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Party affiliation?

[Gene Eric]

Paging Todd Akin.

[Nik Naym]

I will tell you one way a body can stop a rapist: it uses the arm and hand part to pull out a firearm and shoot the bastard.

(And this judge sounds like an idiot.)

[AndyTheBear]

... if someone doesn't want sexual intercourse, the body "will not permit that to happen."

Well if the intended victim is bigger and stronger this might be true. As far as I know reading the article to this point, the judge was looking at a big strong girl and a little scrawny guy and wondering if the little scrawny guy could have overpowered her in that way. Sadly I would not put it past MSN to mangle the context...I will read on and see what they allow me to know...

[AndyTheBear]

The case involved a man who threatened to mutilate the face and genitals of his ex-girlfriend with a heated screwdriver before committing rape, forced oral copulation, and other crimes.

Ok, that sounds like it was rape. However I will not condemn the judge until I know the full context of what he said. I don't trust MSN to infer it for me.

[alexander_busek]

We shouldn't be so quick to accuse the good judge.

Judge Johnson probably made his statement about "the body shutting down" when it "doesn't want" intercourse based on the quality (or lack thereof) of his marital relations to Mrs. Johnson.

Regards,

[RegulatorCountry]

Well, if one were to be absolutely unwilling to permit sexual penetration it could be prevented as long as the victim were conscious. The advice to rape victims not to fight or resist has created an impression of inevitability. The advice was not intended to prevent rape it was intended to prevent greater bodily harm and murder.

[AD from SpringBay]

...if someone doesn't want sexual intercourse, the body "will not permit that to happen."

I wish social intercourse worked that way. Save me a lot of pretending to be interested.