Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!saquigley From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: violence Message-ID: <9159@watmath.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 18:05:30 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.9159 Posted: Tue Sep 25 18:05:30 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 08:05:10 EDT References: <848@ihuxe.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 9 The point that many people try to make that rape is an act of violence rather than a sexual crime is that the rapists are often motivated, not by a strong sexual attraction to the woman they are raping, but rather by a desire to dominate that person. So it is very often a crime of "power" rather than sex. Sex is only the medium. Sophie Quigley ...!{clyde,ihnp4,decvax}!watmath!saquigley