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Feminist author Germaine Greer has called for a rethink on how rape is prosecuted, saying some cases should be thought of as "non-consensual... bad sex" rather than a "violent crime".
The academic made the controversial remarks at the Hay literary festival, where she was promoting her new book.
She told an audience that some offenders should be given 200 hours community service and have an "R" tattooed on their cheek or hand.
"Most rape is just lazy, just careless, just insensitive. Every time a man rolls over on his exhausted wife and insists on enjoying his conjugal right, he is raping her," she said.
"Instead of thinking of rape as a spectacularly violent crime - and some rapes are - think about it as non-consensual... that is bad sex. Sex where there is no communication, no tenderness, no mention of love."
Greer, 79, criticised the way the legal system handles rape cases and treats victims.
https://news.sky.com/story/germaine-greer-says-most-rape-is-bad-sex-not-violent-crime-11390855
The academic made the controversial remarks at the Hay literary festival, where she was promoting her new book.
She told an audience that some offenders should be given 200 hours community service and have an "R" tattooed on their cheek or hand.
"Most rape is just lazy, just careless, just insensitive. Every time a man rolls over on his exhausted wife and insists on enjoying his conjugal right, he is raping her," she said.
"Instead of thinking of rape as a spectacularly violent crime - and some rapes are - think about it as non-consensual... that is bad sex. Sex where there is no communication, no tenderness, no mention of love."
Greer, 79, criticised the way the legal system handles rape cases and treats victims.
https://news.sky.com/story/germaine-greer-says-most-rape-is-bad-sex-not-violent-crime-11390855
