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Testifying at Camp's inquiry, the sex assault complainant said the judge "made me hate myself".

And Justice Robin Camp, the Federal Court judge who asked a sex assault complainant in court: "why couldn't you just keep your knees together?" is deserving of those criticisms.

In fact, today a Federal Court judge is facing a hearing because he asked a sex assault complainant in a trial he was overseeing why she couldn't keep her knees together.

Though Northwestern's student conduct handbook indicates that alcohol or drug use are not "mitigating factors" against a sexual assault complainant in a hearing or appeal, Mather said many individuals still count such factors against the "perfect victim" myth, which renders them less likely to report an assault.

An Alberta judge who has been publicly shamed for telling a sexual assault complainant to keep her knees closed, and that she should have tried harder to avoid penetration, will face an inquiry by his peers that could result in his permanent removal. .

If passed, it will also tighten up what is known as the rape shield law, by making it illegal to use a sex assault complainant's sexual history to undermine them in court or suggest that they did give consent.

But figures from Statistics Canada suggest that for every 1,000 sexual assaults that happen in the country, only 33 are ever reported and just three result in convictions, said David Butt, a criminal lawyer who often works with sexual assault complainants.

Camp, who was born in South Africa and moved to Calgary in 1998, said he had not understood the changes made to Canadian laws aimed at sheltering sexual assault complainants from discriminatory attitudes.

In the coming weeks, Butt will argue the necessity for reform to the Canadian Bar Association, highlighting alternative options for sexual assault complainants such as civil lawsuits, where the burden of proof is lower than the criminal justice system, or restorative justice.

It's terrifying to witness how swiftly rape orthodoxies reassert themselves: that impugning a man's sexual propriety is a political act, that sexual assault complainants are prone to a level of mendacity others are not (and, in this case, deserving of the same crowd-sourced scrutiny afforded leaked diplomatic cables), that not all forms of non-consensual sex count as "rape-rape"..

Sex assault complainants don't deserve to be a part of his learning curve.