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Italy overturns controversial bottom-pinching ruling
Ananova ^ | Monday 7th July 2003

Posted on 07/07/2003 1:02:22 PM PDT by presidio9

Italy's High Court has overturned a controversial ruling that decreed that pinching a woman's bottom was not a crime.

The new decision, by a panel of judges sitting in Rome, means that pinching a woman's bottom is classed as sexual assault.

The judges said: ''Fondling buttocks, unquestionably constitutes a sexual act because the perpetrator commits a substantive and concrete intrusion into the victim's sexual sphere. Such acts, albeit superficial, amount to assault.''

The new ruling is a complete U-turn on a decision issued in January 2001 which said that it was not a crime for a man to pinch or touch a woman's bottom provided it was a ''sudden and isolated action.''


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bottompinching; fondlingbuttocks; hornyitalians; italy

1 posted on 07/07/2003 1:02:23 PM PDT by presidio9
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To: presidio9
There goes my vacation plans, shoot.
2 posted on 07/07/2003 1:05:36 PM PDT by boomop1
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To: presidio9
Common sense in Europe! WOW. Though I doubt this will prevent any would be Lotharios!
3 posted on 07/07/2003 1:11:54 PM PDT by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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To: presidio9
the victim's sexual sphere

Shouldn't that be 'spheres'?

4 posted on 07/07/2003 1:13:16 PM PDT by Da_Shrimp
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To: ffusco
Fear not. Italian men won't give up on the practice so easliy. My 89 year-old grandmother returned from Italy pleased that someone cared.
5 posted on 07/07/2003 1:29:21 PM PDT by presidio9 (RUN AL, RUN!!!)
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6 posted on 07/07/2003 1:31:45 PM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: presidio9
Goosing a stranger was illegal, then it was legal, now it's not again.

How can one take these people seriously?
7 posted on 07/07/2003 1:36:28 PM PDT by VoiceOfBruck (I know everything.)
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To: presidio9
LOL, she must be quite a woman to receive such approval!
8 posted on 07/07/2003 1:43:40 PM PDT by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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To: VoiceOfBruck
Who takes goosing seriously?
9 posted on 07/07/2003 1:44:22 PM PDT by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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Who takes goosing seriously?

It is my observation that the people who get the most worked up over harassment like this are precisely the ones with nothing to worry about.

10 posted on 07/07/2003 1:47:50 PM PDT by presidio9 (RUN AL, RUN!!!)
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To: presidio9
Sad, but true.
11 posted on 07/07/2003 1:48:44 PM PDT by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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To: presidio9
"It is my observation that the people who get the most worked up over harassment like this are precisely the ones with nothing to worry about."

Maybe that's because they recognize the power over men attractive women have, and since they don't have that power themselves, they seek to deny it to others.
12 posted on 07/07/2003 3:01:35 PM PDT by mondonico (Peace through Superior Firepower)
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To: mondonico
Perish the thought.
13 posted on 07/07/2003 3:08:31 PM PDT by presidio9 (RUN AL, RUN!!!)
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To: ffusco
Who takes goosing seriously?

Liberal Democrats .... if the gooser is Bob Packwood.

14 posted on 07/07/2003 3:18:38 PM PDT by kylaka
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To: mondonico
Plain old fashion jealousy... that's my fellow women for ya.
15 posted on 07/07/2003 5:16:02 PM PDT by cyborg (I'm a mutt-american)
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To: cyborg
Not that I am endorsing "bottom-pinching," but it is my recollection that Italy felt the need to address this issue legally not at the behest of some sore-fannied victim, but due to pressure from feminist groups. It is my prediction that now Italian will ever be prosecuted for "bottom-pinching." For better or for worse, it's part of their culture.
16 posted on 07/08/2003 7:01:59 AM PDT by presidio9 (RUN AL, RUN!!!)
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