Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!mhuxl!mhuxt!js2j From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: what's rape? Message-ID: <266@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 16:54:05 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxt.266 Posted: Thu Sep 20 16:54:05 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 20:11:51 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 38 ******************************************************* How many people think that a woman has given up her right to say no to a man after leading him on? To be more specific: Can she rightly refuse intercourse if she has been: 1) flirting, moving sexily, leaning close, making lewd, sexual comments. 2) wearing excessively provacative clothing -- whore like clothes, with most of the breasts and/or legs showing (or whatever), or with somewhat transparent material. 3) participating in kissing, heavy petting, fondling with the man. ******************************************************** ANYONE can rightly refuse intercourse ANYTIME, no matter what they've been doing, saying, or wearing. If sex is not mutually voluntary, it IS rape. BTW, just what does the term 'aggravated rape' mean? I thought that 'aggra- vated assault' meant that the assaulter had first been assaulted by the assaultee. (If it doesn't, it should.) There doesn't seem to be any way that a similar definition of 'aggravated rape' could be applied, though, except maybe in prison. ;-( Does 'aggravated rape' refer to rapes in which the victim exhibited some of the above behavior prior to the rape? Why should the rapist get a lesser sentence in these cases? I'll second someone's proposal for castration as a punishment for rape. Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxl!mhuxt!js2j "Think of it as evolution in action."