'It's natural for men to rape and beat women' says sacked lawyer suing firm for £3.5m for sex discrimination



Sacked: Deidre Clarke, 44, was dismissed from law firm Allen & Overy after writing an erotic novel on the internet

A high-flying lawyer suing a leading City law firm for £3.5million for sex discrimination has claimed it is 'natural for men to rape and beat women'.

Deidre Clark, 44, was sacked from her £126,000-a-year job with Allen & Overy for writing an erotic novel on the internet.

She claims she suffered 'sexual persecution' by her 60-year-old married boss and is suing the firm for discrimination and unfair dismissal.

It has now emerged that since leaving the firm, Miss Clark has been writing a newspaper column telling of her love of sado-masochist sex and bondage.

She says she prefers boyfriends who are 'real men' whom she describes as 'cavemen born to fight and rape'.

She writes: 'Men have been dragging women by the hair since caveman days. It's in their nature to be violent.

'The human male has evolved to slap his slutty woman.

'If you're hanging out with real men and you're a little slutty, you're going to get hit. Period.'

Miss Clark describes rape as 'simply part of human nature', adding: 'At any rate, it works out perfectly for me.

'When it goes to raping and pillaging, I say "bring it on, baby".'

Miss Clark was sacked from Allen & Overy's Moscow office for bringing the firm into disrepute with the exploits of a hard-drinking sex-mad character called Dasha.

Her novel Expat, written as Deidre Dare, was seen as exposing the debauched sex and drugs lifestyle of highly paid westerners in Moscow.

She says the novel is not about colleagues and she had the right to publish a fictional story.

She claims her dismissal was down to boss Tony Humphrey, who she says became 'sexually obsessed' with her following a steamy clinch they shared in full view of colleagues.

Since she was sacked in December 2008, Miss Clark has been writing a controversial column for the Moscow News called sExpat.

Embarrassment: Bishops Square in London's Spitalfields, where Allen & Overy is based. The company is a member of the so- called 'Magic Circle' of law firms

In one article, she writes: 'Anyone who has spent even five minutes in bed with me knows that I have a strong proclivity for S&M.

'My experience in the area ranges from the mild to the extreme, according to how much experience my partner has and what he or she likes.'

She goes on to say that she has been slapped and thrown into walls by jealous Russian boyfriends and mocks western women for seeking restraining orders over domestic violence.

Miss Clark writes: 'Men are born to fight and rape and in the West we generally don't permit them to do either.

'Maybe all the self-restraint men are forced to endure in the West is what has led to their emasculation there.

'It's hard to call something "wrong" if it's simply part of human nature.



'The human males has evolved to slap his slutty woman - otherwise, he might end up raising the fruit of some other dude's loins.'

In another article, she writes that she has been considering becoming a high class prostitute, charging $2,500 (£1,700) for a night.

And she talks about her lesbian experiences and tells how she keeps sex toys in her closet.

Miss Clark, who was a senior associate handling international finance, is claiming £3.49million for sex discrimination and unfair dismissal.

In legal papers, she says she and Mr Humphrey 'made out one drunken evening' at a party in full view of other lawyers.

She says that after their clinch, which did not include sex, his attitude to her at the office changed and he began complaining constantly.

She claims: 'When I rebuffed his further advances and took up with a much younger Russian man, it infuriated him and made him crazy with jealousy and that is why I was dismissed.

'I believe my dismissal was purely a matter of sexual persecution by my superior.'



Mr Humphrey has refused to comment. Allen & Overy has said it will vigorously defend her claim at Stratford Employment Tribunal in east London.