Prof Richard Dawkins, pictured, prompted a furious response on Twitter yesterday when he referred to “mild rape” and “mild paedophilia” to illustrate a point about logic.

Shami Chakrabarti, of human rights group Liberty, who is Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, responded by saying there was no such thing as mild rape.

Prof Dawkins, a Fellow of New College, later wrote in a blog on his website: “I was only talking logic, with no desire to make light of the seriousness of any kind of rape or any kind of paedophilia.”

 

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