“A former mechanic, who invented a supposed weight-loss technique that involved passing electricity through rubber patches placed on the vagina, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting one of his customers. ‘He knows full well that he went too far with a client who didn’t accept his advances,’ Quebec court Judge Denys Noel said in convicting Sylvain Didier on Tuesday… While working in his wife’s weight-loss clinic, Didier invented the technique called Slimtronic, and promoted it as a European-style way of losing weight. One female customer had gone to the clinic in March 2003 and paid for several weight-loss sessions. Didier offered the free use of Slimtronic, which involved passing an electric current through small rubber patches stuck to the skin with gel. The woman testified that when the patches were attached to her groin, she felt a burning or tingling sensation. Didier told her he would readjust the patches; in doing so, he touched her genitals. He left the room but when he returned, he did it again. The shocked woman asked him to remove the device. Didier had also measured the woman’s breasts, massaged her neck and told her she was too tense.” —AZcentral.com (US)

(Thanks to alanr for the link.)

It certainly is true that contemporary society puts a lot of pressure on women to be fabulously thin. That being said, however, it is difficult to believe that any woman would be so anxious to lose weight that she would so completely lose her power of judgement as well. After all, it’s hard to make out a scientific argument that electronic stimulation of the vaginal labia is a good way to shed pounds. Sexual activity may indeed burn calories, but there’s nothing specific about vaginal stimulation that causes weight loss. What kind of con did the perp put on his victims? “Lady, when I attach the Slimtronic to your vagina, you will find yourself getting wet. However, this moisture is not the normal indicator of sexual excitement that you may sometimes experience. Instead, it is the cellulite melting away from your midriff and leaking out through your vagina like cooking grease.”

Uh, right. It’s hard to believe that anybody who would fall for a line like that is an unwilling “victim.” Yes, yes, it’s not right to blame the victim, and of course there is no excuse for rape — but you get the feeling that the real story here is that the women like these “weight-loss” treatments for reasons that have nothing to do with obesity. It would be like men saying they go to hookers for the exercise! The victim in this case only complained when the perp stuck his finger inside her, and you get the sense that that’s what it’s all about. It wasn’t the electronic gizmo but the fact that the perp crossed the line that upset her.

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