Comment: Re:This just in (Score 1) 1017
No it's not strange.
First Sweden is not as liberal as you might think, we have maybe the most conservative laws against child pornography in the world, just recently a Swedish manga translator got sentenced for having child porn images. E.g. Manga images. We also need a web-filter to block out sites in the US and Japan. As both US and Japanese governments refuse to bring changes to the people behind these pages.
We classify more crimes as rape, that most other countries, what's sexual harassment in most western countries are rape in sweden.
From what i read in the swedish media including the statement by the girls, this was them having sex with Assange, they had some agreement on what was allowed in this act, Assange did this think anyhow. They both together went to the police to discuss this. The police and prosecutions decided to make a rape charge from it, based on there stories. As more info came in a higher ranked persecutor took away rape from the charge list. What really happened in the apartments of the two girls. I don't know, it's will sure be a hard to ever know for sure.