As tragic and difficult as this issue is, ostensibly impossible to resolve as the fronts concerned with justice for victims and those concerned with justice for the falsely accused seem unable to even acknowledge the concerns of the other side, I find it intellectually dishonest and simplistic to paint a picture of the old days as a big free for all for rapists. It was anything but; sexual assault has always been disproportionately punished. Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan are the least countries in which you would like to find yourself accused. 

But justice was even more than now tied to your social class. A low status man had no chance against the accusation of a higher status woman - see the black lynchings - and the other way around. And one of the easiest ways for women to lose status was to be "loose". Inequality, not misogyny, explains most of the blatant miscarriages of justice in the past.