Do accused rapists deserve the right of anonymity?

What's wrong with that? There will inevitably be some rape claims that are false and this law seeks to protect the innocent victim of such an accusation.

what if a child or another person acusses someone of sexually abusing them when they were younger (not actual rape but sexual stuff). That's a pretty life destroying accusation isn't it especially if the child manages to get you into court about it. What about murder too or theft/robbery ?

what if a child or another person acusses someone of sexually abusing them when they were younger (not actual rape but sexual stuff). That's a pretty life destroying accusation isn't it especially if the child manages to get you into court about it. What about murder too or theft/robbery ?

Yes because once a person is accused of a crime like that they are guilty in the eyes of the public. Once it has been confirmed in court without a shadow of a doubt then the names and details should be made public.

But rape is obviously primarily a problem for women. We can't just ignore the fact that the vast, vast majority of rape victims are female. Of course we need to focus on why it is that women are being victimised in this way, and try and amend this. Obviously we should give all the support we can to male victims of rape, but as it stands, it's women who are very much the primary victims of sexual violence.

But rape is obviously primarily a problem for women. We can't just ignore the fact that the vast, vast majority of rape victims are female. Of course we need to focus on why it is that women are being victimised in this way, and try and amend this. Obviously we should give all the support we can to male victims of rape, but as it stands, it's women who are very much the primary victims of sexual violence.

Errrrrnn wrong.

60% of rapes are committed against women, 7% against men and the remainder against children, where sex is irrelevant.

It is not a female issue.

It's estimated 3-9% of all rape claims are false, hardly a massive amount

So those statistics just completely reiterated my point. 7%? come on.

Yes because once a person is accused of a crime like that they are guilty in the eyes of the public. Once it has been confirmed in court without a shadow of a doubt then the names and details should be made public.

Well, the problem I have with it is that the way rape cases are dealt with, our society's attitude to rape and the way rape victims are treated are all severely messed up- as you can see by the statistics. I think the fact that we're focusing on a tiny minority of allegations and saying that the problem lies there is to totally miss the point.

I do see the reasoning, and of course I don't think that a falsely accused man deserves the crap he gets, I think that sucks. But I think that this proposal comes from the nasty, underlying attitude we have in society towards rape victims.

Well, no. My point was that seeing as it is more of a social stigma for a man to be raped, that it whether women are raped more is something that'll never be a proven fact.

Just a quick google search proves my point:

http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/2001/prison/report7.html#_1_48

It suggests that more men are raped in American prisons than women in the general population of the USA.

Also, there is other evidence to show that the misconception of involuntary arousal in men vs. women creates bias insides the court; a woman can in fact rape a man, but even if convicted, these misconceptions inevitably breed a miscarriage of justice in some respects.

Do not get me wrong, I think rape is largely a crime that is mishandled in our justice systems. But feminist campaigning does nothing to help the cause of the many male victims of rape, and I think it's entirely wrong to state that 'women are the primary victims of sexual violence'.

To you 60% is the vast majority?

Can I get your dealer's number? You must be smoking some pretty good stuff.