Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ora!daemon From: mailrus!frith!dsndata!joanne@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Joanne Retzlaff) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Who's Exploiting Who? Message-ID: Date: 26 Oct 90 16:12:29 GMT Sender: ambar@ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz) Organization: Design Data Lines: 26 Approved: ambar@ora.com Hillel Gazit writes: No, but I know people who are excited by *playing* a game like this. The porno you described is a *play* between adults and not a real rape. I hope that you can see the difference. Kaveh Baharestan writes: > Ahhh... excuse me... you do realize that the paragraph above is > talking about playacting *rape* don't you? You know people that > playact rape? I've been involved in some imaginative lovemakeing > but I'm just really sad to say that it didn't involve acting out > rape. Excuse me, I came in late on this. But my understanding has always been that rape is not an act of sex, but an act of violence. That being the case, imaginative *sex* games played betweeen consenting lovers bear no resemblance to *real rape*. That is, regardless of the script the players are working with, they are choosing to participate. Again no resemblance to *rape*. Theatric portrayals are a different story. I agree that they can and do present rape, the violent assault. They also promote the idea that women saying "no" don't mean it. Ok. I'll go back to lurking... JR