble in today's Sweden. I've not even seen a condom up close, since I found a couple of "balloons" under a mattress in a holiday cottage on Magnetic Island, when I was about 8 or so.

I thought it was a bit unfair that my mother took them off me, & wouldn't let me play with them. After all, it was so soon after WW11, that I had never seen a real balloon either.

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