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From: sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: rape
Message-ID: <1711@sun.uucp>
Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 11:18:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 26 11:18:00 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 01:05:33 EDT
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Re: psychological rape:
	Since the difference between sex and rape is consent, and presumably
in many rapes the woman is still protesting the rape as sex is forced on her,
in the situation where the man so intimidates the woman that she fears grave
bodily injury or death by protesting, she may verbally consent to sex in 
reply to psychological rape (mental coercion) to prevent that bodily harm.
Thus the entire experience remains rape in her mind, even though after some
threshold she has verbally acquiesced to sex in order to prevent harm.
Imagine, e.g. a 5'2" 100lb woman up against a 250lb 6'6" hunk.  Sheer terror.
No conceivable way for her to physically resist.  If he seems intent despite
protest, it can be safer to acquiese than to fight.  There doesn't have to
be ANY physical struggle involved at all...she knows it won't work to resist.
Therefore the "violence" of the rape is conducted on a psychological level.
Many seem to have indicated that physical violence is required to constitute
rape.
				Sunny

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