There is a serious trend for rape jokes in comedy clubs. On an average night, you'll hear the word "rape" more often than "David Cameron", "the NHS" or "Mitt Romney".

If you don't like a joke, don't laugh. The competitiveness of the comedy industry at the moment means it's a free market for promoters. If an act doesn't get laughs, they don't get bookings. Given the subjective nature of humour if there's an act or a style of comedy you don't enjoy, don't pay for it. But don't begrudge anyone else who might find it entertaining.

I was at the Edinburgh Fringe for the duration and, outside of our own female-centric activities, it seemed that misogyny abounded with an unusual amount male comics telling jokes about rape and domestic violence.

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Rape and violence against women could, with care, become one of those issues we take over as comics and turn the message around - perhaps in the same way that non-white comedians have had to tackle racism over decades, or gay comics the topic of homophobia.