“Then how can you expect us to believe you when you say that you did not invite my client in for sex?”

“But I didn’t. Just because I’d previously had sex with men doesn’t mean I wanted to have sex with a random group of men who broke into my father’s house.”

“With ‘men,’ you say? In the plural. Miss Lurie, would you agree that you were a promiscuous person?”

“No, I would not.”

“You concede that you have had sex with ‘men’ in the plural. How many men?”

“I . . . I’m not sure . . .”

“Too many to count, eh? That sounds like the very definition of promiscuity to me.”

“No, I just . . .”

“What about group sex? Have you ever had sex with more than one other person present?”

“Uh . . . well, once at university . . . I mean, it wasn’t group sex, but there was somebody else in the . . . you know . . . in the room.”

“Again, that sounds like the very definition of group sex to me.”

“But I didn’t . . .”

“So why wouldn’t a daring young swinger like yourself welcome the advances of these men who came to your door on the night of April the third? Your blood-alcohol level was over 0.05, so you’d obviously been partying.”

“I’d had a glass of wine.”

“You were all fired up, eh? You were ready to go.”

* * *

The next day, the Daily Mail carries a story about the court proceedings. It garners 3.5 million views in two days and is shared more than fifty thousand times on Facebook.

Alleged rape victim was drinking,
had history of group sex

JOHANNESBURG Lucy Lurie confessed in court yesterday that she had been drinking on the night of her alleged rape, and that she had a history of group sex and of sleeping with black men. Under cross-examination by Advocate Errol van der Merwe, Lurie admitted that she was sexually attracted to black African men.

Drinking, partying

Advocate van der Merwe described her blood-alcohol level as sky-high, and said the young woman was “all fired up and ready to go” when she let the group of men into her father’s house.

Group sex

Under questioning, Lurie admitted that she had a history of participating in group sex and that she was sexually attracted, in particular, to “black African men.” Lurie described to a shocked courtroom how she had practised group sex at university with other people “in the room.” Constantia University, which Lurie attended as a student and then as a junior lecturer, has a history of scandal and licentiousness. Stan Loodts, leader of the civil rights organisation Afriforum, described Constantia University as “a hot-bed of promiscuity where liberal parents send their children to smoke dagga and be taught lies about the white genocide.”

Relationship with black man