Our thanks to cp for this, in response to Bettina Arndt’s piece on “Shamed Scottish Judges”. He writes:

“There’s an interesting female prerogative running in the background to all of this – opportunistic mating during her most fertile time of the month.

After the hormone levels stabilise, she may feel ‘guilty’ about her willing and enthusiastic engagement in sex, subsequently becoming a plaintiff, to protect her ego. The authorities aid and abet the proceedings by ‘loss’ of CCTV evidence that could protect the defendant, and the rendering of phone records as ‘inadmissible evidence’. Society seems to feel it their duty to keep true female nature hidden, at all costs. Of course, the situation is amplified in Scotland, because it’s Dorothy Bain KC and Lady Dorian who set the policy.

Perhaps women could take on board that men, too, suffer from ‘post-coital tristesse’. It tends to happen in late teens and early twenties, while you garner experience, en route to finding ‘the one’. What you sometimes encountered, on a dancefloor or in a pub, was a loved-up, super-fertile woman, perhaps off the domestic leash for a night, and out on the lash. Beer goggles may, or may not be involved. But, afterwards, you think “I can’t believe I just did that.” But, we tend not to become complainants in courts of law. And, who would listen, anyway?”

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