Tuesday, 26 November 2013

ARE WOMEN'S PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS EVER VIOLENT?(Letter to Dom Post, Nov 25)


It’s tragic that any woman, let alone Dr Jackie Blue (Police can’t stop abuse alone, Nov 25), should suffer the way she has, but it’s hard to imagine such subverted passion and brutality being unleashed except by having sex. As surely every conceivable aspect of sexual relationships has by now been studied, surveyed, researched and reported, some earnest academic somewhere must have asked women in violent relationships whether or not that relationship was sexual or platonic, and I believe Dr Blue’s statement, ‘my boyfriend had moved in with me’, would supply the clue as to their answers. 

Julia du Fresne

 

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