You've said equality?!...
This week in Bergen, Norway a 24 years old woman has been convicted for the rape of a 31 years old man. The rape took place in January last year during a visit in the apartment of the victim: the convicted woman practiced a fellation on the victim while he was sleeping. Because of the particularity of the case, the trial got a lot of attention from the media nationally like internationally. It was indeed the first time in the history of this little country of 4.5 million of people that a woman was tried for the rape of adult male. Despite the concept of equality between men an women, which is so important in the Nordic democracies, a lot of people are still convinced, even in Norway, that the rape of a man by a woman is technically impossible and that any sexual relations between opposite sex can only be consentient from the man side. It was also this line of defense which was used by the defendant lawyers: the male victim was for them necessarily consentient.
Yesterday the 10 juries didn't agree with that prejudice and convicted the rapist to 9 months of jail and a 30 000 kr fine. Many believe that the publicity made around this trial will push more men, in the future, to report such crimes to the authorities.
Equality is not only a concept in Norway, it is today a reality.