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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: rape and Redbook fantasies
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Date: Wed, 29-Aug-84 15:10:21 EDT
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	From: agust@spuxll.UUCP (Agust K Gudmundsson)
	Subject: Re: rape and Redbook fantasies
	Message-ID: <560@spuxll.UUCP>
	Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 16:53:29 EDT

	I cannot verify this statistic, but I seem to remember reading that the
	majority of rapes, murders and other violent crimes are commited by
	someone the victim knows.  Not some bozo off the streets.  I would also
	venture to say that the people fanasizing about rape have not been raped.
	Rape is not a crime of sex but a crime of violence that involves sex.

			Icelandic Cowboy
			Agust K. G.

The statistics are accurate.  Something like 70% of all murders are committed
by friends or relatives of the victims, though this percentage has been
dropping, especially in large cities.  Similarly, a majority of rapes are
so-called "acquaintance rapes" -- by dates, co-workers, neighbors, "friends",
etc.  (My source for this latter item is a friend who used to head a rape
crisis center, and has done a fair amount of research on the subject of rape.)