kvalidir - // don't even see that the stae of the knickers is important or could ever be.
You can have underwear torn off and end up with bruises in perfectly consentual sex and equally a rapist could corner you and menace and threaten you until you got undressed quite voluntarily and ended up relatively undamaged.
ie. ''There's no-one here to help you. Take off your clothes now, don't struggle or make a sound and you'll be alright, if you don't I'll do it anyway and then I'll kill you.'
Not all rape is being bundled off down a back alley and beaten until you are overpowered. //
No argument - of course.
But both legal councils will use any and everything at their disposal in order to bolster their case, and the belief in their client by members of the jury - and of course, that does include using evidence in a way which appears morally repugnant, but will none the less be offered, because that is the relevant Counsel's job.