Yeah, and I think the Arab/Jew thing is really damn borderline. He also told her he was single when he was married.
Now it's really more complicated than a simple "he claimed he was a Jew" -- it's right in the grey area that I mentioned. If I recall, they had semi-public sex in a doorway or something very shortly after they had met, which is hardly the kind of situation where you do a lot of getting to know each other and pre-sex negotiation, and some of it is a he-said-she-said situation. But that being said, if he knew she wouldn't have sex with a married Arab, and he misrepresented himself as a single Jew... without considering any kind of mitigating circumstances I'm going to come down on her side of this. I'm not going to say he should wind up behind bars for twenty years, but he definitely didn't give her a chance for informed consent.
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Date: 2010-08-07 04:21 am (UTC)Now it's really more complicated than a simple "he claimed he was a Jew" -- it's right in the grey area that I mentioned. If I recall, they had semi-public sex in a doorway or something very shortly after they had met, which is hardly the kind of situation where you do a lot of getting to know each other and pre-sex negotiation, and some of it is a he-said-she-said situation. But that being said, if he knew she wouldn't have sex with a married Arab, and he misrepresented himself as a single Jew... without considering any kind of mitigating circumstances I'm going to come down on her side of this. I'm not going to say he should wind up behind bars for twenty years, but he definitely didn't give her a chance for informed consent.