Newsgroup: it.cultura.militare
Titolo: I'm major womaniser...

Uno scandalo sta scuotendo l'esercito britannico, tra orge,
ufficiali violentatori e soldatesse bisessuali... siamo tutti adulti qui, vero?
Al di là dello spasso, lo segnalo per parlare delle situazioni che
si possono creare anche nelle FFAA italiane, dopo la loro apertura al gentil
sesso.
Ciao
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            I'M A MAJOR WOMANISER
                  Feb 18 2004
 But Army affair scandal officer says he's not a sexual predator
                  By Vanessa Allen
 THE womanising Major at the centre of an Army sex scandal
insisted yesterday: "I'm a flirt but not a sexual predator."
 The married officer admitted having a series of affairs but
denied he was ruthless or arrogant or that he ever pressured women into sex.
 And he denied claims by Angela McConnell - who accuses him of
bullying her into sex - that he bragged of flings with three Army women or with
Corrs singer Andrea Corr, who he said he had never met.
 He said his affair with Warrant Officer Mrs McConnell was
consensual, calling her his "kindred spirit".
 The 38-year-old Major, who cannot be named for legal reasons,
told an employment tribunal: "I'm certainly not sexually predatory - I think
womaniser is the expression.
 "I'm a flirt, I'm somebody who thoroughly enjoys the company
of women - but I'm certainly not predatory."
                  CAMPAIGN
 He went on: "I don't think much of myself and I do need
constant reassurance to remind me that I'm worth something.
 "It's really that reassurance that I seek and leads me to
positions where I seek it from women."
 Mrs McConnell, 41, claims the Major began a campaign of
harassment against her in 2001 - including sexually explicit phone calls and
text messages - after she joined the King's Royal Hussars cavalry regiment in
Tidworth, Hants, and that she eventually "caved in" to the pressure and began an
affair with him in 2002.
 The tribunal has heard Mrs McConnell admit having three other
affairs while in the Army, including one with Lieutenant Colonel Shaun Wilson of
the Royal Tank Regiment and a lesbian relationship in 1986.
 She has said the Major bragged to her of flings with three
Army women, a one night stand with a cadet from a university Officer Training
Corps and group sex with air hostesses.
 The Major - tipped to command the Hussars before the scandal -
said he did not want to go into details about his affairs but that some of Mrs
McConnell's claims were false.
 He admitted having a one night stand with Captain Dee Holdom,
Mrs McConnell's boss, in 2002 during their affair. But he insisted that he and
Mrs McConnell had "talked of a life together" and that he cared deeply for her.
                  GROPING
 He said: "We became friends. That friendship developed into a
flirtation that developed into an affair."
 He denied groping or pressuring her in the medals room during
a Christmas party in 2001, insisting the encounter was the result of mutual
sexual attraction.
 They had sex after Mrs McConnell - who he called "a perennial
flirt" - invited herself to his cottage in Wiltshire in January 2002. He claimed
Mrs McConnell was a bisexual who enjoyed three in a bed romps with her husband
George and a female neighbour.
 He said: "Angela reinforced her bisexuality by admitting to me
that she had been involved in a lesbian relationship in the two or three years
preceding her marriage. I believe the woman was a member of Her Majesty's
Forces."
 He added: "Angela always doubted whether I could remain
faithful to her and she to me.
 "She said that we were mirror images of each other and that we
were both incapable of fidelity and that we would rip each other apart with
jealousy."
 She even joked of starting a company, Infidelity Inc, to teach
cheating couples the secrets of successful adultery without getting caught.
 The couple were exposed when her suspicious husband bugged her
car and phone, and taped her and the Major declaring their love for each other.
He played it to their CO.
 The Major was ordered to resign and was moved to a job in the
Ministry of Defence but allowed to keep his pension. Mrs McConnell was demoted
several ranks to corporal, effectively ending her career.
                  BETRAYAL
 In January 2003 she filed an application for damages, saying
she was pressured into sex.
 The Major said: "I found it unbelievable that she would make
these kinds of claims ... This was the ultimate betrayal.
 "I was devastated. I was removed from command, the ultimate
humiliation for an officer. I had to face my wife, my family, my parents."
 Mrs McConnell, of West Lulworth, Dorset, is taking action
against the Ministry of Defence, claiming she was not protected from the Major's
advances and discriminated against after the affair was revealed.
 She also alleges sexual harassment by the Major. The MoD and
the Major deny the claims. The hearing in Southampton continues.

 Ciao
Eh! Bell'argomento. Secondo me non solo si possono creare situazioni del
genere, ma è inevitabile che accadranno.