UK: 'Face it, girls — a drunken romp isn’t rape'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Is it too much to hope that men falsely accused of rape by drunken women might one day be treated with ordinary courtesy and remain anonymous until proven guilty? Last week it took a jury a mere 45 minutes to throw out an accusation made by a woman in her forties, whom we must, maddeningly — because she is automatically guaranteed anonymity – refer to as Miss X, against Peter Bacon, a 26-year-old student and chef from Canterbury, Kent.

After an evening at the woman’s house, during which Miss X, Bacon and a friend had drunk at least five bottles of wine, Bacon and Miss X retired to bed and had sex. Next morning Miss X, a solicitor, was so hungover she did not even remember what had happened, then claimed Bacon had raped her because she was too drunk to have consented to sex. The way Bacon tells it, Miss X was “giving me the come-on”. When they started kissing, “she did not say no. There was never any indication of her saying, ‘What are you doing?’ She had plenty of time to say, ‘Oi!’,” he told the jury.'