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Sex, lies and, er, rape

A recent conviction in the ACT makes rapists of us all

28 February 2015

9:00 AM

28 February 2015

9:00 AM

Wait — it’s now a crime to fib your way into bed with someone? That is the take-home message of the Kafkaesque case of Akis Emmanouel Livas, who recently was sentenced to eight months in prison by the ACT Supreme Court for having sex with a prostitute and then handing her an envelope that he said contained cash but which didn’t.

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Brendan O’Neill is the editor of Spiked and a regular contributor to The Spectator Australia.

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