Friday, April 11, 2008

Marie Antoinette revisited

"Rape is Like Being Force-Fed Chocolate Cake” Blogs Official

Wrath of the raped husband?

Not only can blogging wage war on your health, but public figures are getting in trouble for their online opinions. The BNP’s Nick Eriksen learnt this the hard way last week, after he was sacked as the party's London Assembly candidate for publishing jaw-droppingly obtuse views on rape on his blog. The post has since been removed, but luckily journalists were quick to spot the following:

    "Rape is simply sex (I am talking about 'husband-rape' here)... Women enjoy sex, so rape cannot be such a terrible physical ordeal…To suggest that rape, when conducted without violence, is a serious crime is like suggesting force-feeding a woman chocolate cake is a heinous offence.”

All of which prompts a slew of Henny Youngman jokes.  Instead, as a deeply religious man, I will defer to St. Paul in his  "Let them eat cake" letter to the Corinthians:
"Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wellp...
Perhaps his view is skewed by the tiny size of the slice of cake he's used to offering.
-DougM

Anonymous said...

".........cooties among the men in black."

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