Interesting. Of course the man should NOT have apologised. In his book The Empathy Gap: Male Disadvantages and the Mechanisms of Their Neglect (LPS publishing, 2019) William Collins calculates (using two official statistics) that 77% of rape allegations made to the police are false. I’d say that was “very often”.

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