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A society that's gone off the sexual rails

A society that's gone off the sexual rails

Claims about teenage boys' sexual misbehaviour suggest a wider social pathology

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Melanie Phillips
Apr 05, 2021
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Dante's Divine Comedy; William Blake, 1757-1827

An Oxford student who claims that her complaint of rape was dismissed has inadvertently drawn attention to what’s being left unsaid about the related tsunami of claims by girls of a “rape culture” perpetrated by male pupils at mixed-sex schools.

The Times reported that a member of Oxford university’s women’…

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