Chrissie Hynde under fire for rape remarks

Singer Chrissie Hynde has come under fire for suggesting that women are to blame if they are raped while dressed provocatively.

"If I'm walking around in my underwear and I'm drunk ... Who else's fault can it be?" The Pretenders singer was quoted saying in an interview with the Sunday Times magazine in the UK.

"If I'm walking around and I'm very modestly dressed and I'm keeping to myself and someone attacks me, then I'd say that's his fault.

“But if I'm being very lairy and putting it about and being provocative, then you are enticing someone who's already unhinged ... that's just common sense."

The 63-year-old recounted in her recent autobiography, Reckless, how she was forced to perform sexual acts of members of an Ohio motorcycle gang when she was 21.

The singer says she was on drugs at the time and thought they were taking her to a party. Instead they took her to an abandoned warehouse.

"Technically speaking, however you want to look at it, this was all my doing and I take full responsibility," she said.

She was also quoted as saying: "You know if you don't want to entice a rapist, don't wear high heels so you can't run from him."

Naturally, her victim blaming comments have caused outrage among victim support charities, as well as the online community.