Should Royal Canadian Mounted Police Guards Have Stopped Lesbian Sex?

by Brandon Miller · 2010-09-07 08:40:00 UTC
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A recent Canadian news story on lesbian sex has been making waves across the country. And, for once, it's not about the actual sex acts or whether or not they should or should not have occurred, but instead about the guards who observed them. Should they have stopped these women from having sex? Were they right to just stand there and watch? Does your answer change when I tell you that one of the women was HIV-positive?

Seven men — four Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers and three staff members — watched two women go at it behind bars for somewhere between 30 and 60 minutes on August 18th. I have no doubt in my mind that, if the prisoners had been male, the sex acts would have been broken up immediately. However, because two women were involved, the men stayed in a room and watched the sexual activities on a closed-circuit TV.

The story has made headlines because of the fact that one of these women is reportedly HIV-positive and now possibly facing sexual assault charges. Both women were being held for public intoxication, leading one to assume that they weren't in the best state of mind to be making decisions. And, yet, seven men decide to sit back and watch (and who knows what else).

This incident reflects "horrible" gender discrimination, says Claudia Medina of Prisoners HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN). "If it were two men engaging in sex, would they be watching the screen so intently?"

The RCMP and the City of Kamloops have suspended the men and are criminally investigating them, so they will each have lots of free time on their hands in the near future. Since they like lesbians so much, I wonder if they're sitting at home watching some girl-on-girl porn right now? What do you think?

Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Brandon Miller is a freelance writer and editor from Toronto, Ontario.
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