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From: mazur@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Rape by Women?!?!? - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 00:06:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  1 00:06:27 1984
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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