Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!mazur From: mazur@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Re: Rape by Women?!?!? - (nf) Message-ID: <973@inmet.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 00:06:27 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.973 Posted: Thu Mar 1 00:06:27 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Mar-84 00:28:41 EST Lines: 22 #R:ut-sally:-99900:inmet:10900053:000:970 inmet!mazur Feb 29 00:20:00 1984 I claim, however, that by looking *only* at rape of women by men, you will find the basic nature of rape obscured: it is a crime of violence, aggressiveness, and domination, using sex as a means, not an end. If you look at rape of men by women and homosexual rape you can see this more easily. Violence is not limited to men: rape *is* a crime of (disturbed) people against people. If you want to do something about it, you probably want to understand it first, and that is the core of it. *Then* you can start trying to find out why more men commit it than women. What then, do you have to say about (my previously mentioned to you) Susan Brownmiller's book Against Our Will, which theorizes that the crime of rape is a method by which men dominate women by subjecting them to constant fear? If a man rapes to dominate (rather than sexually satisfy), doesn't this lend some credence to this theory? Beth Mazur {ima,harpo,esquire}!inmet!mazur