Comments on: Zimbabwe 'sperm hunters' picking up male travellers.

Zimbabwe 'sperm hunters' picking up male travellers.

holterbarbour — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:36:33 -0800

Zimbabwe 'sperm hunters' picking up male travellers. By threat of violence, bribes, drugging, or simply by turning on the charm, some ladies are putting fear into the hearts of Zimbabwe's men. Female-on-male rape is not considered a crime in Zimbabwe.

By: clockzero

clockzero — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:40:02 -0800

I...am sceptical about this.

By: howfar

howfar — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:44:09 -0800

Yes, it's an extraordinary claim and I see no extraordinary proofs. I've seen this story a couple of times in the last few months, always with fairly sketchy details, and it just doesn't ring true. Men, the world over, pay for sex. When did it become necessary to drug them and hold them at knife-point in order to get hold of their semen?

By: kafziel

kafziel — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:46:51 -0800

When you intend to keep it for undisclosed purposes? If your one-night-stand insisted on keeping the used condom rather than throwing it out, you'd be understandably freaked out and probably refuse, wouldn't you?

By: His thoughts were red thoughts

His thoughts were red thoughts — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:47:50 -0800

Single Telegraph link? Flagged as pointless, unsubstantiated nonsense. No offence holterbarbour, but there is nothing in this sensationalist claptrap that's worth an FPP.

By: 2bucksplus

2bucksplus — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:48:31 -0800

I've often argued that sex is a Veblen good. These women are doing it wrong by giving it away.

By: howfar

howfar — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:50:09 -0800

If your one-night-stand insisted on keeping the used condom rather than throwing it out, you'd be understandably freaked out and probably refuse, wouldn't you? I really don't see how the occasional man noticing that the sex worker kept his condom is going to justify the risk and expense of a programme of kidnapping. Why would he even care? It makes absolutely no sense.

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:50:14 -0800

Single Telegraph link? Flagged as pointless, unsubstantiated nonsense. Unattributed, even.

By: Cool Papa Bell

Cool Papa Bell — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:50:20 -0800

I think that in world history, every single example of any class of people stealing men's "vital fluids" has turned out to be complete and utter horseshit.

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:50:43 -0800

The only thing worthy about this story is that somebody has decided that "the dark imaginations of reddit's r/mensrights" is a reliable source for a newspaper story.

By: R. Schlock

R. Schlock — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:52:16 -0800

Gives new meaning to the phrase white man's burden.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:52:48 -0800

howfar writes "When did it become necessary to drug them and hold them at knife-point in order to get hold of their semen?" Maybe the women are just rapists; isn't rape supposed to be about power and not sex? Could be it's some fucked up 5th season of the The Wire Psyche out.