Why men suffer domestic violence in silence

A TORRENT of outrage greeted the recent photographs of Charles Saatchi putting his hands around Nigella Lawson’s neck, but what if the tables had been turned? Does slapping your bloke ever constitute domestic violence?

The issue of female-on-male assault hit the spotlight when The Only Way Is Essex star Sam Faiers admitted to slapping and pushing her ex-boyfriend Joey Essex during an argument, but tried to justify it by saying it was “only a slap” and that “everyone slaps their boyfriend once, when they deserve it”.