Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekla.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!teklds!dadla!tekla!brianc From: brianc@tekla.UUCP (Brian Conley) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Make vs. Rape Message-ID: <288@tekla.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 11:49:58 EDT Article-I.D.: tekla.288 Posted: Fri Jul 12 11:49:58 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 01:28:13 EDT References: <893@druxo.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 22 > > > More seriously, the phrasing of the question is *REAL* important. > > If the word "rape" was used, I find the statistic hard to believe. > > If the phrase "make the woman have sex with you"... > > ...this is quite different. > > I know this is several weeks old, but would someone explain to me the > difference between "making someone have sex" and "rape"...I thought that > rape is "making" someone have sex... > > Nancy Parsons > AT&T ISL Apparently Nancy the writer believes that rape is a "Violent" crime, thus rape requires violence or the threat of violence. Psychological or emotional trauma is not preceived by the writer as being violent or injurous. (As an asside, perhaps the writer would like to be the subject of some experiments is psychological warfare and torture, just to see how it compares to physical pain.) Either that or the turkey thinks that women LIKE S & M or B & D.