@Ionus,
What is surprising to me Io is that no psychiatrist specialising in anthropology and forms of mass hysteria has not thought fit to break cover on the story so far.
All he need do, in case you know anybody fit for the job, is use "reputation" instead of "living body" and he has all the history of human sacrifice as source material. Just as the pain of surgical operations has been reduced over the years so has the pain of human sacrifice. Synergy. The reputation becomes a substitute victim. The torture applied to the self-esteem rather than the body.
You see--the feminist position is that millions of rapes are taking place all over the land on a daily basis. And I'm persuaded too. The duress applied is economic, social and psychological. All manipulable. Although possibly not in the case of rich, posh and intellectual ladies like Christine Lagrande who is the "frontrunner" in the race to be head of the IMF.
Folk expressions such as "pull me nightie down when you've finished" and "lie back and think of England" make the point clearly enough. I have met university educated men who like to add "whilst eating a crispy apple".
Sterne has the best one I know-- "Pray Mr Shandy, have you forgot to wind the clock". Whoosh!!!! Or the single thrust of Steve Martin in The Man With Two Brains--"it gets better every time". Answers to "how was it for you darling?" are legion. Julie Burchill said, on TV with her ex-husband present, that all she ever felt was a "little local irritation".
If full consent was required one might have to think of charging. Paying out smacks of bribery. After I became persuaded that Ms Greer was quite correct, from the evidence of my friend's wives and stories in media, I adopted that strategy. I didn't charge much mind you. I didn't make them beg or anything like that. I couldn't **** a beggar. I'm not de Quincey. Just some token of enthusiastic willingness which St Valentine's Day dinners-for-tw0 are supposed to rekindle. A blow on the ashes.
Some suttee victims were under duress. Some were volunteers.
Anyway--the idea, as such an anthropologically minded psychiatrist might explain it, is that DSK is a sacrificial victim to assuage the guilt of the constant and unabated raping that's going on and to wash away the guilt in a festivity of indignation. Thus a feminist should be on our side because the constant and unabated raping can continue once the cauterisation of DSK has been ritually performed by the ceremonially dressed and manicured officers of the ceremony.
As Auberon Waugh once said--"The more he talked of his honesty the faster we counted the spoons". From which piece of wisdom I derive that indignation orgies are signs of a deeper protest.
I think a serious feminist lady judge might have said--"tell me about it dearie" with a resigned air.
I think that's what serious feminist theology looks like. The beta minus version doesn't know it's earflap from its bottom knocker.
BTW--spitting is a part of some West-African cult stuff. And in other pre-Christian societies. A victim's spit was a sacred relic. I don't know the source. Probably Frazer.
It's fascinating.
