In his broadcast Galloway said: “Some people believe that when you go to bed with somebody, take off your clothes, and have sex with them and then fall asleep, you’re already in the sex game with them. It might be really bad manners not to have tapped her on the shoulder and said: ‘Do you mind if I do it again?.’ It might be really sordid and bad sexual etiquette, but whatever else it is, it is not rape or you bankrupt the term rape of all meaning.”
Sandy Brindley, national co-ordinator for Rape Crisis Scotland said Galloway’s comments were “very unhelpful” and supported an enduring but false notion of “real” or “serious” rape.
“It can be just as devastating to be raped asleep by someone you know as it is to be raped by a stranger in the street,” she said…
On Twitter, Galloway reacted dismissively to the uproar surrounding his remarks.
“Oh how this ‘liberal’ chorus of Pavlovian reaction must delight the Pentagon!” he tweeted. “Oh my, what a lot of ‘liberal’ useful idiots the Empire can count on. It’s about WIKILEAKS stupid…!”
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