Ernest Belfort Bax was a British socialist philosopher, and author of The Fraud of Feminism (1913). The book can be downloaded at no cost through this link. Some 20 or so years before the book was published, he wrote this article. We can be confident that women were commonly making false rape allegations much further back in time, as they are today. We cover the issue of false rape allegations in our election manifesto. A commitment to reintroduce anonymity for suspected sexual offenders (until and unless convicted) was in the Coalition Agreement, but as usual with commitments that would help protect the human rights of men principally, it was later reneged upon.