Aswad
Posts: 9374
Joined: 4/4/2007 Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: RedMagic1 For me, the most famous such example is the crime Julian Assange is charge with. It's "minor rape," literal translation, not at all the same crime as rape in the US. He was charged in Sweden, where the laws resemble those in Norway, which means things like sexual remorse are called 'lesser rape', to go with the translation you provided. The charge you're referring to, however, is best translated as 'sexual misconduct', though the word misconduct should be understood along the lines of 'disturbing the peace' or 'annoyance' or the like. For instance, nagging someone about sex- without threats- would be considered sexual misconduct. Earlier, they considered charging him with 'inappropriate pressure', but that charge was dropped. quote:
Some activists want to tighten the law, while other people point out that would make a lot of drunk hookups technically rape. That's technically rape here, but it only counts if someone reports it. Also, sexual remorse is rape, provided it's deemed to be the case that you should've realized that there were factors that might lead to sexual remorse (e.g. due to a huge gap in social status, or if a condom wasn't used, etc.). The law doesn't state that it only applies to men, but the jurisprudence is that all responsibility lies with the man, and in practice a conviction doesn't occur unless it was man (if we're talking about adults, anyway). Going by our experiences with it, I would not recommend "tightening" the laws. IWYW, — Aswad.
_____________________________
"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
|