Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site hocsj.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hogpc!pegasus!hocsj!ecl 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 Article-I.D.: hocsj.132 Posted: Mon Sep 24 09:17:40 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 08:20:05 EDT References: <10400011@acf4.UUCP>, <332@uwmacc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 33 REFERENCE: <10400011@acf4.UUCP>, <332@uwmacc.UUCP> >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 ...ihnp4!hocsj!ecl