Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watarts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watarts!molefeuvre From: molefeuvre@watarts.UUCP (Michael O LeFeuvre) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Only a few nuts rape? Message-ID: <8162@watarts.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 13:10:34 EST Article-I.D.: watarts.8162 Posted: Fri Nov 30 13:10:34 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Dec-84 06:00:21 EST References: <10011@watmath.UUCP> <136@ihu1m.UUCP>, <10054@watmath.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 22 That 35% figure means nothing without the exact wording. Personally, I consider rape to be an act of violence second only to maiming (of the crippling-for-life variety) and murder. But I do think that, under the right cicumstances I would be capable of murder. Thus I might be capable of rape. What I do not know is if I could ever achieve that peculiar state of mind required to commit an act of extreme violence and maintain an erection at the same time. In my mind, this is the mystery of rape. To eliminate rape, you must create a society in which sexual arousal and violence are mutually exclusive. In our society this is not the case. It never has been. Why? Sometimes I think that it is built in genetically. It might have value from an evolutionary viewpoint. Carlo @ the U of Waterloo