The World Health Organisation is very fond of statistics and, in a report commissioned by the organisation and co-authored by two women, it is claimed that almost 38 per cent of all women murder victims were killed by intimate partners and 42 per cent of women who have been victims of physical or sexual violence by a partner suffer injuries as a result. The article exploits one high-profile gang rape in India and a celebrity cook’s marital spat as somehow emblematic of this “wave of violence” against women.

What the two authors forgot to mention is that 41 per cent of all forcible rape charges instituted by women are false and motivated by providing an alibi (serving the complainant’s need to provide a plausible explanation for a consensual sexual encounter that might otherwise damage her reputation), for revenge (false rape reports having been used for centuries as a means of retaliation against rejecting males, Aristotle himself mentioning a few examples in his handbook on midwifery) and as an attention/sympathy-procuring device (this being the least harmful reason for which false rape charges are made in that no rape assailant is ever identified but which still plays into the hands of feminists and their shrill claims of rampant misogyny).

This data was abstracted from Eugene J. Kanin’s study on False Rape Allegations in the Archives of Sexual Behaviour, which contains a rich bibliography and plenty of case studies backing up every argument. His study however only includes voluntary retractions of rape charges, so it is reasonable to speculate that the real quantity of false rage allegations is higher. Never forget Brian Banks, a star student who spent 10 years in jail because of a false rape charge, and whose family was financially ruined fighting for his innocence. The ‘victim’, on the other hand, won $750,000 in a lawsuit against her school about the supposed lax security that led to the alleged rape. She was never made to pay it back.