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From: ecl@hocsj.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Is this rape?
Message-ID: <132@hocsj.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 09:17:40 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 24 09:17:40 1984
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 >Poeple are entitled to change their mind. If the woman agreed to go to
 >a picnic with the man, and then changed her mind, does he have
 >the right to  force her to go to the picnic, just because she's
 >already in the car, and he REALLY wants her to go?
 >Of course not.

 >So why is this so different?
 >Just because she has agreed to share her body with him up to a certain point,
 >why does it mean that she has given up her control of it? It's still HER
 >body isn't it ? Or has her body simply been reduced to an object for his
 >use and pleasure?

   
 >                                  Sue Brunkow @ U Wisc-MACC
 
This is a load of dingos' kidneys!

The original question (I believe) was if a woman begins to have have sex
with a man and then in the middle of it (so to speak), decides not to,
and the man "refuses" to stop, is it rape?  A better analogy would be if
she agrees to go on a picnic and they are halfway there on a freeway
(between exits), and she decides she doesn't want to go, if he doesn't
turn around IMMEDIATELY, is it kidnapping?  (Even this is not a perfect
analogy.)

There is some point at which it becomes difficult to control one's bodily
functions; that's why withdrawal is a *rotten* birth control method.

					Evelyn C. Leeper
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