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From: edhall@randvax.ARPA (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Nothing ever happens to people unless they want it to
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Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 18:02:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 28 18:02:39 1984
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> From: holmes@dalcs.UUCP (Ray Holmes)
>         Of the women I have known closely enough to be able to comment
> on the subjest, only ONE had not been raped at some point in time (and
> she was 16 and so had some time to go).  Meeting a woman who has not
> been raped is a rare thing.

I suspect that Ray's experience is perhaps just a bit unusual.  My
own experience is that about half of the woman I have known well
enough to talk about it have been raped or sexually attacked.  And
I hope that my own experience might be unusual as well.  How about
other netters?  If Ray's and my experiences are typical, then the
magnitude of this problem is bigger than I ever expected (and, frankly,
even the one-out-of-fifteen rate that is the lowest figure I have
found is horrifying to me).

		-Ed Hall
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