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'Virginity Test' Helps Free 3 in Vietnam Rape Case
Mail Times (from AP wire) ^ | 1 July 2010 | Tran Van Mihn

Posted on 07/15/2010 6:31:16 AM PDT by Vigilanteman

An acupuncturist who claims she can detect a man's virginity based on a small dot on the ear has become a minor celebrity in Vietnam, where she is credited with helping to free three convicted rapists from prison.

Traditional medicine practitioner Pham Thi Hong started lobbying for the men's release, pleading their case all the way to the president, because she believes all three men are virgins and therefore could not be guilty of rape.

"They all had small red spots on the back of their ears," said Hong, 54. "The spots should have disappeared if they had had sex. My many years of experience told me that these men did not have sex before."

Her claims are unusual even for a country where acupuncture and traditional medicine are still common remedies, but Hong's determination to have the case reopened -- even threatening to light herself on fire -- led to prosecutors re-examining the case. The convictions eventually were suspended due to flaws by initial investigators.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: getoutofjailfreecard; male; prorape; rape; raperape; vietnam; virginity; weird
This is just plain weird. I lived in Japan for 14 years and am a beleiver in acupuncture and other traditional medical arts of the Orient. But this is the first time I've ever heard of red spots on the back of ears to certify male virginity.

I don't recall ever having them, before or after.

1 posted on 07/15/2010 6:31:21 AM PDT by Vigilanteman
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To: Vigilanteman

Not even logical. Idiocy.


2 posted on 07/15/2010 6:33:41 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (How can you tell when the President is lying? When his lips move, of course.)
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To: Vigilanteman

The only time I will ever see a red dot on my ear is about 30 seconds after the black helicopters land in my yard.


3 posted on 07/15/2010 6:34:03 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: Vigilanteman
My many years of experience told me that these men did not have sex before.

What's he trying to say? That he has red dots at age 54? If so, it should be his many years of inexperience.

4 posted on 07/15/2010 6:35:24 AM PDT by edpc (Those Lefties just ain't right)
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To: Vigilanteman

This is silly — how does the back of the ear *know* that, well, to put it delicately, it’s been inside a woman and not inside the palm?


5 posted on 07/15/2010 6:36:03 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: Vigilanteman

How many times can one master one’s own domain before the red dots disappear?


6 posted on 07/15/2010 6:37:34 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: VRWCmember

If you can’t see the red dots, are they really there?


7 posted on 07/15/2010 6:39:19 AM PDT by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: w1andsodidwe
"Not even logical. Idiocy."

Actually it makes sense if they're talking about having aural sex, which could also lead to the spread of hearing AIDS.

8 posted on 07/15/2010 6:39:36 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Vigilanteman

It looks like this individual’s crackpot theory is what drove her to fight for a reexamination of the case - but it also looks like those attorneys who reopened the case and set these men free did so on the grounds of procedural flaws in the conviction, not on imaginary magical folk “medicine.”


9 posted on 07/15/2010 6:40:29 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: Vigilanteman

She's been red dot free since around 1968.....maybe sooner.

10 posted on 07/15/2010 6:40:35 AM PDT by edpc (Those Lefties just ain't right)
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To: Joe 6-pack
LOL! I can see already that this is going to be one hilarious thread!
11 posted on 07/15/2010 6:41:28 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Joe 6-pack

So that’s what the old expression, “stick it in your ear,” was about.


12 posted on 07/15/2010 6:43:34 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. De Vattel)
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To: Vigilanteman

LOL, from now on, every rapist will make sure they have a red dot tattooed behind their ear.


13 posted on 07/15/2010 6:43:58 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Vigilanteman
"-- even threatening to light herself on fire "

Now THAT would make good TV.

Line up a bunch of children (known virgins) and look for red spots on the ears

14 posted on 07/15/2010 6:44:09 AM PDT by Mr. K (Physically unable to proofread- I swear I try!)
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To: Vigilanteman

Most.Frustrated.Planet.Ever.

