[Cathryn Crawford]

First, let me just say again that I am not discounting all claims of rape or date rape.

I also see what point you are trying to make.

That being said, using leading questions to conduct an interview will, without fail, lead to false positives. Convincing a girl that because she felt bad about the sex the next day, she'd been raped, is not appropriate, and that's simply not rape.

[justshe]

If you really want to pick apart some questions, the REASON for feeling bad, would also have to be investigated. There could be a NUMBER of reasons, including, poor performance, embarrassment about certain participatory sexual acts, self-image (as in poor self-image re: their body), etc. The list could go on and on. "Guilt" can have a myriad of roots that may actually not have a basis in the intital decision.

[jlogajan]

Convincing a girl that because she felt bad about the sex the next day, she'd been raped, is not appropriate, and that's simply not rape.

I am merely trying to keep your statements precise and correct. :-) Certainly there are nutty feminist positions that could influence women into seeing rape where there wasn't any. But you can't just assume those case have actually happened. When you are writing about such things, you have to describe your uncertainty limits, or put things in the form of questions. As a professional researcher you are intellectually obligated to avoid making statements of fact that you can't back up.