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Spider Jerusalem

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4. Letting him go on is not the same thing as consenting in the first place.
Thu Aug 30, 2012, 02:51 AM
Aug 2012

The fact that she let him continue doesn't say to me "no, that wasn't rape". And I think it's probably a mistake to presume that acquiescence is the same thing as willingness. And in fact if he did penetrate her while she was sleeping, without a condom, despite her insistence that she wouldn't have sex without protection? She may have assumed that if she said "no" he'd just go on anyway, since he'd already shown himself to be utterly indifferent to her wishes and willing to take what he wanted anyway.

And one of the women has in fact called it "rape", according to her ex-boyfriend:

Then Sofia said that she had been raped by Julian Assange, in that he had initiated unprotected sex with her while she lay sleeping. Sofia said that she had asked Assange
if he was wearing anything and that Assange had replied, “Yes, you.”

The interviewer asked Seth how Sofia had reacted to that. Seth said that Sofia had
related that she was shocked and did not know what to do. Seth said that, given Sofia’s
definite views on the use of condoms during sex, he could imagine that she was very
shocked and afraid. He knows how important it is to Sofia that a condom is used when
she has sex.

http://www.nnn.se/nordic/assange/docs/protocol.pdf


Which kind of rubbishes your claim that there are "no accusations of rape".

Also you have a kind of loose definition of "against her will" that doesn't really cover some of the actual realities of acquaintance rape, I'm afraid.

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