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From: agz@pucc-k (Andrew Banta)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: rape and violence
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Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 12:45:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 16 12:45:27 1984
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Organization: Dept. of  Mental Instability, Purdue University
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> you've missed the point!

> MY WHOLE POINT was that there IS a psychological
> form of rape, and that you and the courts haven't got the foggiest idea of
> how to deal with it!.  Rape is a crime of DOMINANCE.  It may manifest as
> SEXual dominance, and / or it may manifest as VIOLENTce dominance, but it
> is nevertheless a crime of one person asserting control over the other
> person's body/mind where there is no legal right for that dominance. 

You have missed my whole point!! I won't argue with your definition of
rape. I'm still going to pick nits over your definition of psychological
rape, though. Will you please explain how you can convict on
psychological rape? If the girl (or guy) says "yes" and is not
threatened (since threatening DOES start coming into the physical
grounds), how, in court, is it going to be proven that she didn't mean
yes. And that is what will have to be proven. She brought the charges
up, that means she has to back them up, and PROVE that she waas
psychologically manipulated into performing the act!!!

> 1:	Do exactly as I tell you or this knife punctures your heart, etc...
> 2:	Oh shit!  I'll do EXACTLY what he says, and maybe he won't knife me...
> 3:	No further protest is registered, (take THAT to court!) to stay alive.

How canyou say this is psychological? It is in a sense, but the THREAT
of physical abuse was there. I'm talking about when physical abuse is
never mentioned. It may get to the point where the woman thinks that
violence may occur if she doesn't agree, but she has not been threatened
physically or physically injured! Sorry, our law is not built around
mind games. I have to admit that if this WAS his actually intention,
something should be done. But you're going to have one HELL OF A TIME
proving this in court. Gut feelings and unspoken communication is not
valid evidence.


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Andy Banta			{decvax!allegra!ihnp4}!pur-ee!pucc-k!agz
Dept. of Mental Instability, Purdue University --- "I'm OK, You're a CS Major"
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