Female Reporter Engineers Her Own Rape to "Cure" Post Traumatic Stress

[Selene]

Now this has generated quite a storm.

McClelland, the reporter "...became progressively enveloped in the classic symptoms of post-traumatic stress -- avoidance of feelings, flashbacks and recurrent thoughts that triggered crying spells. There were smells that made her gag."

She elected to embark on a radical "treatment" here , after she had "...sought professional help but said she ultimately cured herself by staging her own rape, which she writes about in a haunting piece for the online magazine Good. The title: "How Violent Sex Helped Ease My PTSD."

Your thoughts?

Adam

[Brant Gaede]

Now this has generated quite a storm.

McClelland, the reporter "...became progressively enveloped in the classic symptoms of post-traumatic stress -- avoidance of feelings, flashbacks and recurrent thoughts that triggered crying spells. There were smells that made her gag."

She elected to embark on a radical "treatment" here , after she had "...sought professional help but said she ultimately cured herself by staging her own rape, which she writes about in a haunting piece for the online magazine Good. The title: "How Violent Sex Helped Ease My PTSD."

Your thoughts?

Adam

Narcissism plus a potential book deal = insane behavior, assuming it wasn't complete bs.

--Brant

Edited July 7, 2011 by Brant Gaede

[Reidy]

Sounds like the plot of a porno movie. First fifteen minutes; get the talking part out of the way.

The most reviled sort of sexist has been saying all along that an experience like this is just what a woman needs to improve her attitude, and McClelland seems to agree.

Edited July 7, 2011 by Reidy

[Xray]

Now this has generated quite a storm.

McClelland, the reporter "...became progressively enveloped in the classic symptoms of post-traumatic stress -- avoidance of feelings, flashbacks and recurrent thoughts that triggered crying spells. There were smells that made her gag."

She elected to embark on a radical "treatment" here , after she had "...sought professional help but said she ultimately cured herself by staging her own rape, which she writes about in a haunting piece for the online magazine Good. The title: "How Violent Sex Helped Ease My PTSD."

Your thoughts?

Adam

"We had done this thing before." This is the key phrase of the article. Which imo is not so much about the victims of real rape than about McClelland's personal preferences.

All that 'I staged a rape to erase my trauma' somehow does not ring true. jmpo

Edited July 8, 2011 by Xray

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

If she wanted rough sex for therapy, she could have tried reading Rand before jumping through all those hoops.

Michael

[Selene]

Seems to be an upsurge in these stories recently.

This is from Salon. When My Wife Asked Me to Hit Her...

The Bastille Room, you just gotta love the coding!

I handed over $200 to the mistress behind the front desk and my wife and I headed over through the garden to the Bastille room, my wife in a leather coat like Trinity in "The Matrix," so passersby on the sidewalk wouldn't ogle her. As we got closer, I felt both anxious and giddy, like I was committing a crime I knew I would get away with.

Soon, we will be getting the same stories in the non main stream media about the homosexual "rapes by desire"and "beatings by request." Ayn would be proud that she was once again way ahead of the curve.

Adam

[Xray]

We recently had a highly publicized case here in Germany, where a well-known TV weatherman (Jörg Kachelmann) has has been arrested for allegedly raping his long-time girlfriend.

http://www.thelocal....0322-26043.html

The criminal proceedings have shed quite a light on Kachelmann's sex-life and his preferences.

It turned out that Kachelmann is a very promiscuous womanizer, who had been entertaining relationships with several women at the same time, none of whom knew of each other. And with the one who later accused him of rape, it was revealed that he also used to engage in S/M sex games.

What at first looked like a clear case of rape, became, in the course of the investigation, an intricate jungle of contradictory stuff, so that for the investigators, finding out the truth looked more and more like finding the proverbial needle in the haystack.

Did the girlfriend falsely accuse Kachelmann of rape because she had found out about his many other women?

Or had a consensual sex game spun out of control at some point?

Or was it a real rape right from the beginning?

A few weeks ago, Kachelmann was acquitted because the prosecution failed to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt.

The main stumbling block for the prosecution was that Kachelmann and his ex "had done this thing before" also as a sex game.

