This is definitely one of those speak-for-yourself situations:"Lying for sex. It happens all the time.If you've got to lie for sex, you ain't shit. Either get some game, or get the fuck out of the way and let an adult handle shit, loser.
Yet a married Palestinian man has been ordered jailed for 18 months for having sex with an Israeli woman after giving her the impression he too was Jewish, as well as single and interested in a relationship.
His conviction of 'rape by deception' has drawn charges of racism and questions about whether courts should be delving into this fraught topic.
Saber Qashor, a 30-year-old father of two, says he was approached by the woman in September 2008 on a downtown Jerusalem street where he had parked his motorcycle, and introduced himself as 'Dudu,' a common Israeli Jewish nickname.
Within half an hour they were having sex in a Jerusalem office building stairwell.
After nearly two months, he was arrested and told the woman had accused him of forcible rape. Last week, he was sentenced to prison and fined 10,000 shekels ($2,500) for 'rape by deception,' an offense that may be unique to the Israeli legal code.
Rape by deception was written into the law to protect women from sexual predators, but some argue that Qashor's act doesn't count — that he was simply doing what so many men and women do for sex."
I swear, some people don't know how to do anything right,...
Granted, lying for sex makes you a loser, but really -- a criminal penalty? And doesn't it make you queasy that a criminal code would wink at all other kinds of lying for sex but draw the line at lying about ethnic origin? Bleaaachhh. I see this as a whiny woman unwilling to take responsibility for her own reckless sexual choice. No one made her rush into the bed with the guy without getting to know him. If it was all that important to her to know not only him but his whole racial and cultural background, she should have taken some extra time to get to know him in his family and cultural context, too, the old-fashioned way.
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ReplyDeleteAgreed. I'm just sick of a culture that celebrates lying (and sex) I guess. This may be wrong - no, you're right, it is wrong - but, somehow, I still see it as a step in the right direction.
Almost anything would be at this point.
Well, we couldn't agree more about the sickness of a society that celebrates lying. I wish the Jerusalem court had chosen another hill to die on to make the point, but I've had it with lame excuses for crappy behavior. "Yes, my son held up that liquor store, but it's only because his third-grade teacher failed to recognize his awesomeness."
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