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From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: violence
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Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 18:05:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 25 18:05:30 1984
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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
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