Fire Sanctuary - "there’s no penalty for mutual seduction, but the penalty for rape is castration”
Lyte glanced to his side. The speaker was one he had talked with earlier, a person of importance; she was the under secretary of the Military Council and a second officer. She was also a lovely blonde. Lyte had a weakness for blondes.
“Who am I to disagree?” he returned, handing her a drink from the nearby cantinatable. She smiled demurely, turning on the charm. He smiled in answer, with no need to attempt to be charming.
“Just be sure she’s willing—there’s no penalty for mutual seduction, but the penalty for rape is castration.”
Lyte somehow hung on to his composure. “What about a—false accusation? Somehow an apology wouldn’t, well—”
“Make up for things? The punishment for a false accusation is death.” She laughed, then, a perverse humor taking over in her. “Needless to say, they’ve had something like two rapes and one false witness in about four thousand years. I guess it works. The law, and their social system.”
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Only 2 rapes in 4,000 years.