Edited July 16, 2011 by Xray

[Selene]

Angela:

Your link is apparently not working, here is a different link.

Here is another:

His lawyer, Johann Schwenn sharply criticized the court, saying that it was 'prejudiced,' 'too ready to convict' Kachelmann and that in the verdict it had 'really put the boot in' in order to 'inflict maximum damage on the accused.'

Kachelmann's defence team had argued that there were contradictions in the testimony of his accuser, who had made initial statements during interrogation which she later changed.

They had also argued that the medical evidence showed it was possible the woman could have inflicted her own injuries. The court said DNA evidence from the knife was not incontrovertible.

The public prosecutor said it would examine the verdict before deciding whether to launch an appeal. Kachelmann is to be compensated for the costs of the trial.

The weatherman is now to return to work full time for the weather forecasting service he founded, Meteomedia, the company said Tuesday.

Kachelmann will also be heard more often on the Swiss station Radio Basel, on which he has appeared once a week for months, according to the editor in chief Christian Heeb.

Germany's prominent women's rights activist Alice Schwarzer, who has been reporting on the trial for the tabloid newspaper Bild, said the trial showed that Kachelmann had not only 'purposefully manipulated' the plaintiff, but also other women as well.

The weatherman was not going to prison, she said, 'but everything remains open.'

[Xray]

Angela:

Your link is apparently not working, here is a different link.

Here is another:

His lawyer, Johann Schwenn sharply criticized the court, saying that it was 'prejudiced,' 'too ready to convict' Kachelmann and that in the verdict it had 'really put the boot in' in order to 'inflict maximum damage on the accused.'

Kachelmann's defence team had argued that there were contradictions in the testimony of his accuser, who had made initial statements during interrogation which she later changed.

They had also argued that the medical evidence showed it was possible the woman could have inflicted her own injuries. The court said DNA evidence from the knife was not incontrovertible.

The public prosecutor said it would examine the verdict before deciding whether to launch an appeal. Kachelmann is to be compensated for the costs of the trial.

The weatherman is now to return to work full time for the weather forecasting service he founded, Meteomedia, the company said Tuesday.

Kachelmann will also be heard more often on the Swiss station Radio Basel, on which he has appeared once a week for months, according to the editor in chief Christian Heeb.

Germany's prominent women's rights activist Alice Schwarzer, who has been reporting on the trial for the tabloid newspaper Bild, said the trial showed that Kachelmann had not only 'purposefully manipulated' the plaintiff, but also other women as well.

The weatherman was not going to prison, she said, 'but everything remains open.'

I think the prosecution was indeed negatively biased toward Kachelmann, uncritically believing the woman's story, and it all backfired on them.

But aside from the defense lawyer, no one came out the winner in this case.

Impossible to say to say what really happened.

For example (just speculating about one of many possible scenarios): suppose the woman, after finding out about Kachelmann's many other women, confronted him about it and during the confrontation it came to a minor scuffle between them (maybe she even attacked him first in a rage), but not to a rape.

After Kachelman left, the woman could then have become so furious that she thought of revenge and it ended in her accusing him of rape. Might have happened. Might.

There have been so many 'mights' in this case but all those 'mights' and 'coulds' are of no evidentiary significance.

What further complicates matters is that persons who are innocent of the charges brought against them crime can still lie about other issues, which they think will damage their reputation if they come to light.

A journalist who attended the trial said he had the impression that neither party had told the full truth.

Criminal cases like the Kachelmann case are very hard to win for the prosecution. They have to prove beyond resaonable doubt that the defendant did it.

As the trial progressed, more and more experts said Kachelman would be acquitted.

For it became more and more apparent that the burden of proof could not be met here, therefore in dubio pro reo applied.

In German, the cases where the defendant is acquitted because the prosecution could not prove his guilt beyond reasonable doubt, their evidence being regarded as insufficient to convict (i. e. the defendant has not been cleared 100 per cent) is often called "Freispuch zweiter Klasse" ('second class acquittal'). It is the equivalent of 'not proven' in Scottish law about which we had some discussion on the Casey Anthony thread.

Edited July 17, 2011 by Xray