In the 90’s it wasn’t rape if she was wearing jeans. Looks like Italy still has a long way to go.
“Then came the ''denim defense,'' or what Italian lawmakers are calling the ''jeans alibi'' -- a court ruling that suggested that a woman cannot be raped if she is wearing jeans because, the ruling contended, they are impossible to remove unless she helps. That decision -- and the country's reaction to it -- has reopened an angry debate about rape and about how judges view sexual assault.
The issue moved into the public spotlight last week, when the third division of the Supreme Court of Appeals in Rome released the text of a November ruling that overturned a 34-month sentence for rape in southern Italy. Among other things, the court stated that ''jeans cannot be removed easily and certainly it is impossible to pull them off if the victim is fighting against her attacker with all her force.''”
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/16/w...-in-italy.html
