Early on in these proceedings, the extremely fair-minded Judge Horton made the following pronouncement:
“History, sacred and profane, and the common experience of mankind teach us that women of the character shown in this case are prone for selfish reasons to make false accusations both of rape and of insult upon the slightest provocation or even without provocation for ulterior purposes.”
This is what is commonly referred to nowadays as a rape myth. Having read this far, the reader will probably have already reached a different conclusion!
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