In Zimbabwe, gangs of women are picking up male hitchhikers and forcing them to have sex so they can save the sperm, using the condom as a storage unit rather than a pregnancy and disease preventative. Many hitch hikers have reported to the police that they were drugged and/or threatened, sometimes with live snakes (that’s the kind of detail that makes this something that somebody should make a film about) before being dumped, like an empty pack of cigarettes, by the side of the road. The girls then use the sperm in Ju-Ju rituals, which bring good luck.
Christine McCallum
Meanwhile, in the crazy old USA, a 29 year old teacher named Christine McCallum has been sentenced to 29 months for “raping” one of her 13 year old male students – 300 times over a 21 month period. Now, maybe you could say that the first 100 times or so were rape, but then…? (One detail of the story was really bizarre – the boy, and his younger brother, were living with the teacher…the story totally failed to explain how that came about, which I put down to shoddy journalism.)
Rape is a terrible, terrible thing. Nobody should be forced to have sex against their will. But there are degrees. The stranger who lays in wait with a knife, the sleazy guy who puts Rohypnol in girls’ drinks, the abusive father who rapes his daughters, the priest who rapes the altar boys are all people who should be in jail. Christine McCallum, not so much.
The Zimbabwean situation is a little bit scarier, but none of the men were killed or even injured, none had to worry about getting knocked up, and condoms were used. Since Zimbabwean law doesn’t recognize the possibility of a female rapist, no prosecutions are likely. Police have advised men to use public transportation instead of hitch hiking.
But I see both of these examples as part of a larger trend. In our enlightened era, where everybody except the Rick Santorum’s of the world sees sex as a good thing that people should have plenty of, and the stigma of sluttitude is fading into insignificance, women are feeling empowered. A woman may browse the internet, shopping for an appropriate partner (this cuts both ways), women will sometimes ask a man for a date, sometimes a woman will even be the one to make the marriage proposal. I don’t know if it’s really common yet, but it’s no longer bizarre.
So, maybe women have started to move in on men’s exclusive monopoly on statutory rape.
It’s a changing world. Power to ’em, I say.
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