To: jlogajan
Rape is a question of consent. It'll always have a subjective component. You may hope and wish that you could always draw clear lines, but lacking a demonstration of certainty in all cases, your statement is just a wish and nothing more. I agree. Rape is a question of consent. Rape is not, however, negative feelings after sex, feeling guilty after sex, or giving in to someone who is pestering you for sex. It's simply not.
22 posted on
08/15/2003 8:16:06 AM PDT by
Cathryn Crawford
(Traficant is a real conservative who will stomp out the socialist rats but good!)
To: Cathryn Crawford
I agree. Rape is a question of consent. Rape is not, however, negative feelings after sex, feeling guilty after sex, or giving in to someone who is pestering you for sex. It's simply not.Agreed.
25 posted on
08/15/2003 8:17:24 AM PDT by
Chad Fairbanks
(The wages of sin are death, but by the time FICA and SSI are taken, it's just sorta tired feeling)
To: Cathryn Crawford
True rape is an act of violence. As a rape victim (25 years post) I can say that with unfortunate experience.
To: Cathryn Crawford
I wish I still had the source, but one of my criminology books had a stat showing that, in approximately 25% of rape cases (I'm pretty sure it was 25%, but I can't recall exactly), the alleged victim admitted that she willingly had sex with the accused AFTER the supposed rape occurred. Sure sounds like negative feelings after sex to me . . .
28 posted on
08/15/2003 8:21:03 AM PDT by
LanPB01
To: Cathryn Crawford
"Rape is a question of consent. Rape is not, however, negative feelings after sex, feeling guilty after sex, or giving in to someone who is pestering you for sex. It's simply not." OK then, what do you call the negative feelings after not having sex?
To: Cathryn Crawford
YES! You are absolutely right!
To: Cathryn Crawford
I read that in the olde days women really would sometimes fantasize about being raped by some big handsome brute because then it was out of their control and they didn't have to confess it or go to hell for it. Gotta think that's shaped the way society views rape right down to today.
83 posted on
08/15/2003 9:23:35 AM PDT by
johnb838
(Liberalizm and homoizm are cults of death - no life can come from them.)
To: Cathryn Crawford
I agree. Rape is a question of consent. Rape is not, however, negative feelings after sex, feeling guilty after sex, or giving in to someone who is pestering you for sex. It's simply not. The big danger to women here is the trivialization of the charge of rape. When enough women cry "Rape!" in response to "feeling pressured", or (possibly more often) anger over his pressuring her for sex, and then not calling the next day, people are not going to continue to take the charge seriously.
206 posted on
08/19/2003 12:12:30 PM PDT by
SauronOfMordor
(Java/C++/Unix/Web Developer === needs a job at the moment)
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