5 MAY 1990, Page 27

My ideal rapist

Sir: Paul Johnson tells us (The press, 21 April) that `a woman would prefer to be raped by a man of her own race'. Well I hadn't thought about the subject in quite those terms before, but I suppose my ideal rapist would be an Oxbridge man with at least a good Upper Second, a lover of early Baroque music, a keen gardener and a competent croquet player, but not an Anglican, a food and wine bore, or a habitual Spectator reader.

D. A. Roberts

20 Lovell Road, Rough Common, Canterbury, Kent