I'm creating a fantasy world in which (among other things) rape is legalised.
This is the first part. I've written two parts of it so far.
How it all started
The League for Male Supremacy Gazette, Aoril 201-
"Senior police chief calls for rape to be legalised"
Today saw perhaps the most promising political development in Britain for many years. A senior police chief, fed up with the present chaotic and manifestly unjust situation, called openly for the "crime" of "rape" to be taken off the statute books altogether.
A senior British police chief has called upon the British government to make a radical shift in tactics in connection with its policy on the so-called crime of "rape." In an interview with us, he expressed his strong disquiet at the present situation and called for a complete turnaround in policy.
“Under the present legal system," explained, or pephaps more accurately complained Metropolitan Police Commissioner John Thomas, "thousands of men each year in Britain find themselves being arrested and treated as criminals simply because they have raped a woman. What sort of justice is that? It isn't as if they've been planting bombs or shooting people or committing murder or acts of terrorism and treason. All they've done is to rape a woman. I can assure you that our overstretched police force has more than enough on its hands trying to deal with serious crimes and we could use our manpower far more effectively if we weren't forced to waste our time investigating these frivolous complaints and, even worse, having to arrest a man, bring him to trial, and then if he's found guilty, our prison services have to lock him up. Frankly, I just don't consider that to be justice in any shape or form and it is quite certainly a massive waste of resources for the police to pursue the querulous complaints of these spoilt brats when we could be using our time more usefully like catching and locking up killers."
Thomas exlained that "as long as the so-called crime of rape stays on our statute books, thousands of men in Britain will be forced to endure the misery of arrest, public shame and even being sent to prison at the taxpayer's expense. What a waste of time, effort and money that represents! To say nothing of the mental anguish they are compelled to suffer, and the fact that if they are found guilty and sent to prison they will almost certainly be subjected to brutal physical assaults by other inmates."
Thomas added that our jails were being filled up with men who had committed no crime other than raping a woman. They were in all other respects law-abiding and thoroughly decent citizens. He also warned that "unless we do something about the problem now, we will have no room left in our prisons for really dangerous inmates."
He called for the immediate release of all rapists currently held in custody except paedophile and homosexual rapists. In addition, he called for fundamental changes in the law that would, as he put it, "at a stroke put a stop to the flood of frivolous and nonsensical allegations by hysterical attention-seeking women that consume millions of pounds and waste thousands of hours of police time each year that could be far more usefully spent in dealing with genuinely serious crimes."
Perhaps the most controversial of all the many radical statements made by Thomas was his claim that, in the overwhelming majority of cases at least, rape was what he described, in an arresting phrase that is sure to provoke controversy, as being "an entirely victimless crime."
Pressed to justify that phrase, Thomas explained that there were two main reasons why it was obvious that rape truly was nothing more than a victimless crime.
"The first is that the so-called rapist is almost always the accuser's husband, partner, or boyfriend. Well, I think it's pretty obvious that since she's already in a relationship with the man that she claims has raped her, it can't be rape and she can't have been a victim of rape. The seciond reason is that most women who claim to have been raped admit that they had an orgasm while they were being raped. Well, if she's having a climax, from the very second it starts that makes it pretty obvious that she's enjoying being raped and that therefore the sex she's having with the man is entirely consensual . If it's consensual then she can't have been raped at all in the first place."
Thomas added, "I feel very sorry for men accused of rape. In the first place they're almost always entirely innocent of the charge and yet they have their name and face dragged into the gutter and are made to feel like criminals. I firmly believe that we need to act now and remove the victimless crime of rape from the statute books."
Of course Thomas' remarks were met with a volley of protest and abuse from women's groups. When the Commissioner flatly refused to apologise for or withdraw his remarks, the government, already under pressure for their poor general performance, were forced to take a decision, Rather than make a choice which would be unpopular no matter which way they reacted, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, promised a public enquiry into the questioon. May, asked to give a personal reaction to the statement, simply said that she was open to any suggestions for ways to improve the law.
We await further developments with interest.
