Rape is just 'bad sex', Australian writer sparks controversy

New Delhi : An Australian writer Germaine Greer, best known for her novels The Female Eunuch and Shakespeare’s Wife, on Friday made a controversial remark on rape by calling it a “bad sex” and “don’t involve any injury whatsoever”.

“We are told that it is a sexually violent crime, an expert like Quentin Tarantino will tell us that when you use the word rape you’re talking about violence, a throwing them down… it is one of the most violent crimes in the world. Bullshit Tarantino. Most rape is just lazy, just careless, just insensitive. Every time a man rolls over on his exhausted wife and insists on enjoying his conjugal right, he is raping her. It will never end up in a court of law,” she told her audience.

Talking more about the punishment of the so-called heinous crime, she mentioned that the culprit must get a lighter punishment.  “I have suggested maybe a little tattoo would be a good thing, maybe an R on your hand. I’d prefer it on the cheek really.”

She recalled her experience of rape when she was just 19 year old. The Australian writer recalled that she was beaten half unconscious. “I kept saying “no” so he hit me. I can’t tell you how many times, maybe a dozen,” she added. Greer, she said, did not report the crime as that would have been a waste of police time and “she would have been discredited”.

While she was sharing her views with the audience, some left the auditorium in anger.

“Dreadful ramblings by Germaine Greer… I’m usually happy to listen to opinions different to my own but today after around 20 minutes I had to walk out,” one of the audience, Sherry Pack, said.