Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 8/7/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!tron From: tron@fluke.UUCP (Peter Barbee) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Is this rape? Message-ID: <735@vax1.fluke.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 20:01:27 EDT Article-I.D.: vax1.735 Posted: Tue Sep 25 20:01:27 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 03:30:30 EDT References: <10400011@acf4.UUCP> <332@uwmacc.UUCP> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 28 >>>Re: What are the man's rights here? >>> >>>Simple: the man has the right to his own body. Period. >>> >>>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 You're right Sue, a person's body is always their own. As with all rights we should be careful how we wield them. In the case discussed I agree that the woman has the right to say "No, stop!", I also think that action would make her a jerk. It is sometimes difficult to seperate the idea of right and responsibility, what is legally ok and what is morally ok, right? Peter Barbee