Rape is not a punchline – or a way to sell Christmas presents

Banning jokes and adverts is not the feminist endgame, but why is there a seasonal spike in tasteless advertising?Thirty-eight per cent of adults in the UK hear jokes about sexual assault or sex offenders regularly, according to a new survey by OnePoll. The nationally representative study of 1,000 British adults found that a quarter of men and 11% of women said they had made this type of joke themselves. The poll disproves the notion that these attitudes towards sexual violence are dying away. I