How do these people function?

I knew you could be counted as a rape victim if you are severely mentally handicapped, but apparently being really stupid now counts as a way to commit rape as well:

A Syrian-born airline pilot allegedly tricked a schoolteacher from Haverfordwest into having sex with him by pretending he had to administer ointment on the end of his penis, a jury heard yesterday (Tuesday).

Fadi Sbano, 38, even pretended to know a gynaecologist who advised him on how often to have intercourse with her and whether to thrust "slowly or quickly". And, on the "doctor's advice", he kept a clock on the bedside table to time the sessions.

The teacher put up with the treatment for nine months before telling her doctor.

Huw Rees, prosecuting, told Swansea crown court: "The allegations here are of rape by deception."

Were it not for the fact that the "victim" was a schoolteacher, I would have a hard time believing that any woman seriously fell for this and was stupid enough to admit that she had bought into something so obviously fabricated as to believe that he needed to have regular intercourse with her in order to apply an ointment to his penis. Now, how many men are going to end up getting thrown in prison for deceiving women about their true intentions if this case makes its way through the British legal system successfully? All of those lies about love, marriage, etc. are really going to come back to bite a lot of men in the arse.

Almost as idiotic as this, are the hundreds of wealthy Japanese women who clearly cannot tell the difference between sheep and poodles. Not that there is any functional difference mind between the two, mind you...