15 posted on 07/15/2010 6:44:42 AM PDT by edpc (Those Lefties just ain't right)
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To: Vigilanteman
The way to prove what the acupuncturist says is true would be to provide each of the innocent virgins with a lady volunteer.

After they finish having sex inspect the men's ears to see if the small red dot really disappears.

If the red dot does not go away then you have to see if the women weighs more than a duck. If she does weigh more than a duck then she's a witch and therefore the men are virgins.

I don't know about the duck though.

16 posted on 07/15/2010 6:44:55 AM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: Vigilanteman

Ha!! This is nothing!! I freed 17 mass murderers by finding Mary’s image in a box of nails I bought at the hardware store!!!

(Criminy, some people will believe ANYTHING!!!)


17 posted on 07/15/2010 6:53:51 AM PDT by DustyMoment
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To: Joe 6-pack

“Actually it makes sense if they’re talking about having aural sex, which could also lead to the spread of hearing AIDS.”

that was funny....very impressive:)


18 posted on 07/15/2010 6:59:10 AM PDT by Shamrock498
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To: avg_freeper
After they finish having sex inspect the men's ears to see if the small red dot really disappears.

There'll be no shortage of male "volunteers" to prove their virginity . . . . or the lack thereof. But, after awhile, isn't this going to take on the appearance of a house of prostitution??

(I'm just askin')

19 posted on 07/15/2010 6:59:58 AM PDT by DustyMoment
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To: Vigilanteman

Off to the store for some red nail polish.


20 posted on 07/15/2010 7:00:39 AM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (If I weren't afraid of the feds, I would refer to Obama as our "undocumented POTUS")
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To: Vigilanteman
That's odd. I had big red marks after she held onto my ears.
21 posted on 07/15/2010 7:22:17 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: MozarkDawg

MD - we need to chat about the definition of “delicately”...but an excellent observation nonetheless!

Colonel, USAFR


22 posted on 07/15/2010 7:41:53 AM PDT by jagusafr ("We hold these truths to be self-evident...")
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To: avg_freeper

I thought that it proves that the woman is made out of wood, because if the duck floats and wood floats then they must be made out of the same thing.


23 posted on 07/15/2010 7:45:53 AM PDT by Mr. K (Physically unable to proofread- I swear I try!)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Okay- does aural sex compete with under the fingernail stimulation? Maybe that accounts for hang nail fungus.


24 posted on 07/15/2010 8:10:14 AM PDT by handmade
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To: Vigilanteman

My hubby told me he lost his ‘red dot’ in an ‘accident’.


25 posted on 07/15/2010 8:32:57 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: handmade
"Okay- does aural sex compete with under the fingernail stimulation?"

That's largely contingent upon where your fingernails happen to be while they're being stimulated.

26 posted on 07/15/2010 8:35:29 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Vigilanteman
Traditional acupuncture is no more effective than “sham’ acupuncture in controlled studies.

But here we see what idiocy such ‘traditional’ thinking leads to.

No DNA evidence? No other physical evidence? No testimony?

No, lets look at a mystical mysterious red dot on the ear! That is the REAL answer!

Superstitious nonsense.

27 posted on 07/15/2010 8:36:34 AM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: Vigilanteman
Speaking of ears, what's black and white and red all over?


28 posted on 07/15/2010 8:40:12 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Vigilanteman; windcliff; stylecouncilor

Primitivism.


29 posted on 07/15/2010 9:07:11 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: Joe 6-pack

contngency

Oh good, that makes it clear. Well, probably black and yuccky as fungals are, but still....it is plain to see the two intercononect.


30 posted on 07/15/2010 9:53:24 AM PDT by handmade
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To: Vigilanteman

On a related note, orders are up four thousand percent at Saigon tattoo parlors for insertion of simple red dots behind the ears.


31 posted on 07/15/2010 12:33:22 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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