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In his response to a question about the government’s action against perpetrators of child rape earlier this month, Prime Minister Imran Khan propagated multiple myths about the causes and solutions for sexual violence. Perhaps the most problematic and misleading assertion made by the prime minister was that obscenity causes temptation and, because some men do not have the willpower to control their sexual urges, they resort to rape.
The prime minister’s response is in striking contrast to a judgment of the Supreme Court, delivered just a few weeks before, in which the Supreme Court questioned a popular rape myth that “loose” women of “bad character” cannot be raped, and gave an important reminder that, in rape proceedings, “it is the accused who is on trial and not the victim.”
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