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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: "provocative" clothing (really nature of rape)
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 02:34:26 EDT
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> 	Perhaps the phrase "rape is not a crime of sex - it is a crime of
> violence" is overused. It certainly hasn't gotten through to many men on
> the net. Perhaps a new phrase is in order.
> 
> 					David London

This has always seemed to me to be an oversimplification.  I think rape is
a crime of both violence and sex.  After all, it's not the same as getting
hit on the head, is it?  If it were not for the sexual aspect, rape would
be just another form of assault.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak

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