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From: mstaveley@watmath.UUCP (Marc Staveley)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Only a few nuts rape?
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Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 10:12:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 29 10:12:27 1984
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Reply-To: mstaveley@watmath.UUCP (Marc Staveley)
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>> 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.