Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!mstaveley From: mstaveley@watmath.UUCP (Marc Staveley) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Only a few nuts rape? Message-ID: <10054@watmath.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 10:12:27 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.10054 Posted: Thu Nov 29 10:12:27 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 05:43:08 EST References: <10011@watmath.UUCP> <136@ihu1m.UUCP> Reply-To: mstaveley@watmath.UUCP (Marc Staveley) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 16 >> 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 >I've wondered for a while about this. There's a big difference >between thinking and acting, and it may be that a lot of these >college guys hadn't worked that through yet. Male sexual fantasies >often involve domination and control, which poor horny guys may >think means they'd like to rape someone. But that's not the same. I don't remember the figures but a study very similar to this one (it may even be the same one) was done about 7 years ago. But this is only one of the findings, a large (15%?) of the people (there were both women and men in the study (and for a workable design you almost have to have equal numbers in both cells)) said they would commit MURDER if there were no chance of being caught.