Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site mako.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!tektronix!orca!mako!tims From: tims@mako.UUCP (Tim Stoehr) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: rape is not sex? Message-ID: <321@mako.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 14:18:28 EDT Article-I.D.: mako.321 Posted: Wed Sep 26 14:18:28 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 06:36:58 EDT References: <165@hocse.UUCP>, <543@gloria.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 15 [] > No, but bank robberies are motivated at least as much by love of > violence as by love of money. Those who like stealing but not violence > become confidence agents or stockbrokers, not bank robbers; and there > are far more of them. The above quote is in defense of the assertion that rape is not at all a crime of sex or lust, just pure violence. This argument only holds up if there is a non-violent way of having sex with an unwilling female. If there are no women willing to have sex with you, that you can afford, anyway, then how do have sex with them against their will without violence and intimidation? Do you assume there are no guys out there who are so desperate for sex that they will force a woman into it? To assume the motive for all rapes is just violence is insane.