DAVID JONES: Inside the sex clubs arranging 'Gang Bang Nights' that expose the sordid heart of France...
even as the country reels from the details of the mass-rape of Gisele Pelicot By DAVID JONES FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY Published: 02:03 GMT, 15 December 2024 | Updated: 02:11 GMT, 15 December 2024 e-mail View comments Walk 800 yards from the court where the verdicts in the rape trial that has shocked the world will be announced later this week, and you will find the Rue Four de la Terre. On one end of this narrow side street in the centre of Avignon stands a drab building with blanked-out windows and a peephole cut into its heavily barred door. A small sign embossed in gold reveals this to be the Club Aphrodite – the fleshpot that caters for the perversions of the town's swingers.
Or, as they rather grandly describe themselves, 'libertines'. If we believe the French commentariat, the prosecution of Dominique Pelicot, and the 50 wretched men he enlisted to abuse his drugged wife, will be remembered as a brave new dawn for Gallic gender equality. It has been hailed as the case that will finally drag an outdatedly patriarchal nation, no doubt kicking and screaming in some quarters, into line with countries where women and their rights are better respected.
A long overdue change, we might think, given that President Macron last year championed actor Gerard Depardieu – charged with 13 counts of sexual assault – as the sort of man who 'makes France proud'. It was partly with .
