Helen Mirren, 63, made some controversial statements about date rape, in her recent interview with GQ Magazine.
The 63-year-old actress said when she was younger she was forced to have sex against her will and was too “naive” to say no.
Asked if she reported the incidents to the police, she told GQ magazine: “No, you couldn’t do that in those days.
“It’s such a tricky area, isn’t it? Especially if there is no violence. I mean, look at Mike Tyson. I don’t think he was a rapist.”
If a woman voluntarily ends up in a man’s bedroom, takes all her clothes off and engages in sexual activity in bed with him she has the right to say “no” at the last second, Dame Helen said.
If the man ignored her it was rape, Dame Helen said.
But she said: “I don’t think she can have that man into court under those circumstances.
“I guess it is one of the many subtle parts of the men/women relationship that has to be negotiated and worked out between them.
“Times have changed. I hate young girls going around beating each other up, but I love the fierceness of young girls nowadays, and the way they just say, ‘f*** off’, because I wish I’d been taught to say ‘f*** off’ when I was younger.
“I wish I’d had those words in my arsenal of self-defence. Instead, I was polite and didn’t have the courage to say that to men who wouldn’t accept ‘no’ for an answer.
“I was pretty naive, I went to a convent school until I was 18, and had never spent a night away from home, or gone to parties, or any of that.
“So I was very innocent when I went to college in London, and I was living on my own. And I found guys were horrible, mean, rude, insulting, and so without feeling.
“And I was looking for love and for someone who just liked me, made me laugh and was nice to me. And instead I just met all these creeps.”
She said of her own experiences: “I was (date-raped), yes. A couple of times.
“Not with excessive violence, or being hit, but rather being locked in a room and made to have sex against my will.”
From Telegraph.co.uk
What are your thoughts on what Helen said? 
Sami
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August 10th, 2009 at 6:45 am
I was around the same places as Helen at the same time and I remember the men she was around and they were just as she said but they were very attractive too But they mostly went to posh public schools where they were taught to have a certain attitude to women and sow wild oats and later marry someone from a similar background that Daddy would approve of That is how it was And it was not without fun Instead of all those A levels in academic subjects I wish we had had A level in Life Skills……………….