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From: spencer@cghub.DEC (Kristy Gleason  MKO2-2/J4  264-3636)
Newsgroups: net.women.only
Subject: Rape
Message-ID: <6988@decwrl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Apr-84 13:50:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  9 13:50:40 1984
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I'm sure this topic has been discussed before, but I am a relative newcomer to
the USENET and was wondering what opinions any of you had about it.  I myself
have been raped twice and I know how degrading it is.  I'm going to make some-
thing clear though.  I am not anything like a sex goddess who runs around 
looking for someone to rape me.  I am overweight (approx. 50 lbs.) and was even
heavier both times I was raped.  No woman wants to be raped.  Especially me.
I am still haunted by dreams of rape.  Sometimes I can hardly bear to let my
husband touch me because it brings back too many bad memories.

The first time I was raped was in college and the guy is in jail.  The second
time, it happened in my own home (in a town of less than 1000 people).  The
police have never caught the guy (it happened in March of 1983 a month after
my daughter was born).  I feel that in most cases, a rapist doesn't give a darn
who he rapes.  I'm living proof that one doesn't have to be a raving beauty to
be a victim of rape!

				*** Kristy Gleason ***