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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
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Subject: Re: Re: "provocative" clothing
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Date: Tue, 21-May-85 13:36:19 EDT
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> Men who blame rape on hormones do themselves an injustice.  It
> used to be said that women could not work or think
> intellectually because of their hormones;  now men cannot think
> rationally because of theirs?  Come off it, guys!
> 
Both statements are certainly ridiculous extremes, however, don't imagine
that hormone levels have nothing to do with violent behavior. People who
insistently scream that rape is a crime of violence and not of sex
often seem to imagine that the two must be mutually exclusive. While I 
agree with that particular psychological assessment (of the reason for
rape), when I consider the murky recesses of brain chemistry I wouldn't
count on any such exclusivity.
					Jeff Winslow