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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: violence
Message-ID: <597@gloria.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 22:36:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 12 22:36:30 1984
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[To fail Darkseid is to fail yourself.]

> For those of you who believe that the sole motive for all rape is violence:
> 
> Do you honestly believe that there are no men in the world that are so
> desperate for sex that they would, and do, force a woman into unwilling
> sexual intercourse?

This is an extreme position.  You will find many who believe that the
_dominant_ motivation for _most_ rapes is violence.  What does it mean
to be "desperate for sex," except that one wants to resort to violence
to correct what one believes to be a denial of a right?
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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