Is the Head of the IMF a Sex Criminal?

It was published in a book that pre-dated the current allegations, but I made clear in my post that these are allegations, not facts.

Well why do you keep going over these allegations time after time? That you, and others, do so, concientiously, is not an allegation: it's a fact.

I think the clip (linked toward the beginning of the thread) from 2009 by the French comedian Stephane Guillon doing a "bit" re women warning women about DSK is most telling by its continuing existence.

The warning was the DSK would flirt, and try to bag them, it was never that DSK would try to rape them.

DSK was in a closed French media circle which protected people like him from negative publicity and scandal. He also had PR working to enhance a positive image of himself.

Women described being afraid to be alone with him in closed places based on the sort of aggressive advances he had made toward them.

DSK has been described by numerous people as being considerably more aggressive and harassing than simply being "a flirt".

But equally, your earlier comments about the maid's plans to extort money from DSK are unfounded. That certainly did not stop you (or to be honest, many others) from speculating.

The warning was the DSK would flirt, and try to bag them, it was never that DSK would try to rape them.

Three lawyers being involved within days working for this "victim" is fact not theory.

It is also a fact that DSK has been publicly accused of attempted rape by a woman who was 19 at the time and of rape of a Mexican maid in a "tell all" novel. You choose to extrapolate one way, I choose another.

Incorrect. The warning was not about flirting.

Try watching it again.

Very typical feminist outlook here, condemning a man for how women feel, not for what he has actually done. And there was only a few accounts in this thread or any where about women who would not be around DSK, or who felt the need for a battle buddy.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s reputation of inappropriate behavior with women was so alarming that as long as four years ago, French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned him to control his behavior just prior to his assumption of the managing directorship of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to a report in The Times newspaper of Britain.

"Over there [U.S.] they don't joke about this sort of thing," Sarkozy reportedly told Strauss-Kahn.

"Your life will be passed under a magnifying glass. Avoid taking the lift alone with interns. France cannot permit a scandal."
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/147955/20110518/strauss-kahn-sarkozy-france-socialists.htm

And who suspected that all those priests were molesting children before that scandal broke into the open? That behavior had been covered-up too

The fact that DSK was never criminally charged before says nothing about whether he violated the law in that Sofitel hotel suite last month, or even about whether he violated the law elsewhere but was never caught.

When a man comes onto women in such a sexually inappropriate or aggressive way that women, apparently many women, report that they felt variously extremely pressured, harassed, anxious, or fearful about being alone with him, that is an indication that his behavior is crossing a line because it means he is forcing himself on others, when his advances were unwanted,

Sarkozy was right. We don't joke about criminal sexual assaults over here

Wrong, the fact the he has live 72 years