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From: dwight@timeb.UUCP (Dwight Ernest)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Only a few nuts rape?
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Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 14:02:21 EST
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> I cam across an interesting figure the other day.  It was unfortunately
> not fully documented, so if anybody knows the exact source, I would very
> much appreciate more details.
> 
> The figure was in this month's Harper's Index, and was the following:
> Percentage of college men who say they might commit rape if there were
> no chance of being caught: 35
> 
> If this is not a sham, and the studies done were serious, this is a pretty
> scary figure.  It is a good disclaimer to the idea that has been expressed
> here quite often that rape is an act committed by a few crazy men, and not
> representative of men's attitudes towards women in general.

The figures could indeed be correct; if so, that'd be more than a little
scary. Not to excuse the possibility that it may be correct--but note that
in psychological surveys it's frequent for those under study to give
expression to fantasies as though they were realities... and many men, I
think--as has been shown in other similar studies--have rape FANTASIES.
(Not something we ought to be proud of...)
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