Gay rape used to scare rugby players
On Monday night Four Corners revealed the National Rugby League uses depictions of gay rape to explain issues of sexual consent to young rugby players.
Rocked by repeated allegations of sexual misconduct by players against women, NRL CEO David Gallop said they were trying to educate players that it is wrong.
The material from the NRL seminars include a DVD scenario of an intoxicated woman who goes home with two men and agrees to sex with one of them, but not both. Young players from Newcastle’s under-20s team responded by saying, -œShe put out first and that, as she flirted with both men, it was OK for both to have sex with her.
The second version has a drunk man subjected to homosexual rape. The players have a very different reaction.
-œYou don’t really ask for trouble if you have too much to drink and get raped by a bloke. You don’t ask for that, one player responded.
Mark O’Neil, a former A-grade rugby player, was running the seminar.
-œCan we see that there’s some sort of double standard that may apply here? he asked the players. -œThe girl’s gone out to have a drink. No one said that she didn’t ask for it but yet the male goes out and has a drink and it’s crystal clear that he didn’t ask for it.
info: The Four Corners episode -œCode of Silence can be viewed at abc.net.au/4corners.
Jesus, ‘Burny’, you need a brain transplant. Have some sensitivity mate, and think before you make comments like that. Moronic.
What an inane comment. The second sentence undermines the first, causing me to doubt Burnys’ sincerity. There is nothing sexy about the men who caused the woman involved in the New Zealand incident highlighted on Four Corners such trauma. Are you really saying you’d like to be intimidated and humiliated and left with post-traumatic stress disorder? Because that’s what those guys did to that young woman. In future, I suggest you think before expressing such immature and thoughtless sentiments.
What the footballers did to the girl was terrible and rape is not ok.
But if the guys would like to do what they did to the girl to me, they are more that welcome to anytime. Matthew Johns is amazingly sexy.