Bloody Indecency

I have just read this fascinating story about a visiting professor at the UNSW. A 63 year old oncologist who lives in Glebe.

He recently invited one of his grad students around to his place to discuss her work and promptly drugged her and then ‘indecently’ assaulted her.

Mucho issues for the oncologist.

It got me wondering, why? He could have just wandered down to the nearest brothel if it was sex that he needed.

But for men it’s sometimes about what people sometimes quite confusingly label ‘power’ – sex without consequences (maybe to spread those genes, who knows?) but combined with the overcoming of female dissent.

The modern version of Viking rape.

Although the visiting professorial guy overdid it, the behaviour is on the same scale as the Tinder commando I heard about on the weekend. Selling himself as whatever he thinks will work, he ‘converts’ with a flourish of disdain and false advertising.

So, are all men bastards? Are they all somewhere on this scale of wanting ‘power sex’ which is only of a latter day attenuated by education and embedded morality?

And what of the other half of this equation, the women? Although they can’t be accused of indecent assault, they could often be accused of indecent deception.

Holding out sex as the honey pot, they often seek ‘entrapment’ in a permanent relationship without prior disclosure. Fortunately for the women there is no extenuating version of this that has yet been encoded as a criminal act.

So, indecent entrapment versus indecent assault of various varieties. Your lies versus their lies. We may all be on the scale somewhere.

And sometimes the roles are reversed between the sexes just to confuse the issue even further.

Maybe the dating apps need a slider bar on the profile setting where people can set their intention between entrapment and assault.

And of course a lie detector test to go with it.