'I am afraid that I am one of those women, who thinks that in a dating situation, the woman's messages and actions may be a part of the problem. If it is rape, it is predatory, where the accused is not in a relationship with the victim and the dynamics are much clearer. In my opinion, both as a victim of a successfully prosecuted stranger sexual assault, and speaking from a 10 year career as a police-based crisis counsellor, stranger rape and relationship rape should be two separate offences. They should have different evidence and prosecution guidelines. Only then are you likely to gain more successful case outcomes.
P, Wirral'

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'One size fits all' is not a good way of dealing with sex crimes.
A drunk couple on a date,getting so far,then the girl regretting it the next day is a classic case.Did she really say no? Remembering after a drunken night out clearly is not so easy.Can this really be compared with a stranger jumping out the bushes?
The bottom line is that without outside evidence it comes down to who is the best actor in front of a jury,especially as since 2003 most evidence about the accuser not directly linked to the case is inadmissable.This means the jury have even less to base the judgements on.

Rape carries a similar sentence to murder,but unlike the former the evidence given is solely based on the word of a person,not forensic provable facts etc.I agree that this needs to be judged in a much more appropriate way,so that the evidence is seen for what it is,often very limited,and that a case does have to be 'proved',& not left up to the defendant in reality to prove their innocence.