Obvs said: “The reason sex offenders are treated the way that they are is because they are statistically likely to commit the offense again.” Kindly furnish objectively verifiable data to back up this wild assertion, madam. Even the committee members who objected to Congress’ rush to enact terrible Fed. Rule Evidence 413 didn’t believe THAT fairy tale.

I do believe men are the target of false rape charges and a larger percentage are targeted with lesser allegations such as sexual harassment. I also believe that actual rapes and associated sex crimes are often under reported and that true victims are frightened at the idea of losing public credibility.

Which begs the question: How to encourage real victims to come forward while actively suppressing those that would exploit the system through false accusation.

I wish I had an answer to this one, but I don’t. Just take it a case at a time. Fight the urge to lynch an accused person because what we’re really doing is hanging reason and justice out to dry.

While at the same time, embracing the difficulty of prosecution and offering sincere sympathy to a victim who may be utterly lost in our system of reasonable doubt.

I appreciate your intelligent remarks and I’m glad to see the issue is being discussed.

Objectively verifiable data indicates that at least 9 percent and probably closer to half of all rape claims are false. The crime of false reporting of raport is rarely charged and is the criminal justice system’s dirty little secret. (The stats I’ve set forth are not fanatical Men’s Rights Advocate figures — I would suggest he read Prof. K.C. Johnson’s book on the Duke lacrosse non-rape case which traces all the major rape studies and concludes false claims are at least 9 percent and probably closer to half of all reported “rapes.” That book, by the way, has been praised by virtually every liberal newspaper in America, including the NY Times, which the book skewers for its coverage of the Duke case.) Yet the crime of making a false rape report has become so embroiled in the radical feminist sexual assault milieu — as this man seems to be as well — that it has been largely, and improperly, removed from the public discourse about rape. Sexual assault counselors often disingenuously refer to the fact of false rape accusations as a “myth.” Denigrating the experience of the falsely accused by dismissing their victimization as a myth is not merely dishonest but morally grotesque.

Sir, you should not be a juror deciding rape cases. In a he said-she said dispute over consent, if both parties have furnished plausible explanations, it is your duty not to convict. How dare you say that a lot of people (and I assume you mean YOU) “go with our instincts . . . . Which rarely favor a defendant.”

Absolutely disgraceful. Pray that you are never false accused of rape, sir.