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No, its hearsay because we only have your word for it.
You say you watched the news and remembered it accurately, but won't look at the actual source of the story on the net.
thats disgraceful to hear though
who are these weirdos
NOT 2% of ALL RAPES you div! you could have read it clearly. By the way, just coz they get thrown out for been fake doesnt mean they are, im saying this sort of event deters real victims of coming forward.
I remember reading a thing a while back from America, which was about college students and rape. I'll try and dig it up, but there was basically a huge number of men who, when asked, admitted to a sexual encounter which constituted rape, without even knowing (that it was rape, not that they'd done it). I think that a lot of men think that unless she says no, it doesn't count as rape.
Quick pointer to anyone researching the issue, don't type US college rape into Google. Just did, oops.
on an interesting side note - under the new sexual offences act a woman does not have to say no - it is the responsibility of the both partners to make sure they both actively consent to the act, not to wait for a woman to say no. The difference between this and the public perception is one of the biggest points highlighted in the report.
Why can't a woman show some skin? Why can't a woman flirt?
If a lady says 'no' then a man should respect that she doesn't wanna sleep with him, rather than commit an act of sexual violence.