Four Wisconsin women have walked away from a sex crime with little more than a slap on the wrist. After one, a former or current lover lured the married man to a hotel room binding him to the bed and slapping him she enlisted the aid of her sister, another of the married man’s lovers and his wife to assault and humiliated him before gluing his genitals to his stomach. The assault ended when the man freed himself from his bonds and the women fled.

This story has been discussed, snickered over and featured in several papers and on the internet with sometimes humorous headlines and reader comments. Now, I like jokes as much as the next person and I appreciate someone receiving their just desserts…still…that’s not what this was. What these women did was a crime.

Imagine a spurned male lover binding a woman to a bed, slapping her, then texting his brother, yet another man and her husband to join him in humiliating her before gluing shut her vagina. I am sure few people would choose to make sport of her and excuse the actions of those men as a humorous bit of revenge.

Male victims of domestic abuse and rape seldom come forward. Is it a wonder when so many, including the court in this case, view female on male violence as a joke or in this case righteous indignation for philandering gone too far?

The participants, of course now say they are “extremely sorry” and that “we got caught up in something bad.” Can you imagine four men who participated in a sex crime offering that sort of an apology and explanation walking away without jail time? Even the judge acknowledged that men facing such charges would likely face prison. All four have walked away with a sentence of one year of probation, community service and it seems a smirk on their faces but that’s okay because it’s funny when women commit sex crimes against men right?

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