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From: twiss@stolaf.UUCP (Thomas S. Twiss)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Rape of the Male
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Date: Tue, 24-Jan-84 17:57:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 24 17:57:18 1984
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	Larry Welsch's points are well taken, but you'll notice that all
of the things that are "worse" about male-male rape are contrivances of
society and don't really relate to the act itself.  
	
	For me, the first time I heard of male-male rape (yes, I'd never
conceived ot it before) I was shocked and disgusted and I thought it was
far worse than male-female rape.  Then I started thinking about it and I
realized that the two acts are intrinsically the same and I think I finally
got some inkling of how women feel about rape.

	Some of the "bad" things Larry mentions are indeed pretty awful,
but they are not always the case.  The environment in which a rape takes
place does not factor in the act itself i.e. it's still rape.  Rape of any
kind occurs every day in almost any circumstances.  Just because SOME of
the environments that male-male rape takes place in (and I stress that not
all male-male rapes are in Mr. Welsch's "situations) are particularly bad
does not alter the severity of the act.  Is it really possible to discuss
the gradations of rape???  Can one rape be better or worse than another??
Of course not.

					Tom Twiss
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