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The question of Strauss-Kahn's mode de séduction has now been pored over by the French media in minute detail, including the claim by Tristane Banon, a writer, that Strauss-Kahn had attempted to force her into sex, too, and a rather apologetic shrug from the all-knowing Paris elite. Strauss-Kahn vehemently denies Banon’s account.

Even last week, as the extent of DSK’s wandering eye became clear, the vast majority of French people remained convinced that the private sphere should remain off-limits to public scrutiny. Regurgitated reports of DSK’s alleged visits to an exclusive swingers’ club in central Paris, Les Chandelles, may have raised eyebrows in Britain, but in France they were merely a sign of an individual’s right to sexual freedom.

- How Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest awoke a dormant anger in the heart of France’s women, The Observer, May 22, 2011.

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