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I can't take the rap for what's his name from Big Bang Theory, but I did softly softly catchee the monkey grooming. And ooooh just look at me raping that Cambodian Circus performer by being stronger than her. And there's a see-saw to symbolise the imbalance of power, of course. Couldn't have wished for a better background prop. Apart from deranged Marx-Feminists, everyone can tell that these are jokes. However, they're actually not very much more ridiculous than real sex crime laws.  Criticism isn't much use unless I can offer any alternatives. Here are some suggested remedies. They're written with particular reference to how sex is dealt with by the criminal law, but most of the points would apply equally well to other areas of crime. Legislation UK law criminalises far too much that causes no tangible harm. The Sexual Offences Act 2003 is rich with examples, the best of which is  section 15 " meeting a child following sexual grooming.

Genocide? WTF! Several years ago, I saw a list summarising the Ten Stages of Genocide, by Gregory H. Stanton.  As a follow up to the witchcraft comparison, I thought it might be interesting to work through Prof. Stanton's list and see what seems to fit with the persecution of mainly white middle class men, under the pretext of sex crime prosecutions. The Ten Stages of Genocide was a briefing paper submitted in 1996 to the US State Department. The original paper had only 8 stages. Discrimination and Persecution stages were added in 2012. Prof. Stanton suggests remedies, checks and safeguards against each stage. I've edited these out of the text quoted below. That's because I'm only making a comparison between what he describes and what is occurring in the witch hunt. If you'd like to read the full text, it's here. Here's some information about  Gregory H. Stanton. Prof. Stanton asserts that genocide develops predictably but not

Witch Hunts, Old and New The phenomenon of targeted sex-crime prosecutions of mostly white, middle-class men in the Anglophone world is often described as a witch hunt. I thought it might be interesting to see how many similarities there are with historical witch hunts conducted in Europe and colonial America. There are even comparisons to be made with less developed societies that still have witch hunts or prohibit witchcraft today, as well as political purges like MacArthyism or China's Cultural Revolution. A further example is the lynching of black American men, well into the 20th century. I did some background reading and jotted down a list as things occurred to me, anticipating that perhaps I could come up with half a dozen points and work them up into an article. When I finished the list, I counted 22 items, which feels a bit ominous. I'm drawing mainly on my observation of the modern British sex witch hunt, but I understand that similar events are happening i