Telegraph piece denounces violence against women

[BovaryX]

There is a great opinion piece in the Telegraph which denounces the rising levels of violence against women. It cites a shocking statistic that 17 percent of murdered women are strangled and questions the use of 'rough sex' as a defence by their killers.

The most common method of killing, for both male and female victims, was by a knife or other sharp instrument. But, shockingly, women are far more likely to be strangled – 17 per cent of all female victims died in this way, compared to only three per cent of men. It raises more questions about the dangerous ‘rough sex’ defence increasingly being used in murder trials to suggest that a woman's death was the result of consensual sex gone wrong.Why isn’t the Government reeling under the impact of these dreadful figures?

www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/can-no-longer-put-women-danger-homes/?WT.mc_id

Good (and terrifying) piece Bovary. Thanks for posting.

It struck me reading the coverage of the 'Harry' case yesterday that the approach of tackling a minor incident on the basis that this could lead to a pattern of offending with increasing severity of the incidents is one that should very much be applied to domestic violence incidents.

So many seem to occur where the victim and perpetrator are already know to police but this does not prevent an escalation to murder.

I used to spend a lot of time around legal academics. The (predominantly Male) vies was that the state had no right to interfere in people’s private sex loves by recriminalising bdsm. Most of these men that I talked to were unaware of the prevalence of rough sex amongst young people or the prevalence of women dying due to ‘rough sex’. Most reconsidered their position when the issue was framed in that light.