![]() ![]() Kennedy points out that the opinion of a court (that saying “fuck me harder” while having sex on all fours constituted “unusual sexual behaviour”) “said a lot about own sexual experience and their lack of familiarity with contemporary pornography in which this behaviour is standard”. ![]() Rape complainants are let down by a largely pale, male, stale judiciary that has struggled to keep up with changing sexual mores – don’t expect a conviction if you’re raped on a Tinder date, warns the QC. “The smell of the gentlemen’s club permeates every crevice of the Inns of Court,” writes Kennedy. And while there has been some change – much of it initiated by Kennedy herself – progress has been halting and deep-seated reform is still urgently needed. Twenty-five years have passed since Kennedy published Eve Was Framed, the groundbreaking precursor to her latest work. ![]() And going by the litany of horrors that Kennedy details in this relentless, often disturbing book, no wonder. But women don’t have confidence in the justice system. ![]()
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