Julian Assange: Condoms, Rape, and “Sex By Surprise”
Here’s how a widely-circulated story printed in Slate magazine yesterday described the incidents that led to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s Interpol arrest warrant:
“During a business trip to Stockholm last August, Assange had unprotected sex with two women … who upon realizing that they had both slept with him—and that he had blown them both off—jointly approached police about his refusal to take an STD test. At the time, Assange’s Swedish lawyer confirmed that ‘the principal concern the women had about Assange’s behavior … related to his lack of interest in using condoms and his refusal to undergo testing, at the women’s request, for sexually transmitted disease.’ (Assange actually did use a condom with one of the women, but it broke.) … The ‘consent of both women to sex with Assange has been confirmed by prosecutors,’ as a former attorney wrote in an