Life of a roman Soldier

[Andy1984]

"At worst they're not punished at all." Sorry for the confusion.

I love stats though and it is interesting how the number of rapes in Japan rises proportionately to the number of foreigners in the area. Although there is also a good chance that only foreign rapes are reported, or that they are attributed to foreigners instead of a local man.

Replace 'foreigners' with 'US marines'. The former can be sentenced by Japanese courts, even when these foreigners are sex-tourists. The latter cannot, as the US-government won't allow her soldiers to be summoned before other courts than the US'. This obviously creates a kind of lawlessness, both due to a general masculine culture within the army (women in the US-army aren't safe from being raped by US-soldiers either) as well due a more general pornographic culture wherein young asians are percieved most beautiful. I agree with you though that other sexual crimes, as in most places, are probably underreported.


(On a sidenote: eightteenth-century university-city Leuven was almost 'famed' for the non-punishment of student-rapists. Anything less than well-thought and well-planned grouprapists weren't punished at all according to my historyprof. Students that 'accidentually' raped someone while drunk, generally got away with their crimes, despite the griefs and outrages of the local population. The reason: the university-courts that judged these students consisted of prof who had been students themselves...)