The motivation behind infant rape in South Africa: Response to Lancet letters colum, April 2002 by Douglas MG Bowley and Graeme J Pitcher, Division of Paediatric Surgery, Johannesburg Hospital and the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg,South Africa (e-mail:pitchmax@icon.co.za)

Research Daimler Chrysler, February 2002 which found that 18% of the workforce believed in the myth (Pretoria) – I have been unable to establish authors of the report.

South African Law Commission. Fourth interim report: aspects of the law relating to AIDS. Compulsory HIV testing of persons arrested in sexual offence cases. wwwserver.law.wits.ac.za/salc/report/report.html

South African Police Services www.saps.org.za/8_crimeinfo/200112/crime/rape.htm

Alleged rape of 9-month-old baby shocks South Africa by Adele Baleta, Lancet 2001; 358: 1707.

Baby rapes shock South Africa. BBC News, Dec 11, 2001, news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1703000/1703595.stm

Radio interview, BBC World Service with Carolyn Dempster, presenter and panelists, Rose Tamae, Inspector Andre Neethling, Rachel Jewkes and Charlene Smith, April 2002

Prevalence of emotional, physical and sexual abuse of women in three South African Provinces. S Afr Med J 2001; 91: 421-28. Jewkes R, Penn-Kekana L, Levin J, Ratsaka M, Schrieber M.

Sexual violence in Sierra Leone. Lancet 2001; 357: 304 by Bogert C, Dufka C.

Aids myth drives South African baby rape crisis, by Chris McGreal, The Guardian Nov 3, 2001.

Sexual behaviour in HIV-1 seropositive Zulu men and women in Durban, South Africa. J AIDS 1991; 4: O'Farrell N, Windsor I.

South African Law Commission, Sexual Offences Discussion Paper 02 (Project 107) /www.law.wits.ac.za/

HIV test for rapists "a minefield" by C Bateman, South African Medical Journal, 2001; 91: 452-53.

Infant rape in SA by Graeme Pitcher and Douglas Bowley, The Lancet, Vol 359, 26 January 2002

Rape for Profit: Trafficking of Nepali girls and women to India’s Brothels, Human Rights Watch, Asia, 1995

Violence against women in South Africa: Rape and Sexual Coercion, Rachel Jewkes and Naeema Abrahams, Medical Research Council, August 2000

Jewkes R, Martin L, Penn-Kekana L. The virgin cleansing myth: cases of child rape are not exotic. Lancet 2002;359(9307), Rachel Jewkes, Lorna Martin and L Penn-Kekana

This pernicious delusion: law, medicine and child sexual abuse in early 20th Century Scotland. J Hist Sex 2001;10(1):62-7 by R Davidson

Stepping Stones: feedback from the field by Jewkes R, Matubatuba C, Metsing D, Ngcobo E, Makaota F, Mbhalati G, Frohlich J, Wood K, Kabi K, Ncube L, Nduna M, Jama N, Moumakoe P, Raletsemo S .<http://www.actionaid.org/stratshope/ssjewkes.html>

Child rape-patterns of injury, management and outcome. South African Medical Journal, December 2001, 91:1035-38. by van As AB, Withers M, Dutoit N, Millar AJW, Rode H. (and follow up emails with Dr Sebastian van As and Judge Edwin Cameron, about HIV testing of suspected rapists (still not legal in this country, although permissible, in theory, since January 2002 at the request of the rape survivor) and PEP to rape survivors & email to Joan van Niekerk, director Childline April 9, 2002)

Charlene Smith, Chair of session D22: Violence Against Women. XIII International Aids Conference, Durban 2000. <http://www.aids2000.org/>

Unicef report – HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, a journey around the rural areas of six South African provinces, Zimbabwe and Botswana, Charlene Smith, June 2001

Proud of Me: Speaking Out Against Sexual Violence and HIV by Charlene Smith (Penguin, 2001)

The Mythogeny of Virgin Rape by Suzanne Leclerc Madlala (African Journal on HIV/AIDS, September 2002)

Various emails on af-aids network April and May, 2002, especially April 23 and 24 and May 9, 2002 (note: the Teddy bear clinic does pre-trial preparation for children in Johannesburg, it sees only a small percentage of children raped, namely those whose parents can afford transport to get them there, or those who have the sophistication to know of the center. It does not see the medical records of children, nor those of perpetrators. Indeed, it does not see the affidavits related to cases or the court records, it provides a counseling service for those children who can afford it, and familiarizes children with what a court room looks like and the functioning of court procedure, therefore anything the Clinic has to say about virgin rape, is quite frankly, worthless.)

Here be Monsters by Owen Wolff, The Big Issue, February 2002, Issue 55 Volume 6

Testimony to October World Soroptomists conference by delegate from the Caribbean, 2001

An Evil so Vile, documentary for the BBC, screened June 2002 – and before South African parliamentary committee September, 2002 – produced by Clifford Bestall and Pearly Joubert