No, I am not being flippant… I am aghast at how this court case has progressed…
Since when was a thong (lacy or otherwise) regarded as an invitation… 
Just been reading this. Good for the MP who whipped a thong out of her sleeve in the Irish Parliament. I hope the victim gets a retrial
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If the thong in question was not on display (whatever length of overgarment was covering it) then it has no bearing (and I agree it is a scandal that it is being displayed in court - regardless).
If the item in question was freely on display - well, that might be considered an invitation depending on circumstances.
And thus, I suspect, does the balance in a good few rape cases swing.
The defence is, after all, that the act was consensual.
There is a vast distance between flashing your underwear (either on purpose or accidentally) and consent.
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Which is why I said “depending on circumstances”.
I thought it was well established that no mode of dress (down to and including stark b*****k naked) was in, and of, itself an invitation to have sex - it all depends on circumstances (and, increasingly on explicit statement of consent).
Women can wear their clothes for themselves.
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Good too for all the Irish women who showed their support by leaving their knickers on the steps of the courthouse and on lines in the street.
I don’t wear a bra, I hate them and find them torture…does this ‘give an invitation’
to a man to fondle or rape me ?
Women will no longer tolerate this sort of treatment !
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