“The National Health Service has been criticised in court after a doctor told the male victim of a double rape that he was ‘too grubby’ to be treated. The 50-year-old victim was attacked by Levi Lavers, 19, from Newlyn, Cornwall, after Lavers broke into his home. Prosecutors said that after the attacks the victim ‘was then treated abominably by the NHS, with his doctor saying that he was too grubby to treat’. Lavers was sentenced at Exeter Crown Court to six years in youth custody. Lavers was 17 at the time of the attacks, which he carried out after breaking into the victim’s home at night. When confronted by the victim’s neighbours, he armed himself with a knife and made threats to burn down the house and kill the victim before fleeing. Prosecutor Michael Brabin told the court: ‘It was only 10 days after the sex attacks that he had gone downhill so much that he was treated by the NHS. ‘Following that, the full weight of social services was brought to bear and he was found a new home.’ Lavers was found guilty by a jury of two charges of rape. Defence counsel David Evans said the offences were committed when Lavers was under the influence of drink and drugs. Lavers, who also admitted affray, was ordered to sign on the Sex Offenders’ Register for life.” — BBC (UK)

(Thanks for the link to Chad, who commented: “Some crazy shit happens in this world!”)

Did you mother ever tell you that you should put on clean underwear every morning just in case something like this happens? “What if,” she might have said, “you end up at the emergency room with holes in your socks and brown streaks in your shorts?” As it turns out, this wasn’t simply a rhetorical trick on mom’s part. Look at the crazy shit that happens in the world. One minute you can find yourself getting raped by some dudes. That seems pretty awful. The next minute you can find the hospital turning you down because, in your post-rape depression, you’ve simply gotten too skanky for them to consider helping you. That sure adds insult to injury.

It’s not difficult to understand why any rape victim, male or female, might decide to go grunge. No more baths, shaving, deodorant, clean underwear — it all could serve as a deterrent to future rapists. And yet, if it also serves as a deterrent to doctors, it may only make for further problems. Clearly there is a glaring need to address this conundrum. You can educate doctors that the “grubbiness” of their patients may really be just another symptom of their post-traumatic stress. Or maybe there should be an institutional solution. There is already all manner of psychological therapy available for post-rape trauma. Maybe there is also a need for post-rape physical therapy focusing on hygiene and cosmetics — sort of a Queer Eye for the Raped Guy. A brief course with a post-rape cosmetician would enable rape victims to sashay into medical clinics without inflicting undue repulsion on the medical personnel who work there.

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