Consensual but Brutal Sex

In America, rape victims and attempted rape victims are left unnamed in the stories published about the incidents in the paper. The same is not true for those in the UK. In The Telegraph, not only were names mentioned, pictures were also included in the article. The article talks about a mother and daughter who were both hit on by Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The daughter filed attempted rape charges, the mother admitted to “consensual but brutal” sex with him and that he had seduced her with the “obscenity of a brutish soldier”. When he was confronted by his second wife, he said, “I don’t know what came over me. I had sex with the mother – but I blew a fuse when I saw the daughter.” The daughter claims Strauss-Kahn lunged at her like a “rutting chimpanzee”. These details would never be included in a news story printed in a newspaper or online, these details would only be known if you were friends of the “victims” or if you attended the court hearings, one of which never happened because no charges were filed. Details of one’s affair should not be considered news, no matter who they involve. Not to mention that brutal sex should not be talked about in a newspaper simply because of younger children that may be reading. It will lead to questions about what brutal sex is, and older children may attempt to have brutal sex simply because they read about it in the paper.