A British lawmaker's suggestion that young women who wear high heels and short skirts put themselves at greater risk of rape has gotten him in hot water.
"If you are blind drunk and wearing those clothes how able are you to get away?" Conservative Party lawmaker Richard Graham, of Gloucester, was quoted as saying by his local newspaper, The Citizen.
Richard Graham said that while what a woman wore did not necessarily attract sexual predators, it could make it harder for them to get away from an attacker.
"It's not about the impact of your clothes on a potential predator - it's about whether the clothes you're wearing make it harder to get away from a predator," he added.
Anti-rape activists said Graham's comments smacked of blaming rape victims for having been assaulted.
But Graham said in a blog post Saturday that his interview "in no way intimates ANY excuse for predatory behavior."
In further comments to The Citizen, Graham said, "Risk management is a million miles from saying anything like 'she was asking for it.'"
A spokesman for Gloucestershire Rape Crisis Centre said rape is the crime, not drunkenness, and that it was 'stimulated by desire to humiliate and degrade.'
