July 6th, 2011 at 6:08PM

The age of consent in Italy is fourteen…

According to the World Economic Forum’s 2010 Global Gender Gap Report, Italy ranks seventy-fourth in women’s rights, between the Dominican Republic and Gambia…

Correction, June 28, 2011: The original article erroneously stated that 95% of Italian men had never operated a washing machine.

 — Silvio Berlusconi’s Hedonism : The New Yorker
Source: newyorker.com
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