Speaking of male domination: MSNBC airing a reprise of the Fritzel story in Austria, where “privacy” is almost cult-like, and there is a law wiping out criminal convictions after 10 yrs, which more than likely played a huge part in the tragedy that occurred there. Of course, when you have an Austrian psychiatrist attributing Fritzel himself with just having a huge sexual appetite (he often made trips to Thailand for sex as Elisabeth aged), then you still have problems getting to the root of this kind of patriarchal power.

Whatever became of Elisabeth Fritzl?

Her 24-year ordeal of captivity and rape in that cellar in Amstetten is beyond belief. But Josef Fritzl’s daughter is fighting back

independent.co.uk