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From: tron@fluke.UUCP (Peter Barbee)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Is this rape?
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Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 20:01:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 25 20:01:27 1984
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>>>Re: What are the man's rights here?
>>>
>>>Simple: the man has the right to his own body. Period.
>>>
>>>Poeple are entitled to change their mind. If the woman agreed to go to
>>>a picnic with the man, and then changed her mind, does he have
>>>the right to  force her to go to the picnic, just because she's
>>>already in the car, and he REALLY wants her to go?
>>>Of course not.
>>>
>>>So why is this so different?
>>>Just because she has agreed to share her body with him up to a certain point,
>>>why does it mean that she has given up her control of it? It's still HER
>>>body isn't it ? Or has her body simply been reduced to an object for his
>>>use and pleasure?
>>>   
>>>                                  Sue Brunkow @ U Wisc-MACC

You're right Sue, a person's body is always their own.  As with all rights
we should be careful how we wield them.  In the case discussed I agree that
the woman has the right to say "No, stop!", I also think that action would
make her a jerk.  It is sometimes difficult to seperate the idea of right
and responsibility, what is legally ok and what is morally ok, right?

Peter Barbee