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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: what's rape?
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Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 16:54:05 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 20 16:54:05 1984
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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.
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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
